Parcel Post Rules Set to Transform Mail of Fourth Class
The parcels post law to take effect January 1 changes mailing of fourth class matter across zones up to 11 pounds. It requires prepaid parcel post stamps and outlines rates, packing standards, allowed contents, and penalties for improper handling, with local delivery and fragile perishable packing emphasized.
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United States
Philippine Islands
Tory
Washington
Ling
Post Office Department
Parcel Post Guide
Two Train Hold Up Attempts Frustrated
Two separate railroad robbery attempts were thwarted. In Oklahoma City a porter Walter Daniels was credited with saving a train’s express consignments and killed a bandit mid robbery near Chandler. In Springfield four men sought $50,000 in a Chicago and Alton express train robbery near Tie Junction, but the loot and robbers escaped after multiple safe breaches.
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Kansas City
Walter Daniels
St. Louie
San Francisco
Oklahoma City
Chandler
Ohlo
Daniele
Springfield
Chicago & Altons
Hummer
Ties Junction
Express Company
Chicago
St. Louia
Kanesas
Laborer Endures Low Pay While Yearly Wages Stand At $60,000
A laborer remains employed earning two dollars a day despite a potential yearly value of sixty thousand dollars. The remark suggests he could have pursued a trade rather than continue laboring.
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Lt Ie
Lost treasure tale of buccaneer crew on deserted isle
A marooned crew recounts discovering a cavern with skeletal remains, then a wrecked ship carrying tea coffee and champagne. They survived a Christmas on the island with a three month spree before one member returns to the mainland to recruit another expedition for the treasure of Captain Hastings and his crew.
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Hastings
Morgan
Los Roques
Morrison
Tam
Amiel
Freedon From Jail Menace Gift To Mayor
In a fragmented note a speaker asserts a bold claim about receiving a prized gift from Santa Claus. The text hints at a political or public figure context with a defiant statement of intent to learn quickly. The fragmentary source limits clarity on order, motive, or outcome.
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Freedon
Santa Claus
Fumigation Alarm Over Boulder Christmas Gifts
Boulderites receive fumigated Christmas presents as Glenn Smith, local express agent, is quarantined with scarlet fever. Also from Philadelphia a Vatican message to Americans recalls Pope John XXIII greeting cardinals and the people, via Mer. Kennedy, during Christmas travel.
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Boulder
Boulder, Colo
Pope
Philadelphia
Thomas Kennedy
American College At
Rome
Snd
America
Christman
Holy Father
Mer. Kennedy
Conshoocken
Christmas trees flood Gotham market this year
New York City area markets show abundant Christmas trees with large cuts from New Jersey and Long Island. Five to ten foot trees move quickly as stock items sell for 10 to 16 cents each amid concerns over imported parasites.
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Gotham
New York
New England
New Jersey
Ialand
Christmas Dinner by Mrs Zooks 60 Cent Spread
Offer for a home cooked Christmas meal features young turkey candied sweet potatoes cranberry sauce mashed potatoes salads relishes plum pudding pie and cakes at 1638 Contra Avenue opposite the Plain Hotel. Dinner served 1 to 4 pm.
Mexican Troops Abandon Juarez in Desperate War
Mexico City dispatch reports five thousand Federal troops will enter Chihuahua tomorrow to join campaigns against rebels. Some garrison units near Juarez will reinforce the southern and central advances as rebels widen their struggle in Oaxaca Puebla Morelos and the capital region. Authorities deny rebels captured Casas Grandes and Acencion and pledge to protect border interests.
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Mexico City
Chihuahua
Anight
Juares
Juarez
Casas Grandes
Apcencion
Laustine Olivera
Oaxaca
Guerrero
Puebla Morelos
Mexico
Plot to kill King of Italy reveals conspiracy
In Rome on December 24, Henry Dafferro an anarchist who planned assassination of King Victor Emmanuel disclosed a deep laid plot to kill the king Five other anarchists are alleged to be in the conspiracy and face involvement in the plan.
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Rome
Henry Dafferro
Victor Emanual
Gold-Quest Mystery Nets Crew of Matilda Sloop
The 1910 Matilda sloop from Galveston vanished after a Caribbean voyage with five adventurers aboard. Charles Morrison, tall and strong, travels to New Orleans to outfit a new expedition, while the others await his return. The tale blends treasure lore with a mythic holiday scene and a State Leader subscription note.
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New York
Matilde
Galveston
Caribbean
Matilda
Alta
Hamburg-American Line
West Indies
Charles Morrison
Morrison
Piratea
New Orleana
National
Vermont
Washington
Kris Kringle
McLean
Bay Winsoo
Jasper Moore
Ocormer Grocer
Santa
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Italy
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