Wanstead Wreck Bodies Identified as Rescue Efforts Continue
London Ont December 28 The Wanstead railway wreck from Friday night leaves 28 dead and many injured. Fireman Ricketts was found in the snow beside the wrecked engines. George D Southern of Lockport NY and other victims identified. Operator Andrew Carson claims Despatcher Kerr ordered cancellation of the express order. Kerr denies cancellation in his office record. Coroner to hold inquest at Wyoming Tuesday as officials back Kerr’s adherence to railway rules.
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Sarnia
Grand Trunk Railroad
Pacific Express
Associated Press
Victoria Hospital
Ricketts
Toronto
Duluth
George D. Southern
Lockport
N. Y
Andrew Carson
Watford
McAuliffe
Grand Trunk
J. G Kerr
Wyoming
Kings Court Junction
Carson
Kerr
George G. Jones
Duke and Duchess of York
Canada
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Lambton County
Chicago
John Bird
C. Harvey
University of Chicago
Russell Quinn
Thomas Coote
J. J. Cuthbertson
Port Huron
Mich
Author explains Matity play aims to make Christianity present now
Laurence Housman argues modern drama should express living Christian truth not as past relic but through a present tense nativity. He describes Bethlehem as a timeless event with English shepherds and Christian worshipers, and he ties the work to a Catholic renaissance influenced by St. Francis.
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Spatial Cable
Commercial Tribune
London
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Daily Mail
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Oberammergau
Mary
Mother Mary
Egypt
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St. Francis
Italy
Chinese Viceroy Plans Modern Postal Department
Shanghai December 28 Yuanh Shai Kai Viceroy of Chi Li Province announces plans to form a department of communications modeled on Japan and to place it under the control of the Chinese Postal Service with government sanction.
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Shanghai
Yuanh Shai Kai
Chi Li
Death of Count Sano Japanese statesman noted
Tokyo reports Count Sano died December 7 at age eighty one. Privy Councilor at death, he founded the Japan Red Cross Society and the Fine Arts Society. He once represented Japan in Austria Hungary and served as finance minister after being made viscount in 1887.
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Victoria
B. C
Count Sano
Japan Red Cross Society
The
Fine Arts Society
Japan
Austria-Hungary
Mate Ter
London Admires Mrs Hugh Reid Griffin
Mrs Hugh Reid Griffin, president of the American Women in London, is praised for beauty and accomplishments in London. Her popularity within the American colony and influence in garnering esteem for the society are noted in the report.
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London
Hugh
R. Griffin
Hugh Reid Griffin
English
Women's Society
England
Pretender's Army Routs Sultan near Taxa
London reports confirm the rout at Taza of the imperial army by the pretender to the throne. Imperial forces abandoned guns rifles ammunition tents and beasts of burden and fled toward Fez with about 2000 killed or wounded.
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London
Taza
Fez
Tangiers
Morocco
Taxa
Bez
White House on Wheels Moves Without Noise
Description of a sanitary modern living car with light furniture hardwood floors and washed rugs replacing heavy upholstery. Dr. Lung and inspectors praised it as a model sanitary train and questioned why old fashions persisted in earlier cars.
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Grand Rapids
White House
Lung
Dowager Empress Hosts Luncheon for Miles in Peking
The Dowager Empress and the Emperor entertained the women of the American Legation and Lt General Miles and his party at luncheon in Peking. United States Minister Conger hosted a diplomatic dinner for the General. Tomorrow the Minister will dine Chinese officials to meet Miles.
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Miles
United States
Conger
Pope Excommunicates Filipinos Promoting National Charter
Rome December reports the Pope orders the Archbishop of Manila to excommunicate all individuals attempting to promote a national charter in the Philippines. The measure targets those advocating a new church structure and alignment with Catholic authority.
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Tribune
Manila
Bryan Object of Great Interest in Mexico City
Dec 28 Bryan visits Mexico City with sight-seeing and official calls. He meets President Diaz and Finance Minister Limantour, is treated with high courtesy, and his party tours the Virgin of Guadalupe shrine. They plan to Cordova then Yale hacienda before returning for a theatre event.
