Christmas Hope For Edna In Durgan's Store
On Christmas Eve in Durgan's department store Edna a tired cash girl plans to buy her mother stockings. A generous stranger secretly helps, a pocketbook is returned by a kindly housemaid and the Lawtons reward Edna restoring her faith and promising a brighter future.
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Durgan
Christmans
Edna Gray
Edna
Beatrice
Santa Claus
Edon
George Bo Lawton
Bin
George
Mrs. Tawchan
Lawton
Lawtons Tool
Lawtons
A Present for Santa Claus
Edwina Ray anxiously saves 12 cents to buy a Christmas gift for Santa Claus. After visiting Smiths store for slippers and a book she spends remaining coins on candy and a stocking gift, hoping Santa will be pleased. Christmas morning reveals a joyful, toy filled surprise.
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Dwina
Edwina
Tve
Christus
Santa Claus
Ray Sani
Santa
Smith's Stor
Mr. Smith
Helwina
Christinaa
North Pole
Fee Smith
Dine
Wolwind
Chet
Mandy
Sant Claus
Sante
Edewink
Pete
Edwin
Chancellor Offers Peage to Enter Peace Talks
Chancellor von Hertling told the Reichstag he would negotiate peace as soon as Russia sends representatives with full powers to Berlin. He urged liberal reforms, censorship relief, and extended franchise proposals while stressing loyalty to German aims and readiness for political evolution amid ongoing war.
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Berlin
George F. von Hertling
Reichstag
Temird
Dhisell
Industrial harmony in wartime labor policy urged
War hardships and industrial strain prompted calls for national defense department leadership to coordinate labor, wages, and production. Critics warn of disunity among agencies, urging an administrator to control labor supply, reduce unrest, and standardize conditions across sectors.
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Nathanal Defense
Washington
Tabor
Food supplies and torpedo boat sinking hit headlines
In Prussian lower house Herr von Waldow reported grain reserves for bread exceed earlier years with 1 000 850 tons received by the imperial grain bureau and sugar deliveries unchanged. A German torpedo boat destroyer hit a mine near West Kapelle and sank with two crew saved. In Burlington New Zealand federal agents arrested Mr and Mrs R Duncan for fraudulent checks after a yearlong nationwide search.
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Aweterdan
Herr von Waldow
Boant
Imperial Grain Bureau
London
West Kappalle
Holland
Burlington
Vic
R. Duncan
Boy Scouts at Fort Sheridan Run Highly Organized Camp
At Fort Sheridan nearly four thousand candidates arrived for training. Scouts conducted arrivals, issued uniforms, directed to registration, and provided guidance at stations. They served as orderlies in multiple offices and maintained leadership roles throughout each day under Captain Keeley.
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Fort Sheridan
Tle
Keeley
Ine
Officers Row
Scouts Put Keighley On The World Map Through Advertising
Boy scouts and advertising boosted Keighley England into a world spotlight as a living lesson in beating wartime shortages. Keighley’s 42 000 residents reduced bread rations to 8.7 pounds per head, far below the 4 pounds allowed, with shop windows press ads and pamphlets mobilizing nationwide support. Scouts also report waste reduction and reuse of discarded materials, turning surplus cloth into value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelghley
Eng Tan
Keighley
United Kingdom
Boy Scouts
Scouting Spirit and Guarding Against Mock Praise
The piece praises Boy Scouts of America for their meritorious acts and warns against downplaying achievements with phrases like Oh shucks. It credits President Wilson and Secretary McAdoo and emphasizes two keys to success: organization and the spirit of scouting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts of America
Wilson
Scouts Aid Rescue At War Meeting In Fanueil Hall Boston
At a war meeting in Fanueil Hall Boston nurses of the Spanish American War era were saluted as an aquad of Boy Scouts aided by their forestry and woodsmanship found a wandering woman in Harwich VI. The scouts tracked her through the woods and located her cold and numb beside a log on a rocky ledge near a cliff.
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Fanuel Hall
Boston
Boy Scouts
Harwich
Fragmented Christmas Story Fragment in Women’s Home Companion
A garbled passage from a Women’s Home Companion piece presents disjointed dialogue and stray lines about Christmas, Merrivale, taxes, winter, and prices. The text shows fractured phrases and odd word clusters, yielding a fragmented, hard-to-parse excerpt.
Frank Cheney oath as senior partner for catarrh cure
Frank Cheney swears as senior partner of FJ, Ch & Co that the firm will pay one thousand dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notary A W Gleason certifies this on December 6. The ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine, a Toledo Illinois illustration and various sensational medical claims.
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Frank Cheney
Fj, Ch & Co
Theada
Frank
A. W. Gleason
Haliss Catarkil
R. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Chia
Man’s diet links fat intake to sedentary work
A man doing sedentary work requires three ounces of fat daily in some form. A laundress reads a culinary note mentioning white ome and Red Crom fall Blue. Advertisements warn that things kept dark will come to light, found in grocer notices.
Poor Men and a Young Actress Married Six Times
A fragmented clipping discusses a young actress said to have married six times. It references press sources offering no dates and hints at dubious adages. The text includes garbled lines about ignorance and questions why a certain party did not marry a named figure, with stray mentions of pilots and various products.
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Yu Bay
Argent
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Dertha Asters
Santa Chup
Peage
Germany
British Platform
Lanauuwae
Bert With
Lord Salsbury
Balloon
Wittuur Port
Asquith
Fide
Governor General of
Canada
Gera
Wien
Ehanlle
L. A. Patterson
Kentucky St
Memphis
Tennessee
SPOHN
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen
Ind
U.S
Wear & Sons
Wheeling
W. VA
J. L. Stifel Indigo Dyers and Printers
New York
Church Bt
Philaterpius
Chestnut
Bedford
Chicago
W. Jackson Bini
Vancouver
Cole
Merrivale
CREEN
Gidde Sen
Winnius Wythe
Ates
Kansas City
T. L. Tirnett
Laufaville
Avery
Ter
Cleree
Nver
Heavels Gat
Dantes Et Farina
Colas
Cypeteses
Wise
Hitep Tute
Dean
Mia
Lydia Shuster
St. Frank
Margaret
Laine
Fele
W. Cassidy
TR Notary Public
Dean's
yicLae Foster
Milburn CO
Duffal, N
Ramsont
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