Statewide openings in PPiAadai 9 scholarships
Athens Ga December 27 special 1 The 26th of the month has passed and in a few days the last of the Peabody and other scholarships in the winter course in agriculture at the university will be disposed of The offer was opened to Muscogee boys then to the whole state with many applications on file Expenses reduced to a minimum and a practical course arranged Board costs 35 a month room rent free no tuition fees and inexpensive books The course is taught by J M Johnson with J Hart and C Rhodes and other regular university professors will give instruction Special lectures will be delivered by leading officials and specialists to the class
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Athens
Peabody
Columbus Ooys
Chansellor HI
Bancador
J. M. Johnson
Cornell University
University of West Virginia
North Carolina State College of Agriculture
J.n. Hart
Rhodes
State Normal School
H. C. White
State College
Po « Barrow
C. M. Snelling
C. M. Strahan
John Morris
J. M. Stephenson, Jr
W. B. Hill
Won
J. Redding
C. L. Willoughby
Dudley M. Hughes
State Agricultural Society
C. H. Jordan
Committee On Agriculture
General Assembly
Marshal Schoenfeld’s Tempest in Vienna Court
An elderly man, Field Marshal Baron Schoenfeld, insulted by a lieutenant on a streetcar, allegedly pulled the officer’s nose as the latter drew his saber. They moved to a police station where the sergeant ordered silence. The marshal declared the lieutenant should speak first, then face arrest for three months. The lieutenant resigned on the spot and jailed.
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Marshal Schoenfeld Ts
Vienna
Baron Schoenfeld
Army
Negroes Help Soldiers Home Volunteers In Alabama
Colonel J. M. Falkner received a letter from W. H. Connell president of the colored normal college near Huntsville offering to furnish fifteen student carpenters painters and blacksmiths for ten days work on the soldiers home at Mountain Creek. The shoe department would provide a dozen pairs of shoes per year for old soldiers. He remarks that the negro race got more out of slavery than whites.
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Montgomers
Ala
J. M. Falkner
W. H. Connell
Colored Normal College
Huntsville
Mountain Creek
Wreck Evidence Destroyed In Golorado Collision
Trinidad December 27 The coroner s jury examined ten witnesses in the freight wreck case. Conductor Bronson testified he checked the register but the yard office book dated December 24 for the north division was missing and torn out. District attorney pressed to find it, yard staff refused. Jury adjourned after three hours. eight bodies recovered. no expected enlargement of death toll despite rumors.
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Golorado
Trinidad
Olc
Bronson
Eatra
Harriman
North Division
Sullivan Crichton & Smiths Business College Ad
Sullivan Crichton and Smiths Business College announces a shorthand and typewriting course at the Kiser Building in Atlanta Georgia. Professor Crichtons method simplifies mastering shorthand and promises immediate and well paid employment for graduates.
Improvement hoped in Reading coal situation this week
Officials at the Reading company expect a boost in coal supply next week as mine stocks clear. Last week shipments were the smallest since operations resumed, not exceeding about 9,610 tons versus 25,000 the prior week. Today's goal run under 46 cars, with the same sent yesterday, far below last week’s 1,640 car daily average.
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Reading
Reading Company
Will of Thomas B. Reed In New York Dec 27
The will filed today leaves all of Thomas B. Reed's estate to his widow Susan P. Reed who is named sole executrix as his parents have died.
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Thomas B. Reed
New York
Susan P. Reed
Keeps Expenses a Secret for Newlyweds
In a Chicago Inter Ocean piece a matron advises a bride to hide how little she earns and can spend at home. She warns that revealingaini limits may set a lifelong expectation of subsistence budgeting, advising discretion unless the husband is truly in distress.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Decline of Religion in Germany Reflected on Buss und Bettag
Commentary on the decay of Protestant influence as Buss und Bettag prompts crowded services by women and children but little religious significance in Berlin. Laments a growing state church entanglement, waning rites, and indifferent masses despite empressial efforts and compulsory gifts for church building.
