A Christmas Gift of Charity Hearts Catherwood Chooses Life
On a bitter Christmas Eve Mrs. Catherwood a young widow rich in charity takes a freezing stray child home. She risks her suitor Harold Whitney as she chooses to keep the child and later to pursue a deeper life with Dr Harmon, accepting his proposal to begin anew on Christmas morning.
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Congressional Debates On Commerce and Canal Bills
The report covers Senate and House actions from December sessions including the Armenian correspondence, mediation on China and Japan, and the 1894 tariff and canal debates. It notes the peoling bill, income tax provisions, university plans, and fortification and army appropriations, with votes and procedural moves across Dec 12 to 18 in Washington.
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Murder of Cleveland Businessman by Burglars
William H. Price a leading Cleveland business man and partner in Chandler Price was shot fatally by burglars at his Hawthorne Avenue home at 2 30 am after confronting intruders who fled. Detectives pursue the suspects but have not arrested anyone.
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William H. Price
Chandler & Price
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Price
Christmas Night Greetings in a Good Wife's Hearth
A verse from Judith Spencer in Good Housekeeping depicts a Christmas scene. A woman welcomes a weary wanderer, urging kindness to wayfarers and linking charity to Christ's meaning. The poem blends domestic warmth with a moral call to hospitality.
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Good Housekeeping
Maxt Queen of Seota Purchases Dream Dress
Maxt, queen of Seota, paid 3000 dollars for a dream dress in a bold return to style.
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Seota
Mee
Clergy Leaders Form Purity Movement in San Francisco
San Francisco clerics from Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches launched a Lexow style effort to improve city morals. Rev J Cummings Smith of Trinity Presbytery spearheaded talks with Dr Parkhurst and urged a unified action. If California lawmakers fail to appoint a purification committee, ministers will investigate with citizen support.
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J. Cummings Smith
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Cholera Deaths and Yellow Fever Rise in Rio Janeiro
A dispatch from Buenos Aires reports ten cholera deaths in a single day in Rio de Janeiro state and notes rising yellow fever in the capital. The Brazilian minister to Argentina relays the information received locally.
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Rio Janeiro
Estate case favors colleges in Farer dispute
New York December 14 Judge Truax ruled the Daniel B Farer weather contest in favor of the five colleges suing. The decision upsets the estate's disposition though the estate's value is uncertain.
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New York
Truax
Daniel B. Farerweather
Diphtheria Epidemic Strikes Ashtabula
Diphtheria in malignant form spreads across Ashtabula Ohio with nearly 100 cases reported since Saturday and ten deaths by Tuesday night. The board of health ordered schools closed and urged that public gatherings halt. Panic prompts many families to flee while investigators found milk supply uncontaminated.
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Ashtabula
Board of Health
Four-Year-Old Boy Disappears in Columbus
In Columbus on December 15 a four year old named Frank Morrow vanished from Second and Harrison avenues. He was last seen hatless and coatless, with no clues from his childhood companions. Police report a new Char ley Ross case and authorities hold no solid theory besides possible abduction or running away.
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Coal Combine Fails in Clinton Building Meeting
In Columbus Ohio on December 13 a proposed coal combine failed to form at the Pittsburgh Coal Co offices in the Clinton building. The plan aimed to unite all firms in the Hocking, Shawnee and Sunday Creek valleys but disagreements over feasibility led to abandonment of the effort.
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Bribery Charges Dropped After Denial by Contractor Andrews
In Eryria Ohio on December 15 charges against two city council members over brick sale commissions were dropped at a special meeting after contractor H M Andrews testified, denying he authored the bribery allegations.
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H. M. Andrews
Ohio State Horticultural Society Officers Elected
The Ohio State Horticultural Society elected officers Friday in Columbus. President E H Cushman Euclid. vice president W R Lazenby Columbus. secretary W W Farnsworth Waterville. treasurer N Ohmer Dayton. Next meeting set for Canton on the first Wednesday in December.
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Ohio Horticultural Society
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They Went Mad. Mt. Vernon C. Dec. 14
Several cattle and hogs belonging to Mayor Colwell have gone mad after a suspected bite from a mad dog. The animals were shot. Those bitten will be sent to Chicago or Paris for treatment. The town will cover expenses.
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Insanity Case Reveals Hidden Wealth At Circleville Asylum
A Circleville born man, recently treated at Central Insane Asylum, was believed driven to madness by extreme poverty. A room search uncovered 1,000 dollars hidden away, suggesting concealed wealth amid alleged destitution.
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Death of John Hahn Believed A Self Inflicted Poision
Massiton Ohio December 15. John Hahn aged 34 died at midnight in great ignorance, believed to have committed death by his own action by taking poison. The family say death resulted from heart trouble, but Hahn stated he had taken poison, and no physician was called.
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John Hahn
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Hahn
Perjured Himself in a Pension Case Near Cleveland
Isaac Ridenour was found guilty of perjury in a U S court on Thursday connected to fraudulent pension claims. He received three months in the Cleveland workhouse and a £100 fine.
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Isaac Ridenour
United States
Cleve and Workhouse
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