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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
1
A man identified as Ita Glaus was struck and dragged beneath a New York trolley car as he attempted to cross a street. Bystanders and emergency responders attended the scene, with the incident under police investigation and no immediate report of his condition.
William Mahoney, a Staten Island teamster, lost a leg to a trolley accident but claimed the limb was wooden. He used crutches and a dragged stump to reach a friend’s home in Brooklyn and still delivered toys, then proceeded to a holiday event. Post Office orders bar postmasters from soliciting mail for other offices and forbid credit for cancelling stamps on diverted mail.
In Seventh Street, New York, police raided a protected gambling den with electric door shocks. The proprietor was arrested after a prior raid. Officers seized race slips, tally sheets, part of a roulette setup, a fare layout, and other gambling paraphernalia. fifty men were found in the basement.
Mayor McClellan revokes all 550 moving picture licenses in a move prompted by clergy protests and a fire safety report. The order is stated as temporary but likely ends many licenses. theater owners vow to fight in court.
Salvation Army Volunteers of America and others fed many in New York on Christmas Day. Buttered dinners on steamers and ships, a German ship tree display, and immigrants welcomed with a full holiday program. At Fill Island three thousand seven hundred aliens received their first American Christmas dinner, with music and flags. In Ogdensburg a monument contract was awarded for Barbara Heick founder of Methodism in America, funded by subscription, to be placed on the St. Lawrence riverbank where her body rests.
Word was received that Cyrus R. Teed known as Koroesh and self styled Messiah of Sunset Flat Heaven died in Florida. The movement flourished in Normal Park a Chicago suburb in 1892 and Teed’s death ends a long controversial chapter tied to the sect.
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