True Christmas Charity in Des Moines Box Incident
Christmas in Des Moines featured a striking scene as Mrs Hyde, wife of a local millionaire, handed Salvation Army Captain Mary Taylor a turkey contribution box and refused dinner. Crowds donated generously from noon to five, and Captain Taylor later found a well filled box plus a large roll of bills from Mrs Hyde’s pocketbook.
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Des Moines
Mrathur Hyde
Wes Moines
Salvation Army Turkey
Mary Taylor
Taylor
Strangely Wrought Beanton Christmas Reunion in Lincoln
Adolph Gebhardt of Lincoln Nebraska celebrated a unique Christmas when a moving picture show helps him identify a long lost brother. He recognized a familiar actor in the film and exclaimed, It is George. George, a New York theater actor, arrived in Lincoln on Christmas Day after nearly ten years apart.
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Adolph Gebhardt
Lincoln
Neb
Adolph
George
New York
Time flies toward Christmas in playful verse
The poem from the Atlanta Constitution wittily notes how Christmas songs arrive one after another as time rushes by. It imagines speed and flight with festive imagery and hopeful notes about wings at last.
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Atlanta Constitution
Lost Illusion Santa Revealed as Johnny Smith's Papa
A Sunday school Christmas show ends with Sadie realizing Santa Claus is really Johnny Smith’s father. The hoary beard gets tangled in the tree and, once the mask comes off, Sadie laments that there is no Santa Claus, just a churchman in disguise.
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Sadie
Santa Claus
Johnnny Smith
Johnny Smith
New York Press
Dragonlike reptile with winged skin in Malay archipelago
A Malay archipelago creature tale describes a dragonlike reptile with false ribs forming wings, a frog with spreading feet creating a parachute to swing between trees, and a flying lemur able to spread its body like an umbrella and leap long distances between trees.
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Malay Archipelago
Dr George R Tabor to Make Austin Home After Retirement
Dr George R Tabor Texas state health officer will retire next month and stay in Austin to practice medicine becoming a citizen of the city. He is praised for handling yellow fever smallpox and other contagious diseases and for improving state health amid crowded conditions in barracks. Examinations end Friday and students plan travel with Christmas illness spread noted alongside railroads offering special rates.
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Austin
Texas
George R. Tabor
Tabor
Examination Week at A and M College
College Station Texas December 17 examination week grips the Agricultural and Mechanical College cadets as they face the hardest work of the session with late nights and intense study ahead for the term’s great reckoning.
Blanton School News December 17 1906
The report notes bad weather easing before Christmas. Miss Eula Elliott visited Wheelock friends and returned with Miss Mabel Van Cleave. Mr. Jim Francis Jr. went to Bryan Friday. Mrs. G. W. Blanton visited Mrs. J. W. Wiley Friday. Mrs. R. B. Elliott visited relatives in Bryan last week.
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Eula Elliott
Wheelock
Mabel van Cleave
Jim Francis Jr
Bryan
G. W. Blanton
J. W. Wiley
R. B. Elliott
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