Santa Claus Clutters The Star Office In Toy Shop Fantasy
The Star editorial rooms transform into a toy shop with dolls, boxing gloves, and candy as Santa Claus visits. Marion and Cynthia Busby manage letters and baskets for about 400 children, delivering joy amid chaos while highlighting needy families and the impact of generosity on staff.
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Cynthia Grey
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Cub
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Cynthia
Santa Claus
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Alice
Two Kinds of Shoppers Coat Yesler Way This Christmas
Above Yesler Way people buy cut glass jewelry gowns and bric a brac as gifts while below Yesler Way others seek work for meals and shelter. The scene contrasts festive purchases with ongoing job searches amid a cold holiday season.
Millions in a Corner in Cotton
New York reports thirteen million dollars in estimated profits from the big four operators led by Brown Hayne Scales and Patten in a bullish cotton campaign. Cotton reached 16 cents on the New York exchange with May option at 16.01, the highest since 1904. The bulls forecast 17 cents before late January.
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New York
Col. W. P. Brown
Frank B. Hayne
New Orleans
E. J. Scales
James A. Patten
Chicago
New York Exchange
Majestic hosts Star carrier party for 500 boys
The Star newspaper plans a Tuesday afternoon entertainment at the Majestic theatre for its more than five hundred carrier boys and staff. After a city parade, carriers will gather by 2 o clock for a vaudeville show and turnout to support the youths in their after school work.
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Star Alley
Toy dog covered with dust as Brooklyn boy mourns mother murder
Paul Gebauer, five, mourns his mother murdered by his father in their Brooklyn home. The father, later jailed for investigation, left the boy with a toy army scene as the family tragedy unfolds. The boy’s birthday party was canceled and his grandfather informs him of the grim reality.
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Taen
Paul Gebauer
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Geismar
Gate Au Court
Woman's life valued at ten cents in Brooklyn rescue
A Brooklyn captain rescued a woman from Gravesend Bay after she attempted to drown. The woman offered a dime for bravery, but police seek her identity while the captain kept silent.
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Capt. Owens
Weather outlook shows rain or snow tonight and Saturday
The forecast calls for rain or snow tonight with moderate east winds and continuing rain on Saturday. Strong winds are not expected but precipitation remains likely across the region.
Mark Twain's Daughter Found Dead at Stormfield
Miss Jean Clemens, 25, daughter of Samuel L. Clemens, was found dead in a bathtub at Stormfield, the family home near Redding, Conn. Epilepsy is given as the cause. She had recently worked as her father’s secretary while his daughter Clara is in Switzerland on her honeymoon.
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Redding
Conn
Jean Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Stormfield
Mark
Cook and Peary Excluded From Forest Grove Christmas Play
In Forest Grove Oregon December 24 1924 Dr Frederick A Cook was spurned by Danish scientists and the local Christian church also passed unfavorably on him. The planned Christmas program for Sunday school children canceled Cook as a participant, leaving Peary Santa Claus and the North Pole as the remaining explorer figures.
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Frederick A Cook
Denmark
Christian Church
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Peary
North Pole
Santa Claus
Sheriff Defies Grand Jury Over Lone Arrest
Sheriff Hodge refuses to jail J D O'Brien without legal papers stating no warrant or commitment. Vanderveer aides haul the saloon lounger to the county jail, but the jailer demands proper legal process. The grand jury concedes the sheriff acted within the law after the confrontation.
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J. D. O'Brien
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O'Brien
van Blaricom
Mystery airship shed found near Worcester
In Worcester Massachusetts on December 24 a 100 foot shed in a woods estate near West Boylston is linked to the mysterious airship. Fourteen Morgan Telephone Co workers labored there on secret tasks while the captured reporter was fined for trespassing. Authorities tie the project to Wallace E Tillinghast and Paul B Morgan with ties to aviation experiments and a Swedish design abandoned two years earlier.
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United Press
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Morgan Telephone Co
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Tillinghast
Morgan
West Boyleston
Odd Bits of News from a Seattle Page
A jumble of items features a jailed Mexican refugee DeLara with a canceled Seattle lecture, a plea from Arthur George’s sister for a stay of death sentence, Levinsky and a Rabbi Genss money tale, and Judge Albertson’s dismissal. Sam Brafford, crossing guard at Yesler and Second, is praised with a diamond medal by city officials. Howells alleges police hold hidden underwear amid rail robbery charges.
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Genss
Levinsky
Germany
Albertson
Sam Brafford
Sam
Yesler
Second
Beau Brummell
Force
Mrs Song Yip Raises Funds for Homeless Children
Mrs Yip the Chinese merchant's wife collected eight dollars from her countrymen for homeless children. It notes she adopted an Indian boy a year earlier.
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Song Yip
Jansen Boy To Split Christmas With Parents In Court Order
Roderick Jansen son of Dr Eliv Jansen who figured in a sensational divorce suit will spend half Christmas day with his father and half with his mother by court order yesterday Y W C A cooks can now bake pies without having them toggled up and cakes without having them fall after this.
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Roderick Jansen
Eliv Jansen
Seattle Painters Hold Annual Union Dinner at Eagles Hall
The painters and decorators union in Seattle plans its big Christmas night dinner at Eagles' hall. Members prepare for a festive gathering with camaraderie and shared meals signaling the holiday season.
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Seattle
Eagles’ Hall
Why do you think he loves you
A coy exchange about romantic interest is overheard with one character noting a man’s gaze when not observed. The brief dialogue captures social tension as a Philadelphia photograph hints at infatuation.
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Philadelphia
Yankee ladder balks at bearing Union Jack
Greenwich resident William Bratt mounted a tall ladder at Greenwich academy to hang a British banner for a British artist talk. He slipped while singing God Save the King and fell 20 feet, breaking his nose. Descendants of Putnam era fighters helped him to Dr. Hyde’s office.
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Greenwich
Conn
William Bratt
Ol’ Lannon
Greenwich Academy
Gen. Putnam
Bratt
Radcliffe Dugmore
Theodore Roosevelt
God Save the King
Dr. Hyde
Old Pitt
Rock Island shop explosion in Shawnee claims seven dead
Seven bodies recovered from the ruins of the Rock Island railroad shops in Shawnee Oklahoma after a locomotive boiler explosion during a test. About fifty employees are believed buried beneath the debris and the total dead and injured remains unknown.
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Shawnee, Okla
Rock Island
Horse kicks woman over hat feathers in New York case
A New York jury ruled that a horse has no legal right to show forcible resentment when feathers on a woman's hat tickle its nose and awarded $2,500 damages against N. H. Althaus. Althaus argued the horse was gentle, but noted that any horse might resent aigrettes forced into its nostrils.
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Supreme Court
N. H. Althaus
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