Snow Storm Halts Soviet Arctic Drive
The report describes a severe Arctic bombardment with multiple bombings causing casualties and property damage. Soviet planes were shot down near Viipuri and Hanko while Finnish defenses held along the Mannerheim Line. The tale mentions investments in Finnish power plants and ongoing heavy fighting near Helsinki and Imatra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imatra
Sumarinkula
Helsinki
Hanko
Gulf of Finland
Viipuri
PSP
Crectl Asees
Tedrb
Cena
Santa's postal aid head aches and heartaches
Bertram G Cowles heads the Dead Letter Office handling misaddressed Christmas mail. The article notes thousands of letters to Santa Claus are redirected to charities and agencies for gifts to poor children, despite Santa remaining popular. Cowles faces emotional strain as he matches hope with the seasonal clutter.
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Washington
Bertram G. Cowles
Santa Claus
Cowles
Fastoffice Department
Olice
North Pole
Iceland
Greenland
Postoffice Department
Department
Macy executive Percy Straus felled by nervous disorder
Percy S. Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Co. of New York, is seriously ill with a nervous disorder in Phoenix Arizona in December 2017.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Percy S. Straus
R. H. Macy & Company
New York
Notes Lost On Meeting Of Gamblers In Mayor Kress Office
Special Dispatch, Binghamton, Dec 20. Testimony in the conspiracy and extortion trial of Mayor Charles W. Kress and Harold A. Baylor centers on stenographic notes from a March 11 gamblers meeting. James J. Casler testified he transcribed the notes but later lost them after raids on vice and gambling establishments.
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Binghamton
Charles W. Kress
Kress
Harold A. Baylor
Daniel J. McAvoy
James J. Casler
Casler
Richard P. Byrne
Stephen A. Hodge
Hodge
Tom R. Hutton
Binghamton Press
George Ely
Baylor
Hutton
Damm
Ely
District Attorney’s Office
Willis Sharpe Kilmer
Theodore Levene
Byrne
Hotel Bingham
Levene
Hitler Heads To Berchtesgaden For Christmas Retreat
Berlin dispatch reports Adolf Hitler left the capital today likely to spend the Christmas holidays at his Berchtesgaden home near Munich. In prior years he celebrated Christmas Eve with about 1,000 Old Guard fighters in the Loewenbrau Beer Cellar in Munich, where gifts were exchanged and he spoke. No definite plan on this year’s event was given.
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Hitler
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Munich
South Uz
Missouri man confesses to four slayings in letter of guilt
Charles Garner, jailed in Missouri, admits drowning his wife just after marriage and claims four more killings from York Nebraska to Liberal Missouri. He says a quarrel over an all night date spurred three additional murders and a fatal push under a freight car near Kansas City. Authorities weigh the changing statements as they investigate remains, including a beheaded youth near Union Station.
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Jefferson City
Charles Garner
Garner
Tom Scott
Missouri Penitentiary
Meteres
York
Neb
Alvin Collingham
Jean Collingham
Clem Hall
Collingham
Jean
Ne York
Maynard Grosshans
Kansas City
Union Station
Robert Parsons
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Exchange Telegraph Agency
Bjorkoe
Mannerheim Line
Lake Muola
Lake Kauk
Santa’s
Straus
Drug and Department
Sotany Mills
Passaic. N.1
i-Ib
Mazda
W. T. Grant CO
Salina
Jay-Cobbs
Everybody's
Stas
Deore
Mrs. Santa Claus
SALE
Werthie
James Casler
Gittse
Mars
Rudolph’s
Christus
Pertussin S&c
Pertusin
Dept. PE
Washington Street
New York City
Wes
T Helmers
Guerlain Shalimar
Perfume
Vol de Nuit
Vent Sin Mitsouko
Lamin My Sin
Arpege
Rumeur
Lucien Lelong
Penthouse
Suzanne
Caron En Avion Perfume
Fleurs de Rocialle
Schiaparelli
Salut
Corday Tzigane
Tzigane
South Warren Street
Beck
Esau Cameron
Beilaa
Shane Oieg
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