Christmas shopping cram eases with early buying push
The piece notes the Christmas rush began about ten days before the holiday as wealth declined leading to bigger purchases. It calls for early buying to spread trade and ease congestion, warning that the season still brings fatigue and higher costs for stores, mail, and transportation. It also argues Education Week should raise public understanding of schools and citizen participation.
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FOWE
Ann Young
Theublic Education Association
Philadelphia
Inquiring Reporter Picks for Army Navy Game
Several residents weigh in on the Army versus Navy football game. Navy favored by LIBUT CALVIN S PAGE and Bernard M Davis while D Joan Markyel and John Usher Markbell back Army. Sparks predicts Navy despite belief Army is stronger.
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Army
John Usher Markbell
West Patrick Street
Irick
Bernard M. Davis
North Market Street
Navy
Cc.c. Sparks
Record Street
Merian Lesson Auxiliary Plans Membership Drive
The Merian Lesson Auxiliary of Francis Scott Key Post led by president Mrs George Birely will outline a membership drive at a Membership Committee meeting in the Y M C A building on Tuesday afternoon November 27 at 4 30. The drive is expected to start the next week. An annual meeting of the auxiliaries will be held in the Blue and Grey Room of the Francis Scott Key Hotel on December 4 at 3 o'clock with officer elections. A recent card party at the Key Hotel drew a large crowd with 14 tables in play. Mrs Winer FL Munshower and Mrs CW Tall offered prizes and advertising space was urged in The News.
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Merian Lesson
Francis Seatt Key
George Birely
John H. Albaugh
Francis Scott Key
Francis Sentt Key
Yinksday
Mire
Royal P. Kemp
Winer
FL Munshower
CW. Tallae
United District Court For
Anna E. Horner
Han
Andrew A. Hornpts
Slagle
Kimmitsburg
William D. Collidlower
J. Stewart Annan
Frederick County
Immitsburg
Shield
Emmitsburg
Andrew Annan Horner
Fimmitsburg
Ikneysville
Andrew Annan
Anna i L. Morner
Tom's Creek
Alexander Armstrong
Vincent Sebold
John 8
Newman
Horoscope forecast warns of deceitful deals and unrest
The astrology note warns Neptune and Mercury adverse, predicting dissension among friends, secret plots in business and politics, and risky real estate deals. It foresees tense Congress sessions, nautical hazards near Portugal, and possible Brazil upheaval. It notes cautious investors and phrases on births, agriculture, and family inheritance.
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Neptune
Mercury
Neptung
Congress
Washington
Europe
Portugal
Brazil
Mars
Sagittarius
McClure
Poem by Berton Braley on Bridey and the Tramps
A humorous verse by Berton Braley from 1928 mocks a young woman named Bridey who refuses to join the crowd and “get out the Tramps.” The poem contrasts her kindness, wit, and optimism with the speaker’s longing and social pressures in light verse form.
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Stumps
Berton Braley
NEA Service, Inc
Announcement or Not, The Paper Still Delivers
A puzzled reader questions if the item is a real news story or simply an announcement. The inquiry notes the piece feels like a tease rather than substantial reporting.
Today in History and Birthdays in the era notes
A long list recalls historical anniversaries from 1749 to 1919 including Rutledge and Gerry births and deaths, a Crompton loom patent, Victoria and Albert engagement, Hitchcock death, and a 1894 US Japan treaty. It also notes last year’s Sydney storm, Klan eviction order, and today’s birthday figures like Parker Ely McClellan Lines O Dea. It mentions St Clement festival, Civil War events near Chattanooga, and events at Carnegie Institute of Technology.
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South Carolina
Charleston
S.C
Hlbridge Gerry
United States
Washington, D.C
Marblehead
Mass
Queen Victoria
Prince Albert
Samuel A. Hitchcock
Boston
Western Colleges
Brimfeld
St. Louis
Japan
Washington
Myron
Lake Superior
Gilbert Parker
Canada
Hanson E. Ely
A. S
The
Army War College
Independence
Iowa
George TB. McClellan
York City
Drasdon
Saxony
Rt Itur
Edwin 5
Lines
Episcopal
Newark
Naugatuck
Conn
Edward J. O'Dea
Seattle
Baston
Radio Program Listings Across Four Stations
Multiple stations in Pittsburgh Chicago Springfield New York and Schenectady broadcast a mix of music talks and features. Highlights include organ recital mission sermons children's programs stock market reports and concerts plus forthcoming book reviews and a tuberculosis association event.
Chautauqua At Liberty Promises Four Days Of Culture
Four days of entertainment are planned in Libertytown from December 9 to 10 and 11 featuring Swarthmore Chautauqua lectures drama and Misses recitals. Residents have organized in advance with O B Mone as chairman Myrtle Carter secretary M Scott Starr treasurer Dr Yoos Myers tickets Gailing Lorraine Sappington advertising Jose Yingling junior chair Lorraine Simpson hospitality Trace Hammond bath committees.
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Libertytown
Swarthmora Chautauqua
O. B. Mone
Myrtle Carter
M. Scott Starr
Dr. Yoos, Myers
Lorraine Sappington
Airman
Mixed Quips and Quirks From A Nation In Jest
A collage of satirical lines touches on diet jokes, wealth myths, astronomy timelines, odd legalities about names, film star quirks, climate gripes, train conductors’ notes, aging in youth, road safety quips, peony trends, and a grocer's tale of bad debts.
Secret of His Success Marmalade Sparks Bad Church Incident
A humorous fragment notes two Peoria churches hit by a lightning bolt during marmalade production. It jokes about buying marmalade and critiques buttoned collection practices while mentioning Washington scientists achieving extremely low temperatures.
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Peoria
Twenty Years Ago Today in Frederick
Local items from The News column dated November 25 1908 recounts brief notes from Frederick including William Ree West birth address and hogs weighed around six pounds, Ephraim Eyler logging three loads weighing 975 pounds, Reuben Long from Nashville and others. A sheriff elect appoints deputies, and a hunting accident near Mt Carmel injures James Zimmerman with gunshot to the hand and wrist requiring medical care.
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Tetias Zimmerman
Patrick Ftoert
Mt. Carmel
Washington County
Merl Zirmerman
Avato
Zimmerman
Roonshorn
Frederic
Prank
Bible Thought About Keeping the Word in Him
The note cites 1 John 2 5 about keeping the word and love of God. The fragment mentions Buroanean trouble and a wish that the Jlantir matched the Pacific in wit.
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John
Pacific
Blunders Hore in a Famous Picture
The article notes a painting titled The Landing of Columbus at San Salvador in the Capitol for Washington DC. It criticizes an artistic mistake where the artist shows wind blowing toward three directions, despite wind not affecting the leaves, and laments the impracticality of the depicted wind.
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Artis
San Salvador
Capitol
Washington
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