Local Social Events Highlight Season in Parkersburg
Community notices detail a busy slate of Christmas sales and gatherings at churches and clubs in Parkersburg. Mrs Haymons Maxwell hosts a Coterie meeting on Exxt Main Street, with the Ladies' Aid Society and parish groups planning events. The Mareato Music Club presents Faust with Elsa Gundling Duen as soloist, while the Mareato Choral Club stages operatic selections. A Bay area banquet, a bridge luncheon, and a Marcato recital showcase local talent and civic activity through December 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Haymons
Maxwell
Mareato Music Club
Masone Temple
Faust
Mareato Choral Club
Elsa Gundling du- Ba
Hardy Williamson
Fred Martin
Parkersburg
Box Supper At Morticello School To Support Equipment
A box supper will be held at the Morticello school building on South Chestnut Street Wednesday night December 6. Pie cake and coffee will be served. Proceeds fund a Victrola for the school. Everyone invited.
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Broaddus
Baptist Church
Morticello Schoo Building
South Chestnut Street
Card of Thanks for Alberta Hicans Family Note
A card expresses gratitude to Mrs. Kennedy Mrs. Welsh Mrs. Moore and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of wife and sister Alberta Hicans. Signed by B L Kigans and sisters and brother.
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Kennedy
Fragmented suture of notices from tattered OCR
Fragmentary OCR reads as a garbled local notice with detached fragments and stray numbers. It mentions items like tapestry velvet Axminster and a price reference 125 dollars but lacks a clear event, date, or identifiable entities to contextualize.
Indian Poet Sees Dawn of a New Literature
Sardar Jo gendra Singh, Indian poet and philosopher, argues in Simla that a new Indian literature is rising, driven by Western influence and Western methods. He notes travel among Punjab laborers, reads American authors, and highlights figures like Tagore and Guru Nanak, with a shift from religious hymn writing to a modern, impassioned literary voice.
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India
Punjab
Simla
Himalayas
United States
Oma Khayyam
East
Sardar
al Juri
Macaulay
Britannia
Fisel
Bengal
Bombay
Tagore
Tangore
Guru Nanak
Kabir
Mer
Bit Singh
Tie
Iqbal
Caruso Stars In Bizet Opera Amid New Poetry Debates
New Yorkers see Enrico Caruso in Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers with Misa Frieda as a leading pair. The piece also surveys Urdu poet Iqbal’s call for a new literary movement, praising his reality grounded style and ambition to ignite social and political reform.
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Enrico Caruso
Caruso
Misa Frieda Flempel
Bizet
Enrico Caruso and
Misa Frieda Hempel
The
Federal Farm Loan Act to be discussed at Southern Congress
Norfolk dispatch notes the Federal Farm Loan Act discussed for delegates at the Southern Commercial Congress eighth annual convention December 11 to 14. The act aims to aid needy farmers with government support and stems from a Southern Congress meeting in Nashville and subsequent study missions abroad led by Duncan Fletcher and others to form a new rural credit association.
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Norfolk
South
Southern Commercial Congress
Congress
Nashville
Tenn
David Lubin
International Institute of Agriculture
Rome
Italy
Duncan A. Fietcher
Florida
Associa
Els
of Agriculture
States
Nis
Ewillii
Faithful Servants to be Rewarded in Washington Campaign
Washingtonians rally around a campaign by the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs to honor long serving domestic workers. Prizes include two gold awards of ten dollars for the longest service and two divisions feature certificates for over five years. Entries show many decades of service, including four servants of former Secretary of State John W. Foster with eighty four years combined.
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Ocia Tre
Washington
Ecampalen
District of Columbia Federation of Women’s Clibs
Federation
John W. Foster
Unis
Aficioneay
Washington Federa Lion
Federation Offeers
Amortization Plan Aids Farmers Under New Credit Law
The article explains a new credit law allowing farming landowners to borrow from government land loan banks. Loans run ten, twenty, or thirty years, with low interest and gradual principal repayment each year. The system aims to ease repayment by spreading principal alongside interest.
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Hearrdter
Dutch Second Chamber to curb irregular attendance
The Hague reports steps to prevent irregular attendance in the Dutch second chamber. Official action targets attendance consistency as parliamentary sessions proceed amid ongoing political considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cmy
Errer
the Hague
Netherlands
Krupp Employees Savings Rise in Record Year
The Krupp firm reports wartime savings for 191 year with 8,933 depositors increasing deposits to 4,865,602 marks and total savings to 12,864,983 marks. deposits exceed half the workforce. Parliament leader Cort van der Linden proposes a one day extra pay of two dollars for attending sessions.
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Eee
Essen
Germany
Krupp
Krupp Savings Institution
Cort van ‘der Linden
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Poses Almele
Masonic Auditorium
Marcato Choral Club
Livingstone Bros. Model Shoe Store
Clinton
Pike Street
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
First Baptist Church
West Main Street
Peter H. Wobbsard
Albert L. Lohin
Auxiliary of Christ Episcopal Church
Lily Grove
White Lily Grove
Sarah Ambers
Mary L. Huff
Carrie, Dodd
Nettie Garrett
Rosa E. Coffman
Bertha B. Delaney
Alfie McVicker
Marcato Music Club
Masonic Temple
WH. Earl Travis
George Eyneh
C. L. Haught
Homer Williams
Messrs. Keher
A. J. Smith
John Marvel
EH. Botta
B. Franz
S. 0. Dew
E. Clyde Beckett
Mittee
W. Lee Williams
J. Howard James
Mary Matthews
Berg Stout
Clarissa Maxwell
Nannie Lowe
Ames
Clarksburg Council
Knights of Pythias
South Third Street
Saturnight
Tecal
Phillips Sheet and ‘Tinplate Company
Waldo Hotel
O. H Hurgham
C. H. Bibbee
John ¢. Williams
BE. L. Cronemeyer
Weirton
Kember
Orches
Messrs. Burgham
Williams and Cronemeyer
Geler
Philadelphia
Robert Burns
Mark Tomas
W. Jo. James
Kell John Bear
Writh
I. WH. Brown
BL Maeple
JM. Kelley
George Hughes
Ira Love
D. L. Ramey
A. Somforrow
Daniel Glemm
Pred
D. Angelo
Burgham
J. JL. Hale
A. Jenson
Parry ‘Fiecus
Angela Cameron
Harry Snyder
Sharwin Alberts
Howard McClain
A. West Samuel Callahan
A. J. Jones
Pa O'Day
Garret Gilbert
Frank Stremmel
Viv E. Delancey
Ohn
Horne Joseph Shipley
Walter Kirk
A. Jo Staveher
Frank Ingram
James Bauld
Burcham
E. L. Cronemeyer
C. 1
Bibben
John C. Williams
John T. Moyr
B. L. Kigans
Axminster
Henty
Lownde
West
Associated Press
Abul
Fazal
Theart
Moses
Ieen
Washington Federation
Women’s Club
Chamber
Dutt
Christma
Thomas A
Decker & Sons
Clarksburg
Deckers and Son Player
Hobart Avi
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