Christmas charity and a sea of yuletide gifts
Christmas spirits run high as Salvation Army and other benevolent groups distribute meals and bundles to every jail, orphanage, and needy home. A note of excess liquor appears as a surplus shipment of 3,600 quarts of Hennessy moves through Seattle amid holiday cheer.
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Tme
Hiks
Salvation Army
the Com Les Service
Benevolent Organt
Good Fellowship
Santa Claus Iewan
Seattle
Hennessy
Scotland records first quad births in 1907
In Edinburgh on December 27 the registrar notes the birth of quadruplets all four alive at birth. This marks Scotland’s first such event in 1907.
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Jedinburgh
Quad
Scotland
Country Club Hens Record Strong Year’s Egg Output
In WINSTED Conn on December 27 members of the Poultry Country Club reported their hens laid 44, eggs totaling 146.4 eggs per bird. Egg sales reached $2,752.43 with receipts above feed cost of 63. The figures reflect the year ending November 1.
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Winsted
Conn
Poultry Country Club
Landlady Orders Silence With Curfew on Laughing
London report states a landlady imposes a curfew of 10 p m on her tenants. A young couple talking and laughing at that hour was warned that future noise could lead to action or notices.
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London
First Woman Bailiff Named in America in Ohio Court
Judge John G. OConnell of Hamilton county court of common pleas appoints Mrs Minute Wuest of Cincinnati as the first woman bailiff in America. She will maintain order in the courtroom supervise jurors and handle witness calls with a monthly salary of 150 dollars.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Compulsory Housework Training Plan Formed in Copenhagen
A committee in Copenhagen plans compulsory training for girls aged 18 to 22 in cooking housekeeping sewing childcare nursing and sanitary matters. The six month program will be held in household schools and aims to raise women’s skills. Meanwhile Los Angeles export trade with Latin America has risen 140 percent over the past four years.
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Los Angeles
Latin America
Thought Waves Fail Cupid Courtship Ends in Marriage License
Dr. C Abbott Burton, once a telepathic suitor courting by mind messages, has obtained a Chicago license to wed Miss Helle Grove. The Universalist pastor, known for reincarnation talks, wooed Grove via mind waves from Evansville to Chicago, a long distance romance that culminates in an actual betrothal.
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Chicago
C. Abbott Burton
Dan Cupid
Mins Helle Grove
Burton
Universalist Church
Marwseilion
Lil
Evansville
Ind
Olive Owen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Dr. Burton
Miss Owen
Karl Shy on Funds Wants an Allowance
Ex Emperor Karl has sent his private secretary to Vienna to negotiate an allowance from the Austrian public. Karl is short of funds and the empress has sold her jewels to cover ordinary household expenses.
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Karl
Geneva
Switzerland
Vienna
Austrian Republic
Boy of 19 Is Accused of Bigamy
Albert Couttenden aged 19, a private in the Suffolk regiment, is held on a bigamy charge. He enlisted at 13 and was first wounded in September 1914.
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London
Eng
Dee
Albert Couttenden
Suffolk Regiment
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