Christmas Carols Ride to Doctor Post's in Surplices
Schuyler, Seraphina, and Thad plan a street carol in makeshift surplices with a tomato censer. They march to Doctor Post's house on Christmas morning, sing in old English fashion, and the doctor hosts them, while Margaret and Mrs. Van Brant share festive relief.
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Seraphina
Thad
Pouve
Herald“Angels
Rcs
Schuyler
Sera‘phina
Schuyler van Brunt
Doctor Post
Margaret
Seraphinat
Schuy
Joses
Doctor
Schiller
Post
Elsa
Dan
van Brant
Seraphiia
Nan Alcade
Misasion
Frank A ‘Munsey
Nationwide currency reform debate moves toward final Senate vote
A broad tax and currency reform struggle continues in Washington with hopes for a Senate compromise by week end. Key figures note a possible Saturday vote as administration leaders push an agrément. Ogden Houston awards diplomas for state prize crops while other items include a Nebraska graft case and Villa’s mutinous stance in Mexico.
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Senate
Ste. Yend
Debate on currency bill and rail issues before Congress
Congress caucus finalized amendments to the administration currency bill while the Alaska railroad measure faced postponement. Secretary Bryan urged embassy buildings purchases in Tokyo Mexico City and Berne. Mahoney charged mine operators in Michigan copper districts as hearings continued. Roberts pressed steel car requirement within four years. Adjourned at 5 13 p m until Thursday noon.
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Cbre
Ahip
Bryan
Foreign Affairs Committee
Tokio
Mexico City
Berne
C. EB
Mahoney
Denver
Western Federation of Miners
Michigan
Roberts
Massachusetts
Interstate Commerce Committee
Noor
Senate Debates on Currency Bill and Civil Service Policy
Tuesday saw Senator Bristow lead an attack on the currency bill’s deposit guarantee feature and the House heard AFL President Gompers testify before the House Judiciary Committee. The War Department submitted a final report on raising the battleship Maine in Havana harbor as Rep Gillette of Massachusetts attacked Wilson civil service policy. District of Columbia appropriation debated without action. Adjourned 5:35 p m to noon Wednesday.
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Senate
Bristow
House
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
House Judiciary Committee
War Department
Maine
Havana Harbor
Gillette
Massachusetts
Wilson
District of Columbia
Senate Debates Currency Bill and Navy Dock At San Francisco
The Senate resumed debate with Burton proposing six amendments to the currency bill while Perkins urged a 3 million dollar navy dry dock project in San Francisco bay. House member Harrison led a Mississippi bill to convene an international conference to abolish gambling on commodity exchanges.
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Burton
Perkins
San Francisco Bay
House
Harrison
Mississippi
Francis
Ohio
Good Roads Committee
Merchant Marine Committee
Dyer
Missouri
Whaley
South Carolina
Elections Committee
Immigration Committee
Stephens
Indian Affairs Committee
Kahn
California
Thompson to resign Treasury post and return to Nebraska
Washington W. T. Thompson, former Nebraska attorney general and solicitor for the treasury, will retire January 1 and enter private general law practice in Lincoln. He filed his resignation with the president Monday, stating the move is entirely voluntary and will return to Nebraska at year’s start.
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Nebraska
Gen ‘eFallow
Lincoln
Washington
W. T. Thompson
Treasury Department
Thompson
Mexican Ministers Seek Paris Loan for Huerta Regime
Adolfo de la Lama and Salvador Echagaray, Mexican finance officials, sailed to Paris to negotiate a loan for the Huerta government. De la Lama left Mexico City on December 4 and has not made efforts to raise funds locally.
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New York
Adolfo de la Lama
Salvador Echagaray
Paris
Huerta
Senor de la Lama
Mexico City
Secretary Bryan cancels Lincoln banquet speech
Secretary of State Bryan telegram indicates he canceled his engagement to speak at the Lincoln Commercial Club annual banquet on January 6 in Lincoln Nebraska.
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State
Bryan
Lincoln Commercial Club
Lincoln
Day on Omaha Corn Market Sets Record Receipts
Omaha Monday marked the biggest corn day in the history of the Omaha corn exchange with 476 cars received. The prior record was February 1912 at about 450 cars. Other primary points reported Chicago 369 cars St Louis 92 Kansas City 221.
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Omaha Corn Exchange
Omaha
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Wronged child-wife to marry after jury clears lover
In Loreas Nebraska Sebastino Sortino, the girl acquitted last week of killing Santo Delucca, plans marriage to her former lover Bellomo Rocco, aged thirty five. The couple secured a marriage license at Saree court.
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Sebastino Sortino
Santo Delucca
Omaha
Bellomo Rocco
Loreas
Sebastino
Sortino
Santo ‘Delucca
tSixth
Mail and Telegraph Service Merges for Efficient Delivery
A brief notice notes that mail and telegraph operations join under a single system to improve rapid communication. Officials confirm coordinated services, aiming to streamline mail handling and telegraph dispatch across the region.
