Burglars Blow Open Bank Vault In Pepperell Robbery
Five men injured the First National Bank vault in Pepperell Massachusetts and fled with about $14,000 in cash. A third explosion destroyed the vault area while alarms and shots followed as the robbers escaped by auto toward Groton. Police across a fifty mile radius traced no reliable lead as cash and some gold remained unrecovered.
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Phpperell
Mass
First National Bank
Ernest Tarbell
Tarbell
Ile
Bank
City
Groton
Henry IF
Geehe Bank
Port au Prince Tense as Haitian Revolution Nears
Panic grips Port au Prince as General Antoine Simon's insurgent advance closes to within about 25 miles. President Nord Alexis vows to fight on while troops and foreign warships brace for possible landing as districts brace for potential disorder.
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Port AU Prince
Antoine Simon
Anz-A-Veau
Nord Alexis
Alexis
United States
France
New Route to Pacific Coast City Saves Fifty Miles of Travel
A new Dumbar ton bridge and bay cut-off near San Francisco will trim fifty miles from travel and allow regu lar trains by March. The route aims to become the main line for central overland trains into San Francisco, skipping Benecia and Oakland ferries. Lumber freight rates from Humboldt Bay rise today to coastal and inland points with no extra charges on shingles.
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San Francisco
Dumbarton Bridge
San Francisco Bay
Southern Pacific
Central Overland
Benecia
Oakland
Humboldt Bay
Point San Pablo
Richmond
Diamond
Antioc
Stockton
Santa Fe
New England
Seaboard
Chicago
Missori River
Colorado
Nebraska Notes Report Local Moves and Sales
Walter Dufford of Doniphan will move to South Dakota. J C Burdick sells his harness shop at Aurora to R C Machamer. The big chicken show in Mohraska City will be pulled off.
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Nebraska
Walter Dufford
Doniphan
South Dakota
J. C. Burdick
Aurora
R. C. Machamer
Mohraska
Alvo parties plan to feace the hots at Clatonia next week
Local notes report Alvo parties feacing Clatonia as the town readies for a nearby event next week. Other items include sales of businesses and farms, new building plans, and local civic notes across Adams Gage and Stanton counties.
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Alvo Parties
Clatonia
All But Two Victims Believed Recovered in Mine Disaster
State officials mine owners and rescuers counted 126 bodies hoisted and turned to undertakers with twelve brought to the surface. Victims were found in various parts of the Mariana mine of the Pittsburg Buffalo Coal Co. coroner Sipe sets December 19 for inquest testimony though an inspection tour may precede it.
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Pittsburg
Mariana
Sipe
Wealthy Parisian widow of San Francisco fortune
The wealthiest woman in Paris is Mrs Whitcomb an American citizen who speaks no English. Forty years ago she married a lawyer who moved from San Francisco to Paris for a holiday and never returned. He built a vast Paris real estate fortune now managed by Mrs Whitcomb worth $20 million.
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Paris
Denial Clarifies North Coast Rail Project Status
Lincoln cites official source denying that the North Coast railroad project in Washington is Northwestern. The dispatch had suggested a Northwestern link toward the Lander end and a coast to Chicago alignment. In Philadelphia, Richard Burk was fatally wounded and Andrew Lonergan shot in the arm in a pistol duel with George Medway outside the Bellevue-Stratford hotel after a dispute over army navy game ticket scalping.
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Northwestern
Lincoln
North Coast Railroad
Washington
Lander
Philadelphia
Richard Burk
Andrew Lonergan
George Medway
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
Broad Street
Lonergan
Medway
Army and Navy
Prague Students Rioting After Martial Law Proclaimed
Martial law was proclaimed in Prague today provoking Czech students to riot as government measures escalated unrest. Protesters clashed with authorities amid volatile streets in the Austrian city.
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Prague
Austria
Roosevelts Plan for Navy Commission and General Staff
President Roosevelt may appoint a commission to study naval organization and create a general staff to advise the civilian secretary. Secretary Root is reported to be asked to chair the panel, signaling a potential restructuring of the Navy Department.
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Navy
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy Department
Root
One Lawyer Kills Another in Portland
J A Finch, a disbarred attorney, shot and killed Hayden Fisher in Fisher's private room after Finch confronted him. Finch fired three shots, one hitting Fisher in the temple and killing him instantly before officers captured Finch at the police station.
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Portland
Ore
J. A. Finch
State Bar Association
Pisher
Bar Association
Finch
Fisher
Taft Eyes Ohio Campaign and Pact Support
President elect Taft and Arthur S. Vorys canvass Ohio politics halting in Taft’s plan for senate. Taft avoids direct involvement while signaling Charles P. Taft’s strong положение. Vorys to back Cincinnati capitalist. Foraker and Burton also seeking office. Taft endorses the American Japanese pact and urges cordial retirement policy.
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Hot Springs
Ohio
Taft
Arthur S. Vorys
Cincinnati
Washington
Charles P. Taft
Vorys
Senator Foraker
Representative Burton
None of Money Recovered in Mail Pouch Theft Conviction
Charles Stevens, accused of stealing a registered mail pouch with 50000 from a train July 6 in Kansas City, was sentenced by Judge Pollock to ten years in Fort Leavenworth federal prison. A jury found him guilty on six counts but he faces punishment on two. None of the money has been recovered. It is believed he may have hidden the funds for release. A San Francisco lawyer and four local attorneys defended him.
