Christmas Kindness Reverses a Bitter Heart Story
Hulda, a woman ruined by a lost investment, vows to shun all charity. A visiting daughter reveals Hulda’s money was entrusted to her father, and the girl offers Hulda funds from her own earnings. Overwhelmed by guilt, Hulda realizes humanity’s goodness and resolves to accept help and aid others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asda Potisfield
Hulda
Low
Arbor Street
Hulde
The
Ladies’ Aid
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas Dinner Guests Bring Hope and Tension
In a busy city home, two outsiders are invited to a family Christmas dinner, sparking debate over hospitality. Ruth’s friends Eddey and Ross arrive with eagerness, while Mrs Mathews notes the year’s only chance to have all her children together, amid lively preparations and festive decorations.
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Ruth
Mary
Eddey
Ross
Dancers Eddey and Ross Brighten Mary Mathews Home
In 1926 at the Mathews home Eddey the dancer and Ross the singer visited family friends. They shared a warm dinner and sang together with Eddey’s help. The guests’ sociable manner left the household uplifted and grateful for such happy visitors.
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Middle West
Holdey
Ross
Hoss
Eddey
Mary
Mathews
Weetu 0 Newspaper Union
Washington Nez Perce Company in 1855 69 Warriors
Washington Territory volunteers formed a Nez Perce unit of 69 fighters led by a war chief known as Spotted Eagle. Muster rolls reveal names like Seven Days and Fish Bone, with no sergeants or privates, reflecting stark discipline. The regiment, created amid the 1855 56 conflicts with Walla Walla, Yakima and Cayuse, fought east of the Cascades and earned pay of two dollars per day per warrior, and two dollars per horse, later adjusted to thirty three dollars and forty one cents for the 36 day campaign. Spotted Eagle alone received ninety five dollars and thirty three cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Guard
Adjutant General
Camp Lewis
Lydia Taylor Orstrand
Bridal Veil
Ore
Maurice Thompson
Ralph H. Windsor
United States Army Recruiting News
Washington Territory
United States
Walla Walla
Yakima
Gmatilla
Cayuse
Stevens
Mason
Olympia
Gilmore Hays
Vancouver
William Strong
Sloop of War
Decatur
Jefferson Davis
Seattle
Steilacoom
Congress
Warrior
Spotted Eagle
Christmas tree humor from Hubbs-What exchange
A playful exchange imagines gifting ideas for a tree related to Christmas. Wifey suggests a fir tree as a humorous catalyst for choosing a fitting present.
Descendant of Burns Draws Crowds to Dumfries
Miss Jean Armour Boros Brown, great granddaughter of Robert Burns, attracts many Scotch American visitors to Dumfries. Tourists flock to the Burns museum and nearby St. Michael's cemetery mausoleum. She preserves Burns songs in a simple life, having avoided much public attention despite growing interest from Burns students.
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Burns
Dumfries
Scotland
Bobby Burns
Jean Armour Boros Brown
St. Michael's Cemetery
Miss Burns Brown
United States
Black Bag Real Globe Trotter Worthy Travel Tale
A Chicago bound black cowhide bag covered with steamship and hotel tags boasts a 100000 mile career. Carried by AR Buchanan, it traveled from Montreal to New York and West Indies serving 29 day cruises five times, then on to the Guay Mediterannean and Egypt. It has toured 20 countries and 27 ports, totaling 30000 miles on the Empress of Scotland voyage. It witnessed a solar eclipse over the Ganges on January 14 with a million Hindus bathing seeking sign and ritual acceptance.
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Chicago
AR. Buchanan
Canadian Pacific Steamships
Montreal
New York
West Indies
South America
Panama Canal
Egypt
Assanan Dam
Nile
Scotland
India
Ganges
Wahu
Arlington Divorce Mill Sets Record for Speed
Arlington Virginia, home to the smallest county in the United States, grants divorces at a brisk pace. The county court operates weekly on Saturdays for four hours and processes over 300 divorces per session as desertion is the common ground for petitions. Lawyers for the divorce trade typically charge 100 to 250 dollars per case, handling many matters each divorce day.
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Arlington
Washington, D. C
United States
Reno
Paris
Samuel G. Grent
Nansen Passport Aids Stateless Refugees in Constantinople
The Near East relief proposes a League of Nations issued Nansen passport for about 200000 refugees lacking nationality in Turkey and Armenia. The document would identify holders and allow travel between nations, with a $2 fee and annual renewals.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Armenia
League of Nations
Europe
Germans Claim New Cheaper Better Steel Discovery
German laboratories announce a new steel making process yielding border and greater elasticity than current methods. The claimed steel is impurity free with fewer defects, cheaper to manufacture, and could give Germany a dominant role in international markets.
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Berlin
Irust
Inscriptions Saved as Temples Decay in Egypt
Washington reports that ancient Egyptian temples along the Nile face loss of wall inscriptions unless rapid exact reproductions are made. Dr. James H. Breasted urges systematic inscription salvage, detailing the labor of photography, tracing, and epigraphy to preserve Medinet Habu records and extend to Karnak and other tombs.
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Washington, D. C
River Nile
James H. Breasted
Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago
Art and Archaeology
The
Archaeological Society of Washington
Loxor
Aeid
Epierapher
Breasted
Egypt
Medinet Habu
Ramesseum
Luxory
Karnak
Doctor Breasted
Girl leaps from window to flee attack in New York apartment
Miss Dorothy Smith twenty three ex cloak model told police she leaped from a fourth floor rear window of a broker’s apartment to escape two young men escorting her from a night club. She suffers a fractured skull and legs with possible internal injuries. Francis Murphy and John Fitzpatrick both brokers, are arrested on attempted assault charges and held without bail for examination.
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New York
Dorothy Smith
Francis “Murphy
John’ J. Fitzpatrick
Murphy
Fitzpatrick
Albert Vilate
Paul Rae
Miss Smith
Swedish queen to be first Scandinavian queen of Belgium
The duke of Brabant who married Princess Astrid of Sweden is set to become Belgium’s fourth king if he outlives his father, making Princess Astrid the first Scandinavian queen of Belgium. King Albert is Belgium’s third king.
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Belgium
Brussels
Duke of Brabant
Astrid
Sweden
Albert
Leopold I
Charlotte
Great Britain
Louise
Louis Phillippe
France
Marie Henriettz
Archduchess
Austria
Elizabeth
Karl Theodore of
Bavaria
Why Do Ducks Go Wild in Washington and Oregon
Northwest ducks turn wild as tame mallards desert farms in Washington and Oregon. Hunters report tagged dead mallards, breeders tag birds for owner identification, while researchers seek the cause of the unusual migration.
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Olympia
Wash
Northwest
Washington
Oregon
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