Regiment Joins Moscow Rebels Amid Urban Warfare
Moscow dispatch reports Rostoff Regiment siding with revolutionaries in Moscow as troops, artillery, and guerrilla bands clash across barricades. Three revolutionary armies operate around the city, with heavy fighting near Perovo, Sadovia, and Brest station. General Mistchenko arrives to take command, while casualties and evacuations mount as rebels resist government troops.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Petersburg
Semiovesky
Treain
Moscow-Kazan
Perovo
Sadovia
Brestro
Triumphhal
St. Andrew's Monastery
Oitskirts
Ienéral
Freiur
Slos
Tie Aielva
Desaevelt
Ain
Enen
Unprovoked Attacks by Cossacks on Workmen Al
A chaotic report from an early Yorke city page describes unprovoked assaults by armed groups on laborers. Details are fragmented with garbled dates and places, but indicate violence against workers and rising public concern amid tense local conditions.
Local Index and Society Notes Snapshot
Index to departments and amusements lists various items including arrivals and business squabbles. Mentions new corporations, real estate pages, and society notices. Also references weather updates and a fresh fires page.
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Amiusements
Peere
Commie
Finan Wey
Martie Toteligenee
Puriga
Real Beate Tage
Society
Pacre
United Servicr
Fresh Weathir Royerts
Yerkes Nearing Death in Waldorf Astoria Suite
Charles T. Yerkes lies critically ill in his Waldorf Astoria suite with kidney trouble. Dr. T. P. Loomis said he is unlikely to live more than a day and remains under opiate sedation as family and doctors monitor his deteriorating condition after a London illness and offshore exposure.
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Charlies T. Yerkes
Waldorf-Astoria
T. P. Loomis
Yerkes
London
New York
Loomis
Looms
Mr. Yerkes
Dr. Loomis
Yitient
Texas Senators Rival for Gorman’s Senate Seat
The New York Times reports Senator Gorman may resign the Senate minority leadership. Texans Culberson and Bailey emerged as potential successors, having led in Panama debates and influenced Democratic stance. A formal decision by Gorman is awaited, with declarations of intent to run viewed as premature.
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New York Times
Washington
Gorman
Senate
Culberson and
Bailey
Texas
Mary-lannd
Messrs
Culberson
Panama
Miss Anna Randolph Dies After Jump From Window
In Rome on December 27 Miss Anna Randolph of New Castle Pennsylvania committed suicide by jumping from a guard floor window. Suffering nervous prostration since Christmas she showed signs of insanity and in a frightened moment leaped to her death. Her brother, an artist in Rome, was not informed until after the act.
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Rome
Anna Randolph
New Castle
Penn
Randolph
Christas
Replée
Anges
Death of Anna Randolph in Rome Reported by Cable
Special to The New York Times notes the death of Anna Randolph, daughter of Presiding Elder Randolph of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She had been in Rome for art study with her brother Lee Pendolph. cable from Pendolph confirms a fall from a window with no further details.
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New York Times
Roy Drak
Randolph
Methodist Lipiscopal
Rome
Anna Randolph
Lee Pendolph
Pastor and Policeman in Jersey City Church Official Powers
The Rev. John L. Scudder of the First Congressional Church in Jersey City was granted special police powers by the Police Board. His badge number is 258, and he may not wear a uniform or carry a club unless he furnishes his own equipment. He says the appointment enables him to handle emergencies with the majesty of the law behind him and notes several petty gymnasium thefts as motivation.
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John L. Scudder
First Congressional Church
Jersey City
Th Police Board
Dr. Scudder
Fire at Blind Asylum Sparks Alarm and Quick Fire Response
A blaze broke out in the storehouse of the Mount Loretto asylum during a Mission of the Immaculate Virgin event. Firefighters faced a long run but arrived promptly and managed to confine the fire with slight damage reported.
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Pope
Lin
Boston hotels suspend liquor sales pending license action
Boston proprietors of leading hotels announced closing their bars at 11 oclock and will not sell liquor until further developments in the crusade led by District Attorney John Moran. Affected establishments include the Hotel Essex Youngs Hotel Parker House and the Adams House. The district attorney says they have forfeited licenses for violation of the screen law and will await new license decisions before further moves.
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Boston
Crusade
John i. Moran
Liotel -Essex
Young's Hotel
Parker Hiause
Adams Horse
Dister
WOLVEDRINE LIMITED Train Schedule Various Cities
The Wolvedrine Limited departs New York for Detroit Grand Rapids Wy and Chicago with planned stops in Grand Rapids Saginaw and Chicago. An outreach and next rain contingency are noted with service via New York Central Lines in the afternoon.
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Wolvedrine
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Chicago
New York
Grand Lrapids
City transit men vow to act if Belmont Ryan bid fails
Rapid Transit Commission leaders including President Orr and Commissioners Stewart Smith Claflin Jesup Langdon and Controller Grout plan to shield the city from a weak Belmont Ryan bid. They may seek legislative constitutional changes to let the city borrow against owned property and even build and operate new subways if necessary.
