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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
1
The piece traces German Christmas from a tranquil past to a modern imperial city. It recalls Berlin’s Lustgarten fair, the rise of electric lights and motor cars, and the Bulky market bustle as richly dressed merchants and workers alike seek Christmas trees for homes. It notes imperial rituals, Bescherung at Potsdam, and the monarch’s Christmas walk giving alms to beggars.
A mother describes guiding her children to forgo self centered gift requests. She urged help for Santa Claus by aiding the poor and sick. The children began choosing gifts for others and gradually forgot their own desires.
Dorothy Harber, 17, was attacked and bound by two middle aged men who entered her home eight miles south of Fort Wayne after a false tax collector ruse. They left gas jets burning and stole about $4500 in cash and jewelry before fleeing, as Harber survived and aided officers with a description including a mustache and shorn hair.
In Logansport on December 19 Miss Minnie Miller, serving customers in a restaurant, was handed a bottle misidentified as peppermint. A man grabbed the bottle without reading the label, she drank, and cried of poisoning. A doctor diagnosed roach poison and she is expected to recover.
In Wabash Indiana Judge A H Plummer ruled a prisoner cannot escape imprisonment by using another inmate to serve his term. Addison VanDyne serving 30 days for intoxication asked to complete Burnett's 120 day remainder of 420 day sentence for forgery. The request was denied as illegal.
A man claiming the name Harry J. Lampke, 46, a cigar maker with no home, attempted to hold up the Rev. Chas. D. Wilson, pastor of the Hamlin Methodist Episcopal church near the parsonage. The minister struck him on the chin and they fell. Lamake was arrested after reviving, by Patrolman Griffith.
Fragmentary report describes a person named Odmires as a painter and details pain in the side after a sneeze. The passage notes suffering and a prior admission, but many words are garbled leaving unclear sequence or outcome.
The Moore family faces Humane Society affidavits after horses kept in a barn year after year with no exercise. One horse died two years ago, another is emaciated and nearly blind from confinement. The widow Sarah Moore and her son, an electrician, reportedly refused to move the animals from their home barn.
Logansport sixty year old Warne Tucker was killed by a fast Wabash train at Seventeenth Street crossing. Pittsboro druggist Nongle Neaville fined ten dollars and twenty-five cents for leaving his store in charge of an unregistered pharmacist. Brazil packing house worker Brazil Harvey Sweet lost a hand in a sausage mill. amputation performed. Patoka farmer Samuel Huffman injured when quail hunters shot into a corn field. twelve buckshot in face and head. Floyd Mullin jailed for ten to twenty years for burglary. two additional burglary charges and horse stealing listed. Gary official H B Tuthill to miss impeachment trial due to illness. Simultaneous note on Greenlee of Gary to preside. Rushville widow Mirabeth Bennet and Ed Beer nearly died trying to kill cockroaches with sulfuric acid and potassium cyanide. both survived. Terre Haute Charles Gainey, twenty, died after falling two hundred feet in a mine dump. body returned home. Gary council redistricts to nine wards, adding four aldermen. mayor and city engineer to be unpaid under new administration.
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