Skaters Enjoy Ideal Weather at Potomac Park Rinks
Crowds pack Potomac Park for winter skating with notable figures from diplomacy and Navy circles among hundreds of spectators. Skaters praise a glassy surface, 8 inch ice thickness, and calm winds while police warn against hockey on busy ice. Continued cold forecast promises higher attendance today.
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Potomac Park
Meyer
Tial
Charles Kendall
Spark
Jackies
Navy Yard
Tte
Legations
Christmas at Fort Myer and Washington barracks
Uncle Sam soldiers and marines at Fort Myer and the Washington barracks enjoy a festive Christmas with no drills. Children at the posts receive gifts from Christmas trees while Battery F, Third Field Artillery hosts a large dance tonight with invited guests from Washington. Officers and cadets from Annapolis and West Point are being entertained, and return to their academies tomorrow morning.
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Uncle Sam
Fort Myer
Washington Barracks
Marine Barracks
Battery F
Third Field Artilery
Washington
Annapolis
West Point
Toomorrow
Weather forecast for Christmas week with moderating temperatures
A weather bureau bulletin says except for a cold spell today in the Eastern States, Christmas week will bring moderate temperatures everywhere. A moderate disturbance from the Southwest will reach the Atlantic seaboard tomorrow bringing unsettled weather with rain or snow east of the Rockies. The week’s main disturbance will reach the Pacific coast tomorrow or Wednesday and the Atlantic coast by Friday or Saturday with widespread precipitation and a shift to colder conditions. Calls for a Federal Taxicab ad appears at the end.
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Weather Bureau
Atlantic Seaboard
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Atlantic Coast
Scanlon Remembered With Gifts From Local Friends
A delegation visited Michael B. Scanlon at 408 Ninth Street Northwest to present a Turkish leather Morris chair and a silk umbrella as Christmas tokens. The gifts came with a letter from donors expressing season’s greetings and friendship for the veteran baseball figure.
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Morris
Michael B. Scanlon
Ninth Street Northwest
Legion
Scanlon
Chanukkah Music At Adas Israel Service
City bulletins note a Chanukkah service at Adas Israel on Sixth and I streets NW with Cantor J Glushak a noted concert singer performing Judas Maccabeus aria The Lord Worked Wonders A guest violin solo by Samuel Korman and a piano solo by Mrs Louis Sugar added to the program. The Rev J Glushak who studied in Vienna performed. the event drew a largely attentive audience.
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Adas Israel
Sixth and I Streets
J. Glushak
Vienna
Judas Maccabeus
Imusic
Samuel Korman
Louis Sugar
Beasts Enjoy the Holiday at Fishes and Zoo Dinner
A Washington zoo and the bureau of fisheries hosted a Christmas meal for animals and keepers. The article describes the festive foods and compares animal eating methods from sturgeon suction to jellyfish wrapping, starfish stomach inversion, and carp chewing in the throat. Polar bears recount Santa Claus and Peary or Cook visiting, with reflections on cheer at the pole.
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Washington Zoo
Bureau of Fisheries
Big Brown and Black Brothers
North ‘Pole
Santa Claus
Peary
Cook
United States
200 Children Participate in Chanukah Celebration at Eighth Street Synagogue
More than 200 children joined a Chanukah program at the Eighth Street Synagogue with music recitations and essays. Dorothy Stiefel and Leo W. Simon won Stevenson and Field volumes for best essays on My Religion What It Means. Rabbi Simon conducted services and will speak Friday on the day’s significance.
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Eighth Street
Dorothy Stiefel
Leo W. Simon
Robert Louis Stevenson
Eugene Field
J.-L. Blout
Ladies’ Auxiliary Society
Simon
Christmas Spirit Sermon at Bethany Chapel
Rev Zed Copp preached on the Christmas spirit at Bethany Chapel Presbyterian last night. He traced the spirit of Christ from the heavenly choir to modern times, urging the world to let the Christmas spirit soften conflicts and aid the sick, needy, and outcast as a united human family.
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Zed Copps
Chistes
Zed H. Copp
Bethany Chapel
Presbyterian
Copp
Prize awards puzzle results and design entries noted
The Washington Post announces 1041 as the prize puzzle result with a list of correct guessers published yesterday. About six hundred or more solutions arrived, many with elaborate designs from Dr. F. M. Hart Olga Swedberg and Mrs. B. S. Harte. The second contest will select winners by exact guesses, with the two remaining puzzles potentially reversed.
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Washington Post
F. M. Hart
Oak Street
Olga Christian Swedberg
B. S. Harte
Fourteenth’ Street
Christmas Enobles Man Says Treasury Auditor Speaks
W. E. Andrews of the U S Treasury told a YMCA audience that the Christmas spirit fosters brotherhood and elevates individual and national progress. He linked Christ’s life and teachings to modern ideals as the terminal department held a special Christmas service with songs and readings.
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W. E. Andrews
United States Treasury
Terminal Railroad Department
Young Men’s Christiaa Association
An‘derns
Terminal Department
Taft to Head Tariff Association Speakers at New Willard
President Taft will be chief speaker at the National Tariff Commission Association convention at the New Willard Hotel January 11 and 12. Prof Henry C Emery opens the meeting, with Senators Cummins Beveridge and Representative Longworth on the program. Delegates from 88 trade and business bodies, plus state governors and city mayors, are expected. more than 100 delegates will attend.
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Taft
National Tariff Commission Association
New Willard Hotel
Henry C. Emery
Tariff Board
Cummins
Beveridge
Nicholas Longworth
Wars of Nations to Bring Reign of Love and Peace
In Chattanooga a Brooklyn tabernacle pastor preached on the coming Messiah and the world's struggle with war. He argued sin and selfishness fuel conflict, predicted a future universal reign of peace, and urged turning energies from armaments to healing, with Christ’s kingdom restoring harmony on earth.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Pastor Russell
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Hell
Israel
Jesus
Europe
War Departments
Christendom
Jehosephat
Prince of Darkness
Messiah
Joel
Solomon
Matthew
Darkness
Emmanuel
Earth
God
Christ
Ita
Blorius
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