Lack Zeal for Missions Rochester Conference
The Episcopal Mission Conference in Rochester ends with strong calls for renewed zeal in Latin American missions. It urges more young men, better funding, laity and bishops accountability, and organized church support for missions. Alaska bishops stress native training, hospitals, and schools but cite funding shortages. A separate Presbyterian Assembly committee reports slow progress on theological questions amid harmonious discussions.
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Rochester
N. Y
Episcopal Mirah Nary
Episcopal Church
Abron
Jong
Peter Trimble Howe
Alaska
Nome
Rampart
Circle City
Skagway
Sheldon Jackson
Washington
General Presbyterian Assembly
Nellie Cropsey Alive Believed In Baltimore Case
Norfolk police chief asserts Nellie Cropsey may be alive in Baltimore after a Nov disappearance from Elizabeth City. A girl calling herself Jessie Baker met Edward Kelley in a Norfolk boarding house, dined with him, and boarded a Baltimore steamer with no baggage. Elizabeth City officials still push murder or abduction theory.
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Norfolk
Wellines
Nellie Cropsey
Elizabeth City
Baltimore
Frank Hn
Edward F. Kelley
Jessie Baker
Pennsylvania
Kelley
Vellines
A. G. Cropsey
New York
Dawson
Nellie Cropsey Dress Discrepancy Stirs Family Claims
Suffolk va December 7 family and cousin of Nellie Cropsey dispute Edward Kelley account of her disappearance. Kelley described a Baltimore boat sighting with new shoes a light cardigan and a red waist with brass buttons. Family says Nellie wore a red waist no brass buttons old shoes and no coat. They assert she had little money when she left while Wilcox, her sweetheart, returns to Elizabeth City.
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Suffolk
Nellie Cropsey
Edward F. Kelley
Police
Villenes
Norfolk
Kelley
Baltimore
Nellie
Wilcox
Elizabeth City
Vengeful Goebelites Now Ask Payback From Republicans
Attorneys for Attorney General Breckinridge sue former State Treasurer Walter Day and former State Auditor John Sweeney in Franklin Circuit Court for 28128.02 with interest from Feb 1 1900. They allege Republicans illegally funded state troops at Frankfort during Goebel Taylor governor contest in early 1900s. Sweeney and Day were in office until the court ordered surrender to Democratic claimants. Warrant and check records are filed as exhibits.
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Frankfort
Breckin- Tidge
Commonwealth
Franklin Circuit
Walter R. Day
John S. Sweeney
Repubicans
William Goebel
Berry Howard Arrested in Goebel Assassination Indictment
Pineville Kentucky December 7 Berry Howard under indictment for complicity in the assassination of the late Governor William Goebel was arrested here this afternoon.
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Pineville
Berry Howard
William Goebel
Chinatown feud turns deadly with fourth victim
In San Francisco on December 7 a new murder inflames the Wong Chang family feud in Chinatown. Wong Get was shot in the back as he walked, dying soon after. The shooter fled, discarded his pistol, and hid in a nearby house where police found him. Yee Loor claimed by witnesses as the killer.
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San Francisco
Cal
Wong Chang
Chinatown
Wong Get
Yee Loor
Montclair man arrested for embezzling from Milwaukee Transport
Denver December 7 Leroy W Secor a Montclair resident since February was arrested on a warrant charging embezzlement of 15 from the Transportation Company where he worked as cashier in its Milwaukee Office Detective Henry Manger of Milwaukee secured a requisition honored by Governor Orman and escorted Secor to Milwaukee to face the charge.
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Denver
Leroy W. Secor
Montclair
Transportation Company
Milwaukee
Henry Manger
Secur
Orman
Bodies of Skaters Recovered in Ottawa River Tragedy
Ottawa December 7. The bodies of Miss Bessie Blair daughter of Hon. A G Blair Minister of Railways and Consols and Hon H A Marpor editor of the Labor Gazette, who drowned while skating on the Ottawa river last evening, were recovered today.
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Ottawa
Bessie Blair
A. G. Blair
H. A. Marpor
Labor Gazette
Roosevelt order sparks resignations from federal holders
Denver dispatch reports President Roosevelt ordered all federal holders in the state to resign any positions or roles tied to political activities, affecting how lands are registered and managed under federal authority.
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Denver
Roosevelt
United States Land
Republican Committeemen Named In State Party Roster
The chairman of the state Republican committee and a dozen other federal officeholders are named as committeemen in the Republican party.
