Christmas Holiday Roundup The City
Busy Christmas report with numerous visitors returning home and traveling to nearby towns. Local merchants clean up and stock take while several residents travel to Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Waco for holidays. Continuous notes of social visits, arrivals, and departures mark the season.
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J. F. Faves
Millican
R. J. Roberts
Anderson
Charles Chaney
Mesa
Grimes County
Luther W. Clark
J. Fred Smith
Dallas
Sarah Burns
Bedias
J. B. Sanders
Main Street
C. G. Parsons
Government Departments Suspend Business for Christmas
Washington reports a general suspension of government business on Christmas Day with departments closed and few officers at desks. President Roosevelt worked briefly, declined church, and spent the day at the White House with family, receiving visitors and giving gifts. Archie Roosevelt distributed his gifts from a Christmas tree. The Roosevelts rode in the afternoon and hosted a dinner with Representative Nicholas Longworth as a guest.
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Roosevelt
White House
Archie
Nicholas Longworth
National Capital
Tragic Gas Deaths Darken Christmas in New York
In New York on December 26 a fatal gas incident at Mrs. Paul Racmond’s home left John Moscow and Casman dead as they unknowingly extinguished illuminating gas after tiring. Separately five year old Sadie O'Neill died from clothing catching fire on a Christmas tree in East One Hundred and Second Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paul Racmond
John Moscow
Casman
Russia
Sadie O'Neill
East One Hundred and Second Street
One Legged Black Flagman in Picard Tower Firefight
In Paducah Kentucky on December 26 a confrontation between Patrolman James Clark and John Tico a one legged Black flagman ended with Clark wounded twice and Tico fatally shot after he shot at bystanders from a tower at Eleventh and Broadway. Roving crowds, bricks and public safety items filled the streets as police tried to arrest him.
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Paducah
John Tico
Illinois Central
Eleventh
Broadway
James Clark
Tico
Unusual Fatality From Broomstick Cannon Incident
George Irving Harper aged fourteen died in Louisville Texas on December 26 when a boy exploded a firecracker over a cannon touch-hole as Harper tamped a charge, driving the broomstick through his neck. Other items note a police officer killed in Tampa and a fatal shooting at a jail, a girl shot through a door in Washington Pa, the 101 year old Milford Mass death of Mrs Almira Pierce Johnson, and Birmingham reporting no Christmas accidents in twenty five years.
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Louisville
Tex
George Irving Harper
Harper
Tampa
Fla
St. Petersburg
J. J. Mitchell
Washington
Hazelkirk
Mary
James Kennedy
Milford Mass
Almira Pierce Johnson
Woman's Relief Corps
Christmas Casualties From Across the Nation
A series of fatal incidents reported include W. J. Mabry killed in Chattanooga by a Black assailant, Thomas McCarver shot in Memphis by A. K. Harned, and E. C. Wetherer a Philadelphia manufacturer who shot himself. Ella Bartlett dies from a stray bullet in Louisville. Two girls drown after breaking through ice in Parnassus. C. H. Hansen and his daughter die near Philadelphia when struck by a train. Theresa Housman dies from an unloaded pistol in Louisville. Meridian sees a railway crash with two dead and three wounded. Joseph Pollock kills his father while defending his mother. Memphis pistol fire fatally wounds Frank Poston, a leading attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Mabry
Chattanooga
Thomas McCarver
Memphis
A. K. Harned
E. C. Wetherer
Philadelphia
Louisville
Ella Bartlett
Parnassus
C. H. Hansen
Theresa Housman
Meridian
Miss
Joseph Pollock
Frank Poston
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