Local Happenings Brighten Holidays in City
Read of numerous visitors from Chicago Cleveland Barberton and Philadelphia as well as local residents marking Christmas with family gatherings births marriages and post holiday travel. Notable items include a newborn son to Harmon Richardson and wife and several residents visiting relatives in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lester
Chicago
Emmy Kuebler
Cleveland
Mary Urshel
James Tuiner
Barberton
Oliver Jacobs
Philadelphia
Harmon Richardson
Clay Street
Helen Siebold
East Main Street
Francis Smith
Ralph Smith
Alliance
Money Hidden In Closet Burns In Home Fire
A Christmas Eve fire at the Rogers residence on Front Street destroyed $800 in furniture and $260 in cash after the family left to town for shopping. The blaze began when a furnace overheated after dampers were left open. Insurance covered the home and most losses. The $200 cash was moved from a bed to a closet and later destroyed in the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rogers
Joseph Schrader
Central Department
Walter
Obituary notices from a Mississippi paper December death notices
Miss WeaR OOLER and W R Oyler died of heart failure Christmas morning. Funeral services Thursday. Rosa Balmert died at the state hospital of organic brain disease aged 66, burial in East Liverpool. Victor Burnett notified of death of Charles Potter of Las Vegas New Mexico, Civil War veteran, former local resident. Jacob Morganstein died of apoplexy aged 20, services at residence and St John’s Church. D M Anderson, age 58, sister of C B Allman Massillon, died from paralysis. funeral at Beach City residence and Massillon cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Morganstein
St. John's Church
Order of Sons of Hermann
Joseph Graybill
L. & W. Yard
George Hackett
Lorain
Graybill
The
Independent Company
Sam Rollins
Mayor Wise
A. W. Inman
Harry Ville
H.C. Foltz
John Snyder
Joseph Schrader
Charles Rigler
Rosa Balmert
State Hospital
East Liverpool
Charles Potter
Victor Burnett
East South Street
Las Vegas
N. M
West
Potter
Newark
N. J
E. A. Snyder
Morganstein
Bowman's Schoolhouse
St. John’s Church
Beach Crry
D. M. Anderson
C. B. Allman
Massillon
Beach City
Changed Her Mind About Heiress Search In Inverness
Postmaster Koons seeks explanation from Inverness assistant postmistress after misinterpretations of a fortune story. Letters from Mapleton Qu. reveal Hollander relatives and an heiress named Flora Alice Hollander now Mrs Clarence Smith.
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Koons
Inverness
Joseph Smith
Cliff Street
Ioverness
Clarence G. Smith
Mapleton, Q
Tsaw
Alliance Review
Flora Alice Hollander
Mary Frances Hollander
Salem
Edward H
Erie
Flora
Conrad Holland
Bert Conrad
Conrad
L. Rose
Joverness
Massillon
Ieva Hollander
Clarence Smith
Miss Rose
Rose
Salvation Army Feeds 100 at Tremont Street Dinner
The Salvation Army served dinner to 100 people on Tremont Street Tuesday with 45 gift baskets sent to needy families. The Christmas menu included chicken cranberry sauce celery cake and pie. Total dinner cost about 60 dollars. About 150 gifts were distributed to attending children during a musical and literary program beside two large Christmas trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Tremont Street
Barreceks
Fire at Massillon church decorations causes near panic
Programs carried out across Massillon churches including Christmas Eve and Christmas night. At the First Reformed church a decoration caught fire from a candle during Tuesday evening exercises. Minor damage occurred and a panic was narrowly averted as calmer voices reassured the crowd and evacuation was orderly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massillon
First Reformed
Alany
Advertised Letters in Massillon Post Office 1900
List of unclaimed letters in the Massillon post office as of December 25 1900. LADIES Arthur Mrs Albert Jones Mrs Wm Brunt Mrs John Price Miss Melle Kyrd Mrs Prank W Roth Mrs Clara N danier Miss Mamie Wetter Mrs J W MEN Donaldson F R Harris Wim Hickox G McPeary Wm McCrasy Wm Mayoer Mr Pace Harry Welker Judge and Mrs Martin Neber Hussgell FORYNIGN Leopoldo Pariz. Callers must say advertised. Louis A Koons P M.
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Massillon
Arthur
Albert Jones
Brunt
John Price
Melle Kyrd
Prank W
McPeary
Wm. McCrasy
Wm. Mayoer
Mr. Pace
Harry Welker
Martin Neber & Hussgell Forynign
Like the Deadly Under Current Disease Takes Hold Unseen
The passage warns that a sudden weakening of the mucous membrane can allow disease to establish in any organ such as the lungs head throat stomach or bowels. It asserts a single cause behind diverse symptoms and locations.
Pe-ru-na Promoted As Sole Cure For Catarrh
An advertisement asserts catarrh inflames the nose throat and chest with winter weakening the system. It claims pneumonia grip colds coughs fevers and other catarrhal issues can be checked only by Pe-ru-na the true cure. It warns that other diseases may be mistaken for catarrh but the remedy reaches the right place to cure.
