Christmas Day Heralds Welfare Across Cities
Christmas in New York and Paris featured mass dinners and gifts for the poor. Salvation Army in Madison Square Garden served thousands with baskets and hot meals while missions and churches hosted celebrations. In Philadelphia a rider died after a cross country accident near Valley Forge.
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Salvation Army
New York
Paris
France
Mme, Lonbect
Bifteen Hendrea
Cleveland
Grays
Benator Hashes
Philadelphia
Chester Valley Hunt
Henry IL. Wilbur
H. O. Wilbur
A. J. Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Valley Forge
Christmas tree fire injures Hanover family
In North Hanover at the Baptist church a boy against the Christmas tree toppled a chandelier. Mrs. Davis Stoddard spilled burning oil on her clothing and her four year old son. She is in critical condition. The boy and Frank Plummer were badly burned.
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Hanover
Mass
North Hanover
Trolley Still Tie Up in Scranton After Strike
Scranton Strikers force ten of thirteen imported car men to quit, two more leave town, and a twelfth stays for other work. Three new outsiders arrive from Syracuse. two are won over, one is abducted by a drunk striker. Only two cars operate. one derails, another is stored. General Manager Silliman plans to recruit after holidays.
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Scranton
Scolitae
Syracuse
Patterson
Silliman
Indian shoots through Arkansas river town spree kills several
John Tiger a full blood Indian living near Hu fala shot and killed Dave Porter and another man after an argument with L B Roper. He also shot Jesse Beck Bud Taylor and a mover named Johnson and was wounded by Deputy Johnson before surrendering. Tiger's arm will be amputated and a Coke War in Pittsburg drives coke prices down.
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I. T
John Tiger
Arkansas River
Hufala
Bussia
L. B. Roper
Roper
Tiger
Jesse Beck
Dave Porter
Chief Porter
Johnson
Missouri
Bud Taylor
Marshall Johnson
Eufala
United States Ahead as First Industrial Nation
The Times Vienna correspondent notes in European Economical Alliance that America’s vast resources and growing population may place the United States as the leading industrial nation. Europeans see U S superiority rising yearly and a future mercantile navy. Dowager Lady Churchill dies at Osborne. A cruiser contract for Turkey is signed in Constantinople by Hassan Pasha and General Williams of the Cramp’s Philadelphia firm.
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London
Times
Vienna
Paul Leroy ‘Beaulieu
Neuesweiner Tagblatt
America
United States
Constantinoper
Turkey
Hassan Pasha
General Williams
Cramps
Philadelphia
Sickness in Dawson amid Klondike news
Victoria reports on Dawson where pneumonia caused five deaths by Dee 18. Typhoid subsiding, smallpox nearly gone with two cases. Five thousand vaccine points arrived and compulsory vaccination begun. Reports speak of new rich quartz mines on Bonanza Creek and other Klondike areas. Six automobiles reach Dawson for creek runs.
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Dawson
Victoria
B. C
Dee
Danube
Kitchener Arrives at De Aar to Stem Cape Colony Invasion
Cape Town reports general Kitchener has arrived at De Aar and is taking measures to crush the Boer invasion. Rail service Cape Town to De Aar partially restored after a damaged culvert. trains run irregularly with delays from heavy rains. Patrols report Boer actions in Steynsburg Venterstad and Burghersdorp. loyalists push for martial law but troops are scarce.
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Kitchener
de Aar
London
Cape Town
Kimberley
Cape Colony
Morning Post
Philipstown
Cape
Lord Kitchener
Standard
Daily Mall
Steynsburg
Venterstad
Burghersdorp
War Office
Nanukpoort
Thorneycroft
Britstown
Prieska
Durban
Cape Ton Cairo
Kasanga
Lake Tanganyika
South Africa
Frther
Pietermaritzburg
Heidelberg
Hague
Nooitgeducht
Kroger
United States
New Zealand Government Refuses to Diminish Contingent
Wellington reports that the government asked Governor Ranfurly to inform Secretary Chamberlain that New Zealand will not reduce its South Africa contingent. Drafts will fill ranks and additional mounted men will be sent. In India, Lord Curzon notes since 1898 bubonic plague caused 25,000 deaths in Mysore.
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New Zealand
Wellington
Earl of Ranfurly
Joseph Chamberlain
South Africa
India
Calcutta
Lord Curzon of
Kedleston
Indian
Mysore
Destructive Fire Destroys Eau Claire Business Section
A disastrous blaze in Eau Claire, 15 miles east of Saint Joseph, Michigan, reduced about half the town's business district to ashes. Total loss estimated at 150000 dollars, partly insured.
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St, Joseph
Mich
Eau Claire
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Howard Gould
Fort Washington
Long Island
George Gould
Georgian Court
Lakewood
N. J
Vanderbilt
Mra. Booth-Tucker
Larsies
Madison Avenue
Fourth Avenue
Roothr Tucker
McAuley
Water Street
George ‘Thatcher
Convicta,s
Bryan
Leavenworth
Kan
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Evening Standard
Kangas
Christman
Washington
Ite
Schenectady
The
Draziell
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Louis Davies
Gov. Powers of
Maine
Boutelle Lin
Congress
Pittsburg
Connellsville
Lady Churchill
Osborne
Bristol
Uts
Tiffany
Wanamaker
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