Christmas Trees and Greens On Sale in Frederick
Local merchants prepare for Christmas tree sales with hundreds of trees arriving from the North and many home grown from Frederick County farms. Prices range from fifty cents to three dollars, with mistletoe and holly scarcer and often pricier this year.
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North Carolina
Frederick
Acarcely
Santa Claus
Desser
Maine
Frederick County
United States
Santa Caus
Gale
Noose is Ready but Lucky Tommy Not Executed
Chicago December 14 officials move to reform Cook county jail after Lucky Tomy O Connor escape. Five city detectives injured in Milwaukee crash while racing to Hartford. Grand jury probes jail laxity, and a petition seeks a pension to allow a US Supreme Court appeal.
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Chicago
Tommy” O'Connor
Cook County
Sheriff Peters
Crowe
Milwaukee
Hertford
O'Conner
Hartford
Wiliam Forarty
States Atiermes
Cone
Mogelnd
James CG
Wrrex
Tate
Pia
CF Conper
Scranton
Fudge Scanlon
Juelter
Big 3 May Reach Agreement Today
The article reports on a tentative pact among major powers regarding Pacific affairs. It notes pending parliamentary ratification, U S transmission to the Senate, and Harding's stance that the treaty speaks for itself. The quadruple treaty aims to preserve peace in the Pacific, signed quietly in the secretary of state’s anteroom.
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United States
Japan
White House
Harding
Senate
Pacific
Foods For Russia Under New Bill
An appropriation of 20 million dollars would be available to buy grain and other food for distribution in the famine district of Russia. The measure was favorably reported today by the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Associated Press
Washington
Russia
House
Bad Habits Seemingl y Although She Now Pur sues Peace
The former German raider Moewe now renamed Green Brier rammed and sank the Formby lightship Planet near the Mersey bar after steering gear failure. Her crew of six escaped. the Green Brier sustained bow damage and required repairs. The vessel, once terrorizing Atlantic routes under Count Nicholas von Dobna Scholechen, earned a notorious reputation in Allied shipping. Previously named Punga, she began West Indies voyages shortly after the armistice.
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Moewe
Mersey
Teneriffe
Oiber
Green Brier
Green Briers
Count Nicholas von Dobna Scholechen
Atlantic
Britiesh
Muveune
Punga
West Indies
Britvsh
Flac
Messrs. Elders and Fyffe
Newcastle
Gold Plated Door Knobs at New York Sherry Apartments
A Philadelphia Public Ledger correspondent describes the Three Hundred Park Avenue Sherry apartments in New York as an extremely wealthy enclave with gold plated door knobs, liver plated chandeliers, private elevators to each of sixteen floors, and yearly rents from 10 000 to 55 000 dollars. The building houses ninety apartments with noted director tenants including Percy Rockefeller Richard T Wilson and Du Pont family members. Furnishings include 250 000 dollars worth of thirteenth century tapestries, Norwegian wood, and walls used as canvases for art. The first floor hosts a ballroom restaurant grill tea room and confectary shop. Locating a unit requires approval by director tenants.
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Park Avenue
New York
Jis
Percy Rockefeller
Richard T. Wilson
Gen. Cotenan du Pont
Col. B. B. McAlpin
Louis J. Horowitz
F.C. B. Page
F. Colt Johnson
Louis J. Dunham
L. M. Boomer
Europe
America
Jontx Sherry
Boomer
Norway
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Why do we die and the complex human body
The editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association asks why humans die, noting biology links death to our complex structure. The Literary Digest adds primitive cells could live indefinitely, while higher organisms die from delicate balances in complex systems. It asks whether one would trade longevity for the multiplicitous nature of human life.
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Journal of the
American Medical Association
Literary Digest
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Canada Has No National Flag
Canada lacks an official national flag, with the current flag considered unauthorized and not representative of the country. The flag features a quartered shield of Ontario Quebec Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and was authorized by the British Admiralty in 1892 for use on Canadian merchant ships, not on land, and has not been formally adopted by Canadians.
