Dance of Service Club Charities Bright Yuletide Evening
Indianapolis hosts the Service Club annual Christmas dance at the German House, a major charity event with many club hostesses and guests. The evening featured lavish blue and gold decor, numerous boxholders, and fashionable gowns, as proceeds benefit the Day Nursery Association.
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Service Club
Mabel Talbott
Ms. Carson
Margaret Rockwood
Lydia Latham
Lydia Farry
Violet Barbour
Lydia Wallace
Natalie Dalton
Virginia Shaw
Ina Hollweg
Margaret Lilly
Suemma Vujen-Coleman
Eloise Lyman
Enid Perry Morris
Ruth Pratt
Mary Sullivan
Miss Morss
Kate Perry Morris
John C. Wright
Hugh Hanna
John _H. Holliday
William Scott
K. Sharpe
William Hayward
Medford
Alfred M. Ogle
Charlies Richard Williams
Frank Graef Darlington
John Oxenford
William
Charlotte Scott
Nabb
Mothersa Se Schilder
Chicago
Med. B. Wilson
Edith
Ruth
William Eugene
Jane Hayward
Evade Hayward
Richard Willams
Wade
Patton
George Chandler
M. W. Wiggins
Nk Wild
Sarah Dudbridge
Preston Smith
John O. Oxenford
Suemma Vajen-Cole
Miss Carson
Wallace
Miss Rockwood
Lydia
Clara Haw
Aew
New York
Kern
Florence Hobbs
W. K. Hendricks
North Dakota
Mabel
Smith
Ft Ma
Christmas Party Delight Graces Maennerchor Hall
Several hundred children gathered for the annual Christmas frolic with a Christmas tree grab bags gifts candy and dancing. A concert preceded the event with performances from Edward Brown Lucian Segar Eugene Keller Amelia Kriecker Kath Billinger and others. The Moon Choir and young performers showcased a rainbow scarf dance and two choruses including a sleep song by a group of small children in white nightgowns and blue pajamas. The program culminated in a scene of a Christmas Morning with tree toys and other festive items.
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Maennerchor Hall
Herman Adam
Prof
Bellinger
Edward Brown
Lucian Segar
Eugene Keller
Amelia Kriecker
Kath Billinger
Albert Stein
Moon
Christmas Dinner Served To Homeless At City Hotels
The article describes Christmas dinners provided to homeless people yesterday by city hotels including Clay-Dealson Sa Grand and Spencer ma. Dinners featured turkey with cranberry sauce, fish, fruits, and nuts, with musical entertainments and attentive service supervised by Columbia Club intendent Hurley.
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Sa Grand
Spencer Ma
Hurley
Columbia Club
Churches Celebrate Christmas With Song
City churches marked Christmas with morning and evening services featuring a varied musical program. Notable items included Woodruff Place Baptist Church presenting The Nativity of Christ cantata under William C. Smock with soloists, and Central Christian and Christ Church offering Buck cantatas and ensemble works led by a roster of organists and choirs.
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Christ
Woodruff Place
William C. Smock
Arthur Gillett
Frank Sink
Florence Hrinkman
May Powell
F. W. Brehmer
John Ross
Six Christmas Masses At St. John's Church
St. John's Catholic Church held an all day Christmas service schedule with six masses from 4 am to 4 pm. Bishop Francis Silas Chatard presided at the 10:30 am pontifical mass and the 4 pm vesper service, joined by a dozen priests and about forty altar boys. Father Gavish preached on the divinity of Christ, highlighting Bethlehem's lesson and Christianity's rise in moral and spiritual life.
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St. John’s Catholic Church
Francis Silas Chatard
Indianapolis
Wester
Peter Killian
Francis H. Gavish
St. John’s Parish
Christ
James McCool
Stephen Donoghue
Gavisk
Bishop Chatard
Francis H. Gavisk
Father Gavish
Bethlehem
God
Chatard
Postmen and Express Companies Busy on Christmas Deliveries
Early morning at the post office fifteen wagons and a large force of postmen began distributing Christmas packages and New Year greetings. Express firms added clerks and wagons, with some rush projected into Tuesday or Wednesday. Sorting was suspended as bundles flooded the floor, requiring two days to restore the old routing system.
Little Boy Receives Desk With Brass Buttons From Santa
Santa Claus visited a boy on Eleventh street in the early hours and left a desk with a grooved top and brass knobs. Frederick beamed at his gift, noting his desk “is tucked and has brass buttons” after inspecting it, while overlooking other presents.
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Santa Claus
Eleventh Street
Frederick
Santa
Christmas services at St David Church feature choral works
Yesterday at St David Church both morning and evening services included a choral celebration. The morning service performed Missa de Sancto Amphibalale by Agutter and an anthem It Came Upon the Midnight Clear by Stainer. The Christmas services will be repeated tomorrow morning followed by a carol service tomorrow evening.
