Stock Market Opens Heavy In New York Trading
New York stock market opened heavy with light selling. Amalgamated Copper 58, Anaconda 65 1 2, Atchison 82, Baltimore & Ohio 97 1 4, Canadian Pacific 129 1 2, Erie 34, Manhattan 145 1 4, Missouri Pacific 105 1 2, New York Central 141 1 2, Union Pacific 98 1 4, United States Steel 34 1 4 2, Sugar 126, Southern Pacific 62 1 2. By 10:10 a.m. low volumes kept prices down slightly. trading sparse. By 11 a.m. several leading issues fell from yesterday’s close. Missouri Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande preferred, Great Northern preferred, New York Central, Rock Island, and others slipped. Reading, Louisville & Nashville Sugar and Brooklyn Transit drew some support.
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New York
Amalgamated Copper
Anaconda
Atchison
Baltimore & Ohio
Canadian Pacific
Erie
Manhattan
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Pennsylvania
Reading
Rock Island
St. Paul
Sugar
Southern Pacific
Southern
Texas Pacific
Union Pacific
United States Steel
Wabash
Kansas City Southern
Texas and Pacific
Denver & Rio Grande
Great Northern
Chicago-Great Western
Tennessee Coal
Louisville
Brooklyn Transit
Market futures open steady with mixed grade yields
New York futures opened quiet and steady on December 24 with bids at 8.47 for December and 8.53 for January. February 8.28, March 8.34, April 8.30, May 8.32, June 8.30, July 8.33, August 8.15, and October offered at 7.88.
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New York
Pressure Grows on Roosevelt Over Venezuelan Arbitration
Washington reports no formal proposals reached as cabinet weighs arbitration option in the Venezuela dispute. Public and political pressure mounts for Roosevelt to decline arbitration with many urging American control, while the Calvo doctrine and Monroe doctrine implications loom large before any Hague tribunal action.
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Washington
Great Britain
Germany
Roosevelt
Cullom
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
State Department
Moody
Root
Hay
Hague Tribunal
Hague Tribunel
Venezuea
The
Hague
Arbitration Drift in Caribbean Tensions and Caracas Death
Cabinet officers weigh quick presidential settlement over The Hague arbitration citing delay. Blockade lines confirmed with Coro not yet blocked and Venezuela unrest intensifies. Rev D Schneider, Caracas Protestant pastor, is reported dead as Bowen sends dispatches.
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Trine
Arbitration Board
Hague
State Department
Bowen
Coro
D. Schneider
Caracas
German prizes and naval actions near La Guaira
Signor de Riva sails home to Italy from Caracas as German forces seize vessels near Maracaibo. Prizes include the Castor and Maria Luisa, while the Gazelle and Tribune move in and out of La Guaira. The Caracas steamer crew and press face nightly harbor departures, adding cost for owners. Five reporters are aboard.
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Caracas
Venezuela
la Guaira
Panther
Maracaibo
Gazelle
Mausan
Tribune
Castor
Araya
Maria Luisa
Carenero
Josefita Carmen de Vega
Cornelia
Guanta
Castro Accepts French Settlement Terms With Equality
Paris reports the foreign office confirms President Castro accepts the French note. France will receive equal treatment in settling claims and payment. The aim is to protect French claims from being subordinated to forceful collections by other powers. An international arbitration is favored, with a commission to enforce the decision, potentially including French claims.
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Paris
Foreign Office
Castro
United States
France
Egypt
Greece
Acton Street House Sold in Chelmsford to James Menzies
Geo. H. Smith sold his Acton street house to James Menzies who has taken possession and moved to Lowell. Joseph Plummer reports his Russell place cattle slaughtered last Sunday, with a larger herd at East Chelmsford showing no disease signs. The holiday season brings many students home from college, school, and business.