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Germany
Berlin
New Year Day Schedule at White House Revealed
Washington December 27 Secretary Cortelyou released the New Year reception plans for the president. The schedule lists at 11 am the cabinet and diplomatic corps, 1 20 pm supreme court justices and federal judges, 21 30 pm senators and congressional figures, 8 am military officers and staff, 12 15 pm department heads and officials, 12 30 pm veterans societies and fraternal orders, and 1 pm reception of citizens.
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Washington
Cortelyou
Diplomatic Corps
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Court of Claims
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
United States
Congress
District of Columbia
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Patents
Pensions
Interstate Commerce Commission
Librarian of Congress
Labor
Civil Service Comision
Fish and Fisheries
Smithsonian Institution
Columbia Institution For the Deaf and Dumb
Society of the Cincinnati
Associated Veterans of the War of 1846
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
Grand Army of the Republic
Union Veteran Legion
Union Veterans’ Union
Widows Grant and Davis Befriend in 1902 Coburg Calm
The Kansas City World notes the unlikely 1902 friendship between Mrs Grant and Mrs Davis the widows of Ulysses Grant and Jefferson Davis. They shared adjoining cottages in Coburg Canada and spent days together discussing lives beyond the Civil War. The piece argues their bond symbolizes reconciliation and honors those who fought for the nation.
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Kansas City World
Ulysses Grant
Jefferson Davis
Grant
Davis
Coburg
Appomattox
Virginia
Copurge
Beggar Grafter Tales and Photographic Fame
A traveler recalls beggars near Park Row in New York pressing for coins, noting an endless chain of pleas and the impulse to choose a line. The piece shifts to English political photography, observing a rise in demand for Joseph Chamberlain pictures after Gladstone's era and Chamberlain's South Africa journey.
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Twenty-Fifth Street
Jacey
San Francisco
New York
Thereatanam
Joseph Chamberlain
Lord Randolph
Christmas School Programmes Shine At State Street School
Public schools held Christmas programs before dismissal. Fifth grade featured a large decorated tree with candies and gifts they made, plus a concert of music. Sixth grade enjoyed charades, dialogues, recitations, and songs. The highlight was the performance of the Angels Family from The Birds Christmas Carol.
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State Street School
Rbidren
Angeles
Shr Lands
Velma Miller
Marguerite Morris
Pauline Felker
Willie Brown
Marielle Jenkins
Florence Shivers
Richard Cooksey
Santa Claus and the Mouse
Gussie Martin
Cassie Jones
Roy Felker
Santa Claus
Tessie Bryant
Alma Cawhern
A Cox
Rebie Massel
Linton Woodward
Rebie Masgell
Berenice Cox
Berenice Cox, ‘ Jegsle Param’, ‘Anne Owings and Mamie Courtney
Charade
Merry Widow member commits suicide in Philadelphia drawing room
Philadelphia December 21 Daily Bark a Merry Widows burlesque company member swallowed carbolic acid in her drawing room dying. She left a note to J M Fallinger Rochester NY saying forgive me all cant stand trouble. The woman about thirty, from Oklahoma, had recently joined the Merry Widows here after leaving Runaway Girl company.
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Philadelphia
Daily Bark
Merry Widows
Comany
J. M. Fallinger
Rochester
N.Y
Steel Furniture for Navy Vessels Adopted at Brooklyn Yard
The Baltimore will be refitted with steel furniture made at the Brooklyn navy yard. The inventive design features roll top desks and fold out tables, painted to resemble mahogany, though weighing about three times more than wood. The cost to outfit the ship is about $20,000, roughly triple the wooden alternative, but officials say the upgrade enhances fighting capacity and will lower with mass production.
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United States Navy
Brooklyn Hagle
Baltimore
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Ana Wller
Tomy
Dudeussion
Merle
Lda
Navy
Caele Sam
Odd Tomb Conceals Ay Most Bereaved Man’s Fearful Grave
Special to Philadelphia Inquirer describes John M. Pursell’s tomb improvised in Grandview cemetery. He built a five‑chamber mausoleum with iron compartments for family, ventilation pipes, and internal combination doors to allow escape if buried alive.
