Santa Claus letter asks Seattle to help orphans
The Star receives a dated letter from Santa Claus proposing an orphan Christmas at Dreamland in Seattle. He urges scientific distribution of gifts and urges uncles and aunts to fill roles for institutional orphans, aiming to bring joy to children without parents. Joe Schermer of Dreamland is urged to become an uncle.
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Ditor the Star
Europe
United States
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Mother
Joe Schermer
Dreamland
Seattle
Santa Claus
Joe Scher
Areamiana
Joe
Battle Line at Przemyśl Diary Entry From Front
An American newspaper man reports a day near Przemyśl with Col John, Capt Minkch, and others. He describes crowded wagons, a cholera hospital, artillery fire, wounded being moved, and recruits training on black, rain-washed fields as a pig rides a seat like a soldier on the road.
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Przemysl
War Press Bureau
New York
John
Minkch
John Quincy Adams
Robert W. Dunn
New York Post
Przemys
Pig
Baltimore woman receives front letter from Austrian front
Mrs. Philip R. Reese of 1900 N. Calvert in Baltimore received a letter shown by Lieut. Hoffmann of the Austrian army. The Reese family had been abroad and met Hoffmann at the front during the Przemysl dispatch referenced by Wm. G. Shepherd.
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Baltimore
Philip R. Reese
N. Calvert
Helen O. Reese
Wm. G. Shepherd
Przemysl
Hoffmann
Shepherd
Reese
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Hoffman
Star previews Essanay film girl in Chicago
In a teaser for tomorrow's Star readers are promised photographs of a popular telephone operator described as the prettiest in America. The paper hints the current image may not show her best and says a full article with pictures from a Chicago Essanay movie shoot will appear tomorrow.
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America
Star
Essanay
Chicago
Officier Estimates Bullets Needed Outweigh Man’s Weight
A Berlin front report quotes a probing officer noting that even with modern weapons the fatal load remains 168 pounds of bullets per casualty, surpassing the average man’s body weight.
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Berlin
War Today Front Reports Shifting Frontal Struggles
The war page notes Austria Hungary awaiting Russo German battle outcome while German forces shift from the western front to the east. France and Belgium endure heavy artillery across Ypres Lys and near Arras as German reserves mass to the coast. King George travels home from the front.
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Austria
Germany
East Prussia
France
Belgium
Ypres
Lys
Arras
England
King George
French Bavarian Troops Share Water and Coffee Amid War Front
On a section of the front French and Bavarian soldiers cease fire at a daily agreed time to fetch water. They use the same spring, barter tobacco and coffee, and even brew and drink coffee together.
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Paris
Woman Shot by Suitor then He Takes Own Life
Mrs. Sidney Jennings, a waitress at the I. X. L. restaurant, was wounded in the scalp Tuesday morning when Angel Bianchi fired at her and then turned the gun on himself, inflicting a jaw wound. Both were taken to the city hospital. Bianchi is to recover. The incident occurred in front of George Hanson’s saloon on First Avenue. Jennings said Bianchi, known as Frenchie, had pursued her after she rejected his marriage proposal. Bianchi claimed she had pursued him for months and that he shot only after feeling greatly wronged.
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Sidney Jennings
First Ave
Bell Sr
Angel Bianchi
George Hanson
Bianchi
Wailfirst
Hanson
Oscar and Adolf Condemned to Die in Editorial Satire
A dramatic dialogue targets Oscar and Adolf as editors at a newspaper. They are condemned to be shot at sunrise and taken to the morgue. The scene closes with a dachshund's bay and a call to the dog pound.
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Oscar
Adolf
Fritzie
Sergeant Grege
Scantily Clad Girls Repel Burglars at Nurses Home
In Los Angeles on December 1, three scantily clad nurses' home residents awakened by prowlers fought off two masked burglars. The women grabbed a blanket, one seized a robber, and both fled into the rain as a policeman intervened.
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Los Angeles
Figueroa St
Prison Court Sings as 29 Workers Sent to Stockade
Twenty-nine defendants sat in the bull-pen awaiting Judge Gordon on charges of disorderly conduct after dining in restaurants without paying. They sang hymns and mocked the system while detailing hunger and unemployment. The court sentenced them all to the stockade, amid notes on overproduction and wage despair.
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Police Court
Gordon
van Ruff
Wisconsin
Should a business girl accept employer attentions
A social column summarizes a reader story where a young woman asks if a business girl should accept attention from her employer. Cynthia Grey responds with practical guidance on professional boundaries and workplace conduct.
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Cynthia Grey
Plain Faced And Plain Spoken In Business Life
A reader urges girls in offices to avoid egotism and remind themselves that polite invitations do not guarantee romance. She says many male colleagues confide their attachments and that plain faced, plain spoken workers attract fewer temptations than prettier ones. The note questions assumptions about social advances in business settings.
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