21 Dec 1909
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1909
Page
1
A fragmented report describes an incident at Shea Lewis Hospital involving Mrs itgearia. It references surgical implants and a physician, with unclear details about an appendicitis or related medical event and a reaction to a substance.
A Dec 21 Baltimore item tells of a mother near poverty who offers to sell her body for 10 dollars to secure money for her children. She fears depriving her kids of Christmas joy and proposes delivering the body after death to the purchaser, hoping to buy stockings, candles, and dolls for the younger children.
Senator Depew on the senate floor praised Senator La Follette for linking him with President Taft in a critique cited from Wisconsin magazine. He urged the president's annual message to Congress, warned against pessimistic United States outlook, and wished for favorable dreams after Christmas 1912. A separate item notes a train accident near Herkimer with two men killed after being washed from a car. The piece also reports Grand Army of the Republic national encampment set for Atlantic City.
Washington December 21. President Taft sent to the senate a list of important nominations for ambassadors and ministers to foreign nations. Included are Robert Bacon as ambassador to France and Richard C. Kerens as ambassador to Austria Hungary. Also named are Harry Lane Wilton to Mexico, Charles Page Bryan to Belgium, William James Calhoun to China, Horace Knowlen to the Dominican Republic, Henry P Fletcher to Chile, Henry T Gage to Portugal, A B Reynolds Hitt to Panama, John B Jackson to Cuba, Fenton R. McCressy to Honduras, Edwin V. Morgan to Paraguay, Charles W. Russell to Peru, Laurits Swenson to Switzerland, plus secretaries of various embassies in Berlin, Tokiu, Christiania, and other posts.
Fragmented report describes a Lexington incident where a mother supposedly smothered an infant in a bedclothes fire after the child was caught near dressing. The account mentions Bellefontaine gloves burned Archie McClure lighting a cigar and a Delaware runaway death jump, but details are unclear.
A major blaze at Ardolg and Hobbs in London causes many deaths and injuries. The fire mortally wounds twenty, with thirty more in hospital, as jumping debris and burning wreckage rain down on bystanders. Rescue efforts save some, while the building and adjoining structures suffer heavy damage. Estimated losses reach 1.25 million dollars and up to sixty employees are feared dead or missing in the ruins.
Indianapolis December 21. Brewers in the state adopt a policy to aid the Anti-Batoon league by closing salons and refusing beer sales to counties that voted dry. Actions stretch from Vanderburg to nearby counties, aided operatives in Muncie and Fort Wayne. Rumors say bootleggers in Dunkirk had their liquor seized after tips from brewers.
New York reports a $50 000 000 mock distribution tying Consolidated Gun Co to form a new company to acquire city property and distribute stock. 60 percent goes to Consolidated stockholders as the plan unfolds amid untold financial maneuvering. The story also notes a Chester Pa. man found dead on Pennsylvania railroad tracks. coroner probes if murder, suicide, or accident. Paris awards gold medals for airship flights to listed aviators including Bleriot Lambert and others.
A Dec 31 1931 report recounts two African American assailants entering the Ludenberg home in Pennsylvania, tying and choking Mrs. Litvenberg, torturing her for a money cache, and stealing about $202 in coins from a trunk before fleeing toward the nearby woods, triggering a county-wide search.
In Albany Georgia on December 21 a faithful bystander Jack risked himself to rescue a woman from a pond. Spectators and Joseph Carpenter helped pull her from the water. The rescued woman began showing signs of life after medical attention. A preacher apologized from the pulpit about the kidnapping case linked to the banquet incident and missing ten months.
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