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Alexander E. Orr
Rapid Transit Commission
Charles Stewart-Smith
John Claflin
Morris K. Jesup
Woodbury Langdon
Grout
Bemont-Ryan Traction
Combine
Orr
Belmont- Ryan
Belmont-Ryan
Charles Stewart Smith
Samme
Staten Island
McClellan
Rapid Transit
Central Park
State Senate
Senate
Tax Board
Coal Gift to Miss Roosevelt From Hazleton Union
Members of Local Union No. 2 United Mine Workers plan to present Miss Alice Roosevelt with a carload of top anthracite coal as a wedding gift in recognition of her father’s role in ending the 1902 strike. In Cincinnati Congressman Nicholas Longworth returns home after confirming a February White House wedding and a brief postnuptial tour before resuming Congress.
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Hazleton, Penn
United Mine Workers of America
Alice Roosevelt
New York Times
Cincinnati
Nicholas Longworth
Longworth
White House
Congress
Roosevelt disapproves wedding gift subscription plan
The White House issued a statement on December 27 denying President Roosevelt sanctioned a plan in Baker City Oregon to start a subscription for a wedding present for Miss Roosevelt and Representative Nicholas Longworth The plan sought to raise 800000 dollars with a ten cent subscription and was opposed by the President who urged that no such fund be undertaken
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Washington
White House
Baker City
Oregon
Miss Roosevelt
Dispatch
Nicholas Longworth
President Roosevelt Heads to Pine Knob Country Retreat
President Roosevelt and party arrived at North Garden Virginia, soon en route to Pine Knob for a five day outing. He will stay until Sunday afternoon and plans to return to Washington Sunday night. Mrs Roosevelt and children Ethel Kermit Archie accompany him. Theodore Roosevelt Jr will join the party tomorrow. Miss Alice Roosevelt will depart Washington for New York City for several days.
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North Garden
Roosevelt
Pine Knob
Washington
Southern Railway
Rover
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Alice Roosevelt
New York City
Bernhardt Lodges Protest Over Theatre Syndicate
Sarah Bernhardt, via her managers with the Shuberts, appeals to Ambassador Jussérand as a French citizen to protest theatre discrimination. Strine says Texas and Louisiana bans hurt French residents in New Orleans and that bookings were withdrawn from syndicate theatres. The ambassador will review records and may instruct the French Consul in New York.
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Washington
Sarah Bernhardt
The
Shuberts
Jusserand
France
Charles W. Strine
Mme. Bernhardt
Texas
Louisiana
New Orleans
M. Jussérand
John Dee
New York
Jerome
Strine
Mrs Alexander Rescues Cat From Jersey City Tree
Mrs C B Alexander of Castle Point Hoboken state probation officer helped save a cat that two days earlier had climbed a Jersey City tree and refused to descend. Firemen aided by a 32 foot ladder reached the cat as Capt Harms carried it down to cheers from onlookers.
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C. B. Alexander
Castle Point
Hoboken
Jersey City
Society For the Prevention of
Jersey Avenue
Seventh Street
Society
Alexander
Lovell
Harms
Will of a Washington Deacon Breaks Formal Tone
Elphonzo Youngs, a longtime church deacon, filed his self written will revealing a blunt, humorous aside. He begins with formal phrasing then adds a bold ink dash and states that upon his death his wife Amelia Loretta L. Youngs should have all he possesses.
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New York Times
Washington
Elphonzo Youngs
Youngs
Amelia Loretta L. Youngs
Morales Wounded as Dominican Crisis Deepens in Santo Domingo
In Santo Domingo Morales the fleeing president is reported dangerously wounded. Caceres designated as acting president while Morales fled, cabinet maintains affairs. U.S. interests in the island face questions over customs control, money in New York, and future treaty talks amid turmoil.
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New York Times
Washington
Santo Domingo
Commander Chambers
Nashville
Puerto Plata
Domingan
Morales
Tejera
Senate
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
City National Bank
New York
Monte Christi
United States
Foreign Relations Committee
Root
Hyde Sets Sail on La Lorraine with Sartoris Sedley Party
James Hazel Hyde is booked to sail today aboard the steamship La Lorraine. Also on board are Mr and Mrs Alger non Sartoris and Miss Barbara Sedley, listed among the traveling party.
Dewey's Pure Grave Juice Trade Ad at Fulton Street
An old classified style line for Dewey and Sons Co at 138 Fulton Street New York promoting Dewey's Pure Grave Juice as a world best product with minimal readable context.
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T-Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Minsk governor claims orders to massacre under czar's proclamation
Governor of Minsk Gen Kourloff declares, per 2 Novosti, that he acted under orders to massacre after the czar's proclamation of Oct 39. He vows to present documentary evidence in court if tried.
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Novosti
J P Morgan Misses A Fire At Madison Avenue Residence
A chimney blaze at 219 Madison Avenue sent flames through the Morgan home last night. J Pierpont Morgan was away, and Herbert L Satterlee summoned firefighters who quickly contained the fire with little damage reported.
