Greatest Display Yet in the Durbar Circus
Delhi Jan 7 The viceroy Lord Curzon and Lady Curzon with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught reviewed the rulers retainers in the Durbar arena. Contingents from Greater India paraded with exotic costumes and emblems including Dutch flags on camels and elephants, Arab irregulars with native music, Baroda state guns, Mogul era flags on an elephant, and martial regalia. Royal processions featured armored patputs, bards, drums, lavish elephants and horses, and a two story royal elephant carriage. The Kashmiri retinue, a giant cuirasier detail, Sikh troops with maces and spears, and a sacred book in a howdah led by priests. Nabha’s cortege, hounds and hawks, completed a wealth rich display seen as the Durbar’s most beautiful yet.
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Delhi
India
Curzon
Kedleston
Baroda
Kashmair
Nabha
Coal Strike Foreman Describes Dam Burn by Strikers
Philadelphia January 7 strike commission hearings reopen with witnesses accusing union miners of violence last year. E C Tiffany an Ashley foreman testifies strikers dynamited a dam at Ashley colliery. Robert A Read says he was knocked from a locomotive when it was dynamited. Geo W Gasper details fence fire and trestle damage at Stanton colliery.
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Philadelphia
E. C. Tiffany
Ashley
Wilkesbarre
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company
Robert A. Read
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Geo. W. Gasper
Stanton Colliery
Lehigh & Wilesbarre Company
Duty to be charged on Pacific cable shore ends
San Francisco January 7 The treasury department ruling requires the Commercial Cable Company to pay duty on the shore ends of the Pacific cable at Midway Islands. It is expected the collector of customs at Honolulu will be directed to collect the duty.
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San Francisco
Treasury Department
Commercial Cable Company
Midway Islands
Honolulu
PAY CASH Settlement Out of Court May Be Had
Berlin Jan 7 The joint reply of powers to Venezuela offers settlement out of court if cash payments or guarantees of 335000 to each power are made. Arbitration or direct negotiations remain contingent on this condition. Germany favors negotiations through Minister Bowen during the blockade over The Hague arbitration.
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Berlin
Venezuela
Bowen
Hague
Narrow Escape as Gasoline Fire Ruins Store House
George Bartlett of Winston Brothers & Locher entered a store house with a lit lantern. Gasoline ignited and four tanks exploded, destroying the building and its contents. Bartlett suffered burns and the nearby cache of 300 pounds of dynamite and powder prompted guards and civilian safety measures. Loss estimated in the few hundreds.
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Clinton
George Bartlett
Winston Brothers & Locher
Bartlett
Central Massachusetts Railroad
England's Protest Over Dardanelles Passages
Constantinople dispatch notes Britain's formal protest to Turkey over the September permission for four unarmed Russian torpedo boat destroyers to sail through the Dardanelles under the Russian flag into the Black Sea. The report suggests Austria-Hungary and Italy may follow suit while Germany and France stay aloof for policy reasons.
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Constantinople
Great Britain
Turkey
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Germany
France
Papal Nuncio Reports Saxony Crown Prince Civil Divorce
Rome reports the Crown Prince of Saxony has a civil court verdict and will seek a Papal annulment of his marriage. Negotiations will run through the Munich nunciature since Saxony lacks a Papal representative.
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Rome
Munich
Bavaria
Vatican
Saxony
Paris Officials Stricken as Consulate Faces Ill Health
Vice and Deputy Consul General Edward P. MacLean is critically ill with acute pneumonia after a light grippe. He shows no improvement. physicians hold a consultation. Deputy Consul General J Allison Bowen is on sick leave in the United States, leaving Consul General Gowdy with no key officials during a peak period.
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Paris
Edward P. MacLean
J. Allison Bowen
United States
Gowdy
Democratic victory at City Hall stalls Gillow bid
A lively City Hall political roundup describes Democratic gains as four Republican councilmen voted against Gillow for public buildings chief. The piece details ward six maneuvers, expected shifts, and hints of bribery wagers, while noting Conlon’s appointment as the new superintendent and Gillow’s age and background as a bricklayer from Lowell.