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Canada
British Mercantile Marine
Ontario
Quebec
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Dominion
Dominion of Canada
Bank embarrassment and Albanian humor in old jokes
A short compendium of gags about banking ignorance and overdrawn accounts, plus Albanian barter shop lore and moon cut hair superstition. The National Geographic Society Bulletin notes humor as culture, including a traveler’s tale of villagers and a cat cliff joke. It ends with an advertising line for The News.
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National Geographic Society Balletin
Privacy and Patronage in Biographies of Spouses and Parents
The piece argues that true biographies of husbands by wives and of parents by children remain impractical due to censorship and social restraint. It cites examples from Yale Review and Palmer and notes privately published works offering spicy, unrevealing portraits as unlikely to be balanced until such mufflers are removed.
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Carlyle
Jane Welsh
Wilbur Cross
Yale Review
Palmer
Alice Freeman
Pepys
United Kingdom
Ypres
Kitchener
George
England
Relics found on Santa Ynez river by road crew
A road construction gang under Ranger RK uncovered relics of an extinct Indian race along the Santa Ynez river two miles upstream from the San Marcos road grade. Fossil remains include a polished cylindrical soap stone artifact, a forearm bone, and two other similar relics.
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Santa Ynez
RK. Forsythe
Santa Barbara National Forest
San Marcos
Thomas B. Sloan
Forsythe
Santa _ Barbara Press
Big Forest Nursery at Sarateca Springs to be world’s largest
The forestry nursery at Sarateca Springs is under organization and aims to be the largest globally, planning a output of 10,000,000 trees per year. Last spring workers transplanted over 120,000 white pine across several bays, with seven transplanting tables operating at one time. Young trees are grown uniform in faultless rows, and the nursery showcases an impressive conceived scale for future forestry projects.
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Sarateca Springs
Amateur wireless stations link US and Scotland across Atlantic
Eighteen amateur wireless stations in the eastern United States transmitted messages to Scotland, with Franl Godley near Glasgow receiving. Thirteen Scottish receivers heard the new continuous wave signals, five others caught sparks. Hiram Maxim hailed the test as paving the way for unrestricted transatlantic conversations.
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U. S
Scotland
Hartford
Conn
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Hadio H
Franl Godley
Glasgow
Godley
America
Hiram Percy Maxim
American Radio Relay League
Volcanic Eruption in Mexico Sparks Alarm Near City
Mexico City reports Popocatepetl erupts violently sending smoke and ash 2500 feet above the summit. President Obregon observed from Chapultepec castle and ordered aviators to the mountain. Lava and rumbling described. villagers warned and reportedly deserted. The pattern of increasing violence foreshadows a serious outbreak.
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Popacatepet
Mexico City
del. Ui
Popacatepetl
Obregon
Chapultepec Castle
Mountzin
Pepacatepet
Powdered lignite fuel with partial gasification
Lignite, previously hindered by drying and by-product recovery issues, is now usable as a powdered fuel via a drying gasification method that yields a semicoke. The process, operating at 900 to 1000 degrees F, produces a grindable powder fit for injection into combustion chambers, with experiments in rotary cement kilns proving satisfactory.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Woman assaulted and burned in home attack
Mrs. Stephens, wife of a Culcord Coal agent, was beaten and set in a gas log fire by a man who broke into her home after an attempted assault. She was taken to a hospital and later identified the suspect as Leroy Williams, a road contractor employee.
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Wexton
Stephens
Saler
Culcord Coal Company
Vane
Leroy Williams
Normal Tree Shortage From Maine Woods Expected
Strousburg December 14 Monroe county Christmas tree men return from Maine saying the usual number will be sent to New York and Philadelphia markets. Henry P LeBar of Delaware Water Gap says heavy Maine snow will curb shipments but more trees than last year are still expected for the market.
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Maine Woods
Stroussburg
Monroe County
Maine
New York
Philadelphia
Henry P. Lebar
Delaware Water Gap
Lord Halsbury Dies at 99 in London
The Earl of Halsbury aged 99 and former lord high chancellor of England died in London on December 13.
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Lord Halsbury
London
Earl of Halsbury
England
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