President Coolidge Plans Christmas Tree Lighting at White House
President Coolidge prepares for Christmas vacation with government workers in the District of Columbia enjoying three days off. He will light Washington’s community tree at the White House, attend a carol service, and host Boy and Girl Scouts as music from the Marin Band and Capital Oratorio Association fills the ceremony.
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District of Columbia
Coolidge
Washingston
First’ ‘Congregational Church
Ayid Mra. Coolidge
White House
Washington
Ito
Jacqueine Smith
Loren Adams
Marin
Basid
Canital Oratorio Association
Executive Mansion
University pamphlet highlights Lawrence campus and medical school
An alumni association pamphlet issued with the University News Bureau under Prof Dill circulated to county groups. It features sepia images of major campus buildings, Bell Memorial hospital, and the medical school at Rosedale, with notes on the 1865 founding, the 160 acre campus, 22 buildings, 5 medical school divisions, faculty, and enrollment figures. Chancellor H. Lindley is pictured.
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Alumni Association of
the University
University
Ww. A. Dill
the University Medical School
Rosedale
Lawrence
Roseale ‘Medical School
Eis H. Lindley
Sty
Petition to King grants conditional release in Italy
A poor woman in Talamone, Italy, sought royal aid for her husband Agostino Stoppa, jailed for a minor offense. After ministry review, the king ordered his release, though two years remained in his sentence. Four dead in ATR crash.
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Talamone
Italy
Sis
Feetor
Hus
Agostino Stoppa
Ivas
Sole survivor crawls from wreck after air mail crash
Chicago man Rozar, sole survivor of the Atlanta air mail line crash, crawled from burning wreckage after a collision on takeoff. Four others died as flames raged near Marr Field. Rozar, semi conscious, escaped the plane before it burst into flames.
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Rozar
Sole
Ghibaeo
Atlanta
Hielf
Police Comminiantonee cleans up underworld ranks
Whalen's reorganized detective bureau led a weekend crackdown by police ahead of new leadership. The operation netted more than 100 suspects ranging from murder charges to ordinary vandals.
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Larive
Agai
Whalen
Kidnappers Convicted In Billy Ranieri Case In Chicago
Chicago AP reports Angelo Petitti and Andrew Cappellana were sentenced to 25 years for abducting ten year old Billy Ranieri and seizing 60,000 dollars. Detectives guard the homes of suspects amid death threats to Ranieri Devito and Judge Gentzel as jurors are praised for their courage.
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Chicago
Ranieri
Robert E. Gentzel
Billy
Angelo Petitti
Andrew 'Cappellana
A. F. Ranieri
Mike Devito
Devite
Gentzel
Mary Gardens Memoirs Promised as Very Frank
Chicago reports Mary Garden says her memoirs will be an open book but not yet. She has completed chapters while some people mentioned remain living and will not be named yet. She dismisses love as a focal point, noting one or two affairs may be written about later. Sapho opens in January with her first opera appearance this year.
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Chicago
Mary Garden
Beaulieu
Franch
Isadora Dutean
J. Mary
Sapho
Haiti Coffee Crop Reaches Record Export Peak
Haiti ends its fiscal year on September 20 with a bumper coffee crop totaling around 67 million pounds. The strong harvest boosted exports and tax revenue, contributing about 72 percent of ten year export income and lifting customs, internal, and total receipts to record levels.
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Port. Au Prince
Haiti
A.P
No Snow for Christmas in Kansas Statewide forecast
No snow expected for Christmas in Kansas according to the weather bureau with pleasant conditions and likely clear skies. Tonight and tomorrow look for fair weather and temperatures around 40 degrees, with only a small precipitation amount in northeastern Kansas. Some light snow flurries were seen in the far northeast last night.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
British Air Evacuates Women and Children From Kabul Legation
Reports say British planes evacuated women and children from the British legation in Kabul amid rebel threats. The evacuees, numbered variously from twelve to twenty, were taken to Peshawar as fighting between Loyal troops and rebels cut off communications.
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New Delhi
India
Briish
Kabul
Peshawar
Indiian
Roy
Souriya
Kandahar
Amanullah
Paris
Annénheing
Afghanistan
Northwest Frontier
Marty
Humphreys
J. B. © Gould
Brooklyn chemist kills robbers in poker game shootout
Peter Cardone, a Brooklyn manufacturing chemist and marksman, shot two of four armed robbers during a hold up at a friend’s home where ten bystanders played poker. Two bystanders were killed and a chauffeur bystander died, as the robbers fled after the exchange of fourteen shots. Police commissioner Whalen praised Cardone for his courage.
