Christmas cheer and charity brighten Elkhart 1906
Christmas in Elkhart 1906 brings ideal weather and strong community spirit. Trinity M E and U B churches report generous distributions of food, clothing, and cash totaling about 850, aiding 30 families. Donations include sacks of flour, potatoes, sugar, rice, coffee, beans, fruit, toys, and books. Church events feature Crescents, cantatas, and festive decorations.
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Trinity M. E
Trinity M. BE
U. B
N. E. Elkhart
School of North-east
Elkhart
George Pratt
Pratt
William Elliott
Clyde’ Leib
New York Harbor
Elliott
Leib
Elkhart Discusses Simplex Car Plant Move and Lot Plan
A meeting in C L Monger’s office outlines transferring pledges to back an American Simplex project in Elkhart for a 300 lot sale at 300 each. Plan includes a 490 by 80 foot factory, one story, building and duplicating as output rises, with stock per lot and a combined plant for Sterling Whip Speicalty Searles. Four Mishawaka stockholders may sell, and local donors would reclaim land if moved. Payment schedule split into four equal installments aligned with construction milestones.
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C. L. Monger
Amercan Simplex Motor Car Co
Mishawaka
Allendale
M. W. Clark
C. H. Maloney
G. M. Schafer
W. B. Hile
J. A. Bell
Mr. Monger
W.W. Sterling
W. M. Dllwood
C. E. Frank
Eugene Atkins
Simplex
Messrs. Gulick
Fulmer
Shaw
Kamm
Elkhart
Bucklen
F. O. Hudson
Westfield, Muss
Sterling Whip Co
Speicalty Whip Co
Searles Whip Co
Prominent Church Woman Shot in Wilmette Grove
Mrs. Stephen Herben wife of Evanston pastor and Ep worth Herald editor is hospitalized in Evanston with a severe revolver wound. Authorities say the location of the shooting and her exact whereabouts before the incident are undisclosed and the public is not to be told. A Wilmette resident reported hearing a gunshot and screams near a grove around 4 p.m. as police probe the case and her family remains silent.
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Stephen Herben
Epworth Herald
Methodist Church
Evanston, Ill
Herben
Elkhart Methodists
Northwestern
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Home Department
Elkhart
Wilmette
Evanston
Concord Realty to Launch Wolf’s Addition Lot Sale
The Concord Realty Co. plans a spring campaign to sell 168 Wolf's addition lots. The tract runs south of Lusher avenue to Hubbard avenue, between Oakland avenue and Sixth street, near Elliston factories, Lake Shore roundhouse, gravity yard, and possible street railway loop. The ice harvest by St. Joe Ice Co. will start when conditions permit. The Daily Review costs 10 cents a week.
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Concord Realty Co
Lusher Avenue
Hubbard Avenue
Oakland Avenue
Sixth Street
Elliston
Lake Shore
Avyear
Otso
Christmas Tragedies Stir New Orleans Mafia Plot Fears
In New Orleans a Mafia linked massacre left six Italians dead in a Dunamee district tenement. Victims were hacked and some burned, prompting a reserve police deployment amid broad local alarm linked to past Italian killings. In Battle Creek Michigan the school board pressed ahead with a new high school plan after failing to buy a disputed Van Buren street lot from Henry Lytle for 10 000, arguing building around the plat would reduce value by about half.
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New Orleans
Mafia
Dunamee
Battle Creek
Mich
Henry &. Lytle
Hilliard G. Lytle
Detroit
van Buren Street
McCamly
Senator Foraker Comments On President and Impeachment Talk
Washington reports Senator Foraker dismissed the chatter claiming the president would disregard laws reinstating colored troops until the Supreme Court rules. No denial from the president had been issued. He would welcome impeachment if Congress pursued it.
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Washington
Senator Foraker
Congress
Supreme ‘Court
Roosevelt Guards Panic as President Leaves White House
President and Mrs. Roosevelt slipped from the White House grounds before 9 a.m. causing a brief stir in the secret service office. Operator Connell, the guard designated to the president, was left behind or lost, while the president and his wife visited some stores without notifying guards.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Secret Service Guard
Connell
Wound Around Shaft Claims Lafayette Engineer
John Al bum aged forty seven assistant engineer of the Lafayette Box Board plant died in a crushing accident when his body was wound around a shaft. His cries drew workers too late for aid. Reports indicate further details were expected Friday. New York also saw a grand jury session over the New York Life Insurance Co with indictments anticipated.
