Taft Gives Turkeys and Books in White House Christmas
President Taft distributed dozens of large turkeys to 102 clerks and workers at the White House and gave books pins and trinkets to bachelors. He shopped quietly on foot with Secret Service in tow and plans a New Year return to work while awaiting a grand Christmas dinner featuring a 33 pound turkey from Horace Vose.
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Taft
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Butt
Secret Service
Charley Taft
Delia Torrey
Florida
Louisiana
Californias
Express
Congress
White House
Horace Vose
Rhode Island
United States
Ohio Governor Pardons Embezzler in Christmas Gift
Thomas Gibbons, a three year embezzlement convict, was granted a pardon by Gov. Harmon as a Christmas mercy. He was serving time in the penitentiary and faced transfer to kitchen duties after a prison controversy.
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Bons
Poverty Stricken Woman to Receive Coat From Mayor Tree
In Kansas City on Christmas Eve a poverty stricken woman will receive a $200 sealskin coat donated by a wealthy woman from the city. The garment was given for the mayor’s Christmas tree display this year.
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Kansas City
Municipal Santa Claus Seeks Coat Swapping Chance
A brief item notes a humorous municipal choice where a seal skin coat is sought by Santa Claus to surprise a recipient who may object. The piece hints several worthy women have been found but want no part in the swap or risk.
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Santa Claus
Pierce
Absent for thirty-one years found as Christmas gift
J Williams long believed dead returned home to his sister Mrs J A Putnam in Findlay Ohio on a Christmas Saturday after a 31 year absence.
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Findlay, CO
Prisoner’s wedding first ever at Missouri Penitentiary
Clarence Beauchamp received a prison parole and a bride as Christmas gifts. He married Ruth Rich of Kennett, the first wedding ever held at the Missouri penitentiary, Jefferson City, on December 24.
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Jefferson City
Clarence Beauchamp
Ruth Rich
Kennett
Sweaters for Messengers Gift to 5000 Boys
New York December 24. Clarence H. Mackay plans a Christmas present for every messenger in his Postal and Commercial cable company. He will give sweaters to more than 5,000 boys, color details kept secret until late Sunday. Some workers may still wear overcoats after Christmas.
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Clarence H. Mackay
Postal and the Commercial Cable Company
Mackay
100 Free for Christmas Pardoned In Alabama
Alabama Governor Comer pardoned and paroled over 100 convicts for Christmas as prison doors opened Saturday in Montgomery. The action affected inmates released on Christmas Eve.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Comer
Thieves Take Presents After Safes Looted at Orion
In Kewanee Illinois on December 24 James Carson finds robbers who dynamited two safes at Orion earlier used his buggy as the getaway vehicle. He jokes Santa won’t visit Mrs. Carson until the robbers and the loot are captured.
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James Carson
Orion
Santa Claus
Mrs. Carson
Mayor offers free marriage service and license on Christmas Day
The Covington Georgia mayor announces a Christmas Day offer to perform marriages free of charge and supply the license at no cost, eclipsing similar holiday rate cuts by magistrates in Youngstown Missouri and Nashville Tennessee.
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Atlanta
Youngstown
Nashville
Tenn
Covington
Christmas Day at Ellis Island Immigrants Sent Back
On Christmas Day about 2000 immigrants gathered at Ellis Island as missionaries organized a grand celebration. Amid many tongues thirty people were led away to steamships bound for Europe after being ruled undesirable by immigration authorities.
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New York
Ellis Island
Seven Seas
Europe
Temptation Too Strong at Reform School Christmas
Washington dispatch reports 12 year old Albert Carter, a noted juvenile, took a $5 bill entrusted to him as a letter carrier in Beaumont Texas triggering his transfer to the United States reform school where Santa Claus doesn’t call. The incident marks a sobering Christmas for the boy and reflects his criminal record.
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Washington
Albert Carter
Albert
United States Reform School
Santa Claus
Beaumont
Tex
Promotions in Rank Reward New York Firemen
Christmas promotions by Fire Commissioner Waldo elevated seventy-eight New York Fire Department personnel. Twenty-three lieutenants moved to captainships or foremanships while twenty-eight first class firemen or engineers became lieutenants or assistant foremen and nineteen firemen were promoted to engineers.
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New York
Waldo
Santa Claus
Work with Gifts in New York Aids Postcard Distribution
December 24 New York reports about 3,000,000 Christmas postcards needing distribution by Monday evening. The New York office faces a Herculean task to route all greetings.
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New York
Boy Rescues Home From Burglar Santa
In New York on December 24 a vigilant 8 year old, Jacob Mones of 112th street, thwarted a burglary by shouting Santa Claus at a burglar entering via the fire escape. The intruder fled empty handed as the household woke.
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Pec
Santa Claus
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Amusements Next Week In Local Theaters
Murat Virginia Harned stars in The Woman He Married for the first three days. B F Keiths Grand Opera festival headlines vaudeville. Park presents Montana Limited and The Red Mill. Majestic shows Brown of Harvard with Arvine Benton stock company. Colonial features Emmet De Voy and La Vine vaudeville acts. Empire offers burlesque.
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Grand—Operatic Festival
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Arvine-Benton Stock Company
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Empire—Burlesque
Woman He Married stage play at Shubert Murat theater
Herbert Bashford writes an intense drama for Virginia Harned. Jack Harding, a reformed wealthy youth, falls for Jeanne Du mont and marries her. When Harding cuts him off, Jack works on a social issue play. Jeanne models for Jules Mars ton. misunderstandings flare and a climactic confession tests their love.
