TROLLEY FUNERAL CARS GAIN IN POPULAR FAVOR IN BALTIMORE
A Baltimore innovation, the Dolores trolley funeral car, now used for cemetery trips, features a dual private compartment design for pallbearers and family. The car accommodates 24 in the main area and eight in the smaller section, with a casket compartment accessible from outside and a cost of 20 to 25 dollars per trip, offering savings over traditional carriages.
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Philadelphia
West
Baltimore
Dolores
Flushing Girls To Play Basketball In Skirts
New York Dec 26 Flushing high school will require girls basketball players to wear skirts just below the knee instead of bloomers in the new Queens borough interscholastic league. Miss Katharine M Peck cites dignity and approves skirts though colleges like Vassar Wellesley and Bryn Mawr still use bloomers.
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New York
Flushing
Katharine M. Peck
Flushing High School
Queen’s Borough
Peck
Vassar
Wellesley
Bryn Mawr
Smith
Barnard
Manual Training High School of
Brooklyn
Erasmus Hall High School
Flatbush
Jersey City High School
Rat Leads to Rich Arizona Gold Mine Discovery
In El Paso on December 26, N R Ingoldsby traced a trading rat to a gold bearing ledge in Arizona's Santa Catarina mountains near Mammoth on the San Pedro river. The animal replaced missing items with quartz bearing free gold, confirming a valuable find he named the Rat-hole mine.
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EL Paso
Tex
N. R. Ingoldsby
Arizona
Ingoldsby
Mammoth
San Pedro River
San Pedro
Santa Catarina Mountains
Mr. Ingoldsby
Petrified Burials Found In Bly Old Cemetery
In Bly Minnesota thirty miles from the city workmen moving caskets from the old cemetery uncovered bodies turned to stone. Henry Polkinghorn and Adam Penglase were among the first exhumed with flesh colors and clothing intact yet the bodies were petrified. Five men struggled to lift the stone hard remains as only about twenty bodies have been moved with half fully petrified and others reduced to dust. The petrification seems to occur in spots with soil properties. a portion of some corpses remains dust while other portions are preserved in stone.
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Bly, Minn
Henry Polkinghorn
Adam Penglase
Man Disrobes in Santa Fe Waiting Room Tale
A traveler in Temple Texas on a December night fell asleep in the Santa Fe waiting area and began disrobing in a dream like episode. Onlookers including a lady watched as shoes and clothes were removed before attendants halted the lapse and the man returned to his seat. He later walked in mud to retrieve his clothing before the scene ended.
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Lackner
Santa Fe
Tred
Fred
Newark dancing teacher faces church membership threat
Miss Edith Marshal of Newark is ordered to resign from Dr Gruot Wetheadist Episcopal Church or abandon a children’s dancing class. The trustees mandate a decision by mid February after a church reception planned for early February. Her mother, Mrs Sn Marshal, organist, supports her.
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New York
Edith Marshal
Twelfth St
Newark
Dr. Gruot
Lttle
Outwitted Rival Sparks Texas Wedding Turnaround
In Paris Texas a man who had secured a marriage license for another suitor abducted the bride and her sister to delay a second ceremony. The second suitor located the bride, and the pair wed at a nearby minister after racing to the ceremony site while guests gathered for the initial planned wedding.
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Paris
Tex
A Grewsome Gift In Alameda Christmas Parcel
Matt Buchman received a grim Christmas package in Alameda containing his sister’s ashes without any prior notice. The item highlights scrofula symptoms and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure.
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Alameda
Cal
Matt Buchman
Reverend Barker Advocates Humane Hog Slaughter Method
In Merrick Long Island Rev. J W Barker of the Church of the Redeemer presses for a painless hog slaughter method. He seeks guidance from the SPCA to devise a humane procedure, arguing farmers already use swift head-slash methods in packing houses. Farmers counter that current practices mirror standard industry methods.
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New York
J. W. Barker Tong
Ong Island
Barker
Church of the Redeemer
Merrick
S. 1
Parker
Hanna and Frye Theater Terms Spark Washington Scandal
Senator Hanna invited Senator Frye to accompany him westward but Frye stayed with his wife who demanded box seats for any Washington theater visits. Hanna agreed to pay, and Frye journeyed on while Mrs. Frye planned theater outings, with Hanna promising to cover costs.
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Washington
Hanna
West
Senator Frye
Senate
Frye
Maine
Artists ignore haunting tales in North Mianus mansion
Four prominent artists Louis Loeb Albert Sterner Ernest Benson and W G Schneider reside in a three story North Mianus house near Henry Havemeyer's home amid ghost legends claiming a shadowy figure visits at a set hour. Residents say a former resident Carpenter cut his throat there leaving bloodstains that remain. The artists continue work undisturbed and view the ghost story as lucky privacy.
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Greenwich
Conn
North Mianus
Henry O. Havemeyer
Louis Loeb
Albert Sterner
Ernest Benson
W. G. Schneider
Carpenter
Dog Stuck 'to His Business.
J E Keats an early Atchison county settler and fifties freighter died. He boasted a dog walked from the Missouri river to Sacramento on foot, a feat plainsmen doubted, the dog reportedly kept under the wagon and attended to business.
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Topeka
Kas
J. E. Keats
Atchison County
Weats
Old Man's Love In Lords May Time Won't Stop Marital Bliss
In London December 26 a veteran lord aged eighty two announced a second marriage. The Earl of Wemyss and March, longtime critic of government policy and champion of volunteers, weds Miss Grace Blackburn, daughter of Maj. Blackburn and niece of the late Lord Blackburn, a queen's bench jurist. The bride becomes the countess of Wemyss.
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London
House’ of Lords
Duke of Richmand
Gordon
Earl of Wemyss
March
Duke of Rutland
Property Defense League
Salisbury
Volunteers
Tennyson
Volunteer Army of
England
Lord Elcho
Rifle Association
Wimbleton and Bisley
Elcho Shield
London Scottish Volunteer Regiment
Exchange Telegraph Company
Anne
Earl of Lichfield
Countess of
Muskrat Supper At Baltimore University Club
Friends of University club members recall a muskrat supper held the night before. Prof Powhatan Clarke is said to have originated the affair describing muskrat dishes in various regional styles drawing a sizable downtown crowd.
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Baltimore
University Club
Powhatan Clarke
Virginia
Jersey
Candy sent to soldiers in tropics and Cuba by army
Fifty tons of candy have been sent to soldiers in the Philippine Islands, Cuba, and Puerto Rico over the last three months on medical officers advice. Moderate confectionery is claimed to promote health and satisfy appetite, contrasting with old views on sweets.
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Philippine Islands
Commissary Department
Army
Cuba
Porto Rico
United States
Tropics
Stuart
Train Schedules and Connections Mentioned in Dec Parcel
Railway timetable notes show connections between Chicago and St Louis lines with transfers at Tuscola and Lake Erie and Western routes. Times include 11.500 am arrival, 2.48 pm departure, and 4.65 am/pm legs, plus services by T., C., and Mich. lines and best beltimore selections at 1.0 per gab.
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Eee
St. Lm
Mich
Chi. Lim
L'porte
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