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Geo. H. Smith
Acton Street
James Menzies
Mr. Smith
Lowell
Joseph Plummer
Russell Place
East Chelmsford
Townsend Church Receives $500 Donation from Albert Davis
Albert Davis of Whitman, formerly Towns end Hill resident and son of the late Elnathan Davis, gave the Townsend Congregational church $500. Mrs. Durand died Sunday at her daughter's home, and her funeral was Tuesday. She leaves three daughters. Christmas events include a tree Wednesday with a supper for Methodist Sunday school children and a tree at the Congregational vestry for its Sunday school. Albert Kilbourn of Ashburnham spends Christmas week in town with relatives. Miss Ruth Warren returns home from Cushing Academy.
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Albert Davis
Whitman
Townsend Congregational Church
Davis
Elnathan Davis
Townsend Hill
Durand
Koch
Methodist Sunday School
Albert Kilbourn
Ashburnham
Ruth Warren
Cushing Academy
Christmas Tree Planned by Local Churches in Wilmington
Wilmington notes report Miss Carrie Swain vacationing in Newton New Hampshire and a newborn daughter Phyllis at Rev Walter Rolling's home. The Congregational and MFF churches plan a Christmas tree with exercises on Wednesday evening and a concert set for Sunday December 28. Miss Myra Shaw visits Haverhill and John Tilly buys the Manning house on Middlesex Avenue while Mrs Stephen Buck remains ill at home.
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Walter Rolling
Phyllis
Congregational
M. FF
Myra Shaw
Haverhill
John Tilly
Middlesex Avenue
Manning
Stephen Buck
Westford Grange to Install Officers on New Year’s Night
Westford Grange will install its officers New Year’s night. At the last meeting Rev E H Roper and wife were honored by the grange with a silver sugar bowl and cream pitcher from Dr W J Sleeper. The vesper service at the Unitarian church featured readings and will be followed by a service next Sunday at 7 with Miss Lane of Littleton, violin, Miss Carmichael, solo, Mr Blodgett, cornet, choir, directed by C H Hartley. All the new ideas in suspenders at H L Bailey & Co 69 Merrimack Street.
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Westford
E. H. Roper
Grange
W. J. Sleeper
Unitarian Church
Lorenz Fails On Aged Boy In Boston Clinic
The Austrian surgeon Dr Lorenz failed to fully treat a 90 year old boy's hip problem during a 25 minute operation at Children’s Hospital in Boston. Three earlier cases a 3% year old girl and a 7 year old girl succeeded quickly, while a 91? year old boy prompted the surgeon to stop. The clinic drew 300 surgeons and ended with applause for the successful cases and reactions to the intense procedure.
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Boston
Lorenz
Children's Hospital
Eastern syndicate buys Kentucky coal lands west of Green River
Negotiations indicate a deal worth 8 million dollars, led by J. Pierpont Morgan directorate, would place control of nearly all coal mines west of Green River in Kentucky under eastern syndicate hands. Agent John H. Hendrick and Henry P. Malloy of New York are coordinating, with several landowners having granted options while closings are pending. Possible expansions to Tennessee and West Virginia coal lands are also reported.
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Louisville
Courier-Journal
J. Pierpont Morgan
Green River
Kentucky
St. Bernard Coal Company
John H. Hendrick
New York
Henry P. Malloy
Hendrick
Tennessee
West Virginia
Fatal Jumps at Chase & Son Candy Factory
A fire at Chase & Son's candy manufactory in St. Joseph Missouri caused a panic as Sophia Mintus 15 and Mattie Leslie 20 jumped from a third story window and died. Fifty workers were employed and many others fled or jumped resulting in several serious injuries and minor injuries. The holdup occurred while the plant operated around the clock to meet holiday orders. Estimated loss reaches 100600 with adjoining Douglass Co commission house damaged and the street railway power house slightly harmed.
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St. Joseph
Chase & Son
Sophia Mintus
Mattie Leslie
Douglass &Co
Street Railway
Court Scandallands Saxony Royal Flight to Salzburg
Dresden and Vienna react to the Crown Princess Louise fleeing the court amid rumors of marital strife. The princess seeks independence from the Crown Prince amid alleged infidelities and cruelty. Reports trace her escape to Munich Brussels Geneva and Salzburg with a French tutor and Archduke Leopold Ferdinand potentially renouncing royal status.
