President Roosevelt linked to Pittsburg graft scandal
Pittsburg officials arrest nine on bribery amid a probe led by the Voters League. A councilman is caught in a bribe plot via a staged photograph at the Fort Pitt Hotel. Roosevelt allegedly informed the investigation and a special examiner was sent.
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A. A. Vilsack
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Stiff Storm Halts City Traffic Across Boroughs
A fierce snowstorm beginning after 7 PM paralyzed all transport in New York City except subways and under river tubes. Streets and tracks froze as cars, streetcars, and trolleys halted, with six hundred wagons ready to clear streets and shelters filling Bowery Mission and Municipal Lodging House. Four liners lost sight of port east of Fire Island, likely not to reach harbor until later today.
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Croker
Ousted Venezuelan President Cipriano Castro and Wife Targeted
Mme Castro and Cipriano Castro faced a home invasion in Caracas as a portion of their residence was seized. Reports indicate the former leader and his spouse were involved in the incident, with authorities reviewing security and political tensions in the capital.
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Venezuela
Severe snowstorm blankets Tri-State region overnight
Philadelphia reports the first major snowfall of the season beginning at 2 PM and continuing through midnight. Up to three and a half inches have fallen, with Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware noted as heavily blanketed in white.
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Pennsylvania
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Delaware
Christmas mail theft and rail crash reported in Chicago
A mail pouch carrying sixty pounds of registered Christmas packages was stolen from a Belt Line station. In Chicago a mail coach with Christmas presents burned after a collision with a freight train, five clerks barely escaped, one injured, and an engine overturned as a gas tank exploded.
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Belt Line
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Baltimore & Chioe
Morgan pays 120 dollars for fifteen Caxtons at auction
A Manchester paper reports J. P. Morgan paid 120 dollars for fifteen Caxtons from the library of Lord Amherst of Hackney. The books were among items sold at auction in Manchester on December 23.
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Hackney
Teacher Guides 42 Children Through Fire at School
In Circleville Ohio on December 22 a blaze trapped District School 5 with barred windows and a burning door. Teacher Luther Compton ordered the pupils outside through the flames, becoming the last to exit as all students were saved.
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Luther Compton
French Bark Artere Feared Lost With Seventeen Crew
A St Pierre dispatch reports the French bark Artere sailing from France last November with a salt cargo for Gaston Menter may be lost with all seventeen crew members. Signals bearing the vessel’s name reached the English coast this week, ending hopes of survival.
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Gaston Menter
St Pierre
Carneys Escape Death on Williamsburg Bridge Runaway
A coach carrying Mr and Mrs John Carney and Mr and Mrs Thomas Carney from a funeral on the Williamsburg Bridge ran away when an exhausted driver could not control horses driven by Michael Branch. The coach swerved and scraped rails but the gates closed in time. the occupants escaped serious injury.
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Adelphi Street
Brooklyn
Thomas Carney
North Frances Street
Tarrytown
Williamsburg Bridge
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President Roosevelt praises Great Heart in Pilgrim's Progress
Rev Duncan C Milner says the president favors Great Heart as his ideal in public life and that Lincoln embodies that ideal. Roosevelt confirms in a letter dated November 30 1908 stating Pilgrim's Progress is among the greatest books and Great Heart is his favorite fictional character.
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President Roosevelt
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Lincoln
Theodore Koosevelt
Fire at Herald Square Theatre Drives Crowd to Safety
Flames burst from a balcony during The Three Twins at Herald Square Theatre as about fourteen hundred spectators evacuated calmly. Dewitt Copworth led orchestra till exit. fire crews and police directed crowds and saved the stage with an asbestos curtain. Fire damage hit offices and roof. losses estimated at 50 000 to 60 000 dollars with performances cancelled or moved.
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Lee Shubert
the Three
Lew Fields
Herald Square Theatre
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Aquarium
John Stetson
New Park Theatre
Theatre Comique
Edward Harrigan
Harrigan
McAllister
Will
Castro's Rule Ended New Era in Venezuela Foreseen
Special Caracas dispatch describes rising anti Castro sentiment in Caracas on Dec 13. Students, merchants, and officials lean Gomez led opposition while Castro loyalists cling to power via Governor Cardenas. A mass protest forms in Plaza Bolivar with calls to Gomez to lead Venezuela's future.
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Tribune
Caracas
Plaza Bolivar
Cipriano Castro
Juan Vicente Gomez
Europe
Gomez
Sancho Panza
Don Quixote
Federal District
General Cardenas
Carlos Leon
New York
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Alcantara
Gomistas
Pedro Maria Cardenas
Cardenas
Yellow House
Curagao
Castro Foils Venezuela Plot as Gomez Takes Power
Caracas reports Cipriano Castro's rule ends after a failed assassination attempt on Acting President Juan Vicente Gomez. Gomez arrests conspirators with his own hands, replaces Castro's cabinet, and moves to settle disputes with foreign powers, including Dutch and German interests, while freeing political prisoners.
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Torres-Cardenas
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