Cudahy Prison Found Near Omaha After Kidnapping
Eddie Cudahy and two newspaper men located the house at 3604 Grover Street four miles southwest of Omaha where the millionaire's son was held. The two-story structure had a broken stair, a new well bucket, and signs matching the boy’s description. Edward A. Cudahy Sr. announced a $25,000 reward for the abductors, with Pat Crowe suspected as leader.
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the Times
Omaha
Eddie Cudahy
Grover Street
Maud Munshaw
Miss Munshaw
Cudahy
Associated Press
Neb
Edward A. Cudahy
Edward
Pat Crowe
Crowe
Burglar Seeks Pardon to Pursue Missionary Work
Governor Tyler granted six pardons this week including Frank Coles a Lynchburg burglar who seeks freedom to become a missionary. Coles claims reform and intent to do religious work abroad but prison conduct cited as lacking reform with a concealed razor found on him.
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the Times
Redmond
Tyler
Frank Coles
Lynchburg
Coles
City to Feed Philadelphia Hospital Inmates on Christmas Day
The Philadelphia Hospital will host a Christmas feast for 4000 inmates with turkey and all trimmings. Sup't Geary oversees preparations including 600 to 700 turkeys, 60 bushels of potatoes, 4,000 loaves of bread, and extensive desserts. Christmas services and entertainments will accompany the meal, with music in wards and a large concert in the insane department.
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Philadelphia
Geary
Belgian man commits suicide by laying on Erie tracks
Edward Van Lanschoot a 38 year old Belgian resident of 9 Alabama avenue Paterson New Jersey after a quarrel with his wife left his home in the morning and walked to the Erie tracks where a west bound train cut him to pieces. A bystander William Richardson found parts along the track and embankment while other organs lay nearby. Van Lanschoot had warned his wife he would not return and left in only underclothes and overalls leaving a widow with several small children.
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van Lanschoot
New Shipbuilding Record Set on Atlantic Coast
Atlantic coast ship output for 1900 topped all prior years. Of 17 steamships built, 13 were on the Delaware river. One bark, the Kainland, from Arthur Sewall of Bath, Me., marked his last work before death. Thirty five schooners were launched, 31 in Maine, while 25 barges came from yards in Wilmington Del, Bath Me, Noank Conn, and Perth Amboy N J.
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Atlantic
Maritime Journal
Delaware River
Kainland
Arthur Sewall
Bath
Proor
Maine
Delaware
Wilmington
Del
Noank
Conn
Perth Amboy
N. J
Shoe Manufacturers Face Commission Hearings
At a recent Industrial Commission session, shoe manufacturers testified that agreements with workers remained intact, countering earlier layoffs claims. Witnesses including Johan G. Croxton and Albert B. Super supported peaceful labor relations and typical wages, with Mundell confirming earnings around ten dollars weekly for lasters.
Keystone Company May Erect Building
Rumors say Keystone Telegraph and Telephone Company will build a large office on the Broad and Arch Street site after the Lutharan Church of the Holy Communion purchase. The move ties to Congressman-elect Foerderer Alexander Balfour and W. W. Gibbs and to revived boulevard plans in Council. An ordinance envisions a grand avenue from Broad and Filbert to Twenty-fifth and Hamilton.
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Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion
Broad
Arch Streets
Arch Street
Robert H. Foerderer
Alexander Balfour
W. W. Gibbs
Keystone Telegraph and Telephone Company
Filbert
Hamilton
City News Notes and Court Actions Reported
Commencement events at Highscopal Academy set for 10 30 A M in the New Centur rawl Room on Twelfth Street. Judge Audenried imposes six year sentence on Raeffiele Listard for voluntary manslaughter in a fatal Italian case. Policeman Pontinus announces retirement to December 31. Promotions awarded to Sweeney Kyle and Davis. Steam launch engine mishap injures two workers. Ten year old Christian Cook sues Henry Daft in assault case. Daft held on $600 bail. John S Crosby from New York to speak on the Declaration of Independence. Suspect Ira Gilmore held after attack on Laura Endy. she cannot identify him. Others arrested on Ludlow Street and surrounding areas by Twenty-first district officers.