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Dresden
Saxony
George
Frederick
Louise
Vienna
Salzburg
Archduke Leopold Ferdinand
Munich
Brussels
Geneva
Tyrol
Leopold Ferdinand
Francis Joseph
New York Protests Abrogation of Connecticut Quarantine
Albany protest over Secretary Wilson's move to end the hoof and mouth disease quarantine in Connecticut. Governor Odell telegraphed support while Commissioner Wieting warns that admitting Connecticut cattle would risk infection from Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Quarantine extended to hay with Vermont decision pending.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Connecticut
Wilson
Odell
Wieting
State Department of Agriculture
New York
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Vermont
Fatal Fire Kills Baby. Older Sister Succumbs Later
Margaret Franklin, 38, colored, died at St John’s Hospital from injuries after a house fire at 8 Hudson Street Tuesday December 9. Infant Nina May Franklin, 9 months, burned beyond recognition in the blaze. The surviving sister, also injured, had been recovering from bronchial pneumonia but died soon after. The father is ill. mother and siblings left Worcester. A community subscription drive was begun to aid the family.
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Margaret Franklin
Hudson Street
St. John’s Hospital
Little Margaret
Nina May Franklin
Margaret
Worcester
Franklin
Papal Christmas Greeting From Rome Cardinals
In Rome on December 23 the cardinals gathered in the Pope's private library to give Christmas greetings. The Pontiff, buoyant and hopeful, denounced the divorce bill and warned that removing Christian order would usher in pagan democracy. He urged Christian democracy in opposition to socialistic ideologies.
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Rome
Cardinal San Stefano
Cardinal Parocchi
Santo Stefano
Sacred College
Woman who was dumb for 14 years regains speech in East Longmeadow
Miss Mary O'Brien, about 30, of East Longmeadow, suddenly speaks after fourteen years of muteness caused by a throat ailment. Doctors hold a council to examine her sanity as she talks steadily and appears mentally unsettled.
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Springfield
Mary O'Brien
East Longmeadow
Fire destroys Odd Fellows block in Bradford
Fire at the Odd Fellows block in Bradford Pa early today caused $150000 in losses. Star Publishing Co the post office and Bauer's Insurance agency shuttered amid the blaze. Four firefighters fell when a ladder broke Thaddeus Green was killed and Thomas Angus W A McCafferty and John Bigler were seriously hurt.
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Bradford
Odd Fellows
Star Publishing Company
Post Office
Bauer's Insurance Agency
Company G
National Guard
Thaddeus Green
Thomas Angus
W. A. McCafferty
John Bigler
Survivors Improve After Ship Collision Off Thatcher’s Island
The crews of the schooners Frank A Palmer and Louise B Crary, sunk in a collision off Thatcher’s Island last Wednesday, show rapid improvement in Boston. Captain Potter of the Crazy suffers frozen feet but is as comfortable as possible. Edward Somerville of Providence, Palmer’s engineer, escaped in underclothes and slippers and may lose his legs. he is expected to recover. Carlson of the Palmer is discharged from the relief station. others plan to leave in the coming days.
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Boston
Frank A. Palmer
Louise B. Crary
Thatcher
Potter
Crazy
Edward Somerville
Providence
Palmer
Daniel Carlson
Captain Potter
Somerville
Anarchist Bomb Blasts St Peter's Cathedral Door
In Geneva on December 23 a bomb exploded at the entrance of St Peter's cathedral. The blast damaged the doorway and shattered nearby windows. an adjacent resident was thrown from bed. Officials say the device was a scrap iron filled bomb, and the attack is attributed to anarchists.