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Joseph E. Gillow
Public Buildings Department
Common Council
Gillow
Baldwin
Fontaine
Hard
Livingston
Ed. Simpson
James Stuart Murphy
Conlon
Lowell
Insignificant cellar blaze at Hayes block corner Howard Middlesex
An alarm from box 42 at 7 17 today reported a small fire in rubbish in a cellar of a tenement block owned by W H S Hayes at the corner of Howard and Middlesex streets. No damage occurred and no injuries were reported.
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W. H. S. Hayes
Howard and
Middlesex Streets
Ayer's Hair Vigor Promised to Restore Grays
Advert says Ayer's Hair Vigor restores color to gray hair and claims new growth. It urges readers to tell friends about the product and showcases a car as a prop in the pitch.
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Ayer
Car
Talks on Belgian Congo policy at King Leopold banquet
A Brussels despatch reports King Leopold defending Belgian Congo policy at a banquet after the King's reception for English Baptists. He said property rights in the Congo will be inviolable and safeguarded, and condemned claims of cruelty by agents as unworthy of honest criticism. He expressed confidence history will judge the Central Africa evolution fairly.
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New York
Congo
Leopold
Brussels
London
Times
Central Africa
Chief Sackett Testifies in Richardson Poisoning Case
In district court at Chelsea on the Richardson poisoning case Chief Sackett of the Revere police continued his testimony. He recounted an interview with Miss Catharine V Richardson on Christmas Eve after her arrest and noted she had transferred all Richardson property to herself. Mrs Richardson accused her daughter of poisoning her, saying she would not be caught. Sackett also described efforts to identify a Boston doctor and his meeting with Davenport to whom he gave powders found in Miss Richardson stockings. The testimony set up further cross examination by Lawyer Bartlett.
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Common Council
James G. Hill
William A. Hogan
Qua
Hogan
Worcester
Hilliard
Palm
Hill
Chelsea
Jan
Richardson
Miss Catharine V. Richardson
Bosson
Richchardson
Harley Richardson
Miss Richardson
Littleton
N. H
Chief Sackett
Boston
Wood
Harvard Medical School
F. B. Davenport
Ten Dollar Fine For Punching Man in Chelmsford
Hezekiah Marshall Hoyt of North Chelmsford was fined ten dollars after assaulting Justin Dawson in the G C Moore Woolen mill yard during a snowballing incident. Witnesses, including Irving Dawson and Miss Della Bryant, supported the events. Hoyt claimed self defense and was criticized by Judge Hadley for unwarranted violence. Other defendants, Charles Robinson and Thomas Smith, pleaded guilty to drunkenness. Smith fined five dollars and Rob inson three dollars. Rose Wall was sentenced to four months at the workhouse for drunkenness. Joseph Brodereck ordered to pay two dollars for drunkenness.
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Hezekiah Marshall Hoyt
North Chelmsford
Justin Dawson
Haskell
G. C. Moore Woolen Company
Hoyt
Dawson
Irving Dawson
Irwin White
William Martel
Guy
Mill Yard
Pella Bryant
Miss Bryant
Charles Robinson
Thomas
Smith
Billerica
Livingstone
Lowell
Waltham
Robinson
Rose Wall
Joseph Brodereck
Camden teen hanged for arsenic murder of two boys
Paul Woodward, 17, was hanged at Camden jail for the October murder of John Coffin, 11, and Price Jennings, 14. Arsenic poisoning caused their deaths after disappearance from home. He lured the lads with offers of finding Coffin, bought arsenic days earlier, and robbed their cash.
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Camden
N. J
Paul Woodward
John Coffin
Price Jennings
Haddon Heights
Here
Woodward
Coffin
James White Praises Father John's Medicine
James White of 8 Mystic Street South End Boston extols Father John's Medicine claiming it cured his heavy cold and a run down condition. He notes many others report the same success and cautions against patent medicines that rely on temporary weakness from poisonous drugs.
