Bonds Snow Under In City Wide Vote On $200000 Bond Issue
Voters across eight wards show strong opposition to a proposed $200,000 electric light plant bond. Early counts at noon indicate a 2 to 1 to 3 to 1 defeat, with 6000 eligible voters but fewer than 3000 ballots expected. Polls closed at 6 pm with an orderly election and no disorder reported.
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Saloons Closed Ahead of City Special Election
Rigid law enforcement shuts saloons today for the city special election marking the first such order in the city. Officials defend the move saying such is the law.
Safe Blown Open at Beaumont Bottling Works
The Beaumont Bottling works were blown open by dynamite last night. The safe door was blown through the wall and the building was wrecked. Burglars took no money and escaped.
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Beaumont Bottling Works
Peru Recognizes Republic of Panama
Jama Peru December 19 By a decree December 18 the Peruvian government has recognized the Republic of Panama.
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Peru
Republic of Panama
Christmas Goods Ad Opens in The Light
To sell your Christmas goods, advertise in The Light newspaper reaching a broad audience. Place your notice to attract shoppers, retailers, and local readers ahead of the holiday season.
Fire kills seven and injures many at Walden University dormitory
A deadly blaze at Walden University dormitory in Nashville caused seven deaths and seventeen serious injuries. Women leaped from windows as stairs blocked, numerous victims listed by name with hometowns and injuries. Miss Eleanore Moore the only white staff member injured.
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Fire destroys twelve business houses in Carthage Texas
Special to The Light Houston Texas December 19 The business portion of Carthage Panola county suffered a major fire at o'clock this morning. Twelve business houses were destroyed with an estimated loss of 60000 and about 15400 insured. The destroyed buildings were frame structures.
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Lord Kitchener Recovering From Wounding
Lord Kitchener commander of British forces in India has one leg broken but is much improved in health. A Times dispatch says he will be confined to his house for some time yet remains able to perform official duties.
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Weather map notes show trough spanning from Rio Grande to Canada
Current conditions describe a storm trough across the southwest and Mississippi Valley with active systems over Michigan and Oklahoma. Fair in the Rockies, overcast in parts of Arkansas Tennessee Missouri and Illinois. Temperature shifts range from 4 to 20 degrees warmer in gulf states to 10 to 25 degrees colder in the Rockies. Extreme readings reach 63 degrees at Corpus Christi and low in Wyoming. Rain fell in California southwest Texas Mississippi Arkansas Tennessee Missouri Illinois and Minnesota North Dakota. Allen Burly official.
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Russia Moves Toward Pacifying Tension With Japan
Paris reports Russia has taken a step to ease the rift with Japan and plans a second proposal to improve relations. Officials say the czar’s first proposal is not a final or required condition, but a preliminary move toward pacific settlement, removing a danger of rupture.
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Alexandretta Affair Deepens US Turkish Tensions
Rear Admiral Cotton sails from Beirut with Consul Davies to Alexandretta where Davies left after insult and assault by local police on a naturalized American aboard a departing steamer. Minister Leishman has discussed the incident with Tewfik Pasha but not yet filed a formal reparations demand. Officials seek settlement.
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Conductor Hurdleston Bites Back at Bogus Tickets on Katy
Conductor H Hurdleston of the Katy Flyer detains a young man using a scalper ticket to San Antonio at Lockhart. In eighteen days he has recovered two bogus tickets daily, saving the company about 500 dollars. Hurdleston, with Katy eighteen years of service, notes scalpers are rapidly identified.
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Friscos New Connection Advances To New Orleans
Negotiations conclude for a new alliance among the St. Louis and San Francisco, Rock Island Frisco, and Southern system to reach New Orleans via Mobile and Ohio. The plan includes extensive New Orleans terminals, costing 12 to 14 million dollars, with prior work of 2 to 3 million already spent.
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Japan Delays Reply to Russia Owing to Minister Ill
Tokio reports Japan has not yet sent its answer to Russia due to the indisposition of Baron da Rogen the Russian minister. Officials say the dispatch will likely be delayed a day or two.
