Good Fellows Go Past 1000 Mark Help for Needy
The Good Fellows fund surpassed two thousand dollars as workers doubled the aid to Waterloo families. Business and Professional Women’s Club members coordinated distribution led by Miss Mayme Began and Mrs Elizabeth Kenney while volunteers gathered gifts, clothing, and groceries from local firms. Many homes faced shortages this Christmas, with baskets delivered to over 200 needy households as merchants contributed food, candy, nuts, and bread to support the effort.
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Good Fellows Fund
Waterloo
Good Fellows
Miss Mayme
Business and Professional Women’s
Civh
Elizabeth Kenney
Myrtle Barr
Ruby Elam
Clib
Evening Courier
Andant
Baiie Bowe
Reats Claus
Altstadt
Ruby Bram
Log Cabin
Red Ball Grocery
Olsmpit Fruit Company
Lamar Sinnard
I Tunis
Campbell Baking Company
Jorson Brothers’ Grocery
George Hazen
Forum-Drug Company
Rath Packing Company
Santary Dairy
Ealtane Trith
J. D. Cohn
Train Crash Injures Westbound Engineer Near Lamont
Manning, engineer on the westbound Chicago Great Western train, was severely hurt in a rear collision with a passenger train near Lamont. He suffers a pierced lung and broken shoulder and is in serious condition at Oelwein hospital. several cars derailed, schedules rerouted, crews clearing the track.
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Oelwein
D Manning
Chicago Great Western
Dassenger
Lamont
Manning
New Government Plans May End Coal Strike Soon
Reports from anthracite districts say renewed wage talks between miners and owners may end the strike early next year. A meeting is planned in New York at the Union League Club with negotiators from both sides. Relief efforts continue as charities aid families of striking workers amid widespread hardship and uncertain prospects for a rapid restart of mining.
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New York
New_York
Union League Club
Luzetoe County
Scranton
Youthful broker’s Elgin firm collapses with 506000 loss
Chicago reports the Elgin based investment firm run by Watter C. Rippenberger fails, revealing a loss near 506,000 most shouldered by north Illinois farmers. He is charged with forging six promissory notes and diverting payments to hold large mortgage interests in the Dakotas and Nebraska.
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Chicago
Watter C. Rippberger
Elgin
Ripnberger
A. Croft
Biein Garageman
Mary McDonald
Rippberger
North
South Dakota
Eigin
Prank H. Savier Improves After Illness At Home
Prank H. Savier, city freight and passenger agent for the W C G F N railway, is convalescing at 1306 Washington street after an illness by ptomaine poisoning with relatives noting his condition as favorable. Dr IL B Evans Tree, formerly a physician in Wilberley, now with Aetna Life Insurance, is visiting friends during the holidays and staying at Hotel Russell Lamson.
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Prank H. Savier
W., CG. F. & N. Railway
Washington Street
Il. B. Evans Tree
da. E. Evans
W Lerley
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Startford
Cann
Russell-Lamson
Singer Regan Receives Year Study Trip to Italy as Gift
The Doheny family funds a fully paid year in Italy for Joseph Regan and his wife to study with top teachers. Regan, recently appearing at local venues, described the surprise gift during a visit to Los Angeles, saying the plan fulfilled a long-held ambition to study abroad.
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Italy
Dohenys
California
Joseph
Regan
Joseph Regan
Santa Claus
Waly
Santa
Bos Angelus
Doheny
Hie
Grandparent dies as girl jumps 10 safety in blaze
Minneapolis fire traps a grandmother and her granddaughter in an apartment blaze in subzero cold. Frances Wanzer, 52, perished when the floor collapsed. her granddaughter Serene Wanzer, 8, leaped to a neighboring roof but collapsed in rescuers' arms. Five more residents sought treatment as officials feared additional deaths. Fire started from an overheated stove in a basement confectionery. Damage tallied at about 90000 dollars.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Dee
Northside
Frances Wanzer
Serene Wanzer
Wait No 100 000 Taken In Barnardo Homes Christmas
London on Christmas Eve the one hundred thousandth child entered a Dr Barnardo home. The organization runs about 150 households across London and provinces, Ireland, the Channel Islands and Canada, with 7,500 children housed on average. It never refuses a child and has operated for over five decades. Many children are sent to Canada as immigrants and about 6,000 Barnardo boys serve in the army or navy, with 3,000 in the Mercantile Marine and navy.
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London
Canada
Army
Navy
Mercantile Marine
Poison Hooch Sicks 44 Christmas Celebrants in NY
New York reports 44 Christmas liquor poison victims confined to hospital cots. Despite warnings, 4 percent of liquor sold in the city was not fit to drink. Physicians described serious conditions including unconsciousness and potential blindness, with treatment including stomach pumps and antidotes.
