Christmas Eve Mercy Run Ends With Police Stop
Miss Ursula Allen leads a charity visit with Jabez McAdam Delancey and Rev. Arthur Montgomery Simms Sinclair in a rushed Christmas Eve errand. Delays, a high speed chase, a police arrest for speeding, and a found roll of cash end with a brief, jovial wrap as the group parts with holiday goodwill.
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Miss Allen
Arthur Montgomery Simms-Sinclair
Jabez McAdam
Mr. Delancey
Jones
Touneau
Arthur Montgomery Simms
Sinclair
Baton Rouge
Ispahan
McAdam
Delancey
Jabez
Sturgis
Mercedes Lynch
Mercy
Mrs. Lynch
Ursula
San Francisco
Arthu Montgomery Simms-Sinclair
Tonneau
Naval test to defend Panama Canal in 1914
The Atlantic fleet will stage a week long war game to test canal fortifications in February. Observers from the president and secretary of the navy may attend as maneuvers run from Culebra Island to Cristobal with fire control towers, range estimates, and breakwater anchorage tests. Marines will simulate possession of Culebra, planting mines and torpedoes to deter an invasion.
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Panama Canal
Atlantic Fleet
N. L. Jones
Josephus Daniels
Wilson
Culebra Island
Cristobal
Atlantic
Canal
Culebra
Harrison Vance Traps Catches Three Cows on Farm
North field New Jersey farmer Harrison Vance set a trap for hay shortage and caught three cows. Mrs. Charles H. Arndt of Reading Pennsylvania dies laughing at her own remark that she would die of laughter. Postal stamps will be pasted on Christmas packages by request under Postmaster General Burleson order. Washington New Jersey to receive a new lockup with two steel cages for drunken men.
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Ursula
Jabez
Harrison Vance
Northfield
N. J
Charles H. Arndt
Reading, Pa
Burleson
Washington, N. J
Mars
Emperor Paul I Promotes Imaginary Ensign to General
In a biographical anecdote about Paul I, the emperor misreads a page break as a name Kit and promotes the Ensign Kit up through lieutenant to captain and finally colonel. The staff search for Kij fails until a fit reveals the true cause, and the czar remarks that he was a good soldier.
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Rector
Waleszewski
Paul I
Catherine the Great
Pau
Kij
Don
Paul
Czar
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W. G.chapman
Mr. Simms- Sinclair
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Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Popular Mechanics CO
W. Washington St
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Edison
W. Meadowcroft
Photogf
Popular Electricity Publishing CO
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The
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Boston
Mass
Victor
G. M. Noyes
Victrola Shop
Victor Victrolas
Edison Kinetoscope
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