Santa Claus Parade Brings Town Hope and Cheer
The Tribune Good Cheer Club escorted Santa Claus through the city with seven sleighs loaded with gifts. Deputies helped, and carrier boys aided by locating addresses. Volunteers from Bryant & Sisson, Salzer, Meister, Derr, and others joined in the evening procession to bring joy to children, with Sleighs departing door to door amid bells and cheers.
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Tribune
Good Cheer Club
Santa Claus
Nick
Gene Derr
Seymour Meister
Bryant & Sisson
John Salzer
al” Anderson
Tribune Carrier
Big
Buff” Thompson
L. B. Raymond
Reinstatement a stumbling block in switchmen strike
Minneapolis reports a long running switchmen strike may end as railroads offer to reinstate strikers within a 30 day window. Governor Eberhart forecasts a near resolution with arbitration possible and a Monday conference to decide terms. President Hawley awaits railroad assurances to end the dispute.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Northwest
Railway Department
American Federation of Labor
Eberhart
Chicago
Frank T. Hawley
Hawley
Auto kills woman in Indiana crash near Bloomington
In Bloomington Indiana a car accident claims the life of Mrs. Proctor of Portland Mills and leaves Dr. Cutburgh of Tangier fatally injured. The incident occurred on December 25 and is being investigated by local authorities.
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Bloomington
Ind
Proctor
Portland Mills
Cutburgh
Tangier
Old Christmas Returns to Open House and Feasting
The verse invites all to Old Christmas revelry with plum pudding goose capon milice pies and roast beef. Holley ivy decorates walls as neighbors share meals and hospitality. Travelers are welcomed at gentlemen's halls to rest and refresh while the poor are provided relief.
A Christmas Prayer For Children Who Work
A plea by Walter Rauschenbusch for divine protection of working children. The prayer asks blessings for all children, condemns child labor, and urges employers and authorities to oppose exploitation. It cites a series in American Magazine and republication as a frontispiece for The Survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Turkey Gobbler Still Supreme At White House Dinner
Washington appears to crown the turkey as the centerpiece of the presidential Christmas meal with Old General Turkey Gobbler triumphing over contenders. President Taft keeps busy at work on whiskey questions while a Newark union pie arrives three feet wide for the White House table and is guarded by police.
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Washington, D. C
Turkey Gobbler
White House
Taft
Santa Claus
Union Pie Constructors
Newark
Washington
Express Company
Romanian surgeon uses stovaine at Mayo Clinic
Dr Tomasso Ionnescu of Bucharest conducted a St Marys hospital clinic in Rochester Minnesota. Forty visiting surgeons watched as an 82 year old woman with a heart weakness underwent a high risk hernia operation without standard anaesthesia. Mayo called the procedure a success and noted Ionnescu had used stovaine in 750 cases since July 1908 with no ill effects.
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Rochester
Minn
Tomasso Ionnesco
Bucharest
Roumania
St. Marys Hospital
W. J. Mayo
Mayo
Ionnescu
Rural Pennies Bedevil Letter Carriers Across Farms
A Washington circular urges rural residents to stop dropping 300 million pennies weekly into rural mailboxes. Postmasters report farmers without stamps deposit coins with unstamped letters, costing carriers time, cold fingers, and occasional lost pennies. The government estimates 115 pennies per route per day.
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Washington
Tscharner
Week Bank Statement and Stock Market Review
New York reports a weekly bank statement showing deposits up 7.02 million and loans up 6.44 million while reserves fall. Stock market closes at a near standstill due to Christmas, with foreign exchange weak and a 3.6 million rise in surplus reserve as loans shift to Europe.
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New York
United States
New York Evening Post Company
Wall Street
London
Europe
Christmas in Name Only in Bluefields and Rama Crisis
Wireless from Bluefields reports 2,000 captured government soldiers sick and hungry in Bluefields and Rama after fighting at Rama and Recreo. Relief efforts by US Navy, including Commander Shipley, are hampered by scarce supplies and inadequate medical gear. General Estrada reassembles forces, burying dead as field searches reveal more bodies. death toll likely higher than early estimates.
