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December 5, 1925
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Headlines from December 5, 1925
Hospital Calls Fire Brigade For Asphyxiated Paris Girl
Calls fire brigade for asphyxiated girl
600,000 IN TENTS CROWD ALL FLORIDA, MENACING HEALTH.; Authorities Are Struggling With the Serious Problem of Preventing Epidemic.
Health authorities seek to prevent epidemic due to bad sanitary conditions in overcrowded tent colonies and tourists' camps
WILL ASK AMERICA TO JOIN ARMS PARLEY; League Committee Wants Russia In Also, and Council Is Expected to Agree. PRESIDENT IS SYMPATHETIC Approves Any Move to Disarm, but Doubts Power to Act -- Russia Would Assist.
Meeting of League Council Com; U S and Russia may be invited to cooperate in preparatory work for conf; Pres Coolidge is sympathetic; C Rakovsky says Russia will cooperate
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Notable Births
1925Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (died 1980)[â ]
Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and again from 1974 to 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was de facto ruler of the country between 1967 and 1979, even during the period when he was not the de jure ruler.
Notable Deaths

1925WÅadysÅaw Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)[â ]
WÅadysÅaw StanisÅaw Reymont was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel ChÅopi.