Skaters Enjoy Ideal Weather at Potomac Park Ice
Crowds packed Potomac Park for skating amid perfect surface and glasslike ice. Notables including Secretary Meyer and embassy attachés watched exhibitions by Charles Kendall and other experts. Police warned against hockey on crowded ice while forecasted cold weather promised record 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's troops enjoy a Christmas with no drills and festive meals at Fort Myer and the Washington barracks. Children receive gifts from Christmas trees, and Battery F, Third Field Artillery hosts a large dance with guests from Washington and visiting cadets from Annapolis and West Point.
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Uncle Sam
Fort Myer
Washington Barracks
Marine Barracks
Battery F
Third Field Artilery
Washington
Annapolis
West Point
Toomorrow
Weather to bring mixed, moderating Christmas week
The weather bureau reports generally moderating temperatures for Christmas week with a cold spell today in the Eastern States. A moderate disturbance from the Southwest will reach the Atlantic coast tomorrow bringing unsettled weather and rain or snow from the Northern and Central States east of the Rockies. A major disturbance will hit the Pacific coast by tomorrow or Wednesday and reach the Atlantic coast by Friday or Saturday with widespread precipitation and a shift to colder conditions. For service, contact Harry Call Main at 6670 for a federal taxicab, $3 per hour.
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Weather Bureau
Atlantic Seaboard
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Atlantic Coast
Mr Scanlon Remembered With Gifts At Ninth Street Visit
A delegation of friends visited Michael B Scanlon at 408 Ninth Street Northwest to present a Turkish leather Morris chair a rich coat silk umbrella and a season of goodwill. They delivered a signed letter expressing friendship and esteem, noting the chair’s mass and special order. The piece was arranged weeks earlier as a Christmas token shared among Scanlon�s veteran baseball circle.
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Morris
Michael B. Scanlon
Ninth Street Northwest
Legion
Scanlon
Music at Chanukkah Services at Adas Israel
Chanukkah service at Adas Israel on Sixth and I streets NW drew large attendance. Rev J Glushak Cantor, noted concert singer trained in Vienna, sang from Judas Maccabeus. Samuel Korman played violin and Mrs Louis Sugar gave a piano solo.
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Adas Israel
Sixth and I Streets
J. Glushak
Vienna
Judas Maccabeus
Imusic
Samuel Korman
Louis Sugar
Beasts Enjoy the Holiday Dinner at Washington Zoo
At the Washington zoo and the bureau of fisheries, animals and fish celebrated Christmas with their keepers. Describe eating habits of species from polar bears to sturgeon, jellyfish, starfish, cuttlefish, carp, and rays, noting unique dental and jaw mechanisms and festive behavior.
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Bureau of Fisheries
Washington Zoo
Big Brown and Black Brothers
North ‘Pole
Santa Claus
Peary
Cook
United States
200 Children In Service At Chanukah Celebration
More than 200 children joined a Chanukah celebration at the Eighth Street Synagogue with sixteen children and adults lighting candelabras. Dorothy Stiefel and Leo W. Simon won volumes for essays on My Religion What It Means. Rabbi Simon led the service and will address the congregation Friday evening.
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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 Highlighted By Rev Zed Copp Sermon
Rev Zed H. Copp preached at Bethany Chapel Presbyterian last night on keeping Christmas spirit alive beyond the season. He urged the world to let the Christ spirit govern human affairs and to disband standing armies as the "glad tidings" reach all people.
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Zed Copp
Chistes
Zed H. Copp
Bethany Chapel
Presbyterian
Copp
Prize Awards Puzzle Solvers Face Reversed Rounds
The Washington Post announces 1041 as the puzzle solution and names list eligible entrants next week. To handle many correct guesses and possible ties, the second contest order may be reversed. Entries include designs by Dr. F. M. Hart Olga Swedberg and Mrs. B. S. Harte as original cloth paintings.
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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
W E Andrews of the U S Treasury told a YMCA audience that the Christmas spirit enables man and fosters brotherhood. He linked Christ teachings with individual and national progress. The terminal department Christmas service featured Edwin Ceslow and others in song and readings with stereopticon views.
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W. E. Andrews
United States Treasury
Terminal Railroad Department
Young Men’s Christiaa Association
An‘derns
Terminal Department
Tariff Commission Association opens in New Willard Hotel
President Taft will lead a line of notable speakers at the National Tariff Commission Association convention in Washington January 11 and 12. Prof Henry C Emery opens the meeting and banquets will close it with the President’s address. Senators Cummins Beveridge Longworth and many delegates from 88 trade bodies and state leaders attend. over 100 delegates expected.
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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
The report from Chattanooga details Pastor Russell of Brooklyn Tabernacle delivering sermons on peace through divine rule. He argues war stems from sin and selfishness, foresees a coming kingdom of peace, and outlines prophecies of Christ’s reign bringing restoration, universal good will, and the defeat of death.
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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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