Christmas Tree of Hope Brings Brother Wages Home
A grand shop window Christmas tree inspires Maggie Taylor to ask for a genuine tree for her sick twelve year old brother Tommy. Margaret Stanhope, moved by the scene, offers not charity but a shared Christmas plan to grant Tommy a true tree with gifts. The boss who employs Maggie’s brother arrives, embracing Miss Stanhope as she apologizes for past wrongs and echoes the plea “Tommy’s sake.”
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Otho B. Senga
Wardeh& Joyce
Rass
Jong
Veide
Winahy
Gorl
Waibe
M. Ber
Seetman
Margaret Stanhope
Commonwealth Avenue
Tommy
Mangrie Taylor
Burnhamsted
Ms Stanhope
Maggie
Ie Geray
Pardner
Miss Stanhope Careenthy
Tom
Burnham 5 Te i
Miss Stanhope
Maggle
Murderous Toughs Kill an Officer on Train
Items from Mount Carmel Illinois December 25 report two men killed and a constable slain as bullets rained through a moving Southern railway car. Prisoners Edward and Isaac Marshall were wounded. a dozen passengers and armed citizens exchanged fire during the siege. The Marshall brothers were jailed at Wayne City on chicken theft charges and later held for trial. In Rockford Illinois December 28 Gottlieb Arnold, a saloonkeeper, was killed and David Puller wounded by an unknown assailant who fled. In Chicago December 23 Noyvesa Werks, jailed for embezzlement, attempted suicide by swallowing arsenic. In St Louis, Missouri, December 8 Pear Downbrokers arrested for displaying knuckles and slingshots in shop windows as Illinois law bans such articles.
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Mount Carmel
Southern Railway
James Kingston
Isaac Marshall
Edward Marshall
Marshall Brothers
Sims
Wayne City
Kingston
Fairfield
Ninest
Rockford
Gottlieb Arnold
David A. Puller
Futh
Arnold
Teast St. Louis
Dec
Party Men In Council No Conclusion Reached
In New York on December 23 a pair of late night conferences of New York State Assembly members discussed the speakership. Wadsworth claimed the majority, while Higgins, and Roosevelt were noted as aged and capable. The Cadillac hotel hosted the first meeting with all Republican assemblymen invited, but Wadsworth declined to attend. A second meeting near midnight produced no endorsements or candidates. Looker attended but did not join. Phillips reported no test vote and adjourned to a further call. Governor Odell refrained from comment.
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New York
New York State Assembly
Cadillac
Assembly
Wadsworth
James T. Rogers
Phillips
Cadilac
Odell
Finest Grove North of the Ohio to Be Cut Down
The famed white oak grove on the William Ogden farm five miles south of the city, long owned by the Ogden family for preservation, is slated for removal due to relocation of the Cairo division rights of the Big Four Railway. Ogden sold the timber rights to a local timber company after selling the land to the railway. Some trees reach eight feet in diameter and heights of eighty to one hundred feet.
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Ohio River
William Ogden
Cairo
Big Four
Madiway
Ogetete
Grare
Th Pea
Vividus
Enmerages
Ogden
Railway Company
Cue An
Furrdwood Usillins Company
Two Men Die After Being Struck by Train
William Clark and H. McKilihan, members of a Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad construction crew, were killed by a passenger train while walking on the railroad track at East Soline, Rock Island, on December 28.
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Rock Island
William Clark
H. McKilihan
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
East Soline
Death of Renker and Bourne of FF National Bank Amboy
Renker dies while Bourne, vice president of the FF National Bank in Amboy, is identified in the notice. The report records the death of Renker and notes Bourne's position at the Amboy bank.
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Renker
He Aigne Bourne
FF National Bank
Amboy
Merritt and Wadsworth Clash Over Assembly Conference
Merritt said the conference failed to bind members to any candidate and aimed to inform them of the speaker race status. Wadsworth called the meeting beneficial for harmony and denied supporting a single candidate. The New York County Republican assembly members adjourned without action and will reconvene.
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Merritt
Wadsworth
Ain
Assembly
New York County
New York County Republican Committee President Gives 10000 Toward Debt
Herbert Parsons, newly elected president of the New York County Republican Committee, has contributed 10000 toward equitating the committee's indebtedness.
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Herbert Parsons
New York County
Republican Committtee
Higgins Satisfied With GOP Committee Outcome In New York
Governor Higgins said the New York county Republican committee's election of Herbert Parsons as president was satisfactory. He declined to discuss Odell's leadership and stated Roosevelt can take care of himself. Higgins left Albany for Christmas in Olean and called the political conflict largely settled pending assembly pledges for Mr. Wadsworth.
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Albany
N. Y
Higgins
New York County Republican Committee
Eerbert Parsons
Odell
Republican State Organization
Roosevelt
Tiggins
Olean
Wadsworth
Church Consolidation in Canada to Form United Church
In Toronto on December 22 the central committee of Presbyterian Methodist and Congregational representatives agreed on a code to unify the three denominations into a single United Church of Canada. The plan uses the US Presbyterian confession, with a general conference led by a president, a council chaired after Congregational practice, and a presbytery with a moderator. The proposal will be submitted to all denominations across Canada for approval.