Government may take over telegraph and telephone lines
Postmaster General Burleson urges Congress to own and operate telegraph lines and possibly telephone lines. He states the postal service is now self supporting for the first time since 1883 and reports government control of public utilities is demonstrated. Senator Norris backs the ownership principle.
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Washington
Burleson
Congress
Post Office Department
Senator Norris Backs Democratic Currency Bill
Senator Norris announced support for the Democratic currency bill, stating it improves current banking laws though it remains imperfect. He favored public stock subscriptions for regional bank shares and supports government control of the banks.
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Washington
Norris
House
Land for Water Trade Proposal In Congress
Rep Kinkaid introduces a bill allowing landowners within reclaimed districts to exchange part of their holdings with the government for water rights. Settlers in Laramie and near Ger ing pursue irrigation without direct cash outlay, through government sale of deeded land to others. The measure targets lands exceeding standard farm unit size, with officials of the reclamation service said to favor it.
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Washington
Kinkaid
Laramie
Gering
Reclamation Service
American ambassador seeks probe of Italian police surveillance
Rouie Italy. The American ambassador Thomas Nelson Page asked the Italian foreign office to investigate the policing of Dorothy A. MacVane daughter of Prof Silas MacVane of Boston. She toured Lecce Brindisi and Taranto and found her movements shadowed and her letters intercepted by police.
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Rouie
Italy
Thomas Nelson Page
Foreign Office
Dorothy A. MacVane
Silas MacVane
Boston
Harvard University
Papal Secretary Rampolla Dies in Rome
Rome reports Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary of state, died Tuesday. Rampolla, appointed by Pope Leo XIII, was the leading figure at the conclave until Austria objected to the election of a candidate for the papacy.
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Rome
Prison Breaker Captured at Leavenworth
Dan Carney, who escaped from the Kansas penitentiary and hid for sixteen days in the facility, was dragged from the engine room behind a condenser and recaptured. He had been supplied with food and drink by confederates.
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Kansas Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kas
Falls of the Kansas Penitentiary
Dan Carney
Carney
State Labor Commission Finds Federal Work Violation
Nebraska officials conclude federal offices employ female workers beyond state law limits. Investigation began after female overwork complaints. Governor Morehead may contact Postmaster General Burleson to address the issue.
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Uncle Sam
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
State Labor Commission
Morehead
Labor Commission
Burleson
Ambrim is land volcanic eruption devastates New Hebrides
Dispatches from Noumea report a volcanic eruption in Ambrim is land, New Hebrides group, forming six new craters on December 6. The next day Mount Minnie collapsed, lava flows engulfed villages, inhabitants fled by canoes, and a steamer rescued 500 people.
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Melbourne
Australia
Noumea
New Caledonia
Ambrim Island
New Hebrides
Mount Minnie
Crop Values Rise Across Nation Says Department
Washington reports a record aggregate farm crop value of 4.9403 billion dollars for fourteen principal crops, led by corn and cotton and the second largest oat crop. The figure shows a rise of 182.6 million from last year and 350.8 million over 1911, based on December prices.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Rand
Eviro AEE Shouse 45g and 67 188 Receipts Report
A fragmented report notes receipts totaling 67 188 for six months ending November 30 and corporation filing fees 10 001 with 55 59B from permits. Addison EB Wait. referenced in the Carnegie Institute context with study plant life in the lab.
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Addison EB. Wait
Inspection Board Reports Stallions Pass Defect Test
A total of 3,000 stallions and jacks were inspected since the new law began. Less than 3 percent were found defective. About 1,000 animals were deported from the state in the past year and a half due to the inspection provisions.
Nebraska War Flags On Public Display In State House
Major John M. Birkner of the adjutant general's office says Civil War and Spanish American War flags carried by Nebraska troops are hung in a large glass case in the state house corridor. Additional battle flags and relics will join them for public viewing.
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John M. Birkner
Adjutant General’s Office
Nebraska National Guards
Nebraska
State House
School presidents file midyear expense reports
Acting President M. R. Snodgrass of the Kearney state normal school filed the semi annual statement with the governor showing expenditures of $31,034 for the half year. President Joseph Sparks of the Chadron normal reported expenditures of $12,228 for salaries $302 from the institutional cash fund $606 for general repairs and $11,349 for a heating plant.
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M. R. Snodgrass
Kearney State’ Normal School
Joseph Sparks
Chadron Normal
State superintendent office costs for May to December
The half year report shows total operating cost of 31079 for the state superintendent's office. Items include normal training 17394, junior normal work 6997, office expenses 9556, and board of inspectors 501. A draft of 9686 on the office cash fund covered part of the expenses. the rest drew from special funds.
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J. E. Delzell
Board of Inspectors
Legal conflict endangers food label enforcement case
Conflicting provisions of the pure food law require ingredient labeling while another section allows only the word compound. The dispute threatens the administration of statutes in the Ameri can Linseed Oil Company of Omaha case brought by the food commission.