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Joseph Pontinus
Thirteenth
John H. Sweeney
Joseph H. Kyle
Philip J. Davis
G. B .McClain
Woodland Avenue
James Connor
Christian Cook
Seventieth Street
Lansdowne Avenue
Thornton
Henry Daft
Seventy-first
Haverford Streets
Daft
Odd Fellows' Temple
Johns
Crosby
New York
Thomas Herndon
Laura Endy
Sixth
Lindley
Ackerman
Miss Ndy
Peagierrase
House of Correction
Ira Gilmore
Ludlow Street
John Crowner
Willam Wilson
Emanuel Alexander
Mary Alexander
John St. Claire
Alice Johnson
Chancellor Street
Charles Damneny
Arres
Murphy
Duffy
Holiday Exercises At City Girls High School
Public schools closed for holidays as of yesterday with events at the Girls High School on Seventeenth and Spring Garden streets. Dr Edward Brooks Superintendent spoke on progress of the century, joined by Thomas G Morton and student performances including songs and solos. Similar programs followed at the Normal School for Girls on Thirteenth and Spring Garden with remarks by Simon Gratz and recitations by Miss Broonell.
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Spring Garden
Edward Brooks
Thomas G. Morton
Board of Education
Kitten
Gertrude Partenheimer
Ben Hur
Anna Kirschner
Normal School For Girls
Thirteenth
Spring Garden Streets
Simon Gratz
Normal School
Broonell
Michener
Miller
Thunder and Lightning at St Pauls Echoes
A St Pauls anecdote recalls choir boy Dr E J Hopkins and Miss Hackett in the era of Sydney Smith. The organ’s thunder amused Hackett and prompted Sydney Smith to remark that Miss Hackett’s face lights up whenever the organ thunders.
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St. Paul's
E. J. Hopkins
Sydney Smith
Miss Hackett
Sidney Smith
Neukirch Victory Over NYSE Reinstatement Suit
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today affirmed a lower court ruling against Charles Neukirch in a suit to regain NYSE membership. Neukirch had been expelled and his membership right was sold, with proceeds paid to him.
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New York
Appulate Division
Supreme Court
Charles Neukirch
New York Stock Exchange
Neukirch
Imperial intrigues and industry news from European capitals
A Berlin dispatch reports Prince Ching stating Emperor Kwang Su left Sian Fu on December 19 bound for Pekin without the Empress Dowager. Bavarian manufacturers meet in Munich to form an anti agrarian society while Prussian rail policy seeks lower freight to boost exports. Emperor William approves silver memorial coins for Prussia’s 200th anniversary. United States Consul General Edward D. Winslow arrives in Stockholm from the U.S. The fragmentary note mentions Matthews Brothers’ moulding factory in Peat, Ontario.
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Berlin
Tien Tsin
Frankfurter Zeitung
Ching
Kwang Su
Sian Fu
Pekin
William
Kingdom of Prussia
Edward D. Winslow
United States
Stockholm
Matthews Brothers
Peat
Fire at Public School No 44 Injures Two Students
A Christmas program at Public School No 44 in New York ends with Carrie Hanley badly burned and likely to die after her Santa costume ignites from a gas jet. Principal Ella Conway and music teacher Amelia Wedekind help evacuate and control the flames, others assist as smoke fills the room.
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New York
Carrie Hanley
Ella Conway
Amelia Wedekind
Miss Conway
New Telegraph and Telephone Co Chartered by Philadelphia Capital
The United Telegraph and Telephone Company was incorporated today in Dover Delaware with $2,000,000 capitalization. The firm plans to construct maintain and operate wire communication systems through the Eastern States and beyond.
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the Times
Dover
Del
United Telegraph and Telephone Company
Philadelphia
Cleveland Addresses Peirce School Graduates
Former President explains the value of practical business education and warns graduates not to expect an easy path. He urges hard work, honesty, and perseverance, noting education prepares tools for future struggles and condemns the notion that the world owes a living.
