Fire destroys Greenwich sanitarium. all patients saved
A gale driven blaze at Dr. W. H. Wiley’s Palmer Hill sanitarium in Greenwich, Connecticut, left the building a total loss with about $75,000 in damage. Dr. Wiley, house physician Dr. Welling ton, Mrs. Wiley, and nurses repeatedly risked their lives to evacuate a score of bedridden patients. Neighbors and Greenwich volunteers aided as adjacent homes and barns caught sparks. no one was injured.
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Conn
W. H. Wiley
Palmer Hill
W. Wellington
Hames
Ts. OG. Havemeyer
Mr. Borg
Joseph D. Sawyer
New York
Dr. Wiley
Michigan educator proposes nine-character alphabet
Chicago dispatch reports Professor Fred Newton Scott of the University of Michigan advocating a new simplified writing system. He suggests reducing the English alphabet to nine characters to speed writing, with simple vowels shown by a dash and rounded vowels by a circle, plus distinct dash positions to indicate vowel types.
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Michigan
Chicago
Fred Newton Scott
University of Michigan
Modern Language Association
Richeson Murder Trial Opens With Restricted Public Access
In Boston on December 20, Chief Justice Aiken ordered most of the courthouse fourth floor closed for the Clarence Y. T. Ritche son murder trial. Only counsel jury witnesses and newspaper representatives will be admitted. Richeson is recovering from related wounds. A local paper claimed Miss Violet Edmands was found at Lakewood New Jersey but no confirmation followed.
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Richeson
Boston
Clarence Y. T. Ritcheson
Avis Linnell
Aiken
Superior Court
Violet Edmands
Lakewood
N. J
Smallpox Epidemic Forms in Italian Philadelphia District
In Philadelphia near Forty eighth street and Glenmore avenue smallpox nears epidemic form with a city cordon and extensive vaccination. Since Christmas over 2 000 residents in the district have been vaccinated as medical staff work to contain the outbreak. Train Kills Woman and Girl in Oneco. Mrs Robbie Turned and her adopted daughter, fifteen, died after being struck by a Providence bound train on the New York New Haven and Hartford line near the station.
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Forty-eighth Street
Glenmore Avenue
Medical Furve
Oneco, Comn
Itohie
Providence
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Dr C E Bessey Leads Science Association
Dr C E Bessey heads the Association For the Advancement of Science, guiding its national scientific agenda and outreach efforts.
Scientists Meet in Washington for AAAS Fifty-Third Session
The American Association For the Advancement of Science is in session in Washington for its sixty third meeting. Scientists from every state attend and Dr. Charles E. Bessey of Nebraska State University serves as president.
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American Association
Washington
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Charles E. Bessey
Nebraska State University
Revenue Cutter In Daring Sea Rescue
Norfolk, Va. December 20. The torpedo boat destroyer Warrington was rammed by an unknown steamer in a forty mile gale fifteen miles northeast of Cape Hatteras. The Onondaga towed the damaged Warrington to Norfolk as fifty six crew members were rescued by lifeboats amid perilous seas. Two injured, rescue described as one of the era’s most thrilling sea scenes.
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Norfolk
War- Haigton
Onondaga
Cape Hatteras
Warrington
Charles J. Tuas
Ffty
Quondaga
Charleston
New York
Palzer Knocks Out Kaufman In Fifth Round Victory
In New York at the National Sporting club Al Palzer stopped Al Kaufman in the fifth round of a ten round bout. Kaufman fought back with clever counters but Palzer’s relentless pressure broke through as Kaufman tired after a strong effort.
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New York
Lis
al Palver
al Kaufman
National Sporting Club
Talzer
Kaufman
Palzer
New York Woman Weds Count Suzannet in Paris
Mary Constance Knower Drayton of New York, once divorced from Henry C. Drayton, marries Count Jean Louis Suzannet in Paris. Suzannet is her third cousin and brother-in-law.
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Paris
Mary Constance Knower-Drayton
New York
Henry Coleman Drayton
William Astor
Jean Louis Suzannet
Crown of Italy Decorates American Secretary at Rome Exhibition
The king of Italy decorates William A. Fox of Philadelphia with the insignia of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Fox becomes commander for his services as secretary of the American pavilion at the International Art exhibition in Rome.
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Italy
Rome
William A. Fox
Philadelphia
Weather forecast notes fair conditions and warming
A weather update reports fair today and tomorrow with gradually warmer temperatures. Winds shift to diminishing northwesterly speeds.
A New Year’s Bird Feast
A sick girl named Phyllis recovers after Christmas and persuades her mother to keep the Christmas tree in her room. After a snowstorm they place the tree outside and decorate it with popcorn and suet for bluejays. The birds feast, leaving Phyllis joyful and hopeful for future years.
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Phyllis
Little Brother
Japan’s social price structure shapes tourist costs
Arthur May Knapp argues in Atlantic that Japan’s long isolation created a system where the rich live for the poor and prices reflect status. Tourists notice higher charges for foreigners, but locals follow rank based pricing, not because of foreigner status alone.
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Japan
Arthur May Knapp
Atlantic
Red Tape and a Murderer Tale From Le Matin
A self confessed killer seeks arrest in Algiers. Berges was stabbed. three suspects were released. Marius Yogorra confesses and is advised to write a letter to formalize the admission. Wu Ting Fang’s diet and age defiance remedies are noted. An English writer praises a pure Turk's honesty, hospitality, and faith.
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Paris
Berges
Algiers
Marius Yogorra
Turkey
Europe
Macedonia
Asia Minor
London
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