Christmas Dinners And Festivities Across Town
Numerous households hosted Christmas dinners and gatherings with extended families visiting from Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Pleasant Plain, and Fairfield. The events featured turkey and goose feasts, poinsettias, gift exchanges, music, and children's programs, with locals like the McCleerys, Haskins, Spies, Hulls, and the Lytle family hosting large groups.
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Lloyd Lytle
Santa Wus
Santa Claus
F. W. Smith
Richland
Howard McCleery
Nick
Sam
Betty Hollingsworth
Cedar Rapids
Strong quake shakes Mindanao and nearby provinces
A strong earthquake rocked Eastern Mindanao Leyte and Samar provinces today awakening residents. No damage was reported though officials issued weather warnings. Authorities urged calm and cautious assessment of aftershocks.
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Manila
Mindanao
Leyte
Samar
London fashion movement to modernize British retropolis
London plans a January launch in Repent Street to create a London fashion center opposing Paris and New York. Leslie Raymond leads the effort to boost British manufacturers by showcasing the London model to attract sales and prestige.
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London
New York
Paris
Repent Street
Leslie Raymond
Saye
Communist MP Saklatvala barred from U S speaks at Oxford club
Shapurji Saklatvala, the sole communist MP, was barred from America last summer. He addressed the American Club in Oxford where a row broke out as students heckled him and police escorted him to safety. The meeting highlighted tensions between anti communists and sympathetic crowds.
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Shapurji Saklatvala
House of Commons
United States
Interparliamentary Union
Oxford
Saklatvola
Bhava
Mr. Saklatvafa
French Authors Engage in Other Hands Across Professions
A 1926 Patia almanac lists writers with other careers including city hall staff pub lisher lawyer engineers a physician a judge a bank employee and a forestry inspector Andre Maurois calls himself a cloth weaver Jean De Pierrefeu a perfume maker Pierre Hamp an engineer and Jean Giraudoux a diplomat The auto club of western France notes horse drawn vehicles caused more fatal accidents than cars in 1922 to 1925 with 39 stoppages and 25 deaths linked to horse drawn transport versus 10 deaths and 274 injuries from bicycles or hiercles
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Jas
Andre Maurois
Shelley
America
Jean de Pierrefeu
United States
Pierre Hamp
Jean Giraudoux
Automobile “Club
France
LeMans
Department of
Serthe
Hiercles
Promenade Parasol Paintings Brighten Monte Carlo Season
A Monte Carlo season showcases parasols painted with owner portraits, small and vivid. Simpler color backgrounds highlight the portraits, making the images resemble their bearers with striking likenesses. In Paris, diplomats from rival powers reportedly meet amicably after stern accusations in the League of Nations session.
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Monte Carlo
German resorts swarm with holiday travelers before year end
Berlin reports a winter tourism surge as trains to Thuringia, the Harz, the Black Forest, the Navarran Alps and Silesia sell out weeks ahead. Civil servants, professors, doctors and small business men lead the exodus from cities for a week with their families as early snowfalls spread.
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Berlin
Cologne
Frankfort
Thuringia
Harz Mountains
Black Forest
Navarran Alps
Silesia
Anow Falla
Back to the moustache debate sparks fashion clash
Movie stars push against a revival of the moustache in Germany as actresses weigh in. Christine, Massary and Worten offer sharp views on facial hair versus youth and romance, arguing for or against mustaches in modern style.
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Germany
Wilhem
Wlady Christiane
Waco Theater
New York
Fritzi Massary
Gabe
Henny Worten
Silence Shrouds Reichsbank President After U.S. Tour
The silence surrounding Mr. Hijal mar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, since his return from the United States has sparked rumors about his achievements and failures.
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Hijalmar Schacht
The
Reichslink
United States
Dances Described From Berlin's Wall Street Scene
Dr Schacht returns with two new American dances in Berlin titled Pas de Credit and Pas d Argent meaning credit step and money step or no credit and no money reflecting playful social critique on finance culture.
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Burgerstrasee
Berlin
Wall Street
German drive to revive Silesian lace industry abroad
Germany promotes a revival of the Silesian lace industry amid wartime hardships. Experts argue much lace sold as Venetian or Brussels origins is actually Silesian. Berlin shows lace samples from its museum to prove the craft persists. A Berlin cemetery is noted for multilingual inscriptions and high upkeep.
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Silesia
Brussels
Berlin Museum of Corte
Berlin
Decline of dialect speech blamed on women experts say
Sheffield England December 26 Professor W E Haigh former master of English at Huddersfield Technical school told the dialect society that dialect decline comes chiefly from women Adults of all classes and ages especially girls and women are dropping dialect and trying to talk fine He urged boys and girls to be proud to present dialect as a dual tongue with the standard English.
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Sheffield
England
W. EE. Haigh
Huddersfiall Technical School
Bath Was Costly Robbery Amid Bath Time Theft
A London maid robbed the home she served of jewels valued at 1500 dollars while her mistress bathed. The following day she returned the front door key, implicating ongoing domestic theft within the household.
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Carlsbad
New Mexico
J. O. Elder
J. H. Kelfer
C. R. Goodwin
Clifford Wanretta
Floyd Kelley
Sam Doren
Carl
Merle
Maurice
Gatle
Airs
Clyde Kelley
8. T. Brewer
South Marion Avenue
Chas. Baker
C. A. Stephen
City
Harry Duncan
Ainsworth
Gilbert Goff
Lisbon
Richard Gaines
Fairfield
Carol Mae Jones
London
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