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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1946
Page
13
Reflection on twenty centuries since Bethlehem contrasting rulers and the Innocents with the Christ message. The piece weighs earthly cruelty against the enduring ideals of faith and peace, suggesting eternal values persist beyond political actions. It argues faith and peace are timeless amidst human history.
W. H. Adams safety director of Gettysburg Gas Corp. was elected a member of the executive committee for the public utilities section of the National Safety Council at the 34th National Safety Congress in Chicago. Adams has served with the Pittsburgh Group of natural gas companies in the Columbia System since 1905. Ireland's population declined from 6,548,000 in 1840 to 2,992,034 in 1940.
Officials estimate at least 100000 lives saved each year in America through funds from the annual Christmas Seal drive against tuberculosis. The idea began in 1903 when Danish clerk Einar Holboell proposed a voluntary tax on Christmas cards to fund a hospital for tubercular children. The campaign spread internationally with postal cooperation and later involved the American Red Cross from 1907, which partnered with the National Tuberculosis Association to sell seals nationwide through 1919.
The text notes 1919 emblem use with the double barred cross as a wartime tubercu losis symbol. In 1920 the Red Cross focused on Roll Call and arranged for the tuberculosis Christmas Seal sale to be handled solely by the Tuberculosis Association.
Francis X. Cook, 69, of Gettysburg, arrested by borough police on a larceny charge for stealing items from G. C. Murphy in Gettysburg. He pleaded guilty before Justice John H. Basehore and was held for sentence court, remanded to jail in default of 500 dollars bail.
Gettysburg Moose Lodge held its annual turkey dinner at York Street lodge home with 80 turkeys for 2500 attendees. The meal ran 5 30 to 9 45 with five long tables seating 400, then two more for the final group. Merle Baumgardner announced plans to convert the second floor dining room into a recreation space including shuffleboard.
After the dinner a dance followed, with Al Shirey's Orchestra of York providing the music for the event.
In the 1850s the United States had a young population with more than half under twenty. The Rhodes Scholarship program began with its first awards in 1904.
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