Christmas In the Caribbean on a Cruiser
A New York Times report recalls a Christmas four years ago aboard a protected cruiser near Santo Domingo. Sailors built a stage from sailcloth, staged a full musical comedy with costumes, lights, and an improvised orchestra. The Swede leading lady and crew performers provided holiday cheer, ending with officer and sailor banquets.
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Caribbean
Santo Domingo
Sandsman
Ecook
Metropolitan Opera House
New York Times
Sending Home Love Through The Foreign Money Window
Cleveland daily reports a queue at the post office money order window as immigrants from Russia, Italy, Germany, and Ireland send cash home to loved ones in the old country. Many choose twenty dollar sums, saying me gotta twenty dol's, with mothers and families cherishing the aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Cleveland
le Bank
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Christmas Angel Visits Suffering Children In German Hospital
In a Philadelphia North American report a German hospital scene shows a nurse in white as the Christmas angel. She visits ill children on Christmas Eve, listening to wishes, then their pain eases as they sleep. Toys, candies, and a Nativity tableau brighten the ward, with trees and lights in the fever ward.
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Lisyn
Christas
Bearos
Ome
Philadelphia
Ameria
Curious Corner of Toyland in Austrian Village St Ulrich
Tourists visit St Ulrich where most residents are toymakers. One woman carves six animals with steady skill, passed through generations. other houses craft skulls and cross bones for crucifixes or rocking horses and dolls, while painters fill the town. A frugal housewife creates a thoughtful Christmas with animal cookies, candy, plums, puddings, bread, donuts and cakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Ulrich
Austria
London
Chicago Record-Herald
Where Christmas Trees Grow in Maine’s Timber Industry
The article notes that roughly three-fifths of the 1.5 million Christmas trees in America are grown in eastern and northern Maine. It highlights thousands of young farmers and timbersmen earning income from cutting Maine grown trees, tracing the Maine tree trade back about thirty years and noting ships, cargos, and export activity as the industry expanded.
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America
Maine
Christm
Mistletoe Whisper Scene Amid Holiday Verse
Fragmentary verse recalls a mistletoe moment with rosy cheeks and loving whispers beneath holly. The lines hint at romance and festive mood, noting eyes that shine and a kiss under the winter greenery.
The Lost Illusion of Santa at a Christmas Pageant
A Sunday school Christmas scene reveals Santa Claus as only a man, shocking Sadie and prompting a child named Sue to sob that there is no Santa. The reveal shows a local figure, Johnny Smith's father, in the hoary guise.
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Sant Claus
Santa Claus
Sadie
Jndeers
Sue
Johnny Smith
Papa
New York Press
Caledonia social notes and local updates
Mrs. Sarah Gaskett of Wilsonville visited Mrs. Ollie Smith. Bert Haws injured in mine but not seriously. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Chambers welcomed a baby boy born Saturday night December 15. Residents Dotting Sullivan and Farnsworth mention visits and moves among families. several went to Sullivan, Gilmore, and Cass over the past week.
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Sarah Gaskett
Wilsonville
Ollie Smith
Magg Donald
Sullivan
Bert Haws
Jim Nesbit
Ceattie
Jesse
Mildred
Steely Chambers
Cye Davis
Ethel Smith
Farnsworth
Ray Litty
Gilmore
Tom Chambers
Notice to Non-Residents in Sullivan County Indiana
State of Indiana Sullivan County Indianapolis Southern Railroad Company versus Vandalia Coal Company and Union Trust Company Pittsburg Complaint seeks to appropriate lands for right of way in the Sullivan Circuit Court January Term 1907 Union Trust Company of Pittsburg is ordered to appear before Judge Charles Henderson in open court at the Sullivan County Court House on a specified date.
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Sullivan Circuit Court
Indianapolis Southern Railroad Company Seeks Land for Right of Way
The clerk of Sullivan Circuit Court notices Vandalia Coal Company and Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh to appear on a specified date to show cause why parcels in Sullivan County Indiana should be condemned for a railroad right of way. The complaint names the railroad as plaintiff and the two defendants. The land includes parts of section 12 township 7 north range 8 west and Lot 55 in Dugger Neal Coal Co added town of Dugger. Signed by Clerk Tilghman Ogle on December 17, 1906.
