Christus in Oberammergau Voices Against War
In Oberammergau, Anton Lang of the Passion Play argues war is man's doing not God's, notes 350 of the village's 1,800 residents serve in the army, and calls for international agreements to curb militarism. He predicts a new, bloodier spring of fighting and urges America to lead in limiting arms.
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Portrait of Suffering Priest In Cemetery Visit
The interviewee, wearing a uniform and recently returned, speaks after visiting a cemetery where he buried an office. He describes the placid face of the famed "Christus" statue as a symbol of patience, while revealing his own hardship and suffering.
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French Soldiers Hope To Be Home Next Christmas
Dec 25 report from Alsace Lorraine describes French troops confident they will be home by Christmas 1917. Soldiers cite Somme and Verdun victories as creating an ascendency over Germany and a peace favorable to France and its allies as a reality.
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More Kicks On Phone Service Than Others
The annual report to Mayor Gill by Supt. Valentine of the city utilities department criticizes utility rates set by the public service commission as ill advised and cites Bach decisions based on assumed efficient operation. It notes 1916 saw more complaints about telephone service than any other utility and urges traffic regulation education for pedestrians and drivers with copies distributed at street intersections.
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Christmas Day Fighting Along British Front in France
From the British front in France on December 25 1916 fighting continued as on the previous night. German efforts to break through were repelled by greenets and trench mortars. A Saxon trench erected a Christmas tree but the opposing line showered it with grenades, ending that experiment.
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Philip Simms
United Press
France
Britain
Travesty on Trial and Bursting Burlesque at Pantages
The Christmas bill at Pantages features A Travesty on Trial with pretty girls and dancing, Burton Daniele and Lester Conrad supply piano and violin, China Chisholm and Viola Breen perform A Shop Girl's Romance, The Four Cook Sisters showcase strong voices, Cumby and Hrow present colored comedy, the Four Portia Sisters perform athletic stunts, and a new chapter of A Lass of the Lamberlanda is shown.
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Lester Conrad
China Chisholm
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Hrow
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Not So Dry on Christmas Here
Christmas day saw many inebriated revelers despite a dry law. Two drunken cases were scheduled for Judge Gordon Tuesday covering arrests from Saturday night through Monday, with 35 jailed on Christmas day. Lieut. Dolphin noted permit clerks faced about 3,000 daily during the holiday rush.
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Real Estate Group Plans Tax Delinquency Bill Talk
The Seattle Real Estate association legislative committee meets Wednesday at 6 p m in Good Fats cafeteria to discuss a proposed bill to lower interest on delinquent taxes.
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First Picture of Sing Sing's New Warden
The first photograph shows William H. Moyer, the new Sing Sing warden. He predated Thomas Mott Osborne in reformist steps and earlier led Atlanta federal prison for 12 years where he ended corporal punishment and allowed baseball and other amusements.
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Thomas Mott Osborne
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Argues With Wife Smashes Bureau in Domestic Outburst
Neighbors report a family quarrel at 9 a.m. the day after Christmas as John Larson, of 106 Sixth Ave N, hammers furniture. Motorcycle officers arrest him at the scene before he can leap from an upturned bureau. He claims it was merely an argument with his wife.
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Japanese and Slavs Form a Friendly Pact
In Torio dispatches plans to strengthen the alliance between Japan and Russia. Viscount Yasuya Uchida, former ambassador to the United States, is named Japanese envoy to Russia filling the post vacated by Viscount Moyne. Politicians see the pact as the start of lengthy friendly relations with Russia and expect signing of further clauses after the war.
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Yasuya Uchida
United States
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Seattle Man Tries to Hold Up Tacoma Bank
Harry J Mullins age 26, a Seattle house moving contractor, attempted to rob the Bank of California in Tacoma demanding 1800 dollars. He carried 7 cents when arrested and was aided by Howard Speer, a Pacific Car salesman who had sold him a Hudson Super Six.
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Harry J. Mullins
Seattle
Bank of California
Tacoma
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Howard Speer
Pacific Car Company
Ships rush to aid of vessel off Sandy Hook
The steam ship Maryland was reported sinking about 15 miles off Sandy Hook. Four vessels head to assist as wireless messages say the engine rooms are flooding. A British Maryland of 2962 tons or an American Maryland of 1899 tons is unclear. Drew-Levick Co. denies ownership of the sinking ship.
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Maryland
Sandy Hook
Maritime Register
Drew-Levick Co
United Press
Portland newsboys buy flowers for ill hotel president
Newsboys pooled earnings to buy flowers for C. V. Hauser president of the Multnomah Hotel Co who gave them a Thanksgiving dinner and who is ill. In St Louis temperance followers note married men spend more time in saloons than single men but cannot explain why. Mrs Henrietta Berry chief matron at the city jail was badly burned Christmas morning when electric light wires contacted a pail of gasoline she used to clean the women’s quarters.
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Portland
C. V. Hauser
Multnomah Hotel
ST. Louis
Henrietta Berry
Nebraska Solons Face Fight Over Dry Legislation
Lincoln Nebraska December 26 with the start of the 35th legislature January 2 the fight centers on wet and dry lines and laws to enforce the dry amendment won by a large majority in the election. Dry supporters hold a slight house majority and six self professed law enforcements govern the senate together with the drys they outnumber veterans in the chamber.
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Neb
Nebraska
House
Senate
42 Latin American Vessels Use Panama Canal in 1914 15
Forty two vessels of Latin American registry passed through the Panama Canal during the fiscal year 1914 15, according to the Panama Canal Record. Four were Peruvian three Hungarian one Nicaraguan forty eight Chilean and one Panamanian. These figures do not prove each vessel was different.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Snowbound Trains Delayed as Four Locomotives Disabled
Four locomotives were disabled by heavy snow on the Northern Pacific line through the Cascades. Eastbound trains are delayed up to 12 hours as snow piles up to nine feet near Stampede tunnel. Crews deploy snow plows on both sides of the mountains to clear the tracks.
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Tacoma
Northern Pacific
Cascades
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