Zelaya Flees Capital and Reaches Corinto With Guard
Nicaragua reports exiled President Jose Zelaya has fled Managua under cover of darkness with 50 guards and a Maxim gun. He traveled by train to Momotombo and then to Corinto aboard a steamer, arriving with about 100 intimate supporters including Joaquin Pasos, Louis Dousin, and James Hall. The party, incognito and armed, was unaware of local reactions as U.S. gunboat Princeton moved into the Fonseca Gulf.
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Nicaragua
Jose Jaya
Nica
Jose Madriz
Revols
Rama
Corinto
Zelaya
Managua
Momo
Momotombo
Zeaya
Diamantec
Joaquin Pasos
Louis Dousin
James Hall
Chinandega
United States
Princeton
Gulf of Fonseca
Flames fatally burn Santa impersonator at school festival
Neenah Wisconsin December 25 Horace Clemans 21 lies at his home burns received when his clothes caught fire during a Santa Claus impersonation at a school Christmas festival. The candlelit snow cotton ignition started the blaze and a rope board costume worsened the flames. A panic ensued with the teacher and two others slightly burned while extinguishing the fire.
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Neenah
Wis
Horace Clemans
Here
Santa Claus
Clemans
No Riches on Tiburon Isle Explorers Find Friendly Indians
Seven Americana explorers led by Professor Fayette A. Jones reached Tiburon island in the Gulf of California after sailing from Guaymas. They met 20 Seri people who turned out friendly, found no treasure, and reported the island measures 20 by 85 miles with deer and pigeons, good grass, and running water. Weather boosts holiday goods demand as New York reports strong seasonal distribution.
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California Gulf
Nogales
Ariz
Tiburon Island
Gulf of California
Fayette A. Jones
Guaymas
Gulf
Keno Bay
Weather Roundup and Historical Archival Notes
Fair tonight and Sunday with colder conditions tomorrow. Temperatures 7 a.m. 23, high 28, low 23. precipitation 0.55 inches in 24 hours. wind 12 mph at 7 a.m.. humidity 95 at 7 p.m. and 93 at 7 a.m. Dec. 25. In American History: Champlain dies 1635, Shays’ insurrection 1787, Fort Fisher attack 1864, Santo Domingo revolution 1905. Astronomical events note sunset 4:34, sunrise 7:19, moonset 7:16 a.m.
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J. M. Sherier
Samuel de Champlain
Quebec
Luke Champlain
Daniel Shays
Supreme Court
Worcester
Mass
Shays
Fort Fisher
N. C
Benjamin F Butler
Santo Domingo
A Christmas Picture from India in Augustana Observer
Mrs C W Foss describes a Christmas observance at the German Lutheran Leipz ic mission in Madras during a ten week stay in India. She details the schoolboys receiving new loin cloths and coats, the salams to Dr Bauer, and the vivid impressions of a city blending Europe America and the orient.
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Mission In India
Mrs. Foss
Augustana Observer
C. W. Foss
Foss
India
America
Madras
Europe
Orient
Law College
Leipsic
Bauer
Engine explosion in Rock Island shops kills five
Shawnee Oklahoma December 25 five men believed dead and 17 injured after an engine exploded in Rock Island shops during lunch hour debris scattered across town Kerr and Johns named among the dead with fragments found. Twenty workers unaccounted for as guardsmen of Company C supervised by Governor Haskell maintain order at the scene.
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Shawnee
Okla
Rock Island
Robert Karr
John Johns
Kerr
Johns
J. Holter
Jesse Fields
Walter Lyons
A. Hoover
William Taylor
McAlester
Oklahoma National Guard
Haskell
Christmas at the Tamil boys’ school in the mid term
The scene depicts students in new coats and loin cloths preparing for a Christmas gathering. Dr. Bauer and teachers lead scripture, prayers, and a Tamil language hymn as the boys sing of the Christmas story and receive gifts and sweets before leaving for vacation.
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Salaam
America
Christmas Wish for India by Bright Faced Boys
A brief festive note expresses hope that boys, now starting homeward journeys, will bring glad tidings to darkened homes in India. The wording emphasizes a compassionate Christmas wish and the spread of cheer amid hardship.
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India
Satolli Fails to Grow Better as Condition Worsens
Rome December reports Satolli’s health deteriorating with intermittent delirium. The pope shows great grief over the Cardinal’s serious condition and repeatedly sends his private secretary to inquire about Satolli’s status.
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Satolli
Rome
New Pie for Taft Table in Newark from Pie Bakers
Newark reports a 92 pound mince pie by the Pie Bakers' association sent to President Taft for Christmas. The group recalls a vanished Thanksgiving pie that did not reach the White House. Youtsey's Wife Seeks Divorce in Winchester. Henry E. Youtsey in prison for Goebel assassination linked conduct. Insane Patients Escape Fire at Vermont Hospital. Fire at the state hospital for the insane damages three wards. Loss estimated at 100000, all inmates removed unharmed.
