A wartime reflection on Christmas truce and hopes for peace
The writer recalls a World War I Christmas truce and a story of mercy at a dressing station. He argues wars are driven by leaders not ordinary people and urges peaceful resolution. Queen Wilhelmina’s London message is noted as signaling improving peace prospects amid possible collapse of a belligerent side.
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Passchendaele
C. E. Montague
Tommy
No-Man’s Land
Powers That Be
Wilhelmina of
Holland
London
Britain
WANTED To borrow five thousand at five percent
Classified notice seeks a first mortgage loan of $5,000 at 5 percent interest. Respondents to Box 16 in Wadesville Virginia provide details. Public notice date appears as December 23, 1926.
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Wadesville
Death Curtain Falls on Stage Star Frohman
Obituary recalls Daniel Frohman born in Ohio and a pioneer of American theatre. He moved to New York in 1879 and founded the Lyceum Company in 1885, shaping the Star Factory that launched Maude Adams E H Sothern Minnie Maddern Fiske Alison Skipworth Edith Wynne and Margaret Illington. He married Illington in 1903 and divorced six years later.
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Frohman
Sandusky
Ohio
New York
Cowtowns
West
Lyceum
Daniel Frohman
Public Barred For Peering In Upon Tragedy
A father, Altn Heinbuch, barred the public from his family tragedy after a Christmas Eve fire killed his wife and five children and destroyed their home in Washington. Only Heinbuch and immediate relatives will attend the funeral and burial at an undisclosed cemetery. Officials at an Upper Marlboro funeral home confirmed the request for no burial site announcement.
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Washington
Altn Heinbach
Upper Marlborg
Heinbuch
Holiday Trade Continues Busy Across Retail Stores
Five and Ten stores reported record business while larger department stores saw healthy gains. Toys games clothing and gifts sold well as shoppers bought food items for Christmas dinners. Stores prepared for year end inventories and many closed temporarily to complete them.
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Self More Groceries
Toy Show at Recreation Hall on North Loudoun Street
City children are invited to exhibit toys at the Recreation Building tomorrow afternoon at 2 30 with no prizes but blue ribbons awarded.
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North Loudoun Street
Public Auction Of Small Farm In Virginia
In default of payment on a debt secured by a trust dated November 6 1935 James P Reardon trustee will sell at public auction in front of the County Courthouse Winchester Virginia at 11 o clock a m Thursday January 9 1941 a farm of 31 acres more or less improved by dwelling and out buildings on Wardensville Grade and Ridge Road about 4 miles west of Winchester adjoining Finchem McKeever et al terms cash
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Robert
J. R.) Knight
County Court House
Winchester
Fred. Co
Warden
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