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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
8
A tiny fir narrates its journey from the forest to a cottage where white-tailed deer, a rabbit, and a snowy owl help decorate it. The children rejoice as the lumberman decides the tree can stay, and all wish each other a Merry Christmas.
A scarlet coated soldier and a maiden named Mistletoe share a wintry romance among frost bound pines. The holy oak stands as guardians as a sled carries away young trees to the city while children mourn their missing Christmas tree.
The piece notes Peter Stuyvesant popularized New Year celebrations in New Amsterdam with jovial gatherings at the governor’s home. It cites the Dutch kissing custom for a happy new year and contrasts it with Puritan restraint. A brief New Year’s poem follows thanking God to keep loved ones safe and steadfast.
Dialogue reveals a humorous exchange about Christmas preparations and a wife stocking gifts out of reach, with playful banter about shopping and storage.
In Laporte Circuit Court Judge Richter sentenced Clinton Cromwell to an indeterminate term of two to twenty-one years for subornation of perjury. Fellow farm hands Cass Coleman and Orlen Rhodes received similar perjury-based sentences. Coleman was paroled after aiding the State’s case, stemming from a local neighborhood quarrel.
Farmers within six miles of Bedford organize a shotgun movement against a crow roost near Ned ford. Hundreds of thousands of crows occupy a five mile field and feed up to fifteen miles away along the Ohio river. One man killed several hundred with a club but seeks stronger action as crows waste corn crops.
Henry A Agar once a legislator and Central Trust executive, who vanished January 23 1907 and was thought dead, was found in San Benito Texas living under an assumed name as a wealthy influential businessman. He reported to Indiana prison to begin an indeterminate sentence of two to fourteen years for embezzlement.
The Twelfth Avenue Baptist Church in Evansville opens a nearby grocery store and meat market. Proceeds will go toward paying about $4,000 of church debt. A manager runs it as "Jesus would run it," with fair weights and small profits.
Panhandle Railroad inspector Joe Dempsey was killed near Logansport when a switch engine ran him over. He, conscious and injured, ordered the engine be moved, but the locomotive backed off and rolled over him, causing fatal bleeding.
Wayne County youth Earl Doddridge of Washington township was found guilty of illegal recreation fishing with dynamite after a full day trial in Wayne Circuit Court. He received the minimum fine of 250 dollars plus costs and fees, totaling nearly 400 dollars.
Ed ward V Parker, 29, was fatally shot by his 14 year old brother in law Cecil Stafford while hunting near Monroe City. Parker leaves a wife and four children. Fire at Vincennes University in Vincennes damages a three story annex worth 3000 dollars during the university’s 113th anniversary celebration.
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