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Bryan
Diaz
Finance Limantour
United States
Cordova
Vera Cruz & Pacific Road
Alfred Bishop Mason
Yale
W. J. Crittenden
Crittenden
Ted
Japanese Diet Dissolved Over Naval Funding Dispute
Tokyo December 28 The Imperial Diet reassembled as the House of Representatives was dissolved by imperial order and the House of Peers prorogued. Elections set for February after opposition leaders rejected government land tax hikes for naval funds. Rumor of a permanent squadron to Esquimalt and Europe denied. Foreign Office says aim is to maintain the status quo in the Far East.
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Imperial Diet
House of Representatives
House of Peers
Diet
San Francisco
Japan
Esquimault
Europe
Japan Foreign Office
Far East
The Schoolteacher Contest Returns in New Paper Section
The Commercial Tribune promotes a schoolteacher contest aimed at educating the rising generation about educators of the day. Parents should guide children to inquire about portraits appearing daily, with full contest details on page one and entries due by December 31. Back issues available on request.
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Commercial Tribune
England's drastic temperance act imposes new liquor rules
London dispatch reports the 1902 licensing act enforcing strict penalties for public drunkenness and changes to custody and separation for habitual drunkards. It widens police powers, tightens club registrations, requires licenses for off premises sales, and compels publicans to prove measures preventing intoxication.
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Wine and Ag
Passenger steamer sinks with sixty lives lost
Victoria B C December 28 The steamer Tartar brings word of a disaster in the Malacca Straits where the steamer Bunsang collided with the Kiang Yan and sank with sixty sailors and passengers missing Another report cites a fire on the Hokuun Maru off Su Ttsu December 3 and the vessel sinking with eighteen lost Japanese sealers report a profitable season with four fleet losses including the Tanga Maru rumoured seized by Russians The total catch of Japanese flag schooners is 12621 skins
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Su Ttsu
Governor Won’t Restore Sullivan County Sheriff Dudley
Indiana Governor Durbin refused to reinstate John S. Dudley the deposed Sullivan County Sheriff after the November lynching of James Dillard. Dudley had transported a captured Black suspect without requisition papers and faced mob pressure from Sullivan Illinois Robinsion witnesses testified he did not act as a proper officer.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
John S. Dudley
Sullivan County
Durbin
Dudley
James Dillard
Sullivan
Ind
Illinois
Robinson, Lr
Indiana
Robinson, Ill
Fierce Atlantic Gales Reported Along British Coast
London dispatch notes renewed snow in Scotland and heavy gales forcing vessels to seek shelter with rescues at Holyhead and Cornwall. A three day hurricane rages at Vienna and continental gales damage towns while southern Russia endures severe cold and deaths from freezing.
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London
Great Britain
Scotland
Holyhead
Cornwall
Vienna
Russi
Florida crops spared by cool spell despite frost warnings
Jacksonville reports the cool wave caused no noticeable damage to Florida crops. Temperatures near the freezing point in parts of the west coast were anticipated, and frost warnings prompted preparations by nearly all vegetable growers at risk.
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Jacksonville
Flia
Florida
Fury Gale Strands Allan Line Steamer Off Cape Race
A furious storm rages for 36 hours along the coast at St Johns Newfoundland. The Allan Line steamer Peruvian passed Cape Race but cannot port due to sea and fog. On board are 300 Canadian cattle shipped at Halifax amid embargo on American ports.
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N. F
Allan Line
Cape Race
Halifax
Tramp Eddie Simms Beats Free Rides on Global Journey
Bloomington’s Eddie Simms, 21, famous as the “Uncrowned King of Tramps,” travels by passenger trains, carries a portmanteau, baths and cleans daily, and has toured the world including China, Japan, the Philippines, Europe and Australia. He detests handouts and works in towns where he stops, speaking German, Spanish, and Japanese. He once rode a Alton train to vindicate his reputation after a derailment.
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Bloomington
Eadie Simms
World
United States
China
Japan
Philippine Islands
Germany
Belgium
England
France
Australia
Eddie Simms
Edie Simms
Henrys
Chicago & Alton
Chicago
Fox
Eddie
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Alton
Kansas City
St. Louis
Reese
Oman
Grove's Black Root Liver Pills Ad Claims Cures
Fragmentary ad copy notes a tonic named Grove's Black Root Liver Pills. It mentions an after effect and asserts cure claims though wording is unclear and incomplete.
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Grove
Ehronie
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