Christmas at National Capitol sets a quiet holiday tone
Washington on December 23 marked Christmas with many offices closed, a snow mantle, and public observances. Mrs Roosevelt hosted a family lunch, Cabinet members attended, and Post Office personnel enjoyed a Masonic temple entertainment for children. Donations aided the poor and needy in scattered homes.
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WASHINGTON
cireles
Cowles
Wright
Memphis
Bonaparte
Baltimore
Newberry
Detroit
John Timmons
Masonic temple
Meyer
Prisoners and a Kentucky Story at City Jail
A drunken Kentuckian, mint juleps in hand, shouts for Chic Frost in a city jail cell. Frost and a gagged man exchange notes on freedom and fate as a prison rumor spreads, while a Toledo robbery tale concludes with masked bandits forcing entry, tying a victim, and fleeing with horse and buggy as a posse pursues.
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Kentucky
Frost
BO messanger
Tom
Phil
Tam
Caught Between Two Piano Contracts in Nevada
The Menard Music Co. returns unsold instruments to Wiley B Allen Co due to conflicts with other manufacturers. They must cover two-way transport and a 10 percent forfeit, totaling about 75 to 100 dollars per item. A brief period allows applying this amount toward the purchase price of high grade instruments now in liquidation.
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Wiley B. Allen Co
Nevada
Menard Music Co
Railroad Wreck in Terminal Yards Hurts Seven
In St Louis a St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern passenger train rear ended the Jacksonville Chicago and Alton local in the terminal yards. Seven people were injured, two seriously. W. Wimmins of Cape Girardeau lost a leg and an arm and suffered internal injuries. Robert Sharp of DuPont, Illinois, the Iron Mountain engineer, was badly cut and bruised.
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ST. LOUIS
St Louis
Iron Mountain and Southern
Jacksonville
Chicago & Alton
Eimmons
Cape
Iron Mountain
Robert Sharp
Dupo
Ill
ion Iron Mountain tran
Boy Suspected of Being Thief in Mount Clemens
Mount Clemens Michigan December 24 a 13 year old boy John Upleager is held at police headquarters pending an investigation into possession of about 29000 dollars in postoffice money orders checks and bank certificates of deposit found in his room. Banks and local merchants had complained of mail remittance thefts tied to lockbox access. Police say Upleager made an extended statement after his arrest.
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MOUNT CHEMENS
Mich
John Upleager
taday
Upleger
Mysterious Explosion Shocks City Neighborhood
A powerful blast rattled windows and woke residents west of Virginia Street near the river around 4 am. The cause remains unknown as investigators search for clues amid scattered debris and possible structural damage.
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Virginia street
Wreck of Kansas City Building Tied to Unions
A three story block and steel building at Ninth and Oak streets in Kansas City was wrecked by dynamite just before midnight. The estimated damage runs about $1000. Owners offer no cause beyond claims that non union steel was used in construction.
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KANSAS CITY
Ninth and
Oak streets
Brothers Fight Duel to Death in Drug Store
A duel in a family drug store ends with Harry McCullom killing his brother Fred during a pistol confrontation. The father J M McCullom had long since left the business to Harry, who is 21, while the store was crowded with Christina shoppers at the time. The town marshal was ordered not to enter as the shooting occurred.
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ST LOUIS
Dean
Meftullam
WY Wrother
Harry
Christina
Fred
Harry McCamlony
Freil
J. M. McCullom
Confessed Robbery and Murder Plot by Suspects
Frank Lee and AEF Looney, two men arrested by state police at Haven on charges of robbing and attempting to murder Chinaman in Sacramento, reportedly confessed. They were moved under custody toward Sacramento and expected to be extradited to California tonight to face charges, with Sacramento officers securing extradition papers.
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Frank Lee
AEF. Looney
Haven
Chinaman
Sacramento
Carson
California
Christmas Cartoon and Homely Men Contest Amid Masked Santa Scene
Chicago on December 25 reports four people dead from gas asphyxiation at a Sixteenth Street residence. Morris Lukeman, a grocer, his wife Elizabeth, and their two children, aged 16 and 1, perished. Police suspect Lukeman laid his overcoat on a broken gas fixture before retiring. Arthur Buel of the Gasette, unable to find homely men to be subjects, plans a Christmas cartoon for the public today. The Homely Men's contest will reopen tomorrow with new subjects for judging.
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Arthur Buel
Santa Claus
CHICAGO
nersons
Sixteenth
Husting
Morris Lukeman
Elizabeth
Dukeman
Lukeman
May Have Slot Machines to Distribute Postage Stamps
Washington Dec 2 The post office department proposes a popular feature allowing a coin drop to obtain a postage stamp via stamp vending and affixing machines. Limited quantities of stamps in rolls of five or one thousand may be issued. postmasters are asked to submit requests to test the proposal.
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WASHINGTON
post office
Gay Christmas Time in Paris
Paris enjoys crowded cafes and busy promenades as Christmas Eve festivities unfold. Special church music fills houses of worship while Americans mingle with locals. the French parliament adjourns until January 13.
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Paris
cohkt
Portland man dies after third story hotel fall verdict
HOT SPRINGS Arkansas Dee 24 A coroner jury found H S L Cox of Portland Maine did not jump but fell from a third story hotel window in a personal crisis death Cox a retired manufacturer had come with his wife to spend the winter He suffered neurasmnenia and the fall was witnessed by Mrs Cox His son, a prominent merchant of San Francisco, was notified.
