Children’s Eyes and Holiday Guests Brighten Local News
A festive city page reports Pauline Carrington Bonve's verse about children's purity and the holiday visit of Mr. Frank Cullinan of Cisco with his parents. Local residents travel between Austin Victoria Denver San Antonio and Karnes City for Christmas and New Year’s gatherings while hospital updates and Society events fill out the season notices.
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Pauline Carrington Bonve
Frank Cullinan
Cisco
City
M. P. Cullinan
Notable women and historic figures in brief notes
Lucy Larcon began writing verses at seven while the first German girls high school opened in 1787. The Fair Saloa Sabrina von Steinbach designed Strasburg Cathedral. Women smugglers rise in occupied Germany as a league forms in Oregon for a triangular debate.
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Lucy Larcon
Germany
Berlin
Mexico
Sabrina von Steinbach
Saloa
Strasburg
University of Oregon
Willamette University
Oregon Agriculural College
Republican National Committee
William O. Bradley
Kentucky
Mme. Poincare
the Elysee
France
Elizabeth Marbury
New York State
Norma Talmadge
Charming Elks Hall Holiday Dance Honors Local Figures
W J Sames hosted a festive Christmas ball at the Elks Hall honoring Miss Evelyn Moore Will Austin and Harry and Will Sames. Royal orchestra provided music for about two hundred guests with Santa Claus, special dances and a Christmas themed decor featuring crimson green and white.
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W. J. Sames
Elks Halls
Evelyn Moore
Will Austin
Harry
Will Sames
J. Hopkins Healy
Harry James
Santa Claus
Royal Orchestra
Personal notices of military man and Texas visitors
Sergeant Milton Gilmore visiting parents in town leaves for Beeville and Oakville to visit relatives before returning to Camp Pike Arkansas. John B. Baker, former Laredo businessman now in Mount Pleasant timber, arrives Christmas Eve for several days in his old stamping grounds.
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Milton Gilmore
Beeville
Oakville
Camp Pike
Ark
John B. Baker
Laredo
Mount Pleasant
Texas
Socialist Appeal to World’s Workers Calls Halt to Hungarian Slaughter
The Austrian social democracy reports appeals to workers in the United States Britain France and Italy urging Entente powers to halt executions in Hungary. It claims 600 victims under the Gela Kun regime and says over ten times that number have been executed by drumhead court martial with suspected Allied complicity. The Entente governments are blamed for failing to stop the counter revolutionary violence.
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Associated Press
Bertin
United States
England
France
Italy
Admiral Worthy
Bourgeoiaie
Ships to be turned over from Imperator group to Britain
By order of President Wilson the former German passenger ships of the Imperator Group now in New York harbor will be delivered to the British Shipping Board. The vessels were assigned to the United States after the armistice for repatriation of American troops and were designated by the inter allied naval council to be turned over to Great Britain under armistice terms. The Imperator has already been delivered to Britain.
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Washington
Wilson
Imperator Group
New York Harbor
Great Britain Shipping Board
United States
Inter Allied Naval Council
Great Britain
Imperator
Clemenceau Plans Presidential Bid in France
Paris dispatch notes Premier Clemenceau will run for the presidency after a cabinet resignation anticipated on January 17. The Paris press opinion suggests Clemenceau will be elected without opposition.
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Clemenceau
Paris
Poincare
Chamber
Global forestry and industrial highlights from the early 20th century
The article surveys forestry and industrial notes across nations. It cites Florida's 175 wood varieties, Java’s cane sugar share, BC lumber value leadership, virgin timber belts in Canada Russia and Siberia, Canada’s tin electrometallurgy plant, Paraguay quebracho tannin forests, heat from California fuel oil, Ontario potato yields vs US, Japan mushroom by-products, and Shantung silk produced by a willow-dwelling worm.
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Florida
Java
British Columbia
Dominion
Canada
Russia
Siberia
Brantford
Ont
California
Oregon
Washington
Ontario
United States
Japan
President Wilson honored in London and fleet reviewed in New York
One year ago today, December 26, President Wilson was enthusiastically received in London. The American Battle Fleet was reviewed in New York on its return from Europe.
