Soldier Brother’s Charity Turns to Unexpected Charity
Col. Batterfly visits his sister’s opulent home and gives costly gifts to nieces and nephews. A mix up over Penrose street versus Penrose avenue leads his conscience to reveal the loot from a Chinese trip. He discovers the children actually receive a poor family’s doll and steamboat, and he chooses to let the scene stand, deeming it a lucky blunder.
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Batterfly
Calwin Murdock
Murdock
Wie
Murdocks
Ahhildren
Hually
Penrose Street
Penrose Avenue
Papa
Murphy
Mamie
Chicago Record- Herald
Christmas Tree Dilemma Sparks Dual Sunday Plans
Hard Lueck notes Aunt Mae and Johnny discuss a holiday scheduling clash as two Sunday schools plan Christmas trees on the same night. The playful exchange highlights community church activities and a child’s scheduling conflict.
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Hard Lueck
Mae
Johnny
N. Y
How to Pick a Quality Christmas Turkey
The guide warns against yellow-fleshed birds indicating poor feeding. A good turkey should have firm white flesh and red, smooth legs signaling freshness.
Not the Christmas Kind Judge Quotes on Stockings
A judge remarks that the issue is not the Christmas stocking tradition but a broader context. The statement contrasts ceremonial festive items with underlying legal or moral concerns discussed in court.
Tragic Family Massacre in Cleveland and Chicago
In Cleveland Roscoe W. Derby a 45 year old machinist killed his wife Della and three children Harold Alice and Thomas before shooting himself. The killings followed despondency over finances and Christmas approaching. In Chicago Frederick Pflugradt killed wife Elizabeth Pflugradt and attempted to kill their eight day old son before shooting himself. The double crime occurred amid a dispute over a newspaper comic supplement in a room above their hardware store.
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Cleveland, O
Roscoe W. Derby
Della
Harold
Alice
Thomas
Derby
Chicago
Elizabeth Phugradt
Frederick Pflugradt
Halsted Street
Fear, Fight Likely Over Panama Treaty In Senate
Washington dispatches say the Panama canal treaty faces grave doubts as Democrats split and five GOP votes needed. a bitter senate fight looms with possible failure to ratify and protests from Republicans. The administration criticizes Senator Hoar's attack.
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Chicago
Washington
Record-Herald
Tribune
Senate
Hoar
Noted Lawyer Frederick R. Coudert Dies in Washington
Frederick R. Coudert veteran New York lawyer died in Washington at 71 from heart disease. He and family had wintered there. Funeral at St Patrick's Cathedral New York with burial in Calvary Cemetery Brooklyn. An authority on international law he advised U S in Behring Sea arbitration and Venezuelan boundary work.
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York City
Coudert
Washington
Frederick Benedict
New York
Col J. B. Bellinger
Frederick R. Coudert, Jr
South
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New York City
Calvary Cemetery
Brooklyn
Frederick Rene Coudert
United States
Behring Sea
International Congress On the Law of Nations
Venezuelan Boundary Commission
United States Supreme Court
Christian party names St Louis convention for 1904 ticket
The United Christian party calls a national and international mass convention in Convention Hall at the St Louis World's Fair on May 1 and 2 1904 to discuss peace and economic questions and to nominate a president and vice president of the United States. William Rudolph Benkert chairs the national executive committee and Rev C H Thomas of Chicago is vice president.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
The
Christian Party
St. Louis
William Rudolph Benkert
United Christian Party
Des Moines
Benkert
C.H. Thomas
Chicago
Six Die From Gas Inhalation In San Francisco
Six people were asphyxiated by illuminating gas Saturday night in San Francisco. The coroner ruled the deaths accidental. In most rooms a window was open where gas escaped, noting the belief fresh air prevents fatal outcomes.
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San Francisco
Notable Dec 21 Dispatches From Across The Nation
The era reports the porte’s acceptance of U S demands and instruction to apologize for Consul Davis’s insult by Alexandretta police. Other items note comedian John Kernell’s death, ex-Congressman R J C Walter’s death, a Baltimore Ohio fire wounding 600 idle workers, Mrs Honoretta Marshall’s death at 105, and lynching case pleas in Illinois with fines.
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Constantinople
Porte
United States
Alexandretta
Davis
Attarin
John Kikernell
Detroit
John Kernell
Grace Hospital
Kernell
Philadelphia
R. J. C. Walter
Powers & Weightman
Pennsylvania
Lorain
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Worcester
Mass
Honoretta Marshall
Webster
Worster Hospital
Massachusetts
Roosevelt Proclaims Cuban Reciprocity Tariff Enters
President Roosevelt issues a proclamation placing the Cuban reciprocity treaty into effect December 27. Senate passes the bill with a 57 to 18 vote, carrying into execution the treaty ratified last March. The measure reduces U S duties on Cuban imports by 20 percent and lowers Cuban duties on US goods by 20 to 40 percent. The question now is how this affects sugar imports from other nations under the most favored nation clause. The British government warns of equal terms for British West Indies sugar and similar expectations may arise from Germany and other beet sugar producers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Cuba
Spooner
Bailey
United States
State Department
British West Indies
Germany
France
Austria
Olney
Cleveland
Fire Claims Four Lives at Central Tennessee College
A devastating Nashville fire at Central Tennessee college for young negro women, a Walden University department, killed four known victims and injured about 30, with 19 fatally. The four story dorm housed 60 students. panic drove many to windows as flames engulfed the building. Ambulances rushed to hospitals as crews battled the blaze and searched for additional victims.
