Christmas Charity Spreads Joy Across Cincinnati
Christmas baskets and gifts reach thousands in Cincinnati as Santa Claus drives brighten homes and public institutions. W. Brown and the Business Men’s club oversee baskets sent from Santa Claus headquarters, with 4 200 distributed in three days, while churches, hospitals, schools, and city offices host services and distribute goods and outfits.
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Cincinnati
Santa Claus
Fourth and Rate Streets
Brown
Business Men’s Club
Music Hall
Citadel
Association
Hubbard
Associated Charities
Stock. Exchange
William T. Irwin
J.M. Hutton
Roosevelt to Seek White Rhinoceros on African Hunt
President Roosevelt plans a rare African safari aiming to secure two white rhinoceros specimens for the Smithsonian and possibly give one to the British Museum. He also intends to obtain two elephants, pushing far into Africa to reach elephant territory beyond Lake Victoria Nyanza. Major Edgar A. Mearns will accompany him and ammunition supplies are to be procured in Nairobi.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Africa
National Museum
Nile
Lake Victoria Lyanza
Edgar A. Mearns
Harris Acts on Requisitions on Christmas Eve
Special Dispatch reports in Columbus that Christmas eve requisitions filled four requests in the governor’s office. Among them were two for fugitives and one for Ray Ps, wanted for second degree murder. Details are fragmentary with scattered names and amounts mentioned.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus,. C
Oupe
Ray Ps
Hotel men push plan for state liquor licenses
The Ohio State Hotel Men's association seeks a constitutional amendment to allow state licensing of liquor. A bipartisan four member county commission would grant licenses with strict limits, publication of applications, and revocation on second violation. Fees vary by city size and new rules ban minors, women, free lunches, and gambling in saloons.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
The
Ohio State Hotel Men's Association
General Assembly
Ohio
Neil House
Common Pleas
Dayton Officials Face Audit Accountability
State Examiner F.A. Joe Gibineoreth found irregular expenditures totaling about 689.63 dollars at annual meetings of national Chiefs associations in Jamestown Virginia and Detroit. The Special Dispatch notes the irregulars were discovered in the reports of Dayton officials.
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Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
F.A
Joe Ap Gibineoreth
Ing Burste
És National Association of. ‘Chiefs
Jamestown
Detroit
Wreck on Lake Shore line injures sixteen near Pleasant Lake
A Lake Shore passenger train on the Jackson Michigan to Fort Wayne Indiana branch derailed near Pleasant Lake Indiana. Sixteen people were injured five seriously as the train jumped a broken switch into a gravel pit siding. Injured were taken to nearby farmhouses and doctors called from Angola Hillsdale Reading and Angola Michigan.
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Angola
Ind
Lake Shore
Jackson
Miab
Fort Wayne
Pleasant ‘Lake
Hillsdale
Marietta Man Charged With Alimony Evasion
A Marietta businessman known as a common laborer faces charges for evading a court order to pay alimony to his wife Myrtie Best. He is said to have ties to prominent Marietta figures. Sheriff wires that he will travel to Cincinnati today to obtain Best.
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Marietta
Myrtie Best
Cincinnati
Banks' Bribe Fund Mayor to End City Bank Depository Deals
In Pittsburg on December 24, evidence and statements from the Voters' League and Scranton detectives indicate at least 176000 was paid to councilmen for selecting banks as city depositories. Mayor Guthrie says the depository selections are void for bribery and fraud. arrests of bankers are expected to continue after Christmas. the Voters' League has secured broad financial backing up to 500000 if needed.
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New &J. Gaudens
Bosworth
August Herrmann
von Bargen
George
Friedlein
Mr. von Bargen
Markbreit
Mary Callahan
Eyrich
Kuhlmann
Hinnenkamp
Mansa
Board of Public Service
Rosalie Condron
Katherine Sweeney
Cornette
Service Board
Brown
Ballard
Office Force
Pittsburg
Patt
Voters’ League
Scranton
League
Guthrie
H. B. W. English
English
Train Narrow Escape Near Oreton
Passengers on the southbound Hocking Valley train in Gallipolis Ohio fled a blazing sixty foot trestle after the engineer sped through. The fireman was injured but not fatally, and the train reached safety as flames engulfed the trestle.
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Gallipolis
Hocking Vic
Oreton
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W. F. Chambers
F. W. Mearna
Bates & Meyer
Roth
Joseph T. Blair
Roth Iox Tongue
H. Hopkins
Candy
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Richardson
Frank Silver
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David Philipson
Avondale
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Gosek
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Cincinnati Hospital
Harris
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Dayton
James
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Carrice
U. 8
Army Goods
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