London shops full of articles despite blitzed streets
A London reporter notes crowded Christmas shopping on Oxford Street Regent Street Knightsbridge and Kensington amid wartime bombing. Stores display fine wares from silver and china to fabrics and sports goods while blackout rules and shelter access shape shopping patterns.
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New York
London
Oxford Street
Regent Quadrant
Knightsbridge
Kensington High Street
Fifth Avenue
San Francisco
Post Street
Sheffield
Thames
England
Susie
Thosa Eystomers
Witler
Christmas Party Tales From Mrs Harvey Home
Mrs Harvey hosted the Joly Quilters for their annual Christmas party with twenty members attending. Officers elected: Mrs Clyde Conn merchant and Mrs Betty Houk secretary. Games led by Mrs Conn and Mrs Carter, with Mrs George Houk winning the Christmas menu games and Mrs Peryl Schneifer taking the turkey prize. Refreshments included tea cream bars vanilla wafers candy and coffee.
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Harvey. Honk
Clyde Conn
Betty Houk
Mra
Sirs
Charles Coffman
Mre
Forrester
Mystery Yale
Ben Swa Iow
Stusser
Maron Peterson
Iver Peterson
Here
O'Conner
Hatner
Clinton Critter Cluta
Mel
Wandard
Thelma Mauric
KU Alumni Publish Private Book of Poetry and Prose
Kansas and Vermont contents highlight a small bound volume privately printed for Frank and May Marcy KU alumni San Diego Calif. The work features poems by Carruth and Ware and White’s 1940 commencement address. Waldemar Geltch and Mrs Geltch holiday in New Orleans. Palmer duo in New York then Cleveland for a music teachers meeting. Two KU men in Watkin Memorial hospital recover from major surgery.
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Santa Claus
Fred Ellsworth
Frank
May Marcy
K. U
San Diego
Calif
Vermont
Kangas
Marcy
Fraser Hall
Kansas
Lawrence
University of Kansas
May Scott Finney
William Herbert Carruth
Eugene Ware
William Allen ‘White
White
Robert M. Palmer
A Resourceful Husband Buys Christmas Gifts
Pierre South Dakota December 26. A husband returns home with a shoebox rattling with unknown gifts. He teases his wife by guessing items she wanted all year, then at work dumps a pile of practical gadgets from the box. The plan is to fix or bring home needed tools by Christmas.
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Pierre
S. D
Do You Know Answers to 1887 1893 1898 Financial Panics
The piece notes that in 1887 the government was debt free with excellent credit. It cites small debt and good credit at the start of the 1898 panic. It explains 1878 and 1890 silver purchase laws, the gold redemption rule, and the impact on a $100,000,000 gold reserve raising business fears.
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Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
KU Wichita offers new engineering course for defense program
More than one hundred students enrolled in Kansas University engineering courses in Wichita under the national defense training program. The program focuses on aeronautical engineering with drafting, materials testing, analysis, and production management. Instructors include engineers from Beechcraft, Cessna, Stearman, Culver, and Aeronca.
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Wichita
University of Kansas
National Defense
University Extension Service
Deartment
J. J. Vakosky
Kansas Engineering School
Kansas University
Air Capital
Stanarman
Beechcraft
Cessna
Culver
Aeronca
University of Wichita
Kansas University School of Engineering
Kansas City
School of Engineering
John Kirkwood
Chamber of Commerce
Ted Wells
Harold Zipp
Stearman
Tom Salter
C. M. Jamieson
Cecil Barlow
John W
Flying Santa Claus Finds Wreck of the British Frigate
Boston reports Edward Rowe Snow, a Winthrop teacher and coastal historian, re discovered the 18th century British frigate Somerset wreck in Boston harbor while delivering Christmas packages. He says the hull appeared on a beach near Provincetown after being buried by tides.