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State Republican Committee
Republican Party
Pauper's oath taken by Carson theft convict James Henry
James Henry, previously sentenced seven years for stealing from the United States mint in Carson, took the pauper's oath after initially refusing it. He said his property had passed out of his possession during imprisonment, mainly to cover attorney fees. What remained was placed on his wife's accounts, who had a divorce a year earlier.
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Carson
Nev
James Henry
United States Mint
United States District Attorney
Henry
Germany
Mason
Lillian Ramsey
Denver Quincy Club
Denver
Col
Warner
Newfoundland
Cape John
Straits of
Belle Isle
Round Harbor
South Africa
St. Johns
New York
Arbor
Englee
Chicago Journal
a =i land
Donald
Alban blames railway for Isthmus unrest and Panama road issues
General Alban, Colombian commander, criticizes railway managers for disturbances at Bocas del Toro and other Isthmian events. He accuses the Panama Railroad of blocking troop movements and enabling Liberal forces, while reporting severed Venezuela Colombia relations and a fragile peace outlook for Colombia.
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Colon
Columbia
Alban
Tribune
Bocas del Toro
Panama
Galloway
Bogota
Republic
Senor del Rio
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Chile
General Alban
Venezuela
Colombia
Tachira
Gonzalo Valencia
San Cristobal
Castro
Las Cascadas
Navy report details Isthmus events after Colon capture
Navy Department releases Captain Perry’s Panama dated report on November 2 describing the Isthmus events after Colon fell to Liberals, its recapture, and U S naval forces reopening traffic. The guards were treated with respect, and no improper acts by Conservative or Liberal soldiers occurred.
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Washington
Navy Department
Perry
Iowa
Panama
Colon
United States
United States Guards
Growing Violets Meehans Monthly Style and Tips
Violet growing advice from Meehans Monthly details the Neapolitan blue variety and other reputables like Californian and Maria Louise. It covers outdoor wintering, planting in shade, frames and heat control, frost protection, and simple methods for home gardens to produce early blooms.
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Meehan
New York
Yankee Tools and German Tariffs in Berlin Trade Focus
Berlin letter surveys American machinery influence in Germany. Ludwig Loewe plant in Berlin models U.S. methods with American patents, plus other firms like Niles Tool, Worthington Pump, Luxfer Prism, and McCormick Deering branches. Analysts forecast tariff battles, noting English and Swedish competition and the need to sell on quality.
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W. E. Curtis
Berlin
Chicago
United States
Europe
Assembly of Mechanics
Germany
Niles Tool Company
Worthington Pump Company
Luxfer Prism Company
Sturtevant Company
H. R. Lemley
Anson Mills
Lemley
William
Cheseborough Manufacturing Company
McCormick Reaper Company
Deerings
Walter A. Wood Company
Hutmaker
McCormick Company
John Muller
England
Sweden
France
Austria
Grand Rapids
Paris
Circuit Riding in the South Observed by Richmond College Students
Richmond College conversations reveal circuit riding is common across denominations in the South. A Georgia minister's son, a Florida resident, and Carolinas native describe itinerant preaching reaching a village of 50 inhabitants where five churches each have their own preachers, not residing in the village.
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South
Richmond College
Georgia
Florida
Carolinas
Richmond
Would Sammy Sail the Seas or Find a Safer Life
A father warns his son Samuel against a sailor’s life, detailing brutal hardships at sea, cannibals, fever, sharks, wrecks, and pirates. Samuel dreams of adventure, resists, and runs away to join a brig bound for Liverpool in search of danger and a different fate.
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Bluitt
Yessir
Sammy
Samuel
Robinson Crusoe
London
Naples
Bay of Naples
Pacific
Ammy
Liverpool
Isolated Newfoundland Coast Folk Greet Distant World
Norman Duncan in Ainslee's Magazine portrays remote eastern Newfoundland harbor communities cut off by terrain and long mail gaps. Islanders struggle with limited travel and miscomprehension of modern life, while outsiders’ ideas of cities and buses fail to translate in their insular world.
Sterling silver thimbles for sale by Mullally jewelry
Sterling thimbles described as heavy will be sold on Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, at De and Ge each. J. P. Mullally Diamonds and Jewelry advertises at 3 Monument Place.
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J. P. Mullally
Monument Place
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