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Wilson
London
New York
Europe
Mexican sailors held under Mexican law. aviators murdered claim
Hilario Merlinn of the Mexican foreign office said two American sailors arrested at Mazatlan for assault remain in custody under Mexican common law. The foreign office has asked Mazatlan authorities for details while the American embassy has not acted further. In El Paso, testimony before a Senate subcommittee said aviators Cecil Connolly and Frederick Waterhouse were murdered after descending in Lower California.
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Foreign Affairs
Uy Associated Press
Mexico City
Hilario Merlinn
Foreign Office
Maza- Uan
Medina
Mazatlan
el Paso
Texas
Cecil Connolly
Frederick Waterhouse
California
Senate
Joe Allen Richards
No More Passports to Picture Brides
The Japanese government will stop issuing passports that allow picture brides to travel to the United States. The move follows rising anti Japanese sentiment in America, as reported by newspapers reaching Tokyo on December 26.
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Associated Press
Tokio
United States
America
Standard Buys Oil at Romanian Wells
Standard Oil Co. closes deals with the Romanian government and private firms for about 500000 barrels of refined petroleum. The price is $3150000 and the oil will be shipped to America via Constan tiple on ships supplied by the American government.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Standard Ol
Bucharest
America
Law 18 Upheld In Nebraskan School Language Rule
Lincoln Nebraska December 26 The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Law 18 a state measure aimed at curbing foreign language use in schools as an Americanization effort The ruling affirms the law as a valid educational policy and applies to public classrooms statewide
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Uy Associated Press
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Boxing Day and Birth Centenary Events Highlight City
Today marks Boxing Day and the 100th birthday of American novelist Mrs ER D KE N Southworth who claimed to invent the manila box envelope. Scientists arrive for the AAAS annual meeting in St Louis as New York hosts a grand Waldorf Astoria charity event for world children.
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ER. D. KE. N. Southworth
St. Leula
American Association For the Advancement of Science
New York
Metropolis
Waldorf-Astoria
Mrs. Clay Fry Praises Chamberlain Cough Remedy
Mrs Clay Fry of Ferguson Station Missouri says Chamberlain Cough Remedy is a splendid medicine for families. She uses it for children with croupy symptoms and for herself to ease coughs and lung colds after only a few doses.
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Cardui
Union Railway Men Vote for Strike Over Cumming Bill
Ninety eight percent of 125000 union machinists voted in November to strike with other trades if Congress enacts the Cumming railroad bill containing the anti strike provision. The announcement came from Associated Press in Washington on December 26.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Six Hurt in Freight Crash Near East St. Louis
Six persons were injured today when a freight collided with and overturned the rear coach of a St. Louis and Olcalono passenger train in East St. Louis Alabama. The crash marks the third railroad accident within 20 miles since yesterday morning, bringing totals to twenty one injured.
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Associated Press
East St. Louis
Bt. Louis and
Ocallono
Beer Bottle House of Tonopah, Nevada Featured in Local Lore
A Nevada miner built a residence from over ten thousand beer bottles due to timber scarcity. The house, an early example of bottle architecture, stood as a quirky local landmark reflecting inventive use of available materials in Tonopah.
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Whitsuntide
Tonopah
Nevada
Mrs Pure's Hairstyle Sparks Disputed Display
A local scene stirs chatter as Mrs Pure wears a scanty skirt and hairstyle that reveals her ears, drawing comments from onlookers about propriety and display. Her husband denies focusing on the attire and emphasizes the fashion choice as a styling trend.
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Simon
Weather forecast from New Orleans bureau
The Times presents a daily forecast from the United States Weather Bureau New Orleans. Tonight and Saturday will be colder with freeing winds and generally fair weather on Saturday. Fort McIntosh observations report a maximum 66 degrees and minimum 39 with northeast wind and clear skies.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
the Telephone Co
Fort McIntosh
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