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Philadelphia
Inquirer
John M. Pursell
Grandview Cemetery
Grandview Avenue
Birthplace of our Liberty in Champlain Valley
In Harper's Weekly Julian Ralph highlights Vermont's Champlain Valley as a cradle of liberty noting Rochester mountain views of Lake Champlain and historic sites near Rutland Pittsford Brandon and Middlebury. He recalls Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys and references Lord Howe and Champlain era fortifications. The piece comments on prosperous villages and impending resort development along the lake shore. It ends with a critique from the Chicago Record-Herald on trusts shaping daily life from groceries to beds and desks, framing a modern liberty under corporate influence.
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Julian Ralph
Harper’s Weekly
Boston
Philadelphia
Champlain Valley
Vermont
Eyrie
Rochester Mountain
Lake Champlain
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Ticonderoga
Champlain
Montreal
New Orleans
Lord Howe
Ethan Allen
Rutland
Pittsford
Brandon
Whiting
Castleton
Middlebury
Allen
Shoreham
Levi Po Morton
O Connell's Romance With Miss McDowell
The London Daily News notes Daniel O Connell courted Miss Rose McDowell for fifty five years after meeting in Dublin. She refused marriage, affecting his political grip in late forties Ireland. O Connell, who died en route to Rome in 1847, left letters later thought destroyed, a tale preserved by Irish writers of the period.
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Daniel O’connel
Daniel O'Connell
London Daily News
Rose
McDowell
Vialin
Dublin
O Connell
O'Connell
John McConnel
John
Young Ireland Party
Rome
Miss McDowell
Iod
Perio
Rival of Columbus Descendant Named New Spanish Minister
The article profiles Don Ozeda, ancestor of Senor Ojeda, a noted explorer who rivaled Columbus and helped found a great Spanish family. It details his early life in Cuenca, voyages from Cadiz, quest for Venezuela, and legacy carried to the current Spanish minister and his daughter Luz Ojeda awaiting presentation at court in Madrid.
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Columbus
Old
Washington Post
Retreet
Aigunedons Jaenen
D Oheda
Tne
Pane
Spanis
Ojeda
Aldren
Jaine Ojeda
Fox
Senor Qjeda
Senor Riaysio
Newport
Washington
Senor Oyeda
Luz
Senora Ojeda
Spain
Alfonso
Acnorita Luz Ojeda
Fuz
Senorita Ojeda
Onzo de Ojeda
America
Atonzo de Ojeda
Cuenca
New Castile
Don Lewis de Cerda
Medina
Cecil
Old Spain
Eda
Woo
Gousa
Juan Rodriguez
New World
Rodriguez
Weda
Pak
Rodrigues
Fort St. Mary
Cadiz
Americo Vespucci
Trinidad
Cariba
Theevemry
Caribbean Islands
Curazon
Venice
Veneguala
Blowa Re Ealvest
Match Striking Day in Philadelphia Manayunk
A Manayunk man found Lumi matches scattered in his home and kitchen with no one admitting to throwing them. Two days later more matches appeared in the study as a fox-terrier knocked a watch and sparked a small blaze, the dog using its nails on brimstone. The fire alarm followed and gas has since been kept outdoors.
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Philadelphia
Mateh Atleke
Tig Fox-Terrier
Girl's Presence of Mind Saves Father in Wreck
A Trenton girl aided by presence of mind saved her father’s life after a wagon overturn. Enoch Knowles and daughter May were driving when horses bolted, the wagon overturned, and his wrist artery was severed. The nurse trainee Mrs May Knowles applied a firm pressure above the wound until a farmer summoned a pharmacist, and the physician arrived.
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Trenton
Enoch Knowles
May Knowles
Knowles
Sta Phydteien
Mies Knowles
Mercer Hospital
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W. H. Council
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Percy
White House
Mrs. Grant and
Mrs. Davis
Cincinnat
Commercial Tribune
Eiseman & Weil
Whitehall Street
Merry Widow
Josepuine
Johanna Euey
Forthcomi
Signa & Pregayr
Birthplace OF Our Liberty
Freedom
Trust
Cee
Chicago Record-Herald
Venezuela
Don Emilio Ojeda
Kimball House
Atlanta
Georgia
Joseph Habersham
the Daughters OF the American Revolution
Conover
San Domingo
Cable Piano Company
Whitehall Sr
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