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JU Time To Change Your Glasses: Begin To-Day Annual After-C hristmas Clearance Sales of Winter Stocks at ths extraordinary reductions of One Third and One Fourth From Former Prices i Offering many lines Fur-Trimmed Suits, Gowns, Frocks i and Wraps for the New Year's Festivities. i Afternoon and Street Dresses, Coats, Blouses and Millinery. Special Arrangements Have Been Made Xo Complete Alterations in Time For New Year's Festivities. Fur Coats and Sets at 20 Reductions. Alterations Charged For.

No Reservations, Approvals, Exchanges or Returns. Charge purchases will be hilled February 1st. jfburtfj Street, WtZlV ne anb ace Protect Your Head From Colds lly Wearing One of Japp's Xatni-al-Looktng TOUPEES $25 Values MAIL ORDERS FILLED. PRIVATE FITTING ROOOM3. MATKI CTOFPT ODD n.mi E-i-u I i QIMG1NMATI.O rJaanf? Hrtallera Kie W'la aad Taapeen For Mm Ladles' Wla.

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WHOLESALE CARPET HOUSE CORNER RACE AND FEARL STREETS After certain number of rears jou outlive your glasses because your eyes are changing. If yon notice this, see the oculist and bring the prescription to Wagner's for the best results. Ferd Wagner E. rtFTH, Paantnla K. nfiimi-ERQ im rc co.

LJ (Si 3 1 0 fbsw MM. 0IECT. 71 SL.Cbdon.li A 'iiitMOlJAi, K. THEFTS NET $500. Hcld-Up Staged in Saloon Lodger at Hotel Loses $115.

Through Ctiri.tmss Hay thefts, nearly rum by Charles Poolr. Columbian Hr-tel. Pot sijuarc and Elm stre-t. waa in a 'rear room or a saloon at 411 West Sixth street, when a negro put a pistol to his breast and a white man took hu nnf-v i mm 01 jfco. arrants have been Issued for 'the negress and her husband.

Twenty-four dollars was taken from a pocket of Andrew Hudson. 42ti Clark street, when his clothes were hanging In the washroom of a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 15uildlng, Arlington street. Louis Arnold, F.ast Fourth street Newport soldier, lost an army overcoat which, he said, was taken from the checkroom at the Hotel YANKS THRIVED ON STRAIN, Although That Thousands of Animals Died, Says General Stanbery. American soldiers on th firing line thrived, although fear and strain killed horses and mules by thousands, is urisradier General Stanbery, of Cincinnati, with American forces lu France, la letter received yesterday by Dr. Kdward If- Thompson, iVIndonissa Building.

"I never dreamed it was possible 'for men to endure what these Americans (thrived General Stanbery said "Activltle. since July have been a won-j derful experience for them. It was the tnt that made this possible. "The period between September 1 RAVINES Are Filled Witli Gas Batteries Direct- Fire rora Mease River Bank. Yanks Straighten Lines I Three Weeks' Campaign.

whose names are familiar natians, are described In which follows: "The armistice Is now on and we A hare cleaned up after our seven weeks' campaign in the mud. and are comfortably settled In stone barracks. "Fortunately the censor has agreed to take a large part of his "lid" oft, so I will begin with our landing In France early last June and tell you the details 'which I know you have wanted to. hear and which I haven't been allowed to give. "Landed at Camp Genicart.

"First, our transport was the Sib- fney. a brand-new elght-thousand-ton xhip. originally built for the Ward Line, and takir.g u.s over on her second cromslng. She landed us at Camp Genicart. Mix mil-s fmni Bordeaux, wher-we stayed a week, going thence by train to Kedon.

a fair-sized town in the Department of He ct Vilainc. Our brigade had Its headquarters there, but we were stationed rome IS miles away, near a hamlet railed Braln-sur-Vilaine. Vilaine is the river that flowed by our camp and gave our much enjoyed swimming. "From Brain we hiked to Camp Meu-con. the Artillery Training School.

10 miles nnrth of Vannes, the prefecture of the Department of Morbihan. at the head of the bay of the same name. During all that time I never left my billeting area ecept for one trip to Xante, when I Rot my now lost dog. "From Meucon we went by rail straight across France to Bar-le-Duc where we detrained and proceeded under our own powr toward Verdun, camping first near tioullly. stayed 'here for a hiding in the wet woods, and we never knew until a month luter that we were a part of the reserve for th St.

