Night Before Christmas Snowflake Tale
A poetic Christmas allegory portrays a single tiny snowflake as part of a vast wing of flakes. The Chief of the snowflakes urges service for Christmastime, sparking a joyful White Christmas across the world as sleds, snowmen, and coasting bring happiness to children.
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Western Newspaper Union
Thoughts of Old Friends at Christmas Time by Thomas Arkle Clark
A reflective piece on Christmas memories and the enduring pull of old friends. The author recalls family figures, especially mother, and notes how celebrations fade as friends scatter worldwide. Across cities from New York to London, encounters with past acquaintances evoke nostalgia and prayers for those near and far.
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Mother
New York
San Francisco
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Naples
Edinburg
Paris
London
Pompeii
Toronto
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Pacific Coast
England
Thomas Arkle Clark
Western Newspaper Union
Children’s Voices at Christmas Time
Snow fell over the city as shoppers and beggars moved through crowded streets. A group of little girls heard a beggar selling pencils and bought them after singing “The Lord is come.” Pedestrians paused, hearts lightened, and some remembered the tune long after.
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Colin
Revenue bill faces easy passage in House debate
Edward W. Pickard surveys the stalled revenue bill fight in Congress. Democrats and insurgent Republicans clash over surtax caps while party lines hold, Mary Norton pushes for larger exemptions, and estate tax provisions survive. Senate probes prohibition and World Court questions as naval and coast guard reports surface.
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Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Sorlie
Ladd
Swanson
Coolidge
Borah
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Bingham
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European finance chaos prompts calls for dictatorship
The piece describes OUIS LOUCHEURs financial scheme for France being rejected by the chamber of deputies, sparking fears of bankruptcy and calls in influential journals for a dictatorship to save the country. It notes Loucheur resigning and Paul Doumer taking the finance portfolio to secure more revenue and punish tax dodgers. It also mentions Germanys failed coalition effort by Dr Erich Koch, the Reichstag adjournment, Iran's IZA KHAN being enthroned shah, a message from King George, and AMES C DAVIS resignation as railway director general.
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Loucheur
Paul Doumer
Senate Finance Committee
Erich Koch
Democratic Party
von Hindenburg
Germany
Social Democrats
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