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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1914
Page
14
Exeter pupil Simon Stein spends holidays with his parents in this city while Swan's advertises lower prices on Pancy Rings and Diamonds as Dr. W. 5S. Norton visits relatives in Topeka Kansas.
Local bulletin notes no YWCA Bible class meeting this evening due to an indefinite postponement. Train delays persist on Rock Island and Milwaukee lines through town, punctuality impacted by one to four hours.
An old Dundee Brand advertisement touts a sterilizing process that purportedly kills all germs, promising safe evaporated milk for every use. The copy emphasizes quality guarantees and premiums on labels, urging shoppers to ask grocers for Dundee Milk.
The First Baptist pulpit denounces last week’s charity ball as a wholesale hugging match in the name of sweet charity. Rev J W Graves condemns mixed dancing as humane vice, cites New York and Chicago vice reports, and urges Christian restraint rather than profiting the dance for charity. He notes Chicago and New York authorities banning or curtailing dances as evidence. He cites Jesus Christ and Christmas as a call to conquer baser impulses rather than celebrate them. The piece ends with a brief note of a separate ship loss.
On the night of December 19 the Anita stranded on North Caicos island, likely a total loss. The vessel carried a general cargo that is being saved, and the crew members were rescued.
Advancing actions across the front extend from Prosnes and Perthes to Beausejour and into the Argonne. Allied forces report capturing 1200 yards of enemy trenches northeast of Beausejour and blowing up four mined saps in the forest of La Grarie. Further gains claimed between the Argonne and Meuse near Varennes, Gercourt Behincourt, La Croupe, Brabant, Consenvoye, and Des Chevalliers northeast of Coyon fort.
Reports from the war front describe Austro German forces pressing Russians in Galicia and Southern Poland while Cracow and Przemysl appear nearer relief. Emperor William is returning to the front for Christmas, with Berlin hints suggesting a westward move amid lower spectacle than prior battles.
A neutral traveler reports from Berlin that Germany shows little zeal for a Zeppelin attack on England, viewing precautions in London and other cities as a joke. The front remains dominated by siege warfare and trench gains measured in scant yards, with official notices detailing minor advances or losses. Black Mantle clocks, Swan's, Ady.
A Christmas program titled Down the Chimney With Santa Claus will be presented Sunday evening December 25 at the United Brethren Church. The youth of the congregation perform in scenes featuring family roles and recitations by several scholars.
Two groups perform a holiday pageant with fairies and brownies. Fairies are twenty girls and brownies are twenty boys, with Holly mistletoe evergreen and poinsettia as props. Four Christmas messengers include sand man dream man Santa Claus portrayed by two young men Miss Jessie Kopp pianist.
President Wilson, busy with plans for a Panama and San Francisco trip, declines to attend the American Newspaper Publishers' Association annual dinner in New York next April after an invitation from Nerbert L. Bridgeman of New York. The decision reflects his packed schedule and travel prospects.
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