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Nashville
Tenn
Central Tennessee College For Young Negro Women
Walden University
Stella Addison
Port Gibson
Miss
Mattie Lee Moore
Huntsville
Ala
Sallie Dade
Hopkinsville
Nannie Johnson
Hattiesburg
Notorious burglar Jimmy Dunlap paroled from Joliet prison
Jimmy Dunlap known as the gentleman burglar and linked to the Northampton bank heist was secretly paroled on December 7 from Joliet. He was ordered to report to William A. Pinkerton and had been sentenced on November 16, 1900, for cracking Pate's bank in Wellington, with $2,800 stolen.
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Chicago
Jimmy” Dunlap
America
Europe
Ilinois
Jolie
State Board of Pardons
Dunlap
William A. Pinkerton
Northampton
Joliet
Hirscher
Watseka
Iroquois County
Pate
Wellington
Ill
Cardinal Got ti Delivers Hidden Funds Lesson to New Pope
Paris reports Cardinal Gotti, prefect of the Propaganda, told Leo XIII's will executor the late pope left a large sum of money to be given to the new pope four months after election. The motive cited is to show how hard it is to govern the church without money, urging fiscal economy.
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Paris
Rome
the Figaro
Gotti
Propaganda
Leo XIII
Leo
Fire Tragedy Claims Three Batteen Children in Dubuque
In Dubuque Iowa on Tuesday night three children of August Batteen aged farmers from Alamakee county died in a house fire that consumed their home. Only two children escaped as the residence burned to the ground.
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Dubuque, Ja
August Batteen
Alamakee County
Batteen
Wages Rise Five Cents a Day for Wilkesbarre Workers
Wilkesbarre and Wyoming Valley Trac tion company raises daily wages by five cents after employees demanded 25 cents. After many conferences, a compromise is reached and workers will not strike.
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Wilkesbarre
Wilkesbarre & Wyoming Valley Traction Company
New Trial Granted in Columbus Electrocution Case
Lewis Harmon, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of farmer George Geyer near Alton, has been granted a new trial by the circuit court in Columbus, Ohio, on December 17. The case pauses the January 9 electrocution date.
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New York
Alexander Haff
New York Post Office
Columbus, CO
Lewis Harmon
George Geyer
Alton
Honor for Gen Black Tendered Civil Service Post
Gen John C Black of Chicago, commander in chief of the Grand Army, has been tendered the civil service commissioner post made vacant by John R Procter’s death. Black has not stated if he will accept.
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Washington
John R. Procter
John C
Warships Strengthen Passage Guard in Isthmus Waters
In Colon on December 18 the US cruiser Atlanta reported a Colombia detachment of about 500 men at Titumati near the Atrato river. The Colombians protested the American presence while American forces reinforced. Navy officials say no Colombian troops are seen on the southern isthmus, with a large armada including Concord Boston Wyoming Marblehead New York Admiral Glass flagship Olympia and other vessels. Secretary Moody directs restrained, cautious handling and secrecy for naval actions.
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Colon
United States
Atlanta
William H. Turner
Gulf of Darien
Titumati
Gulf
Atrato River
Colombia
Turner
Coghlan
Cartagena
General Pinzon
Washington
Navy Department
Glass
Isthmus
Panama
Concord
Boston
Wyoming
Marble
Department
Iowa State Board Elects Officers and District Directors
At the Des Moines annual meeting of the state board of agriculture officers and district members were chosen. President is W. W. Morrow of Afton, vice president C. B. Cameron of Alta. Directors include J. S. Johnson Columbus Junction in district one, W. C. Brown Clarion in district three, S. E. Packard Marshalltown in district five, M. J. Wrage Waukee in district seven, M. McDonald Bayard in district nine, and H. L. Pike Whiting in district eleven.
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Des Moines
State Board of Agriculture
W. W. Morrow
Afton
C. B. Cameron
Alta
J. 8. Johnson
Iowa State and Savings Banks Update Shows Growth
Auditor of state reports two more banks since September 9 and capital rise of 29700. Deposits fell by 2814148.15 dollars while bills receivable grew 1685194.14 dollars. Amounts due to other banks increased 504044.21 dollars.
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Auditor of State
Iowa
Trains Collide Near Adel Kill Two Crews in Crash
A freight collision on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line near Adel killed engineer Frank Finnicum and fireman Oscar Dyre both of Des Moines. Four others were injured as a westbound double-header and an eastbound extra freight collided in a deep cut on a sharp curve demolishing three engines and 14 cars.