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House Adjourns to January Fourth, 1904
Washington December 19 The House adjourned this morning until Monday January 4 1904 marking the start of the new session with lawmakers returning after the holiday recess.
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Million-Dollar Cotton Company in Bankruptcy Probe
New York reports an investigation into the James Freeman Brown company once valued at 200000 capital and a million-dollar annual business. Receiver Frank L. Crocker says assets total about 20000 with liabilities near 80000. Treasurer Edward H Willett is ill and unavailable while surety bond help is sought.
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High Shoals, N
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Railroad figures visit city during holiday season
Engine Puffs, Gerald D. Whitmore, a conductor on the Chicago and Alton, visits relatives in the city. Homer Eads, superintendent of car service on the I. and G. N., comes to spend the holidays. The Southern Pacific runs extra service to handle heavy holiday traffic to New Orleans and points in the east.
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Chicago
Alton
Homer Eads
Southern Pacific
New Orléans
Bankers plan new money order system
After a three day session the money order committee of the American Bankers association representing seven thousand banks agreed on a plan to send by mail sums not exceeding 160 dollars and cash the orders at any member bank. The scheme will compete with the Post Office money order division.
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Bank Money O der Committee
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Monument Unveiled Honors Last Boston Tea Party Survivor
In Chicago Lincoln Park a large boulder monument was unveiled to honor David Kennison the last survivor of the Boston Tea Party. The ceremony near Kennison’s 1852 burial site was led by the Sons of the Revolution the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution, the donors of the memorial.
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Wife and daughter to contest schoolmaster will
In New York the wife and daughter of late schoolmaster Alpheus Dubois arrived and served notice through lawyers that they will challenge the will which leaves them only ten thousand dollars following fifty years of secrecy about his marriage.
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Crockett Street
New York
Alpheus Dubois
Sunshine and Mercy Brighten City Life
The passage urges readers to seek sunshine in life through kindness and selflessness. It encourages offering help to others, sharing smiles, and lending a hand to the weary, asserting life contains light if one acts with generosity.
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Dallas ‘Times-Herald
Texas Bills in Congress and National Bank News
Senator Culberson pushes interstate liquor regulation petition from Louston Congregation to privileges and elections committee. Burleson proposes a Texas demonstration farm and ag stations. Sheppard backs Treen fence experiments on boll weevil and cotton wilt. seeks Sulphur River improvement. Bank changes include Sayers at Gonzales and Bateman at Big Springs. new banks organized in Liand Claire Mason. Blooming Grove gains Citizens National bank. Post offices at Denver Montague county Roland Collin and Union Delta to close December 31 for rural delivery.
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Navy reports possible fort sighting near Atratos river
Washington dispatch says Rear Admiral Glass in Panama cites a cablegram from a steamer reporting a small fort manned by Colombian troops found at the Atratos river mouth. The report lacks verification and remains unconfirmed.
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Political Humanity and East Side Solidarity
Dispatch quotes Tim Sullivan urging neighbors to care for each other in good and bad times. He praises shared mourning and joy, notes regional empathy exists more in theory than practice, and contrasts lasting humanity with occasional help only in December.
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East Side
Snails as Wild Animals Cause Custom dispute in Louisville
A Louisville man shipped a barrel of snails from Italy. Customs officials debated duty and, fearing delay, the owner claimed the snails were wild animals and offered to deliver them as such to Gary, prompting the decision.
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Not Troubled That Way in Yoakunt Herald
A fragmentary item questions medical views on appendicitis and its treatment. It notes curiosity about prior symptoms and the surprising claim that surgery for appendicitis was historically more often fatal, reflecting the era’s surgical uncertainty.
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Society feud over birth name sparks possible legal fight
In Brodnyn Mr and Mrs Smith prominent social figures clash over the Dethey of vorn son. The father named John Smith, the son to be christened Russell Gwinn Smith. The dispute may head to court as family tensions rise.
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