A Night of Terror and a Widow's Narrow Escape
Mrs Lincoln recounts a perilous night for General Burnham's widow of Machias Maine. Doctors feared death from pneumonia but she sought Dr King's New Discovery which she credits with saving her life and curing lung disease after three doses. The remedy promises to heal throat chest and lung ailments, priced 30 cents to 1 dollar with a trial bottle offered at Baltaly's drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burnham
Machias
Lincoln
Baltaly
Scrofula Cited as Root Cause of Many Ailments
The article claims scrofula in the blood causes eczema catarrh hip disease white swelling and even consumption. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy that reaches the root of the trouble and purges impurities and disease germs. Hood's Pills are recommended as the best family cathartic.
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Hood
Hool
Hest
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Promises Quick Heal
A Frightful Blunder Will often cause a horrible burn, scala, cut or bruise. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the best in the world, will kill the pain and preciptly heal it. Cures old sores, fever sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, all skin eruptions. Best pile cure on earth, only 25 cts. a box. Cure guar anteed. Sold by Z. T. Bualtzly, drug gist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Z. T. Bualtzly
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy Ad
An early 20th century advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims the syrup soothes the child softens the gums relieves pain cures wind colic and serves as the best remedy for diarrhoea priced at 256 a bottle.
Russia backs shift in treaties amid Anglo American clash
The Novoe Y Veryna notes the English press indictment of the United States Senate over the Clayton Bulwer treaty and argues that changing conditions require treaty updates. The Bourse Gazette says Russia is pleased by America's diplomatic win and allies with the US while criticizing Western Europe’s stance on expansion and the Monroe doctrine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Novoe Y Veryna
United States Senate
Russia
Black Sea
Bourse Gazette
America
England
Europe
China
War Department Allows Cold Weather Gear For Enlisted Men
In Washington on December 26 the secretary of war authorized arctic overshoes fur gauntlets caps and woolen mittens at cost for enlisted men when post commanders certify need. Canvas mittens blanket lined canvas hat and blanket lined canvas overcoats may be supplied to troops in extremely cold regions and to West Point under certain conditions. Overcoats may be fur or blanket lined canvas issued to guards or field personnel exposed to freezing weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of War
West Point
Bank of Latrobe Organized and Rural Delivery Plans
The Comptroller of the Currency approved the organization of The Peoples National Bank of Latrobe Pennsylvania with capital of 50000. Directors include Charles T. Smith George W. Meltenry Philip Doherty and others. Rural free delivery will start on Tan 2 at Connenat Lake Crawford county with two carriers over 40 miles population served 1104. Post office at Watson Run to be discontinued.
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Washington
Pec
Tional Bank of
Latrobe
Charles TR. Smith
Gears W. MelTenry
Philip Doherty
Tames Fef. Brennan
Daniel W. Jones
Tan 2
Connenat Lake
Crawford County
Jeneth
Roites
M. Shantz
Cyrus McMichael
Watson Run
Charged convict released on conditional pardon in Montreal
Tamos Baxter, once of Chicago and later New York, sentenced to five years for involvement in the Bangus Ville Marie frauds, has been released on conditional garden from Rt Vincent de Pont penitentiary. His wife and friends pressed for pardon due to ill health as he suffers from dropsy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montral Quebec
Tamos Baxter
Chicago
New York
Rt Vincent de Pont
Iris
Sothern Returns to Stage After Accident at Olympic
In St Louis on December 26 actor B H W Sothern resumed work after a hiatus caused by an accident canceling dates nationwide. He starred in Hamlet at the Olympic theater before a crowded audience. The interrupted tour will resume with Chicago shows next week. In Warren on the same date, John Owens, 72, a Girard steel worker, was killed when struck by a fire train, his legs and head severed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
John Owens
Girard
American Steel Toop Company
Laying New Bridge Cables by Four Cables Across
Engineers report preparations for the New East River bridge cables. Four cables about 19 inches diameter will each hold 10 000 wires with total weight near 4500 tons. Wires cross river via false rope and rolling wheels with two wires moved per stroke. After 280 wires per strand are laid, they are tied and grouped into cylindrical cables. The article also notes a clergy humorous remark about miracles during a sermon.
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East River
New York Sun
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Nework
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Ada Fry
Ida Schertzer
Statetreet
John Clair
Toledo
A. Morgan
Wooster Street
Edwin B. Baltaly
Perth Amboy
Z.T. Baltaly
Bessie Moyer
Mae Birt
Zanesville
George Kraisch
Ann Arbor
Mich
James Tyner
Monongahela
Mary Albrecht
Henry Reichert
Louis Reichert
Matie Smith
Ida Moory
Norwalk
R. E. Smith
No. 40
Park Row
Thomas Jones
M. I. Whitney
Akron
H. V. Kramer
H.M. Vaughn
Steubenville
Vaughan
West Main Street
Wm. Johnson
North Lawrence
Ford
Bishop
Vanderbilt Avenue
Cameron Miller
Detroit
United States Immigration Service
John Anderson
Harvey Anderson
Mack
Lillas Walkup
Leonard Burry
University of Columbus
Alois Seiler
East Cherry Street
B. A. Jones
Charity Batch School
RK. M. Scott
Great Pally
Mont
W. J. Strobel
Duncan Street
Allman Hospital
Fred Oestringer
Roundhouse
W. & L. E. Yards
Adam Hammersmith
Wear
Winmer
W. R. Oyler
Leopoldo Pariz
Louis A. Koons
P.M
Hoods Sa
Saparilla
Senate
Allman & Putman
Balaam
New York Tribune
Broadway
Quimby
Durham Arrow
Coon
Monarch
Doll's Hat
J B. Stetson
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