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Geneva
Switzerland
St. Peter's Cathedral
Beatrice Fire Destroys Masonic Temple Block
A Beatrice dispatch reports an incendiary blaze at 2 am in the basement of Day's drug store within the Masonic Temple block. The three story business block burned down, with losses estimated at 125000 dollars, while the Beatrice National Bank vault nearby was found unharmed containing 300000 dollars.
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Lincoln
Neb
Beatrice
Masonic Temple
Beatrice National Bank
Train Jumped the Track Drowns Brakeman in Dorchester
Early today freight train No. 16 on the Intercolonial railway derailed at Dorchester N B five cars and the locomotive left the tracks. Brakeman Walter Clark of Moncton riding in the locomotive was thrown into a ditch and drowned. He had married only recently. His bride learned of her uncle engineer Trider of Belmont NS death two weeks ago.
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St. John
N. B
Moncton
Halifax
N.S
Dorchester
Walter Clark
Trider
Belmont
N. S&s
Fancy Hosiery For Men At Bailey Co Store Ad
Hosiery for men priced from 25c to 1.50 offered by H L Bailey & Co at 69 Merrimack street. Associate dance Xmus plus evening events listed with 25 cents price.
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H. L. Bailey & Co
Merrimack Street
P.om
Wise Gift Pick From Carleton and Hovey Offer
The ad promotes practical gift ideas during the season. It highlights a hot water bottle priced at seventy three cents with a two year guarantee and notes a proprietary line unique to the seller made to their own designs and instructions.
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Carleton & Hovey's
United States
Archduke Leopold Ferdinand flees Munich turmoil
Reports from Munich and Berlin state Archduke Leopold Ferdinand left to search for his sister the Crown Princess of Saxony amid court suspicions of coercion by Prof Giron. Dresden sources say the princess fled to Geneva with Giron while Archduke plans to abandon imperial titles and marry a Viennese companion.
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Munich
Bavaria
Archduke Leopold Ferdinand
Saxony
Dresden
Giron
Vienna
Leopold Woelfling
Imperial House
Donna Elvira
Don Carlos
Viliano Folchi
Terrence Farley, Lowell Resident, Dies at 65
Terrence Farley of Lowell died at his home 99 Union Street yesterday aged 65. A longtime member of St. Peter's Church he is survived by a niece Miss Annie Mee Guirk of New York City.
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Terrence Farley
Lowell
Union Street
St. Peter's Church
Annie Mee Guirk
New York City
Kennedy Funeral Service and Mass at St Peter’s
The funeral for Patrick IF Kennedy was held from his 164 Warren Street home at 9:30 AM with a 10:00 AM requiem Mass at St Peter’s Church. Rev Fr Heffernan officiated, James E Donnelly conducted the choir, and bearers included John Kennedy and Martin Conley. Burial followed at St Peter’s Cemetery.
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Patrick IF. Kennedy
Warren Street
St. Peter's Church
Fr. Heffernan
James E. Donnelly
Schmidt
Donnelly
Molly Ivers
McLaughlin
John Kennedy
Martin Conley
Henry Kelly
Winding Room
Bigelow Carpet Company
Leonard Perkins
St. Peter's Cemetery
Molloy
St. Patrick's Cemetery
Death notices and a medical ad from the city
Obituaries record Thomas McManus aged, 1 Floyd street and Joseph F McCullen aged 1 year 1 month at homes on Floyd and Howe streets with funeral details for Terrence Farley 65 at St Peters Church a Riopelle notice 442 Adam Street and a medical advertisement extolling Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets as mild purgatives for bowel regularity and urging caution with harsh cathartics.
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St. Peter's Church
Riopelle
Adam Street
Joseph C. Riopelle
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Crown Princess of Saxony
Baste
Grim‘ma
New England
Christmas Greetings
Pontiff
Lincoln, Neb
Courier-Citizen CO
Wisdom
Berlin
Lokal Anzieger
Funeral Services
Ma'frs
Intervale Mills
Nicholas G. Norcross
Insurance
Central Street
Lowell, Mass
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