Mihiel drive. -Attacked in Last Big "Then, on Sunday night. September 22. we took the road again ard made our next camp in the Raley-Court Woods, four miles west of Verdun and eight nillos south of Dead Man's Hill, from which the eightieth Division first attacked in the last big drive which I began September 26 and lasted until November II and the armistice. That I opening pusli took our infantry up through Kethincourt as far as Mont-faticon.

where they were relieved, but I'm, niueu at ill'. -t H-tci- i rur 1 r.y-secod rr.nm fc sheet in his "Then we wire attached to the Fifth Thorn. I Hivision when they wen, over' and in- carrl-. line up to Cunel and IlrleW- riiurcn nun lo a room at 31 Smith street and rohhi les. It was during this time that we were In deep dugouts which 1 described In the letter I wrote from the top of I.e Mort Homme, and these dugouts were on the south slope that famous hill near what wss once the town of Chattancourt.

"We had even advanced so far north lhat we. were under direct tire and observation from German batteries across the Meuse on our right flank. When the French and Americans pushed ahead on the bink of the river we moved up, too. "Caught In Regular Barrage." men of the expeditionary forces. Thein-of KovenlDer we moved up zS kllo- cllnation is to pinch oneself to ascertain mete" to Vlc called Villersdevant-whether he Is Dun, from which we worked until the one snows whether he Is to sent nome or to Orrminv the nuwu II OU desir.

OUe' but convoys had been going over for sev desire to see the although our thing if eral days end went through Dun and rel street. GOOD DRY CLEANING THE ART DRY CLEANING CO. GRAY mm castings PROMPT BHIPMENT.rB" Tm vnm mrva-i WANT TOUTt INQUIRIEi 1HE ELMWOOD CASTINGS CO. T. CKRXARD.

OHIO. nearly up to Stenay. There. la tha former French barracks of Blanc Fontaine" we are, at present. Btlu fhe itlnesary complete.

might add that I took convoys under Are through Malancourt. Septsargea, Xautillola. Cierges Romagae, Bau-thervllle, Aancrevllle, Andevaane, Re- moavllle, Bayoaville. Nouart, Beau-jclalr. Las Halle.

Saseay. Mont and i Mouzay. aa well aa all the towns mentioned before (also Buzaacy, which was my farthest west). "We were never out of n5S ranee from the Meuse. Our sector' was bounded by it on the east until the last few days, when we turned from our straight north line of advance and were in going-, due east toward Montmedy.

iwhen the halt was called at Germany's I request. 4 I "No one ever told so officially, but jit waa pretty generally taken for granted that the object of the whole big Laonrbed To Enrelope American attack was to cut the Sedan- Meti tnds With Armistice, Captain S. W. Morgan Writes. Mexleres-Mets Railroad with our left and envelop Met Itself from the north and east with our right.

The first half was accomplished when we stopped, and the second practically done, for we had got through the hard part and How the Americans fought to cut off oroken the German opposition. The last the Sedan-Mezleres-Mets railroad and few "-Tance comparative- ly easy. envelope Metz from the north and east: 1 is told in a letter received by Asa B. "Ordered To Hold at Any. Cost" Morgan.

Vice President of the Putnam- "I)urin" tn whijle operation we burst through three strongly organized lines Hooker Company, from his son. Captain of -efB eath wltVBatuVaI strength sneney morgan, v. company. Three and extensive Improvements miles or Hundred and ifth Ammunition Train, barbed wire, thousands of concrete -Captain Morgaln states that at the diuout- countless machine nest, and thousands of trench systems. These time he was writing the letter he was constituted the Hlndenburg.

the Hun-informed his unit was to go Into Ger- dig and the Preya lines, and together many with the Ninetieth Division. rrmed zone which the Germans be- lieved to be impregnable and which thereby eliminating all his chances of they wero ordered to hold at any cost. starting for home before Christmas, -The Boche had no idea of ever being The movements of several divisions forced back of even the first trenches. the and had elaborate means of making inemsetves conioriame ana ail prepared letter or tne wjnter. Their dugouts were electrically lighted, and in at least one 1 "A dump was established just north of Cuisv.

from where we hauled to the batteries and where oor drivers lived while the rest of the company w-as located between Cuisy and Montfaucon. That dump was the place where we President, got caught in a regular barrage, and Treasurer. case that I saw, steam heated. Every town and nearly every battery position was connected by a narrow-gauge rail-' road. "I have visited several officers' clubs and many soldier's recreation rooms these were usually installed in the churches, I suppose for safety from air raids.

