Daring attempt to rob Buffalo express car in Philadelphia
W A Hewett of New York is held in heavy bail after a daring attempt to steal $60,000 in government gold bullion from a Buffalo express car at Reading terminal. A yardmaster spotted him under the car with a saw on a gas pipe. lights went out and Hewett was caught in a crowd of Christmas shoppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Hewett
Philadelphia
Buffalo Express
Reading Terminal
West Fifteenth Street
New York
Reading Railway
Lehigh Valley
Cortelyou Ordered to Appear Over Panama Bonds Distribution
Justice Gould cites Secretary Cortelyou to show cause why he should not be enjoined from delivering the remaining 21,450,000 of Panama canal bonds to designated banks and bidders. George W. Austin of New York claims he bid 3,000,000 and seeks a ruling on alleged bid rejection and potential losses to U S citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Gould
District Supreme Court
George B. Cortelyou
Secretary of the Treasury
Gould
George W. Austin
New York
United States
Poolroom clash ends in fatal skull fracture
In Plant City Florida Thomas House pool room manager stabs Will Hobbs in the back with a file. Hobbs ages twenty strikes House with a billiard cue fracturing his skull. House dies within three hours and Hobbs is arrested though his own wound is slight.
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Tampa
Fla
Thomas House
Plant City
Will Hobbs
House
Hobbs
Taft Endorsed by Republican State Committee in St Louis
The Republican state committee, with one dissenting member, endorsed Taft for the presidency. They set February 27 for the state convention in St. Louis as the meeting date and venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Republican State Committee
Taft
Package of Diamonds Stolen in Express Wagon valued at 30000
A New York incident reports a theft of a package containing jewelry valued at over 30000 dollars from an express wagon on Saturday night. The diamonds were consigned by the Alfred H. Smith company to a New York society woman stopping at Washington.
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New York
Alfred H. Smith Company
Washington
Jones guilty in second degree murder case
The jury in Houston found Charles Jones guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced him to twenty five years in the penitentiary. Two similar charges against Jones remain pending.
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Houston
Charles Jones
Jones
Courson Acquitted in Mount Harrison Murder Case
Harvey Courson, a Texas farmer, was cleared of murder charges in the long‑mystery Hyde D. McAlister case near Mount Harrison. Courson, arrested recently, faced trial here after nineteen years.
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Birmingham
Harvey Courson
Hyde D. McAlister
Mount Harrison
Courson
Texas
Brief Clippings of Notable Events Across Regions
Summary of scattered notes: liquor seizures in Guthrie and Pawnee totaling about four barrels, a Chilean creosote works project at Corral, Ardmore official death, Hessian fly in northern Oklahoma wheat, mill whisky confiscations, Jim Crow law implementation in sixty days, unrest in Tehran, Gore backs popular election bill, accident of a boy shot in Wilburton, Paymaster Major Curry killed near Atlanta, Goode dies in Montgomery from alcoholism, Ada valve explosion injuring Alderman Markham, McAlester heir to Bublett estate in St. Louis, U.S. court favors heirs, Margherita Hamm dies in New York after divorce.
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Fred Marr
Chickasaw Land Office
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Pawnee
Okla
George O. Goode
Pine Bluff
Ark
Montgomery
Ala
Alderman Markham
Ada
Ada Oil and Cotton Company
W. F. Back
McAlester
S. P. Bubletti
St. Louis
United States
Three Indiana Banks Ordered Closed by Auditor
Indianapolis December 19 the state auditor ordered the Bank of Fowler Fowler Ind the Citizens bank of Ambia and Goodland bank of Goodland to close under a law regulating private banks. Banks are owned by Daniel P Baldwin of Logansport and William H Dague of Fowler. Each bank has $10000 capital. Auditor cites Baldwin and Dague timber land loans as cause. No asset or liability statements released.
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Indianapolis
Bank of
Fowler
Fowler, Ind
Citizens’ Bank of
Baldwin and Dague
Arkansas Timber Lands
Dem onstrator in a Phonograph Store
A short exchange notes a friend who "puts on a good many airs" and a remark that he is a demonstrator in a phonograph store, implying a social interaction or character observation.
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Exchange
Champagne From Sponges Explains Bottling Trick
A wholesale dealer explains that champagne makers in Reims use sponges to squeeze and recover champagne from broken bottles. They process the collected wine, reclarify it, refine it, and bottle a second quality drink, claiming up to a million bottles annually.
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Reims
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Taborettes
Princess
Texas Mutual
Smith Building
J. B. Hines
CRAIN
ROYCE
J. F. Metchell
Pyrigh
Merry Christmas
Santa Claus
Cortelyou
Guthrie
Corral
Chile
Teheran
Persia
Gore
Senate
Johnnie Shaw
Wilburton
Oklo
H. B. Curry
Department of the Gulf
Atlanta
John R. McMahon
Margherita Arlina Hamm
William Fales
John M. Lawrence & Co
W. H. Lawrence
Over Haswell
Stor
W.C. Fountain
Smith jDrug Company
W. A. Watkins
Gordon-Sewell Grocery Co
Indiana
N. Jametta
James and
Nunn
Bryan
Germany
Darmstadt
Edinburg’s
Hamilton
Zennetti Block
J. F. Eaves
Willis
Mes
W. F. Miller
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