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J.pierpont Morgan
Madison Avenue
Mr. Morgan
Herbert L. Satterlee
Iron Steamboat Taurus Burns at East 32nd Street Dock
Fire discovered just after 1 am on the Iron steamboat Taurus moored at East Thirty-second Street. It started in a waste room, spread to coal bunkers and a supply room before Watchman Samuel Ferris raised the alarm. Fireboats David A. Boody and William N. Strong extinguished the blaze in about twenty minutes, with damage around 500 dollars. The nearby Hudson River steamboat City of Troy was being readied for hauling into the stream when flames were controlled.
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East Thirty-second Street
Samuel Ferris
David A. Boody
William N. Strong
City of
Troy
Pope aims for strictly religious jubilee in 1908
Rome, Dec 27 Preparations are under way for the 1908 jubilee of the Popes ordination as a priest. Asked if he wanted festivities like the Leo jubilee with an international Vatican exhibition he replied Certainly not I wish the celebration to maintain a strictly religious character.
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Rome
Leo
Vatican
Stevens for lock canal during Isthmian inquiry
Chairman Shonts and Chief Engineer J F Stevens arrive in Washington to present views to the Isthmian Canal Commission on canal type. Stevens will urge a lock canal citing clearer cost and construction time estimates than a sea level route.
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Washington
Shonts
J. F. Stevens
Isthmian Canal Commission
Stevens
Penn Railroad advertising ban spurs Pittsburg press action
The Pennsylvania Railroad ordered all advertising to be paid in cash and cut off newspaper transportation. In response the Pittsburg Newspaper Publishers Association passed a resolution to bar from newspapers all complimentary notices about the Pennsylvania Railroad or its officers. All railroad wrecks will be reported in detail without favoring railroads.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Navy hazing case leads to court martial for Decatur
Annapolis December 27 The Board of Investigation has found grounds for action against Midshipman Stephen Decatur Jr a member of the class to graduate February 12. He will be tried after the Coffin case. Decatur is a descendant of Commodore Decatur and entered the academy in November 1902. He stands sixth in the class.
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New York Times
Annapolis
Board of Investigation
Sands
Naval Academy
Stephen Decatur, Jr
Decatur
Commodore Decatur
Academy
Portsmouth
N. H
Yale Student Saves Drowning Siblings at Lake Kenosia
Harold Reynolds, a Yale student and son of M. Percy Reynolds, rescued Irene Cole aged 18 and her brother Henry 19 from Lake Kenosia near Danbury in front of a large crowd. They had fallen through thin ice while skating. Reynolds hurried to the scene and pulled them from the water.
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Tpanbury
Harold Reynolds
Yale
M. Percy Reynolds
Irene Cole
Henry
Lake Kenosia
Danbury
Miss Cole
Reynolds
Doctor Osler not leaving professorships says Hopkins official
Baltimore dispatch reports Superintendent Hard of Johns Hopkins Hospital denies truth to rumors Osler will resign Regis professorship of medicine at Oxford to return to Johns Hopkins. Boston dispatch notes Mrs. John Revere confirms Osler has no plan to resign his Oxford chair.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Hard
Johns Hopkins Hospital
William Osler
Osler
Regis
Oxford
Johns Hopkins
Boston
John Revere
Mackay to endow parish house for Trinity Church
Roslyn reports Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay will give a parish house to Trinity Church as a memorial to her mother. She also established an endowment fund, originally $1,000, now arranged, to support the project, with the house costing about $10,000.
Seaboard Florida Limited Advertises Electric Lighted Train
The Seaboard Florida Limited is promoted as the handsomest and quickest Florida train with electric lighting. Offices for Seaboard Air Line are listed at 1,183 Broadway, suggesting a promotional railroad advertisement.
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Seaboard Florida Limited
Florida
Flectric
Seaboard Air Line
Broadway
Ady
Payn testifies on Insurance Dept. history before Armstrong panel
Louis F Payn former Superintendent of Insurance testifies before the Armstrong investigating Committee, recalling the department’s conduct during his tenure and aligning with Hendricks on solvency focus. Andrew Hamilton’s legislative expenditure report for New York Life is examined, with cross examination over unlisted payees and a large disbursement table totaling about 865000 after adjustments.
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Louis F. Payn
Roosevelt
Armstrong Investigating Committee
Supt. Hendricks
Payn
Hendricks
Andrew Hamilton
New York Life Insurance Company
Armstrong Committee
John C. McCall
Europe
Hughes
New York Times
Hamilton
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Wee
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St. Petershure
Yorke
Charles T. Yerkes
Texas Senators
Blind Asylum
Mount Loretto Institution
Boston Hotels
Noran
Ryan Belmont
McDonald
John B. McDonald
Subway
Interborough
Belmont Forces
MR. Roosevelt
Mrs. Roosevelt
M. Jusserand
Theatre Syndicate
Hook and Ladder Company
Treaty
Santo Domingan
Caceres
Domingans
Dawson
Puerto Pinta
Pawson
Perez
James H. Hyde
London Times
Ganized
Czar
J. P. Morgan
Pope Leo
Pope Pius
Jubilee
Pennsylvania
Commodore
Skater
Dr. Osler
Louis Payn
N. Y. Life
Charles FE
Mr. Hughes
McCall
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Young McCall
New York Life
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