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Wm. A. Deverall
United Press
Bluefields
Colon
Rama
Recreo
Shipley
United States
Des Moines
Estrada
Managua
Cook Won’t Accept Copenhagen Verdict In Pole Controversy
In Brooklyn a letter from Dr. Cook says he will not accept the University of Copenhagen verdict as final. He plans to go to Etah to recover records and instruments he claims prove the world wrong about his reputation as the "colossal fakir" of modern times.
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New York
Brooklyn
Cook
University of Copenhagen
North Pole
Etah
Workman Hurt on Northwestern Railroad Site
Dr. Egan was called at 3 yesterday afternoon to Medary to attend David Vivian, a workman with the Northwestern railroad construction crew, who sustained a bad gash in his forehead from a fall on the slippery surface where they were working.
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Dr. Egan
Medary
David Vivian
Northwestern Railroad
Yuletide Cheer Restores Mind at Cherry Mine Rescue
Miss Margaret Brodinski of Kewanee, 25, was found alive six weeks after being carried from Cherry mine shaft. In St Mary's hospital she regained memory briefly and gave her name and address, learning her brothers are alive. Doctors warn recovery may take time.
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Cherry
Dr. W Wickham Dies In Crawfordsville
Dr. Wm Wickham aged 89 prominent Indiana physician and father of Baroness Von Koppen of Hanover Germany dies at daughter Mrs De Kaux Tilney home in Crawfordsville Indiana on December 25 authorities report.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Wm. Wickham
von Koppen
Hanover
Germany
Indiana
de Kaux Tilney
Chicago Storm Binds City to Snowy Blizzard Pace
Chicago endures a heavy snow storm described as the worst of the year with blizzard like conditions. Surfaces and elevated railway traffic were badly crippled, affecting morning transportation.
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Chicago
Jack Frost
Funeral services for A. J. Petter held in Albert Lea
Funeral services for A. J. Petter who died December 21 at Albert Lea Minnesota were held yesterday at Fessler and Dahl's rooms. Petter was a former La Crosse resident.
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A. J. Petter
Albert Lea
Minn
Fessler & Dahl
Petter
la Crosse
Northwestern Life Insures Cargill Leader for 500000
The Northwestern National Life Insurance Co of Minneapolis issued a 500000 life policy on John MacMillan, vice president and mayor of Cargill Elevator Co. The deal mirrors a similar policy on C Loring of Pillsbury Flour Mills, as the insurer expands a new specialty in protecting business leaders.
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Northwestern National Lifesurance Company
Minneapolis
Yeterday
John MacMillan
Cargill Eleva Company
MacMillan
Mineapolis Tribune
Northwester
C. Loring
Pillsby Flour Mills Company
Flour Miing
Cargill Company
Northwestern
Ming
Boness
Thompson
The
No Western
Pillsbury
Car
Loring
Direct Wi
Amd
Equitable
Provident Life A Trust
Penn Mutual
Nowestern Mutual
Mutual
John Hancock
Massachusett Mutual
Phohenix
Roa
Coal famine grips Chicago as cold darkens city
Chicago faces a coal famine with no relief in sight for a week. Railroad officials and coal executives admitted the supply is insufficient and many apartment dwellers rise to cold homes as furnaces gasp in emptiness.
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Chicago
Zelaya Plans Flight From Corinto Amid Guards
In Corinto Nicaragua December 25 President Zelaya prepares to flee with loyal guards seeking a place to board the Mexican gun boat General Guerrero. Semi official word says American ships near Corinto will not block his exit though he fears arrest by the United States over the murders of Groce and Cannon.
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Corinto
Nicaragua
Orme
Zelaya
Perel
Central America
Mos
General Guerrero
Groce
Cannon
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Derr
New York City
Gov. Eberhart
Walter Rauschenbusch
Billy *Possum
Mayo's Hospital
the Week
W. W. Cargill
Lefe
Workman
DR. W. Wickham
John H. Ae
Cargill Intereg
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