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Virginia Harned
Shubert Murat
Jack. Harding
New York
Jeanne Dumont
Paris
Col. Harding
Jack
Jeanne
Jules Marston
Blessed Damozel
Operatic Festival headlines Keith's vaudeville bill
The Operatic Festival directed by Charles Lovenberg headlines the B F Keith's Grandy holiday week show. Fifteen soloists perform Gypsy Life and The Carnival of Venice with high grade music, alongside acts from Ashley and Lee, Catherine Hayes and Sabel Johnson, Fred Duprez, Jack Horton and Mie La Triska, Mile. Renee, the Five Alphas, Maxim's Models, and The Montana Limited among others.
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B. F. Keith's
B. F. Keith’s
Chinatown
Catherine Hayes
Sabel Johnson
Fred Duprez
Polly Monolgist
Clown
Jack Horton
Mie
Europe
London
Mile
Renee
Five Alphas
Maxim
The Montana Limited and Its Twin Brothers in a Western
A sheriff pursues outlaws in a Montana setting where twin brothers, one outlaw leader and the other an honorable ranch foreman, drive the plot. A realistic train robbery and the passing of a long freight train are notable features presented with natural, effective storytelling.
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Canyon
Montana
Brown of Harvard at the MajesticNext Week
The Majestic presents Brown of Harvard a lively college comedy starring Irving Cummings with a local quartet chorus and new cast members Lea Remonde Martha Boucher and Eugene Moore. Following it, Cohan’s Little Johnny Jones closes the program with musical comedy flair.
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Harvard
Henry Woodruff
the Majestic
Benton
Irving Cummings
Lea Remonde
Martha Boucher
Eugene Moore
Cohan
Little Johnny Jones
Two-ring vaudeville heads Colonial bill next week
Emmet De Voy leads a two-ring vaudeville bill with Arthur La Vine and eight as the other headliners. The program features a De Voy one act farce The Saintly Mr Bilings, a spectacular musical by La Vine’s eight girls, Excellia and Franks physical culture act, Perry and White, Hart children, Rhead and Azora, Flo Harriett songs, Coloniscope views, and the return of the big musical comedy The Red Mill at Park for three days starting Thursday afternoon.
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Arthur la Vine
Company of Eight
Emmet de Voy
Playwright Explores Dutch Theme for New Stage Setting
After stints in Chicago Boston and Philadelphia Mr Blossom chooses Holland as a novel play setting. The drama features mostly Dutch characters in bright costumes framed by Dutch mills and Delft decor. A company of fifty performs the parts.
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Boston
Philadelphia
Mr. Blossom
Holland
Delft
Faversham to Present The Faun by Knoblauch
William Faversham presents his new play The Faun by Edward Knoblauch the first three days of the week after next. The role promised will be very different from anything Mr Fa- has previously undertaken.
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William Faversham
Edward Knoblauch
Mr. Fa
Faversham Stages Faun in Novel London Drama at Empire
Versham's new drama features a wood nymph living close to nature who wanders into a London garden. Lord Stonebury suspects a tramp, then helps the faun join society, sparking a shift toward nature and rational living. Brass Tacks Williams' Imperial opens next week with Cooper and vaudeville acts and Europe inspired living art studies.
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Herod
Mr. Faversham
London
Lord Stonebury
Cooper
Indianapolis
Europe
Williams
Paris
Brussels
Berlin
Mice and Matches Blamed for Fire at Grocery Store
Fire caused over 100 dollars in damage to George Cullings' grocery store at 1250 Lee Street early Saturday. The frame building housed family apartments above. Firefighters responded to two false alarms, first at Blake and North at 1 45 a m and then at Blake and New York streets an hour later.
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Lee Street
Mr. Cullings
Blake and
North Street
Blake
New York Streets
Woman Sues Big Four Railroad Over Son's Death
Hannah Means sues the Big Four Railroad for 5000 dollars claiming negligence in the 1910 death of her son Joseph Minnehan. She states the boy and others gathered wheat spilled from cars near Military park at West and Blackford streets when an engine backed into a cut of cars, crushing him.
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Hannah Means
Joseph Minnehan
Big Four official buys Central and 21st block for 24000
William Garstang superintendent of motive power for the Big Four railroad buys a two story business building at the southeast corner of Central avenue and Twenty first street for 24000. The sale from Mary S Carey was recorded at the courthouse. Mrs Carey wife of John Carey of the Stewart Carey glass company bought the property a year ago for 23000 from Curtis C Paddock. London estimates England will spend about 19 000 000 on Christmas goods and festivities with 7 500 000 on turkey 5 000 000 on plum puddings and another 5 000 000 on mistletoe and decorations. Over 400 000 plum puddings have been exported for Englishmen abroad.
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Twenty-first Street
Mary S. Carey
Carey
John Carey
Stewart-Carey Glass Company
Curtis C. Paddock
England
Six Die From Gas Fumes in Card Kenton
Six persons died from gas fumes in Kenton Ohio after an all night carousal in a room. Victims include Clark Lathan and his wife Harry Newcombe Bailey Kennedy Pearl 24 and son William Kennedy has four others found in adjoining room. Gas stove in second room disconnected and empty bottles scattered.
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Kenton
Clark Lathan
Harry Newcombe
Bailey
William Kennedy
Pearl
Millionaire Found Frozen in Chicago Alley
Dec 24 Chicago reports William Ward, claiming to be Bradford millionaire's son, found partly frozen in an alley at State and Madison. He identified himself as conscious briefly. doctors say pneumonia and exposure may prove fatal. Father listed as Albert Lord of Bradford Pa.
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Chicago
William Ward
Bradford
State and
Madison Streets
Lord
Albert Lord
Main Street
Last Minute Gift Ideas for Books and Toys
A small section offers gift books for all ages and a large toy assortment. Framed pictures by Christy and Fisher measure 16x20 inches and are offered tonight at $1.29.
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Christy and Fisher
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