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Rockport Democrat

Location

Rockport, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 22, 1916

Page

7

Emergency Bonds For Dry Deficit Burning Question

Nashville assess that prohibition across Southern states increased public debt and reduced revenue. Tennessee faces deficits. Nashville city issues bonds to cover revenue gaps while other cities and states consider bond sales to pay floating debts. Several towns report tax increases and borrowing to fund schools and services amid liquor-tax losses.

Nashville Tenn Tennessee Alabama Georgia North Carolina Mississippi West Virginia Memphis Chattanooga Frexville Avret Chettananes Handy VUU Henderson Alshema Tennesese Hafield New York Commercial

Mt Vernon Plans Community Christmas Tree

Mt Vernon announces plans for a community Christmas tree as the town circulates a sixteen page Christmas edition by the Mt. Vernon Star last week. Merchants and businessmen patronized the edition while neighboring publishers face paper shortages for regular editions. At the Cannelton public schools regular monthly teachers institute last Saturday afternoon a parent teacher club was mentioned.

Mass Cannelton Telephone Republican Party Roosevelt Chrisney Sun Roy L. Huser Spencer’, Co Benson, Ill Mt. Vernon Democrat Harty The State Laboratory Evansville Mt. Vernon

Joy to the World and Saviour Reign in Community Service Song

Traditional carol text celebrates the joyful arrival of the Lord. The verses urge welcoming the King, praising his truth and grace, and blessing spread without limit across lands and seas.

Christmas Song Prelude to Bethlehem King Birth

A devotional poem celebrates the nativity with imagery of a star, the Virgin Mary, and the Christ child. The verse envisions joy across nations as the world lights up with the angels praise and the message that Jesus is King. The refrain calls to echo the heavenly song and greet the Savior in the cradle.

Bethlehem Jesus Evangel

Night Gospel Chorus Announces Christ's Birth

The angels reveal to shepherds the birth of Jesus in David's town. The heavenly host proclaims peace on earth and glory to God on high, guiding observers to find the infant wrapped in swaddling bands in a manger.

God

Portu guese Hymn And City Theft Note

A fragment mentions a Christmas hymn and a mayor's complaint about stolen electric globes in City Park. The note urges watchfulness and swift arrest, with a firm stance on punishing the guilty.

Cannelton

Mark Twain’s Prophetic Wish and Spider Battles

An excerpt discusses Mark Twain’s fascination with astronomy and Halley’s Comet, noting his belief in a future return and a vivid, if faulty, grasp of cosmic distances. It also explains why spiders fight, detailing how exhausted web material drives battles as younger spiders supply web strength.

Mark Twain Halley Albert Bigelow Paine St. Nicholas

Extinction of the Buffalo Questioned by Zoo Director

The New York zoological park director disputes that human encroachment caused buffalo extinction, arguing instead that systematic hunt and slaughter for robes, hides, tongues, and other uses wiped out plains herds from Saskatchewan to Texas long before grazing or farming pressures began.

New York Zoological Park Plains Saskatchewan Texas

Vermin as workers in Paris hide trade

A New York Sun writer notes Paris uses rats for commercial purposes. Trapped rats are fed, then monthly executions by gas. The plump hides are processed into gloves and also used for bookbinding and photograph frames.

Paris New York Sun

Locomotive Wanders Free From Yard Without Incident

The Huntingburg Independent reports a yard engine veered from its track and moved east toward Kyana Hill before being returned to Huntingburg. No accident occurred, though this marks a recurring behavior with the engine in question.

Kyana Hill Huntingburg

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