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New York
Peter Cardone
Brooklyn
Moardone
Whalen
Cardone
Fred Rendino
Elay
Latar
Pasquale Belmonte
Emanuel Frasca
Rocco Massia
White
Nicholas Sulzone
Jone
Wheat Growth Slow in Kansas Amid Ample Moisture
Kansas winter wheat grew slowly over the past week as soil moisture remained ample for winter. The state board of agriculture reported freezing temperatures rain and snow across the state, hindering corn husking and sorghum topping while corn husking neared completion in most of the 105 counties.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Agriculture
Canada Adds to Navy Destroyers for Dominion War Fleet
Ottawa reports two destroyers of the latest type contracted for construction by the Canadian government. The ships will replace the Champlain and Vancouver loaned by Britain, joining mine sweepers to form the Royal Canadian Navy.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Champlain
Vancouver
Canada
Royal Canadian Navy
Midnight Service at Trinity Episcopal Church Christmas
The midnight service at Trinity Episcopal Church begins promptly at 11 o clock on Christmas Eve. The service includes a procession of lights and a full music program with preludes, carols, anthems, and a postlude. Soloists include Mrs Ruth Jackman and others. Prof H C Taylor is organist and choir director.
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Trinity Episcopal
Trinity
Episcopal’ Church
Jesu Bambino
Pietro von
Cruickshank
Cruicksnane
Pendleton
Hark
The
Herald
Angels
Prof
H. C. Taylor
Baby Is Better Today In Cincinnati From West Virginia Case
Frank Brooks an eighteen month old boy from Asco West Virginia improved after hospitalization. Doctors planned to resume trying to remove a swallowed toy motorcycle with a tiny man on it only if his condition allows. The toy had been swallowed a week earlier and was in a box of popcorn given to the child. He breathed with difficulty but could not eat and received nourishment through a tube.
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Cincinnati
Frank Brooks
Asco
W. Va
Bluefield
Deaths and Funerals in Lawrence Area
Obituary notices from Lawrence and surrounding areas list Susie Eudaley aged 60 of Topeka with daughter Eva Guffin, John C Wise 78 of Lawrence, and Benjamin Phillips 82 of Clinton with services at Penwell and Mossey funeral homes. Also infant Joe Jean Toms and Everett Cooper Jr noted, plus Anna Shanklin Fuller Ward and Adelia Jane May with services at Funk and Williamstown churches. Onions duty rise noted by President Coolidge, plus unrelated local birth and Kansas connections.
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Susie Eudaley
Jural
Topeka
Eudaley
Lawrence
Eva’ ‘Guffin
J. Adams
Denver
M. D. Adams
F. P Adams
Penwell
John C. Wise
Barker’ Avenue
Trinity Lutheran Church
Charles A. Puls
Memorial Park Cemetery
Katie F. Wise
William Wise
Mercedes, Tex
Charles Wise
Elmer Wise
Charles Wood
Rosa M. Wilks
Benjamin Phillips
Clinton
Whoi
Kansas City
Nmsey Funeral
John F. Watts
Oak Hill Cemetery
Joe Jean Toms
Chester Toms
Near Midland
Anna Shanklin Fuller
Anna Shanklin’ Fuller
McAlester
Okla
Adelia Jane May
Adelia’ Jane May
Vermont
Sylvester
Oliver
Alfred
Fargo
No-D
S Albert
Clarinda
Iowa
Ralph
Clyde
Perry
Kan
Oscar
Atchison
Glenn
Williamstown
Vanderbilt plans $3 million Christmas repayment to backers
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr says backers will be repaid from family funds and other sources for losses in his tabloid ventures. The repayment, earmarked for stockholders in newspapers in Los Angeles Miami and San Francisco, is to be placed in trust. He travels toward Rend to wed Mrs Mary Weir Logan by Christmas Day after earlier divorce from Rachel Litteton Vanderbilt.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
West
Vanderbilt
St. Louis
Rend
Mary Weir Logan
Rachel Littleton Vanderbilt
Inmate totals rise at Kansas reformatories
Topeka reports a new high of 988 inmates at Hutchinson Kansas Reformatory and expects the count to exceed 1000 by week’s end. Comparisons show 483 inmates in 1925 at Hutchinson and 1181 at Lansing Penitentiary. Marriage licenses issued by probate judge L H Menger include William Joyce and Josephine Burns of Topeka and other couples from Lawrence and California.
