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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1918
Page
2
An essay urges New Year reflection on friendship and memory. It contrasts shallow acquaintances with lasting ties, notes men forget birthdays and youth’s beauty, and stresses remembering loved ones, including aging parents, with simple notes to show care.
A man who sends New Year cards includes a second card with Tolstoy’s guidance. It urges turning evil into good, speaking kindly of others and animals, and living daily by love. The message claims the gospel of love yields happiness and lasting peace when practiced daily.
In a brief note, officials urge focusing on green bills and excluding older invoices from the new year. The message emphasizes clearing debts tied to green currency while avoiding carryover of outdated charges.
A New Year offers a unique hopeful message despite daily life. It urges using the opportunity to become better as imagined, while acknowledging limits and the inevitability of future experiences.
The tailor and customer exchange about the price of a suit. The man notes clothes are expensive, while the other suggests not breaking the news gradually, reflecting a casual local dialogue in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A note urges residents to resolve to improve mood and behavior in the coming year, promoting kinder conduct and a steadier, more amiable community stance.
Dover and London celebrated the homecoming of Field Marshal Haig and five Allied army commanders from Belgium and France. London planned a later formal peerage honor and parliamentary grant. A festive greeting at Charing Cross preceded a Buckingham Palace luncheon with King George, while Dover declared a port holiday.
General Leonard Wood praised the 89th division for taking a sector without Allied supervision and capturing about 4,000 German prisoners without any American casualties. He cited a captured German order describing the division as unusually efficient and noted the army’s results depended on dry camps. He urged universal military service.
Paris greeted King Victor Emmanuel with a warm welcome as he arrived with the Prince of Piedmont and a small guard. President Poincare Premier Clemenceau and ministers led the reception while crowds vociferously acclaimed the monarch on the streets and at the station.
Warsaw reports the mother of the former Emperor Nicholas II living near Livadia in Crimea has been receiving letters every ten days claiming to be from the former ruler. Polish officers arriving from Sebastopol say the dowager empress and her household believe Nicholas Romanoff is still alive.
Paris reports Bishop Maglione of Berne received 20 cases of religious ornaments stolen from the Rheims diocese by German soldiers. Cardinal Hartmann of Cologne arranged shipment to France for restitution.
President Wilson selects Joseph B. Eastman of Massachusetts to replace George W. Anderson on the Interstate Commerce Commission, confirming a shift in leadership for the federal regulatory body.
A Kansas City Star quip presents Mr. J Fuller Gloom declining to repeat a curse aloud. He suggests the listener imagine he is referring to the Kaiser, turning an embarrassing slip into a sardonic remark about the German leader.
Timothy appears in a Boston Transcript piece described as last, half-scared, half-sheepish, and half-amused, suggesting a literary framing that blends humor with self-awareness within the narrative.
The Celtic docked off the Statue of Liberty on December 18 with 2,227 American soldiers aboard including 1,259 wounded troops and a large contingent of black soldiers. The Maus followed with 4 officers and 2,161 enlisted men, as Caronia and Prinzes Juliana also arrived with smaller civilian passenger contingents. Notable heroes aboard Maui include Corporal E E Brook of Trezevant Tennessee wounded and guiding his squad through machine gun fire, Lieut Murray of Pittsburgh wounded in both arms and leg, Lieut Julian E Moore of Wadesboro aerial observer with a crushed foot, Lieut John C Smith of Philadelphia a professional boxer wounded in head and chest, Private William Hargrove of Port Lavaca Texas shot in the right ankle, and Private George Curry of Beloit Wisconsin who captured several Germans.
Granville A. Lansdell, stationed on the western front, writes to his sister about Belgium and France on the first day of freedom after four years of Hun oppression. He recounts a victorious recon with locals cheering, flowers, gifts, and a fond farewell kiss from a French comrade, and the warmth of crowds waving as royalty fades.
In Quantico Virginia Secretary Daniels awarded commissions to 430 marines who completed the sixteen weeks course at the third marine officers training camp here.
The Agriculture Department revised its estimates last week showing Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois leading the drop in corn planting. The final forecast reduces the crop by 166,384,000 bushels from the previous projection, with revised acreages: Kansas 737,000, Missouri 579,000, Illinois 550,000, Oklahoma 299,006, Texas 175,000.
Amsterdam Poland has severed relations with Germany according to a telegram from Warsaw. Poland accuses German authorities in occupied provinces of opposing Polish interests and aiding the Bolsheviks. Gov Gen von Beseler and the German mission staff will leave the Polish republic.
President Wilson spoke at Paris city hall in a warm address embracing France’s sufferings under German aggression. He said the United States entered the war from shared principles of liberty and justice and to resist central empire ambitions. He thanked the Paris audience for its generous welcome and recalled the close ties with France and Belgium.
London reports Dr Sidorio Paes, president of Portugal, was shot three times and killed just before midnight on December 14 at a Lisbon railway station while awaiting a train to Opor. A Havas dispatch says the assassin was lynched by the crowd. Tamaginini Barbosa, interior minister, has become president.
James Renwick Brevoort, 86, famed landscape painter and longtime member of the National Academy of Design for 55 years, died at his Yonkers home.
Albany press reports the Bayar company a maker of chemicals dyestuffs and proprietary compounds with a large Rensselaer New York plant was sold at auction to Sterling Products company Wheeling Ohio Valley city.
A. J. Sack, head of the Russian information bureau, estimates Russian war losses at eight million, with three million killed and about one million disabled. He warns that famine looms as millions die unless Allies aid Russia greatly. He urges helping Russia after Bolshevik tyranny is crushed and civic rights are restored.
Washington dispatch reports a cable from the Omsk acting foreign minister thanking the allied nations for pressuring Germany to evacuate Russian territory and renounce Brest. Russia vows regeneration, unity of separated lands, and renewed peace with liberty democracy and international solidarity.
The Boston Arena, a brick building from 1909 with about 12 000 seats, was gutted by fire. Estimated loss stands at 400 000 dollars. Authorities believe the blaze began when a cigarette or cigar was discarded on the floor during a boxing exhibition the night before.
A fire of unknown origin destroyed more than half of Mooringsport's business district, 19 miles from Shreveport, causing about 60000 in damage. Eight buildings burned completely and another store was badly damaged. Shreveport firefighters assisted. local crews saved the town. Mooringsport lies near Caddo Lake in the oil region.
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