Christmas Charity Night by Volunteers of America
Santa Claus visited the Volunteers of America on West Madison Street delivering four Christmas trees and toys to poor west side children. At the Waverly hall families gathered for the Santa event as trees glittered with tinsel and bags of candy and dolls were piled beneath. Pacific Garden Mission fed 500 homeless in the levee district with sandwiches fruit and pies as pupils and teachers from Goodrich School provided baskets for thirty seven families. Alderman Powers handed out turkeys ducks and chickens in the Nineteenth ward and Illinois Steel workers received back pay bonuses of 5 percent. The Indiana unit marked holiday joy with songs and a festive dinner plus gifts for all.
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Hinds
Charity Séeins
Chicago
The
Volunteers of ‘America
Madison Street
Santa Claus
West Side
Waverly
Volunters
Pacific Garden “Mission
Levee
Dunning ‘An
John Powers
West Harrison Street
Illinois Steel Company
South Chicago
Christmas Dinner For 12 000 Hungry From Volunteers of America
A large charity event at the rear of the Waverly theatre fed 12 000 ragged people with a Christmas meal prepared by cooks, with 150 bushels of potatoes and 6 000 loaves turned into stuffing. Turkeys cooked in downtown restaurant ovens were served after midnight, while gifts and meals reached inmates at Cook County Jail and hospital patients through volunteers and officials. Reverend John Cordingly hosted a donor meal for locals between 10:30 and 1 p.m.
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America
Waverly Theater
Cook County
Theodore Schintz
Cottage Grove Avenue
Christmas joys in Cuba as troops feast despite heat
In Havana on December 26 Christmas at Camp Quemados was lively despite scarce turkeys at seven dollars each. Troops from the Forty-ninth Iowa First North Carolina Fourth Virginia Second Illinois and One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana held extra spreads funded by company messes and gifts from well wishers, amid summerlike heat and flowering hedge rows.
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Havana
Camp Quemados
Iowa
North Carolina
Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Christmas Quiet in Washington and Havana Dispatch
Washington observers note a quiet Christmas with cool bracing weather in the capital. President McKinley and Mrs. McKinley host Ohio friends and former neighbors for a modest White House dinner. In Havana Mrs. Moulton sends 1,200 oranges and 1,200 lemons to her husband’s Second Illinois regiment as parcels flood the military post office last week.
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Washington
McKinley
Ohio
White House
Hative
Havana
White ‘House
Been Fifty Years Married Divorced in Wisconsin Case
Janesville report on a golden wedding turning to divorce in Rock County Circuit Court. Joseph Churchill and his wife of 45 years face alimony questions. Mrs Churchill 72, he nearly 80, nine married children. She sues for cruelty. he counters. Churchill’s alleged conduct ends with throwing objects at his wife, center of a bitter contest.
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Janesville
Wis
Joseph Churchill
Circuit’ Court
Rock ‘County
Petersborough
Canada
Churchill
Judge Day Arrives at Canton for Christmas Dinner
Canton Ohio residents welcomed Judge Day and Mrs. Day home for Christmas after the peace commission leader’s return. A Stark County bar committee and family members greeted them at the station.
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Judge Day
Canton
Peace Commission
Governor Tanner in bed with the grip headlines day
Abbreviated telegrams note Governor Tanner of Illinois ill with influenza and other items report Ohio Republicans in Washington seeking Judge Day for governor. Santander papers halt due to censorship. Minneapolis Times raises daily price. Florida, Wisconsin war costs cited. Several factual corrections follow about Montenegro, Daw son county murder, bankruptcy filings, and other brief notes.
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Jinois
Ohio
Washington
Judge Day
Santander
Spain
Minneapolis Times
Wisconsin
Lara Pass
Dominick Cavanaugh
Dawson County
Mont
Glendive
Daniel W. Allen
Buffalo
N. Y
William Hopper
Athens
New Lexington
Nenia
Alexander
United States
Modoc Lodge
True Iavorites of America
A. Bradley
Boston
Lincoln
Neb
R. C. Maxwell
Edward J. Ivory
New York
Gunner J. W. Flannigan
Lawa
Chicago
Frye on peace talks and future of Cuba islands
Senator Frye commented on peace negotiations and cautioned the public against assuming immediate restoration of cordial U S Spain relations. He said treaties should be new and tailored, with Congress controlling island dispositions, while noting Spain’s evacuation efforts and a violent incident at a Havana street shop involving Cuban nationalists.
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Spain
France
United States
Congress
General Greene predicts trouble in Cuba transfer
Major General Francis E Green and aide Lt Schuyler Schiefferlin passed through Washington en route from Havana to New York. He warned that order in Cuba may fracture before the transfer of control to U.S. military authorities but does not expect it to exceed American force capacity. Green said bitter Spaniard Cuban tensions threaten peace and indicated readiness to resign if peace moves proceed.
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Francis E. Greene
Schuyler Schiefferlin
New York Voluteer Infantry
Havana
New York City
Greene
War Department
Corbin
United States
New York State
Spain
Cuba
Unrest Flares as Guerrilla Quintero Wounded
Francisco Quintero, a Spanish guerrilla, was shot at from a roof on Genius street and seriously wounded. In the last 24 hours one man was killed and twelve wounded in various affrays across Havang Havana with eleven burglaries reported as the city remains unsettled. A Cuban mob yesterday threatened the residence of Marquis de Montero.
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United States
San Lazare Street
Wheelsale
San Jose Street
Mestro
Havana
Francisco Quintero
Guerrila
Genius Street
Marquis de Montero
Gec
Bicycle race ends with machine pacemaker failure
At Madison Square Garden the American Cycle Racing association held a tournament with amateurs and pros. H D Bikes rode behind a French machine for ten miles before a strap failure slowed the pace. Elkes finished twenty miles in 41 41.26 with Goodman close behind. Michael posted 40 39 on the same track.
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Madison Square Garden
American Cycle Racing Association
H. D
Glens “Falls
Eaton
Elkes
Goodman
Glens Falls
Michael
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