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Topeka
Kansas Reformatory
Hutchinson
Governor's Office
Statute
Lansing
L. H. Menger
William A. Joyce
Josephine FE. Burns
Robert W. Langley
Bertha Grigsby Bowlar
Lawrence
Willard G. Cartwright
Whittier
C. Hf
Ildred Sraith
Los A
Calif
Parole Request Portends Decision for J A Moses
J A Moses, sentenced in Douglas county district on February 9, 1926, plans to apply for parole. The case also notes a theft matter at a board of administration meeting in Lansing on February 3.
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Douglas County
Board of Administration
Lansing
Personal greetings as families plan Christmas visits
A long list of families announce Christmas visitors and relatives from across states including Dr. Florence Barrows with W H Judd and Miss Betty Jane Robison from Webb City Oklahoma. AlsoMr Don Hughes and family Amarillo Texas join Hughes parents for the holidays. Robert Mason returns from Council Grove to join Mrs. Mance and daughter Anna. O L Isaacs and Miss Mary Leone Isaacs from Emporia visit Breskey family. Mr and Mrs L A McNalley of Minneapolis visit. Warren Henley of New York City arrives to spend Christmas with Mrs A Henley. Myrtle Dolbee teaches at Florida State College and stays with sister Cora Dolbee. Clarence Topping returns home to Lawrence for holidays. We also extend thanks for sympathies shown during our baby Clifford Dean’s illness and death. Mr and Mrs Wm Johnson and family express appreciation.
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Florence Barrows
W. H. Judd
Betty Jane Robison
Webb City
Okla
Don Hughes
Smalls
Charles
Bill
Amarillo
Texas
Hughes
Charles E. Hughes
Robert Mason
Council Grove
Mance
Clarence ‘Topping
Lawrence
Woman II Decorated American Gets Recital for Social Service Work
Constantinople report of Miss Garis E Mills, formerly of Princeton New Jersey and Toledo Ohio, being decorated with the Red Cross of the Kingdom of the Serbs Croats and Slovenes. The award recognizes two years of solo social service in the city, with praise from Jugoslavian Archbishop at the embassy chapel.
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Constantinople
Garis. E. Mills
Princeton
N. J
Toledo
Ohio
Red Cross
Mills
Goebel's Mother Arrives for Christmas Reunion
In Wichita on December 24 AP reports Col Arthur C Goebel showing improvement after pneumonia. Mrs A C Goebel of Los Angeles visits at his bedside and says he plans to fly home to California though she dislikes flying. The father urged bringing him home asap. Also notes aviation pursuing Ruth McConnell across the continent as Francis Bowhan continues toward Salt Lake City with D. O. Meeker and Winnie Sell.
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Wichita
Kan
Arthur C.goebel
A. C. Goebel
Los Angeles
Goebel
Reno
Nev
Ruth McConnell
Francis Bowhan
Omaha
Reno Air Mail Field
Salt Lake
City
McConnell
Dri D. O. Meeker
Rano
Trai Bowhan
Chicago Crime Toll Grows in Year of Notches
Chicago reports a brutal year for crime with gangsters racketeers and highwaymen tallying 527 notches on pistols, up from 476 last year. The AP notes rising violence as holiday readers face gunpoint tales and police counts amid a winter city pages.
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Chicago
Christmas Programs and Radio Lineup in New York Schedule
The Roxy and Hearst newspaper listings reveal a Christmas carols program with Dr Cadman and a large choir at Trinity Church, plus Mammoth Christmas carols from 11:10 to 12:20 a m. at the same venue. Other stations feature Sunrise musical program from 6:00 to 8:00 a m and studio segments through 7:30 p m, with notices for To be announced events and Sixteen Singers.
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Ap. m
Roxy
Longine
Hearst
Cadman
Trinity Church
Roxy Theatre
New York
Rogram
Sealy Africa
Michelln Tirem
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Austral
Bless
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Mary. M. Newman
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Chem‘st
Goodrich Gusher
Everett Cooper
Jin Lawrence
Col
Everett Cooper, Jr
Dec
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Kansas Gilday
Atkinsoom
Cornelius II
Hutchinson Reformatory
Wether Press
Muscle, Shoals
Clifford Dean
Wm. Johnson
Imsier. A
Winnie Sellt L
Shawnee Cou
Dovelas County
University Place
Underworld
Round Corner Drug Store
Dr. Gowdy
Weldon G. Hauser
Chicagol
Roy Hauser
Erroll Lerdy
Holiday
E. P. Hauser
East Nineteenth Street
Das
Rumsey Bros. Funeral Home
Ind. St
Kuppenheimer
Merry Christmas
Merchants National
Tiny Tim
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