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Sarah J. Johnston
Adams County
John F. Johnson
Jack Rabbits
Tom Fadden
Hartington
Richard Kare
Pender
Ed. Conker
Sterling
Fred Benson
James Thompson
Cedar County
William Harrison
Dunbar
Daisy
Joseph Ord
Auburn
George McNamara
Cedar Rapids Improvement Company
Primrose
Ed. Cassan
Missouri
Nebraska
Richard C. Davis
Gage County
H. H. Parkhurst
McCall-Webster Company
Hl Eaton
Wiley
Mead
Union
Thurston County
Rosalie
J W. Clark
Coddington
Joe. P. Jacobs
Kansas City
First Baptist Church
Hastings
Everett Dreyer
East Sherry
Charles Stevens
Metro
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Pollock
Stevens
San Francisco
Ayres Named Assistant Attorney General in Lincoln Move
Attorney General W. T. Thompson appoints George W. Ayres as his assistant to replace Grant Martin who becomes deputy attorney general after Will B. Rose resigns for a supreme court seat. Ayres, longtime Mer rick county official, will move his family to Lincoln and serve at a reduced salary.
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W. T. Thompson
George W. Ayres
Grant Martin
Will B. Rose
Supreme Bench
Mr. Ayres
Central City
Mr. Thompson
Merrick County
Lincoln
Thompson
State Railway Commission Sues Lincoln Traction Company
The State Railway commission issued an order against Lincoln Traction to sell four tickets between Havelock and Lincoln for 25 cents and one fare for 7 cents, a case reopened soon after the company learned of the order.
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State Railway Commission
Lincoln Traction Company
Traction Company
Havelock
Lincoln
Dairy show opens in Chicago Coliseum with global cows
The third annual national dairy show opened in the Chicago Coliseum and runs until December 10. Fifty dairy cows hailed as the finest in the world compete with a Kerry-Dexter herd noted as among the smallest cattle. Milking contests draw crowds as milk maids in bright outfits outshine machine milking demonstrations.
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Chicago
Coliseum
Farmers Organize for Stable Wheat Prices in Hastings
In Hastings Nebraska the American Society of Equity held a meeting to seed a permanent union of wheat belt farmers to secure better fixed prices. A seven member committee was appointed to draft a detailed plan and a follow up meeting will hear its report.
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Hastings
Neb
American Society of Equity
English Returnee Harry Williams Plans April Return
Harry Williams, only two years in America, has returned to Hereford England via Liverpool and will hire this county fine with plans to come back in April. Joe Crowder, a Burlington freight conductor from Creston to Omaha, suffered a leg injury when crushed between wheel and car and later had a below knee amputation. doctors Livingston and E W Cis report he is slowly improving.
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Harry Williams
America
Hereford
England
Liverpool
Joe Crowder
Burlington
Creston
Omaha
Drs. Livingston
Nut gathering and miracles of stockings in a garret tale
A nostalgic chronicle recounts children Elsie and others collecting nuts in a cold garret, aided by a cheeky Robert and a visiting Santa. The tale intertwines Christmas lore with folk effort, noting hard work, frost, and mother’s remedies as the nut pile grows amid December nostalgia.
Little Johnny's Resolutions for New Year
A child vows to quit gossip, to stop splittin wood, and to avoid Sunday school, while hoping for a goat and planning to beat up Tommy Hunt. Johnny plans to start on New Year’s Day and wonders if his mother will be pleased by his self discipline.
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Johnny
Johnny Lake
Mom
Sue
Pop
Billy Ram
Sesalute
Tommy Hunt
Tle
Goblin Robbery Scene Sparks Morning Tears
A boyish thief replaces stockings with a smaller pair, leaving no gift. A young girl awakens to find her stockings missing and sobs at sunrise, confronted by the goblin figure who claims greed robbed her. The verse centers on theft and moral reproof in a whimsical cautionary tale tone.
The Christmas Nutting and Saint Nicholas Spirit
Two children earn Christmas money by gathering hickory nuts with help from the hired man and Uncle Tom. They secretly stash three bushels, reveal six silver dollars, then share evenly among three. The tale celebrates generosity and the enduring spirit of Saint Nicholas.
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Father
Mother
Margy
Uncle Tom
Saint Nicholas
Garret
Portland
Oregonian
Christmas Day and the Dated Nativity
The article notes no conclusive evidence for Christ’s birth date among the disciples and cites winter references in scripture. By the second century Christmas began as an anniversary, with widespread celebrations. In the fourth century Pope Julius I ordered scholars to settle the date, leading to Dec 25 being accepted broadly.
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Christ
Julius I
The Worm Turned Comic Exchange at Trial
In a courtroom exchange Mrs Cobwigger objects to a man wearing a men’s tie. Cobwigger reveals the tie is the one she gave him last Christmas as the judge watches.
A Time of Peril
Clarissa and Fidelia speak of a New Year’s passage and a lingering anniversary. Clarissa notes a recurring quarrel with Clarence over imagined improvements in each other’s conduct, reflecting tension and discontent.
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Clarissa
Fidelia
Clarence
Jessie Christmas Morning Exchange
On Christmas morning four year old Mary repeats the greeting as Jessie calls out Merry Christmas. The playful exchange captures a warm, family moment from the holiday.
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Jessie
Mary
Stock on Hand and New Resolutions
A brief column notes a speaker’s stock on hand of old resolutions and questions whether to make new ones this year, with playful aside about keeping old goals rather than starting fresh.
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Bradds
Jove
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