More Blessed to Give Than to Receive
A hungry, cold hobo named Hobo Jim roams Christmas Eve in search of food. He spies a needy family, hides to steal, but alters course after overhearing a sick boy and his mother. He ultimately places the family’s clocked silver watch into a Christmas stocking, choosing charity over theft.
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Jim
Ike
Hobo Jim
Heo
Plill
Hobo Jin
Murturer
Sara Claus
Santa Claus
Alck
Stille
Inez
Why Hotel Rates Are High in New York
A New York hotel dispute reveals high living costs tied to hotel staff gratuities and side incomes. Mrs. Thompson alleges her husband earns 4400 annually from various duties, with additional payments from hotels and steamship lines. The piece argues such extra incomes raise room charges and erode public trust, urging proper boundaries between income and family expenses to preserve business integrity.
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New York
Max Thorpean
Resistan
Gotham
Hurband
Thompson
Paris
Derlin
London
Mr. Thompson
Iis
Right to curb family spending ends in divorce ruling
In Franklin Pennsylvania Judge George B. Criswell denies Laura Sylvester a divorce from William W. Sylvester on cruelty grounds after hearing their finances. The judge notes the wife sought decree but the couple’s troubles centered on funding limits within the husband’s income and his burden to maintain the family.
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Franklin, Pa
Iowa
George 8. Criswell
Grart
Laura Sylvester
OH City
William W. Sylvester
Criswell
Sonal
HAS ONE FINGER, AN EXPERT Landos England
The article reports on claims that large rewards for work injuries under the Workingsden's compensation act encourage reporting. Dr J C Scanlons investigates monetary losses from hand injuries and notes a $4 reward paid to William Braniford after losing parts of a hand. Stamiford kept working nine teen years ago despite losing fingers, showing skill with the maimed hand.
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Landos
England
de. J. C Scanlons
Workingsden
William Braniford
Stamiford
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