100 NURSES ATTEND DANCE AND CHEER TROOPS
Soldiers at the Frankfort occupied suburb received entertainment teams and gift packages from French occupation troops. Christmas drills are canceled. soldiers have afternoons free for sightseeing as entertainers move through occupied areas. Belgian forces enter Germany, and ongoing debates on National Guard reform tie to postwar military policy and reconstitution of historic units.
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Frankfort
Ralsdort
Associated Press
T Wong
United States
Bam
Creeds Inn
Copenhagen
Nied
Maorshal Foch
Rman Armistice Commission
Ias
Berlin
Army of the United States
Wereral
National Guard
France
National Army
New York
New Eingland
Four Killed at Shell Plant in Watertown
Four persons were killed and a score injured in an explosion at the shell loading department of the J. B. Wise Munitions Co plant in Watertown New York. The blast damaged only a small frame building while the main plant remained unscathed. Officials continued investigations hours after the incident to determine the cause.
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Watertown
J. B. Wise Munition Company
Damag
Death of Henry Mitchell Mactracken Berd in hospital
Henry Mitchell Mactracken Berd of New York University died in a local hospital today at age 77. His wife and his son John H. Mactracken, president of Lafayette College, were with him. The body will be taken to New York for funeral services at University Heights on Friday.
Obscure notices mix of deaths and names across districts
Fragmented obituary and public notice items list individuals such as RICHARDSON and WALKER with addresses in Salem and Riverdale, alongside dates like December and December 2. The garbled OCR preserves scattered names, residences, familial ties, and funeral references without coherent context.
Flier Found Dead in Norfolk Hotel Room
Lieutenant W. C. Whittaker of Oklahoma City and the Third Attachment Company of the aviation section at Camp Morrison Va was found dead in a hotel room at Hampton Roads with a single bullet wound to the head. The incident occurred in Norfolk Va on June 24. Local authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.
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Lieut. Whittaker
Hampton
Norfolk
Lew
W. OC. Whittaker
Oklahoma City
Aviation
Camp Morrison
Stampton Roads
Philadelphia social figure returns from France after service with ambulances
Miss Phyllis J. Walsh, a noted Philadelphia tennis player and socialite, explains her wartime work in France and plans to rest and reconnect with friends in Philadelphia after entering St Mihiel and driving an ambulance. Also aboard the Walmer Castle, Captain FF W Gillette of the Royal British Naval Flying Corps, credited with 35 gunplane kills unofficially and 25 officially.
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Sam
Staigh
Philadelphia
Phyllis J. Walsh
France
Miss Walsh
St. Mihiel
America
Walmer Castle
Miss Wi
Duryea Society
FF. W. Gillette
Royal British Naval Flying Corps
Maryland and the Virginias Red Cross extends enrollment period
The Potomac division chair Robert S. Shriver wired Col Julian Williams to extend Red Cross membership renewals and new enrollments to January 1 due to inclement weather and influence. Miss Mary Lindsay heads enrollment and says totals reach 2,874. Also notes funeral for John 2. C. Luckett, Red Men officers elected, a marriage, and charity baskets distributed by the Salvation Army in Alexandria.
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Washington Post Burway
King Street
Alexandria
Robert S. Shriver
Potomac
Red Cross Cartatmas Roll Call
Julian ¥. Williams
Red Wlives
Mary Lindsaman
Committee of Women
The
Red Cross
Eecos
Chamber of Commere
Uthe
Prohibition Officers Seize 180 Quarts From Trunks
Cumberland Maryland December 24 Prohibition officers at Keyser West Virginia halted a Baltimore and Ohio train from Cumberland and opened new steamer trunks found on the jail arrival. The trunks contained 180 quarts of liquor confiscated. United States Commissioner Lilly and officers at Clarksburg seized two handbags with 36 pints of whisky on the Cumberland bound train, plus a suitcase holding 11 quarts. The owners failed to appear.
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Washington
Cumberland
Prohibition
Baltimore and Ohio
Keyser
W. Va
United States
Lilly
Clarksburg
Girl 16 Killed by Jitney Bus Near McConnellsburg
Special to The Washington Post reports Anna Sipes, 16, a student at Kippensburg Normal School, was struck and killed by a Chambersburg McConnellsburg jitney bus in Metconnelsburg. The owner driver was Max Sheets. She was daughter of Virgil Sipes of Green Castle and lived with her grandfather P. Sipes in McConnellaburg.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
Anna
Ipes
Kippensburg Normal School
Metconnelsburg
Chambersburg-McConnellsburg
Max Sheets
Virgil Sipes
Green Castle
Isin P. Sipes
McConnellaburg
Deaths and notices from Across Maryland and Virginia
Maryland and Virginia briefs record deaths in France of Private Tin hart M. Twigg and Private Myers as well as Private John R. Burkhart from disease. William Hosken funeral held in Frostburg. Fire damages three stores in Bristol on the Tennessee side. Fredericksburg mourns William T. Fayne, longtime local supervisor and Confederate veteran, aged 73, survived by wife and eleven children.
