Ulster Hiring Fairs Preserve Old Labor Market Custom
Ulster in Northern Ireland still conducts twice yearly hiring markets in principal town squares for agricultural laborers of all ages. Employers inspect workers like livestock, some sign on for six more months with earnest money. Laborers endure long hours but fare well, saving toward marriages or emigration to the United States or Australia.
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United Press
Belfast
Ulster
Northern Ireland
United States
Australia
Monroe Lions Hold Christmas Tree Luncheon
Monroe Lions enjoyed their annual Christmas Tree luncheon at Hotel Virginia. Gifts included tiny car models from local automobile dealers. An automobile derby finale awarded the grand prize to a Model A 1930 Ford driven by Lion Harry Newhall. Curtis Roberts of DeQueen and W A Stevens attended as guests.
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Monroe
Hotel Virginia
Lion Automobile
Ford
Lion Harry Newhall
Long walks to shrine by steadfast pilgrim
Frau Luise John has walked over 12,000 miles in her 153 pilgrimages to the famous Swiss shrine of Maria Einsiedeln in Basel Switzerland.
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Basel
Switzerland
Luise John
Maria Einsiedein
Crack Missouri Pacific Train Wrecked in Texas
Houston dispatch reports the Missouri Pacific line from Houston to Brownsville rerouted over the H and B V via Algoa after a wreck near Angleton just before midnight. The Pioneer derailed baggage coach two coaches and the locomotive delaying service for hours and leaving passengers waiting for a relief train. No serious injuries reported and cause remained undetermined. Dr D Walter Green of Mulls C killed two deer with one shot.
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Associated Preas
Houston
Tex
Missouri Pacific
Brownsville
H. and B. V
Algoa
Angleton
D. Walter Green
Mulls, C
Attempt on Argentine President Hipolito Irigoyen
Three shots were fired at President Hipolito Irigoyen in front of his residence in Buenos Aires today. The president was not hit. The attacker was killed by a bodyguard.
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Buenos
Hipolito Irigoyen
Invalid Bishop Sues City For $25 000 Damages
Gordon E. Bishop of Hattiesburg filed suit against the city alleging great physical and mental anguish after a water pipe at his Seventeenth Avenue home broke and remained unrepaired for 18 hours. The suit seeks $25,000 in damages and is set for trial at the January term of circuit court.
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Hattiesburg, Miss
Des
Seventeenth Avenue
Gordon E. Bishop
Hattiesburg
Wife's Desire for Work Triggers Milwaukee Divorce Suit
In Milwaukee on December 24 a husband filed for divorce citing his wife's wish to work as the cause. Herman Schable, 46, Milwaukee, alleges the pursuit of employment disrupted their marriage and led to the suit in circuit court.
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Milwaukee
Herman Schable
Painter Claims Wife Worked as Housekeeper Since 1919
The painter contends his wife has been employed as a housekeeper in other homes since their marriage in 1919, a detail raised in the dispute.
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Painter
Missouri Joke Sparks City Reward for Concrete Vandalism
Springfield city council offers a $25 reward for the arrest of anyone who tore up 450 feet of fresh concrete paving, protesting the humor of such acts amid public vandalism.
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Springfield
Local American Legion gives food baskets to needy children
The American Legion post in Hammond distributed baskets to poor families in Hasifirond in collaboration with Daughters of the Legion. The effort aimed to reach nearly two thousand children and bring relief to households facing hardship this holiday season.
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Hammond
Aesican Legion
Hasifirond
Vita Sheer
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Curtis Roberts
DeQueen, Ark
W. A. Stevens
Missouri-Pacific
Texas
Missouri
C. R. Tidwell
Cor. Hall & Harrison Sts
Clyde Hatten
Earl Rushing
Ouachita Bank
DeSiard Street
Geisia
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