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Boston
New
Somerset
Peaked Hill Bar
Cape
Snow
New Greek Advances On Albanian Front Near Adriatic
Athens reports Christmas eve fighting yields Greek gains near the Adriatic coast and in the northern mountains. The high command says large quantities of war material and prisoners were captured including eight field pieces. Greeks stormed several fortified positions northeast of Chimara and seized strategic heights north and east of Premet despite Italian resistance and severe winter conditions.
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Athens
Adriatic
Chimara
Premet
Austrian Jew Who Once Was Poor Aids the Needy
Dallas text describes J Rude, an Austrian immigrant turned philanthropist, hosting his 29th annual Christmas party for Dallas’s needy. His Elm Street store will hand out warm suits coats and apparel, with stock for 5000 outfits and wholesale houses ready to supply more if needed. The tale recalls his poverty as a youth in New York and Denver’s aid that restored his health and success.
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Dallas
J Rude
Elm’ Street
Rude
America
New York
Denver
Sprane
British Bomb Naples and Tripoli Raids Reported
British fliers dropped propaganda leaflets and incendiaries on Naples in a noon raid, bombed the Libyan base at Tripoli, and attempted to strike the Albanian port of Valona, according to the Italian high command.
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Naples
Rome
Tripoli
Valona
Christmas Today Poem by Liberty Memorial Student
A fragment from a Liberty Memorial high school junior Dick Dauberman titled Christmas Today expresses patriotic holiday feeling. The verses contrast a war torn world with a hope for gospel peace and goodwill this Christmas season.
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Dick Dauberman
Yuletide
Liberty Memorial High School
Tou
Doll Collection to Alaska Museum Exhibit Opens
One hundred eighty dolls from Miss Rosemary Ketcham’s legacy are on display at Spooner Thayer museum of art ground floor. The varied materials and 24 plus countries show costumes from eras down to 2,000 B.C. and include notable figures like Scarlett O'Hara and an Amish group. A separate military doll case and other donated items complete the exhibit.
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Rosemary Ketcham
Lawrence
Spooner- Thayer Museum of Art
Miss Ketcham
Crete
B.C
Lapland
Archbishop of Canterbury
Scarlett O'Hara
Queen Victoria
Sumatra
KU Extension Division to Offer Statewide Programs and Speaker Bureau
The University of Kansas extension division will run educational and entertaining programs statewide during the first week of January. Programs cover broad areas from Pittsburg to St Joseph and Dodge City to Oberlin, offered to towns at cost. The division also acts as a sneakers bureau, dispatching KU faculty to deliver Democracy talks in Kansas towns. Requests for speakers from January 9 to April 30 are being received. first scheduled address is R M Davis on Democracy and World Organization before the Wamego Lions Club January 9 at 6:30 p.m.
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University of Kansas
Pittsburg
Ias St. Joseph
Dodge City
Oberlin
K.U
Kansas
Guy Keeler
Fraser
R. M. Davis
Wamego Lions Club
Democracy and World Organization
Freighter Arkansas Stands By Sinking Stanwood Off Fort Bragg
The freighter Arkansas reported sighting the 627 ton lumber schooner Stanwood in sinking condition and standing by her 15 miles off Fort Bragg on the northern California coast.
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San Francisco
Arkansas
Coast Guard
Stanwood
Fort Bragg
California
Christmas family dinners brighten homes across states
North Carolina Oklahoma and Lawrence relatives join Mrs G G Perkins and The Cedars hosts for a series of Christmas dinners. Guests include Ross Clegg Perkins Simons Summers Keeler Coker Messmore and Auchard families with numerous children and relatives from Bartlesville Minneapolis Savannah Kansas City and Philadelphia.
