Reception honors Massillon Tiger manager with 300 diamond ring
Sixty friends surprised Manager J. J. Wise of the Massillon Tiger football team at the Hotel Conrad dining room. Mayor Bell toasted Wise and presented a $300 diamond ring. Speakers praised Wise and Captain Wittmann, with plans announced for a city gymnasium and 1906 football team support.
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J. J. Wise
Tiger
Conrad
Mr. Wise
Mayor Bell
Massillon Tigers
Wise
Bell
Stewart
Massillon
Mr. Stewart
Tigers
Wooster
Julius Wittmann
Wittmann
Hayden
W. A. Pietzcker
Manager Wise
H. C. Brown
F. W. Arnold
F. A. Brown
Frank A. Vogt
H. F. Rider
Harold Howard
George Howells
William Vogt
E. W. Busby
Andrew Ertle
E. C. Merwin
Merwin
Sheawara
Ready for Duties as New City Officials Take Oaths
Officers-elect have taken oaths and filed bonds accepted by authorities. January 1 transfers will occur. city treasurer books for Kirchhofer must be audited before Martin Brenner takes over on January 2. Brenner also serves as treasurer for the board of education. Douglass finalizes year records. card system used for daily work with entries later copied to the record journal.
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Kirchhofer
Martin Brenner
Brenner
Board of Education
Douglass
Bell Won't Contest Welker's Canton Election Bid
Mayor Bernard Bell will not contest Representative Welker’s election from Canton and has notified Welker. A preliminary hearing for election officers was set before Justice Kaley in Massillon. Welker has a certificate of election and is a candidate for speaker of the House as the lower chamber meets next week.
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Bernard Bell
Representative Welker
Canton
Mr. Welker
Justice Kaley
Massillon
Bell
General Assembly
Silk Stolen From Bee Hive After Daybreak Robbery
Three men named Welker Wood and Wilson robbed the Bee Hive in Massillon at 6 30 am taking a bolt of silk worth about 109. They fled on the 7 30 am electric car to Canton, where Canton police searched for them by early afternoon. Chief Ertle was notified late and the men were said not to be locals.
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Welker
Wood
Wilson
Canton
Ertle
Massillon
Milleronian
Lancaster
Mark Twain Shares Lost Opportunity at Casino Benefit
New York December 23 Mark Twain appeared at the Casino benefit for Jewish sufferers in Russia delivering a tale of the lost opportunity. He recounted a village tale of a weathered old man who faced ostracism and temperance pledges reflecting on how small choices alter lives. The note ends with an unrelated Doan s Ointment patent medicine pitch.
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New York
Mark Twain
Russia
Sarah Bernhardt
Mme. Bernhardt
Clemens
New Beford
Napoleons Chair To Be Sold At Sothebys London
London reports Sothebys will auction Napoleon Bonaparte s chair from St Helena. The small broad seat, 19 by 16 inches, held the dying emperor as he dictated memoirs to Las Cases. An inscription verifies its use and provenance, including purchase by Andrew Darling in 1821. Bidding is expected to be spirited.
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London
Sotheby’s Auction Rooms
St. Helena
Las Cases
Napoleon
Napoleon Buonaparte
Longwood
Andrew Darling
Darling
Fables and Farmer Ade Witty Exchange in Chicago Tale
Chicago reports a humorous sketch about George Ade, an honest young farmer-turned-playwright. The piece jokingly notes his success with comedies across states, his attention from admirers, and a reporter’s query about marrying Miss Worothy Tennant, answered with light humor about having a farm tenant and not being a husbandman.
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Chicago
George Ade
Indiana
Clyde Fitch
Gus Thomas
Farmer Ade
Mr. Ade
Independent newsboys' dinner set for January 1 at Hotel Milleron Ian
The Independent will host its annual newsboys' dinner Monday January 1 at 1 o'clock at Hotel Milleron Ian. The Independent Company and editorial staff will dine with the boys. Rev. L. H. Barry of St. Paul's Lutheran church will be guest of honor and deliver an address after the meal. Farmers and laborers are noted as readers of Dr Thomas' Eclectric Oil for quick relief from burns and pains.
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The
Independent
Milleronian
Independent Company
L. H. Barry
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Season's Trade Buoys Merchants After Warm Holiday Week
Merchants in Massillon enjoyed a strong Christmas buying period aided by mild weather that drew shoppers from home and abroad. Saturday marked the close of the season as turkeys and chickens moved to market in numbers and Christmas trees dwindled, while stores stayed open late to accommodate the crowds.
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Massillon
Judge Overrules Motion in Wooster Divorce Case
Judge Samuel B. Eason in Wooster Ohio overruled a new trial request in the Grace Culver Taggart divorce case. He fined three of her counsel for contempt, suspending one fine while seeking authority to impose punishment. He denounced the affidavits as a lasting disgrace to the attorneys M L Smyser K G Critchfield and James B Taylor. He rearraigned Mrs Taggart but said the case would not be reopened to appease the attorneys.
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M. L. Smyser
K. G. Critchfield
James B. Taylor
Eason
Taggart
Fortesque
Billy Taggart
Wholesale Indictments Hit Ohio Bridge Firms For Violations
Napoleon Ohio December 23 The grand jury returned eighteen indictments against Ohio bridge corporations for alleged violations of the Valentine anti trust law. Indicted firms include Adams Brothers Company bridge and iron works with J T Adams Jr agent and the Backett Bridge Company of Cincinnati with W W Wills agent among others.
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Napoleon
Associated Press
Ohio Bridge Corporations
Adams Brothers’ Company
Bridge and Iron Works
J. T. Adams, Jr
Backett Bridge Company
Cincinnati
W. W. Wills
Belle
Bridge Firms Charged With Price Fixing Conspiracy
The Fontaine Bridge Company and numerous others including Indiana, Champion, Massillon, Histon and Cleveland, Canton, King, and Cleveland Bridge firms with agents are accused of forming a combination to keep up bridge prices. The state is claimed divided into districts by the scheme, eliminating competition on bridge work. Civil action will be brought to recover damages.
Barricades in Moscow Amid Revolt Echoed by Troops
A News Agency dispatch from St. Petersburg reports barricades on Moscow’s main streets with revolutionists fighting police Cossacks and dragoons. Troops patrol with machine guns firing on insurgents as clashes persist. Indictments elsewhere target eighteen bridge firms operating in Ohio.
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London
Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Eleven Strikers Killed in Moscow Barricade Clash
Eleven men were killed and eighty wounded when troops fired on workmen defending a barricade in Moscow. The day’s total casualties were estimated at one hundred fifty.
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St. Petersburg
Associated Press
Moscow
Striking Russians Proclaim Provisional Government in Kursk
In Kursk on December 23 Associated Press reports that railroad workers have set up a provisional government and issued an appeal for support to establish a Russian republic amid the ongoing strike movement.
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Kursk
Associated Press
Patrolman Biffle Captures Suspected Burglar Duo
Canton patrolman Patrick Biffle, a plain clothes officer, arrested Elmer Huberty, 16, after linking him to a burglary at Samuel Cohen’s cigar and confectionery store at Navarre and South Market streets. Gust Parney, already held on vagrancy, confessed Huberty aided the Cohen job. both are bound over to the grand jury. Mayor Smith’s rummage sale yielded 4821, and James Wheaton was fined for petit larceny.
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Canton
Patrick Biffle
Meyer’s Lake
Elmer Huberty
Samuel Cohen
Navarre
South Market
Biffle
Gust Parney
Huberty
Cohen
Parney
Smith
Massillon
Alliance
James Wheaton
Bell
Masgillop
Aungst
Wheaton
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