Christmas Festivities at White House and Suffrage Memorial
President Wilson joined grand-niece Attie Josephine Cothran as a large Christmas tree adorned with gifts delighted the family at the White House. Mrs Wilson attended church. Secretary McAdoo and others visited. In the Capitol statue hall memorial services honored Inez Milholland Boisevarin for her suffrage advocacy, with Alice Paul and Anne Martin among speakers.
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WASHINGTON
Wilson
Attie Josephine Cothran
White House
Mra Wilson
Josephine Cothran
capitol
Inez Milholland Boiseevain
Los Angeles
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
congressional library
rotunda
statuary hall
Alice Paul
Congressional Union
Mackensen Advances Steady in Dobrudja Amid Bridgehead Attacks
Berlin reports Field Marshal von Mackensen's Dobrudja army captured Isaktcha and advanced on the Matchin bridgehead as Husso-Rumanian forces retreat. Russian outposts repulsed near Lyarets. Austro-Hungarian positions clash in Oltuz valley and Great Wallachia with renewed activity. President Wilson's peace note receives cautious consideration in German circles.
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BERLIN
von Mackengen
Dobrudja
Isaktcha
Danube
Matchin
Wallachia
Transylvanian
Oltuz
Archduke Joseph
Cimbrosiavank
Sosmeoce
Oituz
vor Mackensen
Leopold of
Bavaria
Lyarets
IStanislau
Galicia
Canadians Put German Battalion Out Of Action In Raid
North of Arras Canadian troops conducted a raid described as a new phase in trench warfare. They overran German front lines, captured 59 prisoners including a commissioned officer, and reportedly killed about 150 in blown dugouts. Canadian losses were light. Germans were surprised and panicked as Canadians advanced in under three minutes.
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FRANCE
Associated Press
Arras
vinced
happer
plains of
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alperta
Christmases Seen by This Woman at 105 in Brooklyn
New York December 26 Mrs Alice Bennett marked her 105th Christmas at her Brooklyn home surrounded by many descendants from Brooklyn and Philadelphia. She celebrated a full day including church service breakfast reading the paper without spectacles and helping stuff a 25 pound turkey. Her descendants say she was the life of the party.
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NEW YORK
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Alice Bennett
Bennet
Frank Gould Donates Funds for English Protestant Church
Paris readers report Frank J. Gould has donated 190000 dollars for rebuilding the English Protestant Church at Maisons la Fatte where a prominent English American colony lives, many involved in thoroughbred racing stables.
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PARIS
Frank J. Gould
Paris Herald
Maisons-la- Fitte
Cold Wave Predicted for Mountain Region After Christmas Snow
Weather bureau forecast reports a cold wave for tomorrow with heavy snow in Southern Colorado and lighter precipitation in Southern Arizona and Eastern New Mexico. Rain changed to snow south of the border near Avizons as temperatures rise and fall.
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weather bureau
Colorado
Arigona
New Mexico
Avizons
Mexican sniper fire kills one at Rio Grande camp
At the American army camp near the cement plant across the Rio Grande a Mexican sniper fired on the First Battalion of the Third Kentucky infantry. The battalion used its machine gun to rout the snipers, and at least one Mexican attacker was killed.
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EL PASO
Third Kentucky infantry
Rio Grande
Youth bandits ruin Christmas in Chicago spree
Christmas Eve robberies by four well dressed youths under 17-year-old appeared to span a wide area. They hijacked three armed men and stole money, watches, rings, and a turkey, plus gave minor currency as “carfare.” Victims included William Rucker, Dr Benjamin Augustus, Henry Lynch, and Robert McCoustin.
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CHICAGO
William Rucker
Benamin Augustus
Henry Lynch
Robert McCoustin
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