Abolish Santa Claus debate in The Sunday School Times
The Sunday School Times argues against presenting Santa Claus as a real figure, urging parents to let children enjoy Christmas imagination while telling truth about reality. It contrasts Santa with parental love, warns that deceiving children harms virtue, and cites The New York Press on substituting parent for saint.
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Santa
New York
Stice
St Nicholas
Santa Claus
Charster
Sant Claus
Birmingham
Atlanta
Violet leaves cure cancer claim stirs British papers
Reports describe Lady Margaret Marsham’s cancer allegedly cured by violet leaf infusion after being treated with a greenish tincture soaked to the seat of the disease. The Daily News notes the facts but calls for cautious verification and expert confirmation of the cure’s sequence and accessibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Marsham
Throme
Daily News
Marcaret
Sete
Violet Leaves and Cancer Cure Debate in 19th Century Press
The article reviews claims that violet leaves cured cancer, noting medical authorities avoided judgment while acknowledging a high violet demand and famine prices. It cites The London Lancet, old Anglo-Norman recipes, and Plantagenet era use, noting violet’s cathartic traits and traditional remedies, yet expressing cautious doubt about efficacy.
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Daily News
Covent Garden
London Lancet
British Museum
Balfour
Monkigh
Hower
Lhberty
Increasing American Thrift and Savings Growth
The piece argues Americans are increasingly thrifty. It cites data on savings banks from 1850 and 1900, noting growth in deposits and depositors. It contends rising investments in building and loan associations and insurance reflect thrift, countering views of widespread extravagance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cabinet Turmoil Grows as Roosevelt Cabinet Watched
Rumors swirl around the Roosevelt administration as McKinley era appointees depart. Secretary Gage resigns amid a snub over currency reform while Postmaster General Smith returns to edit The Philadelphia Press. Talk of changes to Secretary Hitchcock and Secretary Long persists amid friction with the president and calls from pension lawyers and timber interests.
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McKinley
Roosevelt
Charles Emory Smith
Gage
Long
Hitchcock
Hay
Smith
Philadelphia Press
Maclay
War Root
Philadelphia
Washington
Treasury
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of the Interior
Ike
Vans
Hitch
Tila
Roosevelt's Cabinet Shakeup and Birmingham's Rising Crime
A commentary on Roosevelt weighing cabinet changes amid politics and a critical portrait of Birmingham, Alabama. It cites Secretary Long, McKinley ties, and proffers concerns about crime rates, arrests, and public policy in The Magic City as November figures show high per capita arrests and police dragnet pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
New York Herald
United States
Atlanta
Butte
Mont
Alabama
Age-Herald
Age Herald
New York
Postmaster General from Wisconsin in flux noted
Wisconsin has supplied three postmasters general since the Civil War and may contribute a fourth under Roosevelt. The piece questions patronage and political spoils, references to a London judge, Navy resignations, Panama canal talk, and various political jabs about Cleveland, Danish West Indies, and other figures. The tone is combative and opinionated.
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Wisconsin
Alexander W Randall
Andrew Johnson
Timothy Q Howe
Chester A. Arthur
Wiliam F. Vilas
Grover Cleveland
Henry C Payne
Roosevelt
Roosevelt calls for Appalachian forest reserve plan
Roosevelt urges congress to create an Appalachian forest reserve spanning Virginia North Carolina Tennessee and other southern states with a price tag estimated between 3 5 and 10 million dollars and argues the public value includes timber protection and a eastern national park akin to Yosemite Yellowstone. The plan relies on prudent budgeting to avoid large new appropriations.
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Baltimore Sun
Roosevelt
Congress
Appalachian
Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Pacific Coast
McKinley
Yosemite
Middle West
Christmas Day Joy and Church Dawn: A Call to Holy Celebration
The writing urges true Christmas joy through religious devotion and restraint from worldly revelry. It contrasts sacred praise with boisterous entertainments and emphasizes giving, mercy, and shared charity as core to the holiday spirit. The piece honors the Christ birth and invokes Gloria in excelsis as a timeless refrain. December 23, 1901. Cc. K Nelson.
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Pan
Ceres
Elncore
Earth
New Wave Trotter in Port City of Savannah Arrives
The Ocean Steamship Company adds the former Plant Steamship La Grande Duchesse to its fleet as City of Savannah. The vessel, remodeled from passenger to freight service, now sails the Savannah New York route and Captain Fisher takes command after a promotion from Kansas City.
