Social gatherings mark week with parties and plans
The Sew and So club at Mr and Mrs W B Leet hosted about thirty in honor of Mr and Mrs F G Martin who intend to move to Waterloo. Kitchen Symphony Orchestra provided music from utensils while the Mothers' club met on West Madison street finishing three Belgian comfort projects and planning a Jan 24 party with men as guests.
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Sew and So
W. B. Leet
F. G. Martin
Waterloo
Kitchen Symphony Orchestra
Mothers’ Club
A. B. Schmoeller
West Madison Street
Asa Jones
Winter Sports For Soldiers Of A. E. F.
The Y M C A has arranged winter recreation for American troops overseas in the Maupihne region with bobsleds skates skis toboggans and other gear. The push aims to foster competition and homey spirit as the A E F prepares for championships in ice skating skiing and related sports.
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Paris
French Alps
Mauphine
Y. M. C. A. Fver
A. EB. F
America
Col Ball Receives New Command in France
Iowa City officer Colonel George W. Ball has been placed in command of the 115th regiment in the 29th Army division in France. The move comes as American forces reorganize under General headquarters with Ball noted for gallant service.
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Col. Ball
France
Iowa City
George W. Ball
Debts of Nations Rise Beyond War Costs
After listing 194 billion dollars in war debts for Entente and Central Powers as of January 1, 1919, the piece argues this ignores post war obligations. Demobilization, rebuilding, housing, roads, agriculture, shipbuilding, and social reform will require further loans and vast economic effort. The Mechanics and Metals National Bank projects no defaults on war bonds, though extensive future borrowing lies ahead.
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Mechanics and Metals National Bank of New York
United States
Britain
Italy
Tentonte
Mechanics and Metals National Bank
Division Staged in Vosges Foothills Amid War Replacements
A division is stationed in the foothills of the Vosges. The colonel commands former elements of the 133rd regiment used as replacement troops after the 1st 2nd 4th and 4th Virginia units were disorganized during the war’s final days.
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Vosges
133Rd
Virginia
Social disease rate drops in U I S Army
In the American army of occupation the week ending December 25 logged only thirty three venereal disease cases. The rate stands at seven per thousand in the U S Army and thirty four per thousand for the entire expeditionary force. Five segregation camps quarantine diseased personnel awaiting sail home.
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Paris
United States
The Eagle's Eyrie Clan In The Mountain Pass
The Maines of Virginia form a lawless mountain clan roving the craggy peak called the eagle's eyrie where they scorn any law but their own. The cast includes Anemone Breckenridge Mary Pick ford Lancer Morne James Kirkwood Sally Breckenridge Ida Waterman Mr. Morne Robert Broderick Fisher Morne Harry C. Browne Rev. Mr. Hotchkiss Russell Bassett and a Young Clansman Jack Pickford.
Woman punished after gift from Kobe employer
A young woman at a Kobe shipping house received New Year money from her millionaire employer. She took the money home and was thrashed by her mother for stealing it, then dragged to the office to apologize. Further explanations followed at home.
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Kobe
Japan Chronicle
Portable fivefold signature device eases railway checks
A man signing 100,000 monthly salary checks uses a multiple penholder that writes five signatures at once. Popular Mechanics notes the fountain pens are clamped to a pivoted rack in a portable suitcase like box. When opened the cover lays flat to hold vouchers for signing.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Thrift Lesson From Ezekiel Warns On Food Weighing
The passage cites Ezekiel iv 9 urging Israelites to stockpile wheat barley beans lentils millet and fitches and make bread from them. It notes the Bible shows meat eaten by weight and only from time to time per Thrift Magazine.
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Ezekiel
Israel
Jerusalem
Thrift Magazine
District Residents Misfranchised in Columbia Territory
District residents in Colum bia territory never had voting rights for national offices after the area was ceded to the United States and became the seat of the general government.
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District of Columbia
United States
Thescame
Fiddler Crab Uses Claw as Tool and Weapon
The article describes the fiddler crab, noting its trench digging habit and an enlarged claw shaped like a fiddle. This oversized claw functions as a spade, sword, and spoon, giving the crab its name and a distinctive adaptation.
Copper color changes with distillation in vacuum
A Swiss investigator reports copper color shifts with purification. Copper ten times distilled in vacuo shows a pure rose hue, while the yellowish tint of gilt lightens under the same treatment.
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Vacuo
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