Christmas Notes and Services Highlight Local News
Christmas cards stream through post office amid centage rules. St Thomas Episcopal holds midnight Holy Communion and carols with a morning service and childrens program. Shortest day brings cold, ice, and pipes frozen. Bradenton nurse group forms with officers led by Mrs Larrabee. Christmas stockings planned for needy children. library closes for Judge Merrill’s memorial. An airplane seen as meteor, then identified.
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St. Thomas Episcopal
Chris
Bradenton Club
Dovey C. Larrab
Larrabee Tal
Florence Anderson
Georgia Hendricks
Katherine Webb
Secretar Surer
Alice Larrimo
Anderson
Florida Times Union
British owned steamer Tungchow captured by pirates
The Tungchow a 3104 ton coastal steamer owned by the Navigation Company sailed from Shanghai to Tien-Tsin with passengers aboard. On December 18 pirates seized the ship south of Welhatwel, kept officers on deck while forcing foreign passengers to stay below, then took the vessel to Hong Kong. The British captain was wounded but recovering. others were shaken but unharmed.
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Hong Kong
China
Tungchow
the Navigation Company
Shanghai
Tien-Tsin
Welhatwel
Shan
Asphal
Blas Bay
Kwangtun Vinces
Oldest English Tennis Terms Featured Criticism
A French sports writers’ campaign targets English tennis terms like smash and drive as inexact. Samazeuilh, former champion, argues for accuracy and practicality and urges players to protest scribes. The text also notes the Parcel Post System under President Taft and Postmaster General Hitchcock, enacted in 1912 and active since January 1.
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Parcel-Post System Post-Office Department
William H
Gea. Itehcock
Match With Tunney Fights Cited In Wedding Story
Meigs resident W H Hurst announces engagement of daughter Sallie Faircloth to Ordn Flandon of Adrian. Pa Stribbling says he guarantees 100000 for a Tunney bout but seeks 75000 next fight. wedding timing rumors surround party plans in Miami.
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W. H. Hurst
Meigs
Anion
Tunney
Miami
Stibbling
Aliens Entering U S by Crossing Niagara Gorge
Niagara Falls N Y Dec 23 authorities tightened border lines amid reports of a planned alien invasion. Smugglers allegedly pay large sums to cross after sliding down a rope into the gorge then entering via the Michigan Central bridge. Two men arrested in Lockport include Archibald Griesch and Josef Peters, a Roumanian.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
United States
Niagara Gorge
Niagara County
Lockport
Archibald Griesch
Hydraulic Electrical Commission
Josef Peters
Peters
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