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Lafayette
Ind
John Album
Lafayette Box Board
New York
New York Life Insurance.Co
Royal Messengers Exchange Odd Paraphernalia On Dispatch Runs
A Chicago News item notes royal messengers in Britain sometimes carried unusual cargo. A packet of important dispatches unfurled in a seaport customs house revealing cigars. The legends claim the king can do no wrong and messengers serve a wider purpose than official dispatches.
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Royal Messenger Service
Great Brita
Channel
Windsor
British Foreign Office
Custom House
Queen Victoria
Frederick
Gerlin
Paris
Vienna
England
Brussels
Leopold
Dover
London
Chicago News
Lake Skipper Teaches Quick Steel Hard Lessons At Sea
A salt water captain joins a Great Lakes passenger steamer and learns fast. The lake skipper orders two coats of paint in one day, forcing the crew to push work from water line to guard rail. The new mate adapts, realizing Great Lakes shipping demands twelve months of work in half a year.
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Great Lakes
Buffalo
Skippr
Ralph D. Paine
Outing
A Magazine
Brewers' Company records on medieval price dispute and penalty
In 1422 London mayor Robert Chichele summoned guild masters and twelve officials to the guildhall to settle a dispute over malt prices. After objections by Whityngtone, brewers were fined £20 and held in custody until payment or security was provided.
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Old England
Brewers’ Company
Robert Chichele
London
Whityngtone
Ancient and Modern Bathing Across Cultures
The article notes soap as a new factor in world life and contrasts early cleansing habits. It recalls ancestors who largely avoided washing, using rose water, and drying with napkins, while Romans bathed and oiled themselves. It also compares unfamiliar tastes in Chinese music, seen as delightful by many.
Sailor Appears Before Magistrate Over Alleged Beating
A sailor was brought before a magistrate for beating his wife. The magistrate pressed him about knowing his wife was the weak vessel and asked if she should carry so much salt. Jack London quoted in Tit Bits.
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Jack
London
Turn About Taggs and Hairpins in Pipes Joke Exchange
A brief Philadelphia Inquirer comic exchange features Mrs Taggs and Turn About Taggs debating the proper use of razors and hairpins with a playful line about sharpening pens and cleaning pipes. The humor hinges on literal misunderstandings and punctuation.
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Taggs
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fort Smith Times Announces Start Time For Dinner Story
A fragment from the Fort Smith Times hints at a humorous anecdote about a dinner. The note precedes the telling and suggests a timing cue for delivery.
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Fort: Smith
White House Christmas Dinner a Simple Family Occasion
President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt hosted Representative and Mrs. Longworth for a quiet Christmas at the White House. The Marine Band provided music, and the family exchanged gifts around a large Christmas tree while most public business paused.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Stite
Vaulted States Marine Band
Enlire
Longworth
Fairbanks
Gabinet i
Hand of Charity Was Busy on Christmas Day
New York reports record charity effort with 37000 poor fed by Salvation Army, Timothy D. Sullivan, and Bowery mission. Chicago notes widespread meals and baskets aided by Salvation Army and Volunteers of America, with heavy church attendance. San Francisco celebrates with renewed churches after disaster, continuing charitable drives and sermons. Knoxville marks traditional Santa Claus outreach by Vanderbilt Southwestern Railway to show appreciation to staff after a year of service.
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New York
Salvation Army
Timothy D. Sullivan
Bowery Mission
Penal and
Chars Bible
Chicago
Salvation Army and Volunteers
America
San Francisco
Christias
Knoxville
Tenn
Christmas Gifts Turn Tragedy Across Several Cities
Across Philadelphia New York Mason City Atlanta and more a holiday grim tale unfolds. A man dies delivering a Christmas gift to his wife a woman perishes in a West Sixty Street fire a man at Mason City dies of paralysis a New York actor is found dead from gas and a girl dies after an accidental shooting during a Christmas celebration.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Cardin
Cardin
New York
Susan Kelly
West Sixtieth Street
Wayne
Inn
Wrrive
Neil Florence
West Twenty-third Street
Florence
Atlanta
Thrus
Gift to a College Funds New Marquette Building
Milwaukee is to receive a $110000 gift covering all costs of a building project at Ge Street. Donors Mr and Mrs Robert T orinston and their son Rev Robert Story Johnston Jr of Florissant Missouri intend the gift to fund the construction. The Johnston family proposed renaming Marquette College Johnston College but the Johnstons declined, preferring the college keep its existing name. Father Johnston is an alumnus of Marquette College, graduating with honors in 1891 at age 18.