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James White
Mystic Street
South End
Boston
Father John
Father John's Medicine Brings Quick Recovery Says Patient
James B. Rice of 689 Main Street Clarksburg W Va writes that after hemorrhages and wasting he drank Father John's Medicine and gained over 10 pounds in four weeks. He reports improved stomach function sleep and appetite crediting the remedy above doctors or other remedies.
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Father John
James B. Rice
Main Street
Clarksburg
W. Va
Iron ore deposit found near Sault Ste. Marie
Despatch from Sault Ste. Marie reports a range with 180 million tons of iron ore in sight. New York capitalists are interested in developing the deposit. One financier confirms interest and says the discovery was made a year ago but declines to name the exact location.
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New York
Sault Ste. Marie
Train derailment near Higginsville slows Chicago limited
Kansas City January 7 A Chicago and Alton Chicago limited derailed at Higginsville Missouri after a broken switch. The engine baggage car smoker and chair car left the track delaying the train four hours. Several passengers were severely shaken and the engineer suffered minor bruises. A negro tramp suffered a broken leg in the incident.
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Kansas City
Chicago & Alton
Chicago Limited
Higginsville
Union National Bank Elects New Directors and Officers
Stockholders met at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and elected directors Joseph L. Chalifoux Frederic C. Church Thomas Costello Frank H. E. Dunbar Charles S. Lilley John Lennon Frederick P. Marble George S. Motley Walter L. Parker Arthur G. Pollard Amasa Pratt Patrick F. Sullivan At the following directors meeting Arthur G. Pollard was chosen president and George L. Motley and Walter L. Parker were named vice presidents.
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Union National Bank
Joseph L. Chalifoux
Frederic C. Church
Thomas Costello
Frank HE. Dunbar
Charles S. Lilley
John Lennon
Frederick P. Marble
Georges. Motley
Walter L. Parker
Arthur G. Pollard
Amasa Pratt
Patrick F. Sullivan
George L. Motley
Argentine cattle admission to UK awaits regulations
London reports that the entry of Argentine cattle into the United Kingdom hinges on the drawing up of regulations and their publication in the Gazette. The process is pending formal promulgation.
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London
United Kingdom
Tenement for rent at Broadway and Phillips streets
TO LET At the corner of Broadway and Phillips streets a new and up to date tenement with all the latest improvements House screened and curtained Apply on premises Is 3t CALIFORNIA LAND The best investment you can possibly make is the purchase of Coachella Valley land earliest fruit and vegetables in the United States plenty of fine artesian water land for sale and for rent Address F F Roach Walters Cal IS 61 HISTORY OF THE COAL STRIKE illustrated Sells everywhere Complete copy with outfit sent postpaid ten cents Stratford Publishing company 234 South Fourth street Philadelphia Pa 183A AD DWATHS McGROGAN Jan 7 at the home of his parents 165 Fayette street James Patrick child of Hugh and Sarah Mc Grogan aged two months
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Broadway
Phillips Streets
California
United States
F. F. Roach
Walters
Cal
Outfit
Stratford Publishing Company
South Fourth Street
Philadelphia
AD Dwaths McGrogan
Fayette Street
James Patrick
Hugh
Sarah McGrogan
Wanted women of education and ability can earn money
Women of education and ability are invited to call at Room 15 in the Hildreth Building Merrimack Street from 2 to 4 PM on January 8 9 and 10 to learn about earning opportunities starting at $20 per week Florence E Shaal manages the info session at the Merrimack Street office.
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Hildreth Building
Merrimack Street
Florence E. Shaal
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Foreman
O’ Sullivan
City Hall
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Powers
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Peter J. Brady
Jakey” Fitzgerald
Market Street
King Leopold
King Leopold OF
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Congo Region
Pics
West Virginia
Union Bank
Merrimack
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