Italo-Ethiopian crisis deepens as world eyes Europe
The situation grows darker as Christmas nears and European turmoil worsens. The Franco-British talks collapse deepens the crisis, while Hoare Laval plans fade, leaving the League of Nations precariously divided and facing potential war. Mussolini’s campaign drains Italy, risking wider collapse before any settlement.
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Simon Hoare
Laval
France
League of Nations
Hoare
League
Ethiopia
Leib
Vewa
Europe
Italy
Mussolini
Africa
le Ttalian
Leggs
Haile Selessia
Twenty Years Ago Journal Clippings December 23 1915
A look back at events two decades past notes the new Federal building easing holiday office congestion especially in the parcel post division. Kurts Brass Bed Company displays a grand brass bed in Colonial style with inlaid mahogany finish. Christmas tree demand strains pine supplies in the region. Royal Pool Room on South Center Street changes hands to Carmen Hill and Lymm McLean from Herman Nathan. Mrs H T Carey travels to Erie for a relatives visit, Miss Mary Downey returns for Christmas, Miss Florence Bliss returns from Philadelphia for school vacation.
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Ofice
Lh Pew i
Royal Pool Room
South Center Street
Messrs. Carnen Hill
Lymm McLean
Herman Nathan
Star Signals December 25 Christmas Forecast in 1936
A Merry Christmas message wishes happiness in the new year and urges serious interest in science. It notes profitable new February and March arrangements, potential romantic outcomes from chance meetings, and social favor from January into February 1936. It warns of danger June 26 to July 2.
Hollywood Wig Master Alany Mowbray Tops Local Wig Champs
Hollywoods Alany Mowbray, famed for Gen. Washington to Rawdon Crawley roles, now claims the Hollywood Wigs championship. He shifts through four wigs daily for Give Us This Night with Kiepura and Gladys Swarthout, including an obvious bald cap, a bald-looking top, and a long Venetian wig for Romeo scenes. Mowbray jokes about the bald look and notes performers with natural hair need not object, insisting he embraces the challenge.
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Hollywood
Alany Mowbray
George Washington
Rawdon Crawley
Cepia
Mowbray
Kiepura
Gladys Swarthout
Romeo
Seang Hin
Alwr Mowiay
Ohio deer appear bolder as sightings rise outside Painesville
Reports say deer in the countryside and outskirts around Painesville have grown less timid. One was seen dash across a city street recently, marking a noticeable shift in behavior and increased urban proximity of wildlife.
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Ohio
Painesville
Weekend Snow Storm Fatalities Across U S Roads
Police report heavy snow and sleet disrupted travel as multiple fatal incidents occurred across states. A four-car collision in Spartansburg South Carolina left four dead, while Taopei Minnesota saw a train automobile crash killing four. Other tragedies included a Tempe Arizona truck collision killing three, an Omaha passenger train crash killing four and a San Antonio train crash leaving one dead and another critically injured.
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Tran Hage Une
Spartansburg
S.C
Taépi
Minn
Golden State Limited
Tempe
Ariz
Omaha
San Antonio
Paris Styles Paris Embraces New Winter Sports Attire
Paris December 24 Heim's Christu collection offers new winter sport wear. A printed cotton blouse pairs with black trousers for tea time looks. thin rubberized silk wind jackets in cream or yellow with buttons and hoods provide wind protection. Skating dresses in gray and green tweed feature midcalf skirts, bloomers, and knitted stockings with matching gloves. A brown and yellow ski suit, striped sweater, socks, gloves, and red accessories complete the sporty ensemble. Also noted is a 122 year old spinning wheel carried from Spain to America by the Damnefer family.
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Paris
Heim
Anglo French Accord War Talk Rises on Eden Appointment
Reported on authentic authority that Anthony Eden's appointment signals Britain will back League penalties against Italy and reject further peace proposals. Paris sources say Laval told Italy that France sees Mussolini as not assisting recent peace efforts, deepening Franco British lines.
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France
Magbe
Anthony Eden
Foreigh
Great Britain
League
Italy
Paris
Pierre Laval
Vittorio Ceruti
Mussolini
WPA Pay Checks Speeded To Workers
Harrisburg dispatch reports the Works Progress Administration aims to have Christmas pay checks in the hands of about 225000 WPA workers by tomorrow night. Administrator Edward F. 3.1, overseeing payrolls, stated efforts were underway to meet the deadline.
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WPA
United Press Harrisburg
Tomorreyy
Edward 3
Week End Caching Up Wide New Gleanings
General Motors announces a 5 20,000 Christmas distribution to its employees. A series of crime and mystery items follow, including a police raid on a stamps operation, a church organist's death, and geopolitical notes from Berlin about airship fleets. Also reports of a teen girl in Oklahoma implicated in her father’s death and a kidnapping linked to job revenge.
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General Motors Corporation
New York
Hola
Jacob Homan
National Union Postage Corporation
Ethel Roden Gerwig
Third Presbyterian Church
Uniontown
Deat
Gerwig
France
Berlin
Germany
Maanuske Colony
Oklahoma
Harry Wil
Caleb J. Milne
Chester
PWA
Constance 22
Brooklyn
Antarctic
Lincoln Dilsworth
Spain
Grave Beer's
Cleveland
Fragmented World News Mix from Pollstone to Pinchot
Snippets from a late 1930s era paper report a Pollstone England veteran shot by a policeman after thefts near Aton Ohio. Other items note deaths of Steven Karder, Senator Thomas D Schall and Paul Cowles, international tensions around China Japan and Mexico, a wedding jewel theft in Baltimore, Wagner Act critique, clemency petitions, and a murder investigation yielding new leads in Mitmegpolis.
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Pollstone
England
Aton
Steven Karder
China
Sung Choh-yuan
Upjohn
Michigan
Pitt
Merril B. Otis
Federal District Court
Kansas City
Elizabeth Ross Duncan
Edwar E. Yaggy, Jr
New York
Baltimore
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Peter S. Neilson
Mitmegpolis
Walter WW. Liggett
Richard Beuno-Hauptman
Trenton
Paul Cowles
Associated Press
J. Francis Sitreve
Young People Meet for United Brethren Youth Convention
The Erie Conference United Brethren Church gathers at Warren First Church on December 26 and 27 for a regional youth convention. Rev J Gordon Howard of Dayton leads the gathering with the theme What it Means to be a Christian. Conference Superintendent Rev Paul Weaver opens Thursday evening with other speakers from Buffalo and Findley Lake. Delegates from Corry join the event alongside an evening banquet.
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United Brethren
Warren
Erie Conference
United Brethren In Chest
First Church
New York
Pennsylvania
J. Gordon Howard
Dayton
Paul Weaver
Jamnestown
N. Y
C. C. Grover
Buffalo
F. S. McThtyre
Glen O. Reed
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Kurts Brass Bed Company
Unis
H.T. Carey
Erie
Mary Downey
Florence Bliss
Tomorow
Philadelphia
Kans
Wiliam
Damnefer
Wien
Pablstay
Venstark
Pate Aidt
Heese
Thy
Model Dairy Co
Fie
R. Scom
Thomas D. Schall
Minnesota
Bibioia
Fon di Lac
Wis
Lake Michigan
Plutarco Wlias Calles
Manuel Quezon
Philippine Commonwealth
Royalorge
Enlan Ett
Colar
Griffon
Melton Jankets
Abe
Gernicaien
Phoenix
Mallory
U.B. Church
Fairmont State
Colley
West Virginia
Skep Cal Andl
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