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Milwaukee & St. Paul
Adel
Frank Finnicum
Oscar Dyre
Des Moines
Wreck on Chicago Burlington and Quincy Claims Six Lives
A collision on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line three miles west of Albia kills three people and injures ten. The wreckage caught fire and several victims are badly burned. The dead include Mrs. W. E. Mitchen of Albia Mildren Mitchen three years old and Thomas Beatty all killed or fatally burned in the smoking car wreck.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road
Albia
W. E. Mitchen
Mildren Mitchen
Thomas Beatty
Armour Packing Company Found Guilty in Des Moines Case
Jury in Des Moines district court convicts Armour Packing Company of Chicago for violations of state dairy law. This four-time trial has seen the Armours lose each time, with an appeal to the supreme court likely to follow to preserve the oleomargarine business in the state.
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Armour Packing Company
Chicago
Des Moines
Armours
Supreme Court
Bank cashier shoots self after trading losses at Linn Grove
Harry Maine, cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' bank at Linn Grove, shot himself through the heart after reportedly losing heavily on the board of trade. The private bank claims a $100,000 deposit and is controlled by the First National Bank of Storm Lake, which ordered its doors closed.
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Harry Maine
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
Linn Grove
Maine
Board of Trade
First National Bank of
Storm Lake
Explosion Blasts Men During Pole Line Dig Near Hav erhill
An explosion of dynamite near Hav erhill fatally injured Joseph Mixner of Owatonna Minnesota and H McDonald an AT&T employee. The blast occurred while blasting holes for poles on the Waterloo to Des Moines line.
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Haverhill
Joseph Mixner
Owatonna, Minn
H. McDonald
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Waterloo
Des Moines
Foul Play Suspected After 16-Year-Old Found Dead
The body of Dick Robson, 16, was found in a weed patch near Extra after four weeks missing from home. A strap was around his neck, suggesting foul play. an investigation will be conducted.
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Dick Robson
Extra
Gov Cummins recalled from Boston for family illness
Governor Cummins traveled to Boston to address the merchants association banquet but was summoned home upon learning his mother was seriously ill.
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Gov. Cummins
Boston
Mass
Boston Merchants’ Association
Notable Iowa Headlines Echo Across The State
Reports from Des Moines to Waterloo list fortunes and misfortunes in a wide sweep of Iowa events. J. R. Sovereign claims wealth from Idaho copper and gold. George Smith dies in Coalville after a coal shaft accident. Blanche Campbell wins $5,000 in a breach of promise suit in Kronx City. a Mason City coroner’s jury cites George Louge’s murder by Martin Wescott. Fires devastate Whiting bank and Casady & Whiting store with $100,000 losses. G A R officer Perkins is reelected in Onawa. Obituaries note Rev. John Wesley Snodgrass at 92. Drake University taps J. L. Sawyers. University of Iowa leader George Maclean to address Michigan teachers. National Biscuit plant in Dubuque burns. Dixon Thomas Forrest, prison evangelist, dies in Davenport. Tom Clark of the Belknap gang is arrested in Cedar Rapids. Davis Gasoline Engine factory burns at Waterloo, with $60,000 loss plus Kasht grocery fire. H. L. Carpenter killed in Waterloo train collision injures Harry Conrad.
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J. R. Sovereign
Knights of Labor
Des Moines
Idaho
George Smith
Pleasant Valley
Webster County
Coalville
Kronx City
Blanche E. Campbell
George J. Staley
Beloit
Wis
Mason City
George Louge
Martin Wescott
Wescott
Louge
Whiting
Bank of Whiting
Casady & Whiting
Onawa
Hanscom Post
C. G. Perkins
John Wesley Snodgrass
Boone
J. L. Sawyers
Centerville
Drake University
Drake
George Maclean
University of Iowa
Michigan State Teachers’ Association
Ann Arbor
National Biscuit Company
Dubuque
J. Stanley Forrest
Davenport
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Tom Clark
Belknap
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Davis Gasoline Engine Company
Waterloo
H. B. Kasht
H. L. Carpenter
Harry Conrad
Carpenter
Illinois Central
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Bolton
Lewiston
Lewiston, Brunswick & Bath Street Railway Company
Youngstown
Machinists’ Union
Frederick R. Coudert
New
Belleville
David
Wyatt
Nashville, Tenn
Joliet Prison
Kenmare
N. C
McGlenn & Sons
Gen. Black
John C, Black
Isthmian
Wather
Los Angeles
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Joseph Choisser
Louis Choisser
West Fifth Street
Choissers
Equality
John A. Benson
California Land Syndicate
Frriday
Interior Department
Woodford B. Harlan
Taylor
Dayton
Canby
Columbus
Cardinal Gotti
James J. Hartley
Holy Name
Steubenville
Havana
Congress
Iowa State News
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