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Savannah
Savanah
Ocean Steamship Company
Plant Steamship Company
la Grande Ducheuse
Plant
Fisher
Kansas City
Egan
City of
Atlanta Depots and Growth Stir Georgia Towns
Monticello and Macon papers note Atlanta's rapid changes including a new depot and federal building. Columns ridicule the city’s chaos, mud, and crowded streets as residents face higher costs and accidents while Savannah columns joke about a cold spell and local transit troubles.
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Brunswick
Atlanta
Trion Factory
Albany
Georgia
Macon
Savannah
Song of the Years and Year’s End Reflections
A reflective verse set amid December winds and Christmas cheer, tracing mood and memory across the dying year. Ghostly visions of past gardens rise as thoughts of love and hope mingle with faith in a new era and the eternal presence of the divine.
Dodd's Trial Opens Over Fraud in Birmingham Debentures
Preliminary examination of W L Deda former secretary treasurer of the Birmingham Debentures Redemption Company proceeds before U S Commissioner Cornish. Prosecutors allege funds paid by George W Morgan for the company were diverted from its treasury and the checks he used were paid from cash on hand when he assumed control, with over eighteen thousand dollars in cash and notes then in the treasury.
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Birmingham
Ala
W. L Deda
Birmingham Debentures Redemption
United States
Cornish
George W. Morgan
Treasor
Morgan
Atlanta
Birmingham Debenture Redemption Company
Colored Conference Ends in Georgia Adjourns to Meet in Covington
The Atlanta African Methodist Episcopal church conference adjourned at 10 am in Newnan to reconvene next year in Covington. Bishop H M Turner announced new appointments for the Atlanta and South Atlanta districts listing presiding elders and multiple stations and missions across the region.
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Atlanta African Methodist Church Assembly
Newnan
Atlanta African Methodist Episcopal Church Conference
Covington
H. M. Turner
Atlanta
South Atlanta
Jomes A. Davis
Bethel
C W. Newton
Allen Temple
Hansom
Fairfield
L Shaw
Worthvills
J. &. Drake
Ailen
Bilioi
St. Joseph
Gray
North Atlanta
B. Williams
Tunis
Hoy. W
Willams South Atlanta
H. D_ Canady
Leary
Tunis Thanet Etalon
Barriton
St Marks
AN. Freeman
Adarmsvilla
Ebek
Nichols
Hampton Cirout
J . Flipper
D. D
St Paul
Wright
Georgia’s darkest corner in Hatonton delivery woes
Hatonton Georgia December 2 special The Standard Oil Company began a year ago a delivery system for this area using a two horse tank wagon to supply individual merchants and rural customers. Deliveries are irregular with no fixed schedule so dealers and customers often go without when supplies run dry. The region, including Monticello supplied territory, is too large for one wagon, causing repeated outages and inconvenience.
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Hatonton
Standard Oil Company
Monticello
New Teacher for Athens Adds Geography Head and History Tutor
Athens December 23 Special Professor Alexander Rhodes joins the State Normal school in January to head geography after serving as hort iculture assistant at North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College. Miss Newton will devote full time to history. Rhodes, a Virginia native educated at Miller Quialrn al Training school, has taught at the A and M College since 1890 and will be welcomed as a valuable citizen in Athens.
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Athens
State Normal School
Alexander Rhodes
North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College
Newton
Rhodes
Albemarle County
Miller Qdiarnal Training School
W. 8. Massey
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Farmer Develops Dementia Aboard Frisco Train
G W Warrick a 30 year old Pittsburg Texas farmer went suddenly insane on a Frisco train between Memphis and Birmingham en route to Glenwood Pike County Alabama. He raved, was restrained by four men, prayed for protection and threatened self harm. He was jailed in Birmingham and his parents notified. He has a wife and four children in Texas.
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Birmingham
Ala
Glenwood
Pike County
G W. Warrick
Pittsburg
Tex
Memphis
Brrmmingham
Warrick
Texas
Water Company Objects to Knoxville Enforcing Cut Rates
In Knoxville Tennessee on December 23 the Knoxville Water Company moved to make permanent an injunction restraining the city from enforcing its cut rates. Judge C D Clark of the United States court took the case under advisement and ordered new briefs on the constitutional challenge to the 1877 legislative act granting the company its charter.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Douglass ¢, Co
Tennessee Lumber Company
Tennessee
Virginia
Tennessee Company
Douglass & Co
A Bride of Just Fifteen Elopes Past Vigilant Paterfamilias
Eufaula Alabama December 23 Special—Wesley Havey and Miss Ruby Rollins from near Louisville reached Georgetown en route to be married. The bride, aged just 16, faced a suit from her outraged father who wired police to arrest her on arrival. She escaped by hiding on the train and is now honeymooning.
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Forties
Eufaula
Ala
Wesley Havey
Ruby Rollins
Louisville
George ‘Town
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