Special Moratorium on Foreign Cotton Samples Enforced
The Mestomec Department bans mail sales of foreign cotton samples to curb pink bollworm and other pests with exceptions for northern Mexican states including Baja California Chihuahua Durango and Sinaloa Special honors are noted for dead Sergeant Major Pardee 13S MC as funeral services are held and a death march by the Marine Band is canceled for today due to his passing.
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Mexico
Trabuila Durance
Chihuahua
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California
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Marine Band
Toda
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Seritee
International finance shows U S lead after Anglo French loan
A New York dispatch notes that after the Anglo French loan was completed, U S banks arranged a $50,000,000 pure banking accommodation with London banks. Subscriptions are paid and distributed to depository banks, enabling London banks to draw on New York. Notes will be deposited in a London branch of Guaranty Trust. Additional U S financing is promised at year end. Holland.
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Holland
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Domintcen House of Studies
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Immaculate Conception Church
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Cost of War in Religion Sermon at Metropolitan Church
Reverend James Shera Montgomery declares in a sermon that the war costs the world heavily. He cites fifty million dollars per day, seven million men in munition work, pensions and debt, and widespread suffering including orphans and widows. He questions civilization’s price and notes Russia’s abstinence from vodka alongside brothers’ bloodshed.
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Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal C Church
Butter Cards In Germany Regulate Butter Distribution
Berlin December 26 The Federal council authorized municipalities to issue butter and fat cards like bread cards to control consumption. The ordinance starts January 1 and allows reserving cheaper butter for the poor. Large producers must sell up to 45 percent of output to municipalities facing shortages.
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Berlin
Federal Council
Austrian Consulate Secretary Jailed on Espionage Charge
Geneva report states Herr Taus alg, secretary at the Austrian consulate, has been arrested on espionage charges. The case centers on his alleged denunciation of Mrs. Merrick Hildebrandt of Louisville Kentucky, who was expelled from Germany after arrest and imprisonment and who traveled to Geneva to protest to Washington against what she called unwarranted German actions.
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Merrick Hildebrandt
Louisville
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Washington
Week of Church Fetes and Christmas Services Summary
The article chronicles a week of church fêtes and Christmas observances across multiple Washington area parishes. Bishop Harding officiated Communion at Bethlehem Chapel while other sermons and festivals followed at Mount Pleasant M E Church South, Chapel of Nativity, St Margaret's Washington Heights, Fifth Baptist Church and St Aloysius Church. Organ recitals, carols, nativity pageants, and ground breaking for a new Mount Pleasant church are noted along with Sunday school activities and watch night services scheduled at several churches.
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John Willia Conant
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United States Senate
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Washington Heights
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New York
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Fifth Baptist Church
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Julian Brylawaki
Leroy Glider
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J. Harry Jones
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George F & Muth
Mind and Disease Discussed in Christian Science Lecture
Senator Clapp introduces Virgil Strickler in Poli's Theater for a Christian Science talk on healing through mind over matter. Strickler argues illness stems from error, healing via spiritual truth, and that body is mainly water and inorganic matter governed by thought.
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Strickter
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Moses HB. Clapp
Minnesot
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Christ Jeans
Harvard Men Deny Guilt in Election Rally Indictments
Cambridge December 26 nine men linked to Harvard University pleaded not guilty to indictments charging conspiracy making false oaths and signing of false certificates over an alleged illegal Harvard voting register. Bach posted 3000 security for next month. Grand jury returned 42 indictments against the nine defendants. Lewis Gannett a Harvard student pleaded not guilty to three indictments two weeks ago.
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France Buys Steel Rails From Pennsylvania Company
The Pennsylvania Steel Company of Philadelphia reports a Franco government order for 45 000 tons of rails. The shipment aligns with France's post war industrial program and strengthens cross border steel trade between France and the United States.
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Pennsylvania Steel Company
Letters to the Editor Critique of British Policy
A correspondent from Seattle denounces Britain’s government as deceitful and driven by balance of power aims. The letter accuses London of cold blooded murder, robbery, and spana for eliminating rivals, praising Germany instead and signing as KING from Hotel Alki on December 12.
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London Times
Tariff debate urged to settle on fair terms
Joseph McDonald of Pawtucket argues the tariff dispute must be settled by fair comparisons of wages per unit of production rather than per day or week. He urges Democrats to publish official “wages of the world” by yard or pound to expose true global production costs.
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Fears No Foreign Menace Recall Civil War Cost
Editorial argues the Civil War cost the U S 4 billion dollars with about 1 billion owed by the public. It urges Congress to appropriate the remaining civil war debt to save interest rather than spend 50 million on preparedness, contending after Europe’s war the fighting nations will be bankrupt for decades.
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Thanet
Dr Mary Walker Defends Suffrage Stance
Editor Post quotes Dr Mary Walker insisting no suffrage slander exists and that women have the right to vote without any constitutional amendment. She argues the U S Constitution already grants voting rights and rejects calls for amending it.
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M. E. Walker
Electron Study Key to Knowledge of Ether Found in Spiritualism Section
The article argues that treating the electron as a working factor in atoms clarifies ether concepts. It suggests atomic solution as a fourth dimension, comparing space solution to salt water and ether, and contends weight is a relative measure between equals.
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Space
Fred T. Hafelfinger
Tax protest by voters over burden of taxes
An Omaha reader voices opposition to high taxes and suggests reform. He argues that current emergency revenue taxes fall on manufacturers and consumers, limiting perfume and toilet article use. He calls for fair tax distribution and proposes using Panama Canal bond funds to ease burden. OMAHA NEBR.
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Prays That Sunny France Will Awake To Her Danger
Letter from M La Mar of Danville Virginia dated December 22 expresses strong sympathy for France and criticizes recent neutrality. The writer praises a Washington Post editorial for its call to action and laments the bleeding France while urging an awakening before it is too late.
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Advised Travel Limits For Entente Central Powers Traders
State Department warns American business houses with Europe operations to deploy separate agents for each belligerent group as travel between Entente and Central Powers is discouraged. Germany imposes strict visa rules with new visé, personal appearance, two photos, and proof of admission necessity.
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Naon to arrange pact among four nations
Buenos Aires reports Dr Romula Naon Argentine ambassador to the United States has been tasked with arranging a preliminary basis for an accord among Argentina Brazil Chile and the United States to protect neutral states. The foreign minister confirms Naons mission to negotiate with Chile on neutral country protections.
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