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HOT SPRINGS
rk. Dee
H. SL Cox
Portland
Cox
Sanrancisco
Dope Fiend Slashes Throat In Tenderloin Alley
Charten Appleton a piano player in the Tenderloin slashed his throat with a pocket knife in an alley behind the Clarendon hotel. He was taken to the county hospital and is resting easily, with no known motive for the attempted self harm.
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Charten Appleton
tenderlown
Clarendon hotel
county hospital
Walker
Six Lives Lost in Ship Wreck Near Hog Island
SEWPORT NEWS, Va. Dec. 24. News of the loss off Hog Island of the three masted schooner Jesse Lipp with Captain Robinson and five crew members was received today via survivor An New Jorgensen who was rescued Wednesday by the Ravenscraig. The Lippit, bound from Jacksonport for New York with lumber, struck a heavy northeast gale off Cape Charles Tuesday, took on water and damage, and soon broke up.
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SEWPORT NEWS
Hogsland
Cape Charles
Hog Island
Oakland Man Killed By Auto on Foothill Boulevard
Oakland dispatch reports a fatal auto wreck on Foothill boulevard two miles west of Hunters Inn. One man, Mowres a chauffeur, died instantly. Four others were injured, including two young women from noted families. identities of the injured were not yet released.
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OAKLAND
foothill
Hunter's Inn
Mowres
Funeral for Mrs Dobbs in Winnemucca Sunday
The funeral for the late Mrs George H Dobbs who died at her home in Winnemucca will be held Sunday at Odd Fellows hall Second Street. It is under the auspices of Nevada Rebekah lodge No 7 with interment in Odd Fellows cemetery. She leaves a husband a daughter Pearl a sister Mrs John Short of Reno and two brothers Chris Tohnson of Reno and Winnemucca.
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George H. Dobbs
Winnemucca
Odd Fellows hall
Odd Fellows building
Second street
Nevada Rebekah lodge No
Odd Fellows cemetery
Névada Rebekah lodge
Alma Hive
Letdien
the
Maccabees
jushand
Pearl
John| Short
Reno
Chris Tohnson
Six Injured in Train Wreck Near Pleasant Lake
ANCOLEA Ind Dec 244 A Lake Shore passenger train on the Jackson Mich Fort Wayne Ind branch wrecked tonight near Pleasant Lake Ind Sixteen persons were injured, five seriously. The wreck was blamed on a broken something allow ing the train to jump a switch and run into a siding. Injured were taken to farm houses and doctors were hurried from Ancolia and Hillsdale Mich.
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ANCOLEA
Ind
Lake Shore
Jackson
Mich
Fort Wayne
Pleasant Lake
Ancolia
Hillsdale
Postal Telegraph Reaches Tonopah
Tonopah dispatch records that offices opened in the Broker's exchange building by Postal Telegraph company last evening and today the office is busy handling messages to distant parts of the world. A working agreement is said to be formed with the Southern Nevada Telephone and Telegraph company.
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TONGPAH
Broker's exchange
Postal Telegraph company
Southern Nevada Telephone and Telegraph company
Close Moving Picture Shows Close Moving Picture Shows
New York mayor Ste Cel llan tomy revoked the license of every moving picture show in Greater New York after protests by ministers alleging films harmed youth morals. The fire report found many venues lacked full fire safety safeguards.
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NEW YORK
Ste Clellan tomy
fire department
Two Killed When Boiler Explodes Near La Porte
ICLEVELAND Dec 24 Brakeman B M Wiser was killed and Fireman W L Reptogle seriously injured tonight when the boiler of an engine on the Lake Shore railroad blew up two miles east of La Porte Indiana.
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ICLEVELAND
B. M. Wiser
W. L. Reptogle
Lake Shore
La Porte
Ind
Large Gifts For St Louis Hospitals
St Louis hospitals will receive Christmas gifts totaling 44500 dollars tomorrow morning. The gifts stem from the hospitals Saturday and Sunday association which recently stationed young women in all city office buildings to collect hospital funds.
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ST. LOUES
St. Louis
hospital
Growing too Hot at Hot Springs
Five leaders of the ertigens' improvement union in Hot Springs Ark protest U S government health resort policy and demand closure of the town to gambling. They threaten to shut off hot water connections if local authorities ignore the Interior Secretary’s wishes to close the town to gambling and enforce government policy on the reservation.
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HOT SPRINGS
Ark
U. S
inch al Motte Carlo
ertigens' improvement union
Pierce
secretary of the interior
Santa Claus Narrow Escape At Lincoln Detention Home
In Lincoln Nebraska on December 24 a Christmas show incident at the detention home left James Wise nicknamed Santa Claus with serious but not fatal burns after his candle lit clothing. Sheriff Hoagland and District Judge Frost prevented a larger fire panic. Eighty Southern Pacific tickets were stolen from a ticket office but recovered near the tenderloin district by Officer Devencenzi who suspects a drug user and vows to press charges upon gathering evidence.
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LINCOLN, Neb
James Wise
Santa Claus
Hoagland
Frost
Wise
Southern Pacific company
tenderloin
Devencenzi
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