The Archive · 1924

A "WHITE CHRISTMAS" IN AMERICA

Busy Scenes in New Yorl Greetings Broadcast by Airship New York, Dec, 24.

A "White Christmas' with intense cold is predicted for the United States.

New York is very much busier than ig has been since the days: [before the war. Crowds Inden with. parcels throng the bustling streets. The department stores are swamped with business. Post office mails are ikely'to create a record.

An unusual feature to-day will be a visit from the giant "ex-German airship Los Angeles, which, bril-Viantly illuminated, will fly over the city wirelessing Christmas greetings and carols to hundreds of thousands of listeners-in.

Contrasting with the general Jmerriment, a movement has been started by a so-called "Mr. Zero" who has taken possession of various churches in the city as shelters for homeless wanderers whom church officials are reluctant to evict.—Reuter's American Service.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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