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Indianapolis Southern Railroad Company
Vandalia Coal Company and Union Trust Company
Pittsburg
Sullivan County
Indiana
Dugger & Neal Coal Company
Dugger
Long Tennessee Fight Promotes Arnica Salve in Nose Cure
W L Rawls of Bells Tennessee claims Bucklen Arnica Salve cured his nasal catarrh after twenty years of suffering. A local druggist endorses the salve as best. The notice also warns of dangerous kidney and bladder diseases and promotes Dr Crowley’s free kidney bladder exam using analysis tools.
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W. L. Rawls
Bells, Tenn
Joe K. Smock
Crowley
Christmas Charity and Reunion Tales From Iowa and Nebraska
Mrs Arthur Hyde presented the Salvation Army turkey box to Captain Mary Taylor at Des Moines on Christmas Day. Donations poured in as Hyde also gave a large bill from her jacket. In Lincoln Nebraska Adolph Gebhardt celebrated a Christmas with a long lost brother appearing in a moving picture screening when George, an actor in New York, was recognized by the audience after ten years.
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Des Moines Register
Arthur Hyde
Des Moines
Salvation Army
Mary Taylor
Captin Taylor
Adph Gebhardt
Lincoln
Neb
Adolf
Sarge
Spectors
George
Gege
New York
The Fast Flier Christmas Allure
A colorful Athens style snippet from the Atlanta Constitution captures a brisk, festive mood as Christmas songs mingle with marching pace. The text hints at enduring boyish energy and a symbolic readiness for renewal as the season cycles.
Public Sale of Personal Property in Sullivan County
The administrator of the estate of John L. Miller will sell at public sale at the late residence in Jackson township Sullivan county Indiana on Thursday January 3 1907 beginning at 10 o clock a m. The sale includes cattle hogs buggy harness household goods farm implements and other articles not taken by the widow. Terms for sums under 5 are cash. over 5 is on six months credit with a note secured by freehold security and 6 percent interest from date.
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John L. Miller
Jackson Township
Sullivan County
Indiana
Liquor License Sought for Sullivan Town Retail Premises
A white male resident of Sullivan township Sullivan county Indiana announces he will apply to the Sullivan county board of commissioners at the next session beginning January 1907 for a license to sell spirituous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises drinking. The described premises occupy the lower room of a brick building facing Washington street and fronting a defined parcel at 49 feet 7 inches west from the southeast corner of lot 52 in Sullivan original plat. 2012 O L Springer.
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Sullivan
Hamilton Township
Sullivan County
Indiana
Board of Commissioners
Washington Street
Town of
O. L. Springer
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Santa Claus’ Workshop
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Mike Starlight
Caledonia
Wm. Smith
Ed Sanders
Dye Davis
Nell Bledsoe
Magg Thomas
Charlie McDaniel
Charley Smith
Chal Willis
Joe Raines
Cass Sunday
Charley McDaniel
Hatry’s
Lindley
Southside Square
Douthitt
J. W. Hedrick
J. R. Bishop
W. V. Barr
J. W. Hedrick & Co
General Mosse, Dugger
Ind
J. BR. Bishop
State of
Indianapolis Southern Railroad Company Vs
Vandalia Coal Co. and
Union Trust Company
Tilghman Ogle
John T. and
Will H. Hays
Attys
Tennessee
True Chrimas
Atlanta Constitution
Sullivan County Loan & Trust Co
North Entrance
J. R. Riggs
C. H. Edwards
P. R. Jenkins
Sec’y and Treas
L. Davis
A. E. Hazelrigg
W. C. Famicom
Sam A. White
Trust Department
New Lebanon
West Street
Carlisle
Avondale Place
Rock Road
Jackson Street
Wall Street
South State Street
S. W
Farmersburg
Shelburn
Scott City
Graysville
Cross St
Ata
Davis Hotel
Glidden & Douthitt
North Side
Chi-chester’s
CHI Chester
Evhere
Kester Chemical Oo
National Bank of Sullivan
W. C. Jamison
Cashier
R.p.crawford Shelburn
Dentist
Notary Public
The
C. Hl. Stratton Loan Co
North Long & Warren
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