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New York
Whaler Scares Crew of Mail Steamer Encounter
Tim Sullivan purser on the Panama Mail steamer Co rite reports a small, ill looking craft sighted off Magdalena bay en route from Gris cobalt on October 28. Pirates feared as Corinto prepared to fight. six Winchesters found. a whale sighting shifted focus to the whaler.
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Tim Sullivan
Corite
Corinto
Magdalena Bay
Griscobalt
Doakes
Pedersen
Julius Bean
George W. Bowlby
Jim Sullivan
Kidder
San Francisco
Paris Pedestrians Form Union to Safeguard Rights
Paris pedestrians organize a Pedestrians Union to secure better accommodation security and speed. They seek more after midnight autobus service, responsible taxi drivers, and a street rule to speed foot traffic. Members pay 10 cents annually as official recognition grows.
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Paris
New York
Union
Educator Defines Good and Bad Slang in Talk
W A Davis, an Emporia Teachers College instructor, argues slang can be useful if novel and pictorial. He condemns offensive phrases while noting slang evolves with abbreviations like gym and prof and that much American slang remains acceptable today.
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W. A. Davis
Emporia Teachers College
Davis
Pike
Fertile Owens Valley Faces Desert Debate and Aqueduct Control
In Owens Valley California the once fertile region faces desiccation as water diverted to Los Angeles through a distant aqueduct. Residents recount 1905 filings and 1924 headgate sabotage. protests peaked with Alabama Hills gates opened to the river. Population centers include Lone Pine Independence Big Pine and Bishop. Archaeologists report 30 ancient tombs with gold ornaments and mummies found near Athens after heavy floods.
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Hainee
Alabama
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Althoit
Briton Invents Diving Suit of Superior Quality
London, Dec. 26. J. S. Peress, an English engineer, claims a new diving suit superior to the German model used with the British submarine M.1. The 50 piece, 550 pound suit claims safe operation to about 59 feet deeper than current records. It uses frictionless joints, no oxygen cylinders by default, and carries a downpipe with electric and telephone wires. Mechanically powered hands can swap for tools for wreck work. Five years of research led to the suit.
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London
J. 8 S. Peress
Messure
Peress
Bagpipes Return to Scottish Jazz Bands in Glasgow
In Glasgow on December 26, AP reports the bagpipe has reclaimed its role in Scottish jazz bands after a brief threat last spring from an American jazz operetta introducing the saxophone. Large men with strong lungs perform as jazz bagpipe players to keep pace with saxophone and quick tempo.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Ghost of murdered girl haunts Golden Lion Inn in Elmonton Green
London reports a spirit from a 200 year old murder at the Golden Lion Inn haunts the hostel. Barmen recall 3 am whistling and sightings of a pale girl in a white robe. Pictures in the murder room were found turned to the wall. owner remains cautiously convinced something supernatural is afoot.
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London
Golden Lion
Elmonton Green
Hostel Jry
Dacoit band sentenced to transportation for life
In Allahabad on December 26, the long terror by Bhantu gang dacoits in the North United Provinces ended as over 100 bandits were tried by the sessions judge at Nainital and sentenced to transportation for life after more than a year of legal proceedings.
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Allahabad
India
United Provinces
Bhantus Hand
Fife
Nainital
War Book of Data on Planes Ready for Gov't Builder
Dayton D Dee 26 reports a secret War Book at McCook Field guiding wartime aircraft production. It contains four drawing and specification sets: materials, parts, procurement, and obsolete items. Officials say the book would be supplied to the War Department to expedite a rapid build if war breaks out.
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WAR Book OF
Dayton
Dee
API
United States
Washington
McCook Field
Army Air Service
Tomoorrow
War Department
Heart surgery done with patient conscious in war story
London December 26. The Lancet recounts how a British airman survived a chest wound by opening the chest and operating on the heart while he remained fully conscious. Nova cocaine was used to numb the area around the heart and allow surgeons to perform the delicate maneuver.
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London
George Waugh
Lancet
Japan's population rises in 1924 to record high
Japan's population increased by 743,574 people in 1924, 12.67 per 1,000, according to the Cabinet Statistical Bureau as published in the Official Gazette. Births totaled 2,041,108, deaths 1,272,720, with births down and deaths down slightly from 1923. The yearly increase surpassed 20 years of gains, marking the highest rise on record in modern times.
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Yokio
Statistical Bureau of the
Cabinet
Offejial
Bob.ngo
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