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North Carolina
Oklahoma
Lawrence
G. G. Perkins
W. B. Ross
Miss Alia
Josephine Ross
Calvin Ross
Kenneth Ross
Marshall Clegg
Greensboro
Han
Graham Kerr
Charette
Eugene Perkins
Donna Jean
Bobby
Bartlesville
Darwin Gerard
W. C. Simons
The
Cedars
L. McNalley
Mary Beth
Arichael NeNaley
Minneapolis
Kan
Harry Johnson and Sons
Lance
Charles Simons
Dawson
Ned
O. W. Maloney
W. C. Summers
Frank Summers
Kansas City
Harlan Russell
Phil Russell
Tom McDaniel
John
Billy
Savannah
J. A. Keeler
Walter Keeler
Anabel Keeler
Summers
E. M. Auchard
Ae Coker
H. E. Messmore
Ronald
Okla
Maurine Auchard
Paul Coker
Paul Allen
Howard Weindel
Dwight Jost
Numerous Local Christmas Visits Noted Across City
William C. Rice of Chicago returns tonight after visiting his parents Mr and Mrs W H Rice. Families and relatives travel for Christmas including Mrs H L Snyder and daughters Marjorie and Dorothy in Winfield, and Dr and Mrs A A Weber in Junction City. Miss Myrtle Dolbee arrives from Tallahassee to spend the holidays with Miss Cora Dolbee. several others head to Augusta and Topeka for Christmas.
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William C. Rice
Chicago
W. H. Rice
H. L. Snyder
Marjorie
Dorothy
Winfield
John Brand
Ethel High
Robert Oyler
Lincoln
Kun
Alvin Walters
A. A. Weber
Junction City
John Hunzicker
Myrtle Dolbee
Tallahassee
Fla
Cora Dolbeee
Ben Barteldes
Augusta
Barteldes
Wrents
Roy Aames
Marvin B. Allen
Fort Bragg
N.C
Nellie Allen
Keith Allen
Kentucky Street
C. F. Nelson
Madge Bullene
Martha Rogers
Topeka
R. R. Jackman
William Carter
California
Pasadena
A. T. Walker
Kansas City
Willard B. Shaw
Ill
Risdon Godlove
Minneapolis
Kan
Edward Shaw
Gail’ Bodkin
Coffeyville
Margaret E. Johnson
Ponca City
Mary Busby
Robert Corey
Parachute Battalion
Fort Benning
Mia
Erna Corey
Eli Wilson
P. N. Stevens
H. E. Hucke
H. R. Johnston
Adolph Krpimard
New York City
Fred Jaedicke
Classified Ad Offer for Local Paper Promotion
A four line classified ad promises wide print reach over 35 000 insertions for 80 cents. Readers are urged to phone 22 and ask for an Ad Taker to place the notice.
Rams Rest Up As Jayhawks Travel To New York City
Fordham Rams enjoy a week of rest before meeting the Kansas Jayhawks in Madison Square Garden on Saturday. The Ram lineup features sophomores and juniors led by captain Dick Fitzgerald with Hal Savage at 6 feet 8 inches. Kansas schedule includes Temple in Philadelphia and Loyola in Chicago, with Loyola’s Mickey Rottner pacing the Rambers.
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Fordham
Rams
University of Kane
Jayhawker
New York City
Madison Square Garden
St. Lawrence
Vermont
Upsala
Rutgers
Rays
Brooklyn College
Dartmouth
Ram
Ed Kelleher
Frank Klimazewski
Bob Croke
George Babich
Dick Fitzgerald
Max Loeffler
Hal Savage
Bob Sherry
Jayhawkers
Loyola
Mickey Rottner
Jayhawks
Chicago
Rottner
Art. Double
Vinny Graham
Mike Dougherty
George Wenskus
Horses to receive free Christmas dinner in Kansas City
The Emma A. Robinson horses Christmas dinner trust funds a yearly feast for about 200 hungry horses at 915 East 5th Street. Humane secretary Rose Brown notes 75 horses have already been fed and invites them back Christmas Day.
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Kansas City
East 5Th
Chicago
Emma A. Robinson
Clathe
Kan
Rose Brown
Humane Society
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