Bethlehem Star of Freedom and Christ Child Theme in Christmas Verse
The piece links Christmas to peace and charity, invoking the Young Child in the manger and the Bethlehem Star as symbols of universal peace. It contrasts wartime destruction with the enduring Christmas spirit and praises gifts to suffering nations and the disabled. It also lampoons Kaiser Wilhelm II with a quip about 598 suits of clothes.
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Old Judea
Bethlehem
Egypt
Beth- Iehem
Judea
Hinta
Star
Billings
Mont
Notable American Inventors Age and Work Across Industries
Henry Ford, aged 55, built a $250000 war-boat factory and dedicates an auto plant to his son while planning a large farm tractor venture. Burk (likely Burbank) at 69 has transformed fruit and flower product development, announcing a walnut tree that will reach 96 feet in 22 years and yield 18000 nuts annually. Edison at 61 remains a driving force in electrical science with wartime counsel noted. The piece urges persistence beyond age limits.
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Henry Ford
Henry
Dearborn
Uther Burbank
Thomas Alva Edison
Germany
Edison
Burbank
Ford
Mooney Case Sparks Calls for New Trial and Pardon
An eastern daily echoes California's governor in questioning Mooney's conviction. Judges criticise the trial, citing perjury and seeking a new trial. Labor and business leaders demand justice. a conditional pardon and retrial are urged for Mooney, with public interest cited.
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Mooney
California
Capital
San Francisco
United States
Stephens
William Marion Reedy
St. Louis Mirror
Chamber of Commerce of the
Fragmented Odds and Ends From Various Figures
A collage of quips and snippets referencing President Leonard, Lane-Free electric juice, Ed Levi, councilmen, a Gillette razor, and satirical notes about Holland and the Kaiser. Includes weather quip, jokes about streetcars in Strongsville, and a brief birthday notice for Mrs. F. H. Bailey with assorted trivia and remarks.
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Leonard
Lane
Letters to the Editor Heat on Many Cars
A reader urges city proprietors to heat apartments adequately and jokes that municipal cars emit drafts. Other letters describe a sick neighbor needing help during influenza, ask for aid, and criticize dirty streetcars and rude conduct. Readers' names and locations referenced.
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WM. M
Courtesy on Pacific Steamship Lines Reveals Harsh Etiquette
The Star columnist laments Western passengers and crews on Pacific coast steamboats, praising captains for courtesy while accusing other staff of snobbery and rude treatment. The piece contrasts varying manners aboard different ships and hints at broader social behavior aboard maritime travel.
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the Star
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Los Angeles
Arsenal plants shift to industrial production in France
Paris reports the French ministry of armament becomes the ministry of industrial reconstruction. Roanne, Bourges, and Chatellerault arsenals will produce railroad material and car parts locally. Palmbcouft will manufacture chemicals and powders. Touloure will house dyeing works to compete with German products.
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N. FE. A
Paris
French Ministry of Armament
Roanne
Bourges
Chatellerault
France
Pittsburg
States
Palmbcouft
Touloure
Moulton Granted Divorce After Hotel Shooting
In Tacoma, John Moulton of Seattle was granted a divorce from his wife after a December 7 shooting in a hotel room they occupied. The decree includes an order for him to leave the state within 44 hours, and prosecutors filed an information charging first degree assault against the wife should she return.
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Moulton
Tacoma
John Moulton
Seattle
Smallpox Alert and Curious Local Tidbits
A series of short, tastefully odd items from Marionville and surrounding areas includes a note of three smallpox cases among J B Padghams in Harris It also recalls a newspaper mockery about a chauffeur obeying speed limits and jokes about Wilson in New Jersey An itinerant spent a night at Potter boarding house with coat on at table highlighting local gossip and wartime mood.
Woman commits suicide at St Francis Hospital
Fearful patient Mrs. W. W. Taylor leaped from the hospital’s fourth floor just before planned surgery at St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco. She died instantly, leaving behind grief and shock among staff and family.
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San Francisco
St. Francis Hospital
W. W. Taylor
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