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Toronto
Ont
Commuittee
Dominion
Canada
Jury Obtained in Chicago Meat Conspiracy Trial
Twenty one persons and corporations indicted for restraint of trade in meat face trial on January 9, 106. A jury of five farmers three real estate dealers two carpenters one stock raiser and one printer was selected after eighty two veniremen were questioned. The verdict will decide whether the packers face the main charge or go free, with special pleas that testimony given to Commissioner Garfield was used to obtain the indictment.
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Chicago
Special Pleas
Garfield
Naval apprentice dies of spinal meningitis in Newport
Seaman Apprentice Robert Cremeer of the naval training station dies at the naval hospital from spinal meningitis. The death marks the third in ten days from the disease. Eight other cases remain under treatment, one serious, all among apprentices exposed to illness in detention buildings.
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Newport
Robert Cremeer
Nayal
Indiana
Naval Hospital
Plea to Roosevelt Over Court Martial of Lt. Sidney Burbank
Mrs. Clayton Slaughter Burbank, arriving from the Philippines, seeks Roosevelt’s help to overturn the court martial verdict sentencing her son, First Lieutenant Sidney S. Burbank, to fifteen months in prison and removal from service. In Washington, Chaffee declines a New York police commissioner post after a letter from Mayor McClellan.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Clayton Slaughter Burbank
Philippines
Washington
Roosevelt
Sidney S. Burbank
Chaffee
McClellan
New York
They Had Agreed to Die in Albany murder suicide story
In Albany on December 23 a Saratoga couple about age 40 died in their rooms, believed to be by mutual suicide. A coroner’s letter suggests Fred S. Harlow shot his wife then their dog and killed himself after loan trouble and dire finances.
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Albany
N.Y
Tfred — S. Trarlow
Saratoga
Harlow
Bossie
Dog
Barlow
Peirce chosen US minister to Norway
Herbert H. D. Peirce, third assistant secretary of state, selected by the president as the first United States minister to Norway. The famine in northeast Japan deplorable. William J. Bryan welcomed in Manila. John R. Walsh to devote time to railway interests, leaving banking. Melrose Highlands church votes to call a Methodist pastor. Harvard to receive $50,000 legacy for medical school from Dr. George S. Hyde. Private bill for Hogland road for motor vehicles introduced. Tayeart divorce motion overruled by Judge Mason. Shipbuilding output up 1905 on northeast England coast to 960,000 tons. Soo Canal freight tonnage 1905 up 40% from 1904 to 44,270,680 tons. Gas explosion wrecks saloon in Decatur, Ill. Losses $3,000. Bartender Charles Squires dangerously burned. Oliver Chick severely burned. James Chick and John Christin injured.
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Herbert H. D. Peirce
United States
Norway
Japan
Wiliam J. Bryan
Manilt
John Rk
Walsh
Melrose Highlands
Maas
Harvard College
George S. Hyde
Boston
DHS
Hogland
Mason
Wooster
England
Soo Canal
Decatur
Celu
J. 0
Beshear
Mount Auburn
George Kraft
Charles Squires
Oliver Chick
Ames Chick
John Christin
Stock exchange seat sets new high price record
A seat on the Stock exchange sold for 93000 dollars in New York. Professor Theodore A. Schurr, who died in Baltimore, was a pioneer in the crusade against killing birds for hat ornaments.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Theodore A. Schurr
Baltimore
Earl Grey and Canadian dignitaries at Chicago livestock show
In Chicago on December 23 Earl Grey governor general of Canada Nelson Monteith minister of agriculture and Toronto mayor J D St. pol with a party of Canadian guests attended the livestock show. Whitehall Marshall owned by J W Harding of Waukesha Wis won the senior sweepstakes bull prize while Queen Thenl the Canadian champion took top honors in the short horn cow section. Indiana bull Standard led the Galloway exhibit, Brookside farm’s entry first. Sudden gas pressure in Swissvale caused a fire and explosions injuring three volunteer firemen and forcing Mrs Laing to a neighbor’s home.
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Earl Grey
Chicago
Canada
Nelson Monteith
Iinister of Agriculture
Dominion
Jd. W. St. Fol
Toronto
Fleet
Whitehall Marshall
J. W. Harding
Waukesha
Wis
Queen Thenl
Galloway
Pittsburg
Swissvale
David Laing
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National Biscuit Company
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Webster
M. V.B. Elson
L. Farwell
Nance
Reuben Alegfried
Insarest
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L. H. Burrell
Knurt House
Freenaet
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W.N. Ocronkrite
Stephenson St
Jidwig Freeport, Il
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Union Loan and Building Association
Lonana
Rice
E. Mayer
A. L. Babcock
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Galena Avenue
Anzeiger
Spring Streets
Trust
DR. Davis
4Th Fleet
Witcoxen Bik
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway
Union
Chattanooga
Tenn
Andrews
Sig Shanty
Kennesaw
Georgia
Western & Atlantic
W. A. Fuller
Anthony Murphy
Ringgold
W. L. Danley
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St. Louis
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