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Washington Post
Mitherland
Nancy. Twigg
Hoelier
Tinhart M. Twigg
Forty -Ninth Infantry
Arison
France
Twins
Bluke Howard
Myer
John R. Burkhart
Aoein
Sperial
Fredericksburg
William T. Fayne
Board of Supervisors
Brooke
Shire Horse Brings $11,000 of Power and Thought
The passage criticizes government overreach and urges maintaining separation of executive, legislative, and judicial branches. It warns against invasion of rights by one department upon others and champions independence of each governmental department.
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Shire Horse
Fear of Socialism and the Risk to Public Interests
The speaker dismisses fears of socialism as unfounded, asserting workers see no just grievances that would justify overthrowing the social order. He warns against consolidation of national control over railroads and telegraphs, arguing such power in a federal administration would favor the industry workers and entrench perpetual authority. The need for division of power is emphasized.
Shanks seeks injunction against Interior Secretary Lane
William L. Shanks of Montana petitions equity courts for a temporary injunction to stop Franklin K. Lane from canceling a soldier's additional homestead right in the Rozeman Montland district. George M. Rogers sold the right for 36.06 acres to Shanks who used 25.50 acres for amending a defective entry. The case asks that Lane be restrained from acting on the secretary’s decisions, with Harry Allegarty and S. & Ashbaugh as counsel.
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William L. Shanks
Montana
Equity
Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Hazeman i
Montland
George 3. Rogers
Shanks
Rozeman
Mont
Shanks’ Evidende
Litle
General Land Offic
Lane
Harry Allegarty
S. & Ashbaugh
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Passdorf
Belgian War Department
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Army Reserve
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Guard For
War Services
War Department
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Second Marne
Ured
Weele
St. Miliel
Argonne Forest
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New York State
Col Westcott
State Guard
Iinois
Springfeld
Minoia
Adjt
Ss. Dickson
Thingis
Uty
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W. FB. Ithino
Rhinon
Minnesota
Phorsinus
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Etchison
Sergeon
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Joseph Gawler
Nation
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M. Hindle
Cadestaker
Hal Dire
Neral Desi
J. H. Small & Sons
Florists
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Washington Waldert-Astoria
Jag Madison Ave
Cuuera
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Henry Mitchel McCracken Berd
Quinn
Tursilas
Staom
Massgetusetts Geenue
Moys
Vetard Suter
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Denny
Briends
Favre
Sweeney
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Riverdale
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Unger
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Kein
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Shepke
Testa Beseritar
Vom Walker
Phorsdag
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Dredem
Kalurg
Bert York
Lon
Chattanooss
R. Harris & CO
the Jewelers
D Sts
F. W. Gillette
Maryland
Virginias
News OF Alexandria
Luckett Funeral Services
John 2. C. Luckett
Caple
South Patrict Street
P. B. Philps
St. Panus
F Episcopal Church
G. W. Regester
Methodist Episcopal
W. ON. Crump
Useeoia Tribe of
Red Men
Ww. N. Crump
A. P. Anderson
Sagamore
G. N. Walter
W. J. Garrett
Bh. F. Downham
A. J. Butcher
G. C. Connor
Sullivan
Rris
Nannie Norris
Albert FB. Sullivan
Cincinnati
Ohio
A. B. Spellsman
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Milka
Salvation Army
McConnellsburg
Anna May Bipes
W. Hosken
Frostburg
William Hosken
Bristol
Tennessee
BORO
Boro Blusterer
Bug
San Francisco
J. Gr. Prauria
Bushnell NL
J. A. Westbrook
Letts
Iowa
FLRST
Alt. Meyer
F St. N. W
W. R. Speare
Undertaker
H St. N. W
Masonic Temple
Coneste Willis B. Spears
Chrde J. Nichols
Almus Th
F. EE. Lane
V. L. Shanks
Montana Lang
Det Orner Thirteenth
Touraville
Lee
State of
Kentucky
Eee
Xraeh
Silphy
Wardman Park Hotel
Connecticut Ave
Woodley Rd
Union Station
Chevy Chase Club
Columbia Country Club
Nickside Galf Club
Harry Wardman
Henry Albert
Hot Springs
Cathedral Ave
Shannon & Luchs
Realtors
Gardiner & Dent
Se. N. W
Main
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