- Savannah, Ga: Georgia women from motives of economy and freedom of movement have adopted overalls for housework. Memphis, Tenn: The new $8,000,000 bridge which it is expected will make Memphis the greatest southern railroad gateway east and west, is nearing completion. Boston, Mass: Harvard freshmen are rapidly getting into form for their annual hockey games. Washington, D.C: Secretary Daniels says battleships have reached the limit in size. Larger vessels could not pass through the Panama Canal. The California represents the ultimate in war vessels. Vilkomir, Russia: The German reserve force dig themselves in for the bitter winter in Russia. Chicago, Ill: Geane Beaumont, Clara Pause and Elsie Smoler, swimming devotees, take their usual plunge in Lake Michigan Christmas morning; temperature 26 degrees air, 35 degrees water. New York, N.Y: Colonel E.M. House, the President's confidential adviser, leaves on the S.S. Rotterdam for Europe to acquaint our diplomats with the intimate views of the President on pending international affairs. Captain Boy-Ed, formerly military attache at the German Embassy and recalled at the request of President Wilson, and Brand Whitlock, U.S. Minister to Belgium, will leave on the same ship. Washington, D.C: The Pages of the U.S. Senate leave the Capitol to take Christmas dinner with Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall. Aetna, Ind: Owing to the widespread disturbances in plants manufacturing war munitions, some of the companies do their work with a small army of guards. Readville, Mass: U.S. Army experts test new war plane, said to be the finest constructed and best designed aero in the world and the first to carry two-gun turrets. Revere Beach, Mass: The roller coaster here wrecked by a gale, falls a vast mass of timber and iron, crushing two houses and injuring three people. Selig-Tribune Feature Picture: Kewpie, the baby elephant at the Selig Zoo, gets his breakfast. Boston, Mass: The holiday spirit invades the navy when the Blue Jackets on the battleship Nebraska acts as hosts to hundreds of poor children.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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