The whole country was regulated wth true German military thoroughness but only for the comfort of the invaders and at the expense of the inhabitant, liack here they had laree K.rdens and were even farming some of the land. In fact, we have been eating their potatoes', onions, cabbage, brussels sprouts. ever since we came to these barracks. All the improvements were made by prisoners or forced civilian labor. "To Be Filled in.

Each Day." "Six of the buildings here were occupied by 'free Ilelgian workmen, according to numerous German signs telling them what rules were prescribed for their conduct. Kven in the kitchens were placards of blackboard, to be filled in each day, giving the menu for breakfast dinner and supper of the inmates again called 'free Heiisn I suppose the lioche couldn't understand why they didn't like it, or felt Oppressed when then; wore such public testimonials of their freedom, all around which should far outweigh a detail such as the 12-foot barbed wire stockade, with sentry boxes every 50 yards, which surrounded the buildings. "We put on our service stripes day after to-morrow. One will be plenty for me. I've been to France and done a trick al the front, and I don't cart, how soon I Ket back home, imw the war is over.

Very few of us probably trare before i ud, but as soon as it is Westward ho! for me. Everything has broken rlpht for me in this war but I never want to see another one. "I have just learned that We go to Germany with the Ninetlfcth Division, so there is no chance of me fretting home for Christmas." LEADERS AMONG JEWS that fire also came from across the river. It is very hilly there, and a tre- DEIVEB HTKT IN mendously difficult terrain to take' against a desperate enemy, armed with nP" 11 trUC th Rail- innumerable guns and able tn' vayg Lxpre" was struck by flll every hollow with mustard gas. ia "ain at "The weather, too, was rainy and cold, and the roads mere streams of mud, so it is small wonder that it took nearly three weeks of steady pressure and constant fighting to get the lines straightened out and everything men.

guns, ammunitions, supplies. Ac ready for another big attack. "The Ninetieth PIDvlslon then relieved the Fifth, and we went 'over when we started actual fighting, and No- November 1 and rema 11 Ke a nl mr niant Are Expected To Attend Convention of Mizrach Organization. Arrangements were made yesterday through tho Chamber of Commerce for a convention of the fizrach Organization of the I'nlted Slates and Can: da, a branrn of the Zionist Organization of America, to lie held at Memorial Hull. Cincinnati.

January 27 to leading rabbis and members of or--lholox Jewish congregations of the Fnited States and Canada are to comprise 31(0 delegates expected to attend the The committee in rharge of plans includes Kabbi A. (J. J. Lesser, Rabbi J. Levin and H.

Msnischewitz. Officers of the Cincinnati District, Zionist Organization of America, are to be nominated next Monday night at a meeting at the Talmud Torah Building. Hopkins and John streets. More than 50') members have been enrolled In the Cincinnati District through the efforts of Marcus Fechheimerj President. Rabbi Jacob H.

Kaplan. Vice and Rabbi L. M. Levin, Sixth and Millcreek yesterday morning Marshall Phillips. 21 years old, 237 Ludlow street, driver, was hurled against a freight car on another track and sus- tanled broken leg.

The police life saving squad and firemen hurried to the scene and were preparing to drag the creek for a missing brakeman, when the brakeman appeared, unharmed. The truck waa wrecked and electric wires were torii down by the collision. 1 TKACTION CAE IS BTTRJJED. ancu III nsa re oay alter nosiiiiues Closed, when we at struction by fire yesterdays. river tlon car in the Cincinnati, Georgetown and Portsmouth Railroad station.

Car- The loss was I500. A rail- road coach on the Big Four tracks, Third and Baymlller streets, was dam- aged 35 by lire, caused by leaking WIFE'S PLEA v7INS PAS0LE. His wire's plea Won a Christinas pa- 1 role yesterday ror Samuel Porter, who wss serving a sentence for stealing- raw bides. Porter told Judge Test-man he wished to "begin anew." He was brought rrom the workhouse, given a new trial and released. Most of the offenders In Police Court yesterday were dismissed or given light sentences.

GET BACK OLD JOBS. F. 5. Hardy, formerly City Passenser Agent of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in Cincinnati, who enlisted In the United States navy In May last, has been released from service and will be given his old position. R.

R. Coslger. who enlisted In the United States army last spring, has been mustered out and will be assigned to his former duUes as Chief Clerk. Now that it's over a man can safely turn to thoughts of self -adornment without a guilty feeling. A new PC CUE'S SUIT will start off the New Year along with the new resolutions.

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TO ABOLISH KOBniTT. Munich. December 26. The new Wurttemburg Government, says a Stuttgart dispatch, proposes to abolish all nobility. titles and powers.

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