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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1906
Page
6
A fragmentary account of children living on New York rooftops during Christmas time. It describes sky dwellers, angels, and Santa Claus imagery, with references to rooftop play, danger, and families persisting above the city.
A vivid, fragmentary scene unfolds among towering roofs and marble playgrounds where beds line top floors and a red express wagon threads the street. Deaths and births haunt the skyline as a late boy’s loss marks a poignant moment amid the crowded, dreamlike city.
A fragmented, dreamlike account describes a Santa Claus workshop with fantastical figures, toys and dwellings. The piece mentions carved animals, seas of cookies, and a housewife shaping a Christus sculpture for friends, blending myth with a rural village setting and family scenes.
A Washington report details an investigation ordered into the International Harvester Co. for possible restraint of trade and a probe into congressional authority under the commerce clause to curb interstate trade in child-made goods. It notes cabinet reshuffles with Moody, Bonaparte, Metcalf, Straus, and anticipated March 4 changes affecting Shaw, Cortelyou, and Meyer. Also mentions a Senate holiday recess and prior lands and naval recommendations read.
London gossip in the House of Commons suggests James Bryce will become Britain's ambassador to Washington, succeeding Sir Mortimer Durand, though no formal announcement has been made. In Chicago, grain markets closed steady as an unexpected rise in visible supply offset Russian wheat crop concerns, with May wheat up slightly and corn and oats also higher.
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