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Newark
N. J
Taft
White House
Youtsey
Winchester
Henry E. Youtsey
Goebel
Waterbury
State Hospital For the Insane
Ulterior Eclipse Claims On Tillinghast Airship Probe
Boston electrical engineer asserts Worcester inventor Wallace E. Tillinghast built a steel framed aeroplane capable of eclipsing Wright brothers feats. He describes test flights from Worcester to New York and back in about four hours, daytime demonstrations to follow, and a nine minute free float with engine off. The craft allegedly remains stable and has a lifting power of 2,000 pounds.
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Boston
Mass
Wallace E. Tillinghast
Worcester
Wright Brothers
Aig
Mr. Tillinghast
Tillinghast
New York City
Willlnghast
Loeb rising star in New York politics shocks party leaders
Special Correspondent notes Loeb, recently appointed collector for the port of New York, moves to seize the New York governorship. He is linked with the sugar trust and reactionary leaders like Cannon and Aldrich. Loeb uses press access to advance his influence, boasting weekly talks with the president and party chiefs. Continued on page four.
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TAV
the Argus
Washington
Loeb
New York
Sugar Trust
Cannon
Aldrich
White House
Customs House
Siberia
Loeb, Jr
Mr. Loeb, Jr
Mr. Loeb
Roosevelt Shadow Moves Taft in Ballinger Case
Boston reports a strange moving light seen near Worcester and towns east of it, described as a powerful searchlight for an aircraft. Residents from Marlboro to Northboro gathered, noting no visible frame yet claimed the light seemed controlled and not a balloon. Wallace E. Tillinghast, linked to a Worcester invention, remained noncommittal about navigation.
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Boston
Mass
Worcester
Boston Common
Marlboro
South Framingham
Natick
Ashland
Grafton
North Grafton
Upton
Hopedale
Northboro
Wallace E. Tillinghast
New York
Fear Taft Crusade Aims at Roosevelt To Undercut Ballinger
Walter Wellman in a Washington letter to the Record-Herald says Taft and advisers view the Alaska coal battle as only the start of a campaign to revive Roosevelt and Rooseveltiam. They fear the move aims to nominate Roosevelt against Taft years hence, while Taft seeks to be judged by his own administration and policies.
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Chicago
Walter Wellman
Washington
the Record- Herald
Taft
Ballinger
Alaska
Roosevelt
Traction Power and Gas Merger announced in Michigan
Grand Rapids December 25 a merger of traction power and gas interests in Michigan by Hodenpyl Walbridge with New York and E W Clark of Philadelphia includes Grand Rapids Saginaw Bay City Flint Kalamazoo Jackson Cadillac and Pontiac The deal presages completion of an ion 1) a) between Betis via Son and Ionia.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Traction, Power and Gas
Michigan
Hodenpyl-Walbridge
New York
E. W. Clark
Philadelphia
Grand Rapids
Saginaw
Bay City
Flint
Kalamazoo
Jackson
Cadillac
Pontiac
Betis
Son
Ionia
Vivian Vogel Committed to Watertown Hospital as Insane
A Davenport resident, Mrs Vivian Vogel, was adjudged insane by a Scott County jury yesterday afternoon. Judge R W Olmsted ordered her committed to the Watertown hospital, where she was taken this morning after being held at the county jail. The case followed her removal from a Davenport house noted for housing African Americans.
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Kittilsen
Scott County
R. W. Olmsted
Watertown Hospital
Davenport
Vivian Vogel
Rapids
Mississippi Ice Gorge Reaches Historic Rise in Snow Surge
The Mississippi river climbed to a 12.90 foot stage amid the heaviest flood in recorded spring times. Snow over the past day feeds the rise as water advances three inches per hour, topping ferry landings and nearing warehouses as massive ice cakes line both shores.
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Mississippi
Eighteenth Street Ferry
Nineteenth Street
Carnegie's Cottage to Become Museum Site
Andrew Carnegie's birthplace cottage at Dunfermline Scotland may be razed to build a museum to his lifetime. Friends urge clearing surrounding land for a pleasure ground while caskets addresses and keys from his benevolence are stored. Governor Spry of Utah says the Jeffries Johnson fight will not be held in Utah due to legal restrictions.
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Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Dunfermline
Scotland
Spry
New York
Utah
Jeffries-Johnson
Sorry She Weded Jap Daughter of Archdeacon Writce Home
In a Seattle letter Mrs Gunjiro Aoki, daughter of Archdeacon John Emery, pleads to return to her father with her infant from Seattle. She accuses Aoki of faithlessness and laziness and notes he spends days with Japanese associates while her funds run low. The archdeacon heads to Seattle to assist and plans to bring them back.
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San Francisco
Cal
Gunjiro Aoki
John Emery
Corte Madera
Seattle
Aoki
Street car firm fined for operating with one man
Galesburg circuit court fines Fine Street Car Company $500 for running a local street car with only one operator. McKinley syndicate owns the line. The city ordinance, four years old, requires two men on the car and the company plans to appeal. In Peru, a man named Galloway shot and killed his wife, with evidence of a struggle but no clear motive given.
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Galesburg
Wagoner
Circuit Court
McKinley Syndicate
Supreme Court
Chicago
Ohio
Philadelphia
Peru
Ing
Ura
Galloway
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Tiburon Isle
Dan
Ippers
Busted
Vatican
Newark Bakery
Bostonian
Patent
Wellman
Detroit- Chicago
Fine Street Car Company
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