Newport News Roundup of Events and Notices
Absence due to illness at NH. S part of the week noted for Principal Matlon Vane and Clifford Oakley. Senior class entertainment postponed to Dec 20 due to sickness. St Mark’s church sale and supper cleared about $150. Co H VVM dance added to treasury after a good crowd and Burroughs orchestra. Hospital fund benefit with Mina Spaulding and Madeline Pomfrey drew praise. expected to add about $40. Local visits include Mrs Freda Mosher’s trip to Manchester and others to St Johnsbury for patrol meetings. Church services announced at First Methodist and First Congregational with sermons on stewardship and life of the kingdom. Advertising merchants urge Christmastime readership. home delivery offers and rates. C A Brown travels to Boston on business with a visit to Pauline in Newton, Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Oakley
St. Mark's Church
Burroughs
Treasury
Hospital Fund
Woman's Club
Lane’s
Opera House
Mina Spaulding
Boston
Eliza
Madeline Pomfrey
Newport City
Miss Pomfrey
Reginald McCauley
C. H. McCauley
D. R. Puffer
Freda Mosher
Manchester
N. H
M. L. Badgers
P. C. Blanchard
EB. C. Blanchard
St. Johnsbury
W. W. True
Mr. True
Patrol Committee
J. T. Gardner
Ernest Hamilton
WW. True
Newport
Solon Gray
Derby Line
William Lawson
Coventry
Frank W. Cutting
Barton
First Methodist Episcopal Church
H. T. Coontz
Junior ‘Worth League
Pierre
Main Street
C. A. Brown
Pauline
Mount Ida
Newton
Mass
Work Among the Irish Many Cases Found by the American Red Cross
Dublin reports the Home Service of the American Red Cross helped thousands of Irish people over the past year. About a third of European cases involve Irish dependents of American soldiers. Committees were set up in Londonderry Belfast and Dublin with visitors at Queens town and Cork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Dublin
America
Ireland
Home Service Department
Home Service
Europe
Londonderry
Belfast
Queens
Town
Cork
America's Answer Exhibition Shown at The Hague
The first showing of America's Answer, an eight reel war film, was held in The Hague under the American Public Information Committee. The program featured the American fleet in European waters, transport and hospital services, and notable aviation footage. President Wilson and General Pershing drew cheers as a patriotic score accompanied by Civil War and Spanish American War songs. The film will tour Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
American Committee of Public Information
America
Wilson
General Pershing
Holland
Christmas Gift Catalog With Inexpensive Jewels And Furs
Local shop promotes a broad Christmas sale featuring cut glass Heisey Colonial pattern items Pyrex glassware Japanese china leather goods silk hose and gloves bath robes blankets Colgate and Hudnut toiletries and knit wear. It highlights low prices on linen damask napkins silk petticoats and fur pieces including Black Lynx Mink and Skunk options with boxed gift presentation and notable early purchase discounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heisey
New England
Phoenix
Beacon
Colgate’s
Hudnut
Vermont
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Victory
Wallace
Selec
XMAS
Fountain Pens
Bibles
Davis & Livingston
Newport, VT
City OF
Matlon Vane
NH. S
America’s
Pana
Fleisher
Germantown
Frank D. Flnt
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