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Milwaukee
Ge Street
Milwukee
Robert 4. Torinston
Robert Story Johnston
Florissant
Marquette
Johnston College
Johnstons
Father Johnston
Marquette College
Macklin Improves. trial for Mirecklin assault shifts
Fort Reno, O T December 26 Captain Macklin continues to improve and will recover says the physician. The search for the negro assailant of Mirecklin is pressed with no success. The murder theory is discarded and officers believe robbery was the motive. Washington December 26 Mrs James G Blaine Jr formerly Martha Hichborn who secured divorce in South Dakota announces she will wed Paul S Pearsall of New York a Rough Rider lieutenant in the Spanish War.
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Fort Reno
O. T
Mirecklin
Washington, Vec
James G. Blaine, Jr
Martha Hichborn
South Dakota
Paul S. Pearsall
New York
Regiment of
Rough Riders
Spain
Ignatieff Assassin Identified in Russia
In Tver on December 20 a student named Fidler was named as the assassin of Count Tanatieff. Fidler had been a Moscow insurgency leader, bound over on $5,000 bail for good behavior, a sum now to revert to the treasury.
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Ignatieff
Tver
Russia
Count Tanatieff
Fidler
Moscow
Sailors on a Rampage in a Public Park
December 26 dispatch reports sailors from the U S cruiser Cleveland caused a panic in a public park by engaging in a fight and firing many shots. Police arrested several sailors to restore order.
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Cienfuegos
United States
Cleveland
Nolice
Bath-Inustated Bits Ambling Andrew Turns Back
Ambling Andrew warns a passerby about a town named Bath Inustated Bits describing a dog loving community with three cookin s schools a soap factory and overall unwelcoming atmosphere in a distressed dialogue.
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Andrew
Horrors recalled of the Ashtabula disaster
Reports detail a Lake Shore trolley collision near the Ashtabula disaster site. One dead, fourteen injured as a Rusta to Pittsburg flyer strikes a crossing gate area on the Ashtabula Rapid Transit line. Names of victims and witnesses listed from Ashtabula and nearby towns.
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Ashtabula
Des
Rusta
Pittsburg
Lake Street
Lake Shore Railroad
Leonard Newbold
J. Rutlock
Painesville
William W'ools
Esmot
Mrs. James
Whelpley
Willivea Raignhart
Clayton Gardner
Brneath
Janes Whelpley
Ashley
Newhold
Rowley
John Newhold
Southbridge
Cleri
Paruly
Willie Raienhart
Debold Raienhart
Lhk
St. Joseph's Church
Fourteen hurt as coasters narrowly escape death near McKeesport
A line of young coasters on a long street grade collided with a moving freight train near McKeesport when a bobsled wheel struck the foot of a struc ture. One boy was buried under cars but escaped with minor injuries. Mabel Phillips suffered a broken leg and cuts, Margaret Finley and Albert Finley were cut and bruised, while John Ryan and another man were also hurt.
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Pittsboro Dev
McKeesport
Struc
Mabel Phillips
Margaret Finley
John Ryan
Albert Finley
Pittsburg and Lakerie
Tleil
First French Church Closure Under Separation Law
Paris December 26 reports the first closing of a church under the separation law at Azay sur Indre where the mayor ordered the cure to leave the presbytery and church edifice and the cure complied.
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Paris
Azay Sur Indre
His Turning Point and Cautionary Sayings Across Life
A fragmented set of quotes contrasts a pivotal life moment with warnings about discretion. The references include De Style and Gunbusta noting choices and identity, and Fielding urging care in speech. The text resembles a collage of aphorisms and literary snippets.
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de Style
Gunbusta
The
Eiveus
New York Times
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