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American Linseed Oil Company of
Omaha
The
Food Commission
Nebraska dairy students place fourth at national show
H. N. Thomas, a Nebraska farm boy from University Place, ranked third best dairy judge among students from sixteen states at the national dairy show in Chicago this fall. The Nebraska team finished fourth overall.
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American Agricultural Colleges
H. N. Thomas
Nebraska
University Place
Chicago
Public Service Properties Valued by Nebraska Corps
The total present value of tangible properties of all Nebraska public service corporations is 295 million 385 thousand 434 dollars under the state physical valuation law. Research spanned nearly four and a half years, with data collected since the 1911 legislature expanded the act. Railroad valuations cover property owned as of July 1, 1909, updated to 1911.
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Nebraska
Dedication of Nebraska Law College Building Honors Legal Leaders
The University of Nebraska formally dedicated its new law college building on Tuesday. Roscoe Pound, former dean and now Harvard professor, spoke on "Justice According to Law." Ex-leaders Monoah B. Reece, George P. Costigan Jr., and Pound received honorary Doctors of Law degrees.
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Law College
University of Nebraska
Roscoe Pound
Harvard University
Monoah B. Reece
Nebraska Supreme Court
George P. Costigan, Jr
Northwestern University
Pound
Hatchery Foreman J N Miller Dies After Accident
J N Miller, 67, foreman of the state fish hatcheries at North Bend, died late last week from an accident. He left distant relatives in Ohio and Missouri. His body was sent to Missouri for burial.
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J. N. Miller
North Bend
Ohio
Missouri
Railway Commission to Hear Freight Classification Issues
The state railway commission will hear railroad classification troubles on December 30. The chief focus of the hearing will be the marking of individual packages of carload and partial carload freight shipments.
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The
State Railway Commission
Governor blocks reward for Omaha murder capture
Omaha and St Louis police officers who captured John Jones, alleged killer of Same Leone, will not receive the $200 governor’s reward. The governor will not approve the voucher, saying officers knew in advance where the man was. He vows to stop milking the state treasury along this line.
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Omaha
St. Louis
John Jones
Same Leone
Bankers and Business Back Farm Demonstration Effort
Nebraska bankers and other business interests plan to raise about 25 000 dollars yearly for two years to fund farm demonstration work in counties Welcoming the project costs about 3600 dollars annually for an expert demonstrator’s salary and expenses The federal government is aiding four counties Seward Gage Merrick and York to support the effort.
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Nebraska
Seward
Gage
Merrick
Beatrice Gold Prize Awarded for Best Five Acres Corn
Beatrice gold offered by the Farmers Trust pany of this city went to I Gouff a sixteen year old boy and Mrs John Gouff who live miles east of Holmessyle. He produced 127 bushels of corn from five acres with one acre yielding a substantial amount.
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Beatrice
Farmers’ Trust’ Pany
I Gouff
Sone
John Gouff
Holmessyle
Severe Winter Ramps to Impassable Roads and Damages
Report from Benkelman Nebraska notes heavy snows creating nearly impassable roads and cutting phone and telegraph service. Damages reach $1,000 to utility lines as Union and railroad crews race to restore two days from the east amid the region's worst winter in five years.
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Higa
Dusu
Wes Union and Railroad
Benkelman
Neh
Tve
New Cottages at Long Pine Camp
The notice outlines construction of cottages and camp facilities at Long Pine in the canyon area. It mentions temporary housing and a park style camp, with work planned to begin under the first of the year and details yet to be clarified.
Stabbing Mishap Over Decor Knob Reported
A fragmentary police record describes an altercation over a decor knob that tore a man’s mouth and caused injuries. The report notes a need for nine stitches to treat wounds and mentions a person named Joe Lisby of Oro.
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Tecumseh
Joe Lisby
Oro
Beaver City Theatre Ten Nel and Prominent German Pr
A fragmented report notes the death of a German resident linked to a home from Henicies tt. The death occurred at a farm where a physician or family member could reach him. The text is incomplete and names are unclear.
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Beaver City
Wessnes
Henicies
York Nebrasks association closes its work year
The Centa Nebrasks tal association in rss00 ae closed its work with He Cent Hatfield of York press C A Calkins, secret ees suing year.
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York
Cen’ta’ Nebraskstal Association
T. J Hatfield
York Press
C. A. Calkins
Fragmented Political Trial and Local Cattle Auction Notes
The fragment references a murder trial involving Mrs Grothener and Mrs Wee, with Johnson and Biggerstaff as witnesses, and a Lincoln secretarial event watched by Bryan. It also mentions a January Lincoln Commission banque and an Omaha cattle sale where Willam Hartnett notes cattle brought $95 weight at a South Omaha event.
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South Omaha
Willam Hartnett
Jack
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