News of General Interest
From Jan 2nd, 1919
Air mail service between New York and chicago began December 16th
Thirty tractors, shipped to France by A . R . C .
During the War twelve spies were shot in the tower of London , according to current report .
Deaths from starvation in Europe since the war began were 4,750,ooo, as compared with 4,250,000 killed in battle.
Jerusalem war gardens should thrive this winter. The Red Cross will provide plowing oxen.
A new invention makes it possible for five groups of people to carry on telephone conversations simultaneously over identical wires without interference with one another's words.
Santiago reports an earthquake in northern Chile, destroying Vallenar and wreaking ten percent of the buildings at Copiapo .
President Woodrow Wilson, seated with the leading Frenchman of today, drank no wine. The Chief executive of this nation drank only water.
A complete automobile garage, manned throughout by fifty American women, is being operated in Paris by the A . R . C. Women's Transport Corps.
Car lines were tied up in Cleveland , Ohio on December 3rd by 2,400 men striking in order to enforce their demand that the women conductors be dimissed.
Cheers Gary
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