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Cleveland
Peirce School
Lfe
Peirce
Petree
Special Services at the Baptist Temple Celebrate 4000 Baptisms
Rev Russell H Conwell has led the Baptist Temple at Broad and Berks for eighteen years and has baptized 8985 persons. To mark reaching 4000 converts he will baptize 15 more on Monday. Sunday programs include multiple sermons by Baptist editors from New York Louisville and local press. A watch night service and baptismal rite follow with a music program and a Tuesday reception for 4000, church friends, and society delegates.
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Berks Streets
Russell H. Conwell
Temple
Baptist Church
T. C. Conant
The
Examiner
New York
T. M. Cross
Baptist Commonwealth
T. T. Eaton
the Recorder
Louisville
Christian Endeavor
T Square Club to Hold Exhibition
The T Square Club announces an architectural exhibition at the Art Club galleries opening January 5 1902. It will feature drawings photographs and models from leading national architects under the Architectural League of America with a distinguished jury including Adin Lacey Herbert Wise Charles Klauder William Hays George Bispham Page Gilbert Hendermeyer Lawrence Visscher Boyd Cass Gilbert and J Randolph Coolidge Jr.
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T-Square Club
Art Club
Architectural League of America
Adin Lacey
Herbert C. Wise
Charles Z. Klauder
William ©. Hays
George Bispham Page
Gilbert L. Hendermeyer
Lawrence Visscher Boyd
John Galen Howard
New York
Cass Gilbert
St. Paul
J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr
Boston
Christmas Exercises In Atlantic City Schools
Public and private schools in Atlantic City observed Christmas exercises today. The High School program was elaborate and enjoyable. Schools will not reopen until January 2.
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the Times
Atlantic City
Sea Dredging Yields No Man Made Artifacts Yet
The sea serves as a vast laboratory where dredges from deep waters have yet to recover any man made objects. Only worm riddled ship parts and fragments from debris near Macallan’s north area were found, with limited salvage from the Triton expedition.
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Macallond
Suits Against Trusts Dismissed by Court
Columbus Ohio December 21 The Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed under motion by the Attorney General the cases against Solar Refining Company Ohio Oil Company and Buckeye Pipe Tobacco Company brought under Ohio anti trust laws. All cases dismissed without record and at state cost.
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Columbus
Ohio
Supre Court of
Sheets
Monnett
Solar Refining Company
Ohio Oil Company
Buckeye Pipe Tobacco Company
Musk Ox Released From Arctic Expedition Plan
Herr Kolthoff of the Kolthoff Arctic expedition returns with a male and a female musk ox calf to Sweden. Once acclimated the plan is to set them free in northern mountain regions where they are not expected to breed rapidly. The animal’s brown wool is unusually strong and may give the musk ox commercial value for Sweden.
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Herr Kolthoff
Kolthoff
Sweden
Arctic
Obsolete Traditions Prompt Girl’s Witty Rebuff
A man flatters a girl asking what Santa left in her stocking. She dismisses the question with a sharp critique of outdated beliefs and gendered expectations, then exits with her copy of Ibsen, a poised rejection of the suitor’s insinuations.
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Santa Claus
Jon
Ares
Lippincott’s
Invitation and Refusal Echo Harlem Visit at Imperial
A Coloradoan invites a Harlem friend to dinner at the Imperial yesterday. The friend declines, saying he has an engagement to see someone tonight, prompting a brief exchange of the related social scene.
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Harlem
Imperial
Times Comic Section Tomorrow Delivers Funniest Pages Yet
The Times teases a special comic section for tomorrow boasting the funniest pages ever printed. Readers are urged to check the issue for a full lineup of humor and illustrated gags across multiple strips.
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Edward van Lanschoot
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Central Convention of Shoe Workers
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George P. Schober
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Keystone Company
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Prussian Ministry of Rallwa Public Works
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Emeralds
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