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van Laer
W. H. Howard
Eva Jeffries
Orin D. Walker
Charles D. Green
Dudley Buck
Thomas
Central Christian
Harry Chandler
Ragsdale
Lucie Carvin
May Scholler
Scholler
James Hewitt
Ashley Daven
Buck
Dressler
Selo
Christ Chil Shaw
Redeenensesveeseceescce
Howell Hall-place Church
Louis Dechez
Leo B. Riggs
Bethleehem
Santa Claus
Don- Frank Carvin
Mildred Moore
Ethel Stelhorn
Old Judea
Griggs
Shepherds
Syrian Shepherds
Stabat Mater
Rossini
Rose Beckwith
Lowing
Barnby
Wightte
Sansa
Quartoprano
Brockway
Dudle Buck
Eevences Rotoli
van Bergen
Kyrie Eleison
HH Second Presbyterian Church
FIRST
English Lutheran
John L. Geiger
First English Lutheran Church
Josephine English
Bethlehem
Stuart Dean
Charles Clary
St. David Church
Agutter
Stainer
Christmas Dinners Bring Joy to Indianapolis Fortunes
Charities and city institutions in Indianapolis celebrated a Christmas day of lavish meals and gifts for the vulnerable. Sheriff Metzger hosted 166 pounds of turkey for jail inmates while 150 rabbits helped the workhouse meal. Girls at the Indiana Industrial School, boys at the German Protestant Orphans Home, and hundreds at the Central Hospital for the Insane received meals, gifts, and holiday activities. The Flanner Guild treated 300 colored children to a bright Christmas tree and lunches, and many other homes and clubs held services, plays, and tree ceremonies.
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Indianapolis
Turkey
Metzger
Marion County
Andrew Sweeney
Board of
School Commissioners
Metzser
Workhouse
Miss Rhodes
Indiana Industrial School For Girls and Woman's Prison
Gamins
Flanner Guild
Dr. Morgan
Henry Hart
A. Eng
Anna Page
Peters
St. John’s Church
Tomlinson Hall
Volunteers of America
West
Washington Street
Deaf Institute
Bethel Glee Club
Katherine
Central Avenue M. E
Alpha Home Association
Susie Williams
Armanda _Breckenbridge
Ella Williams
Elizabeth Johnson
Keziah Butler
Roxie H. Bell
H. A. Webb
George B. Lynch
Christmas Baskets Distributed by Salvation Army
Early yesterday morning 100 baskets of Christmas dinners were loaded into six wagons and sent across the city to needy families. Merchants and churches contributed most of the food, with officers spending days collecting provisions and Captain Atkins leading 23 helpers to fill and deliver the baskets by noon.
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Salvation Army
Atkins
Statehouse workers present chair to Colonel Huffman
Statehouse employees gave Colonel Huffman, custodian of the building, a handsome chair. Friends gathered in his office as J. C. Chambers delivered the presentation speech.
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Statehouse
Huffman
J. C. Chambers
Leaping Year Girl on Journal Color Supplement
The Journal's color supplement for December 27 1903 promises a Leap Year Girl photo with Harry P Taber verses and a Leap Year story by Taber called How the King Von Ellen of the Golden Locks. It previews Sam Loyd puzzles on the next page a windmill cutout and a house plan page with New Year's costumes. The comic section features Willie Cute Puss and the Foxy Mice with several strips and gags.
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Harry P. Taber
Hall
Mr. Tabor
von Ellen
Golden Locks
Sam Loyd
Willie Cute
Puss
Johnny
Binnacle Jim
Elks raffle car unclaimed amid citywide ticket spread
The auto raffled by the Elks on Christmas remains unclaimed with ticket 10937. The winner likely lives outside Indianapolis, though a local holder of ticket 8719 could claim after thirty days if the ticket was lost by an Indianapolitan. Ticket sales extended beyond the city through Gustav Kevers, while F B Bennett may hold ticket 19125 for the auxiliary launch, pending verification by the Elks committee.
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The
Elks
Indianapolis
Gustav Kevers
F. B. Bennett
Ashland Avenue
Bennett
Revers
Elks’ Committee
Christmas Observed With Four Catholic Masses At St Patrick’s
St Patrick's parish marked Christmas with four services led by Rev Duffey and auxiliary bishop Denis O Donaghue. Bishop Chatard preached at the 10 o'clock high mass on the meaning of Christmas as the organ and choirs led elaborate Mercadante and Lambolotte works.
Yletide Gift Of Overcoats For One Hundred Boys
Saks & Co distributed one hundred overcoats to needy boys from Washington to Alabama streets. Police officers chose deserving youngsters, then escorted them to the store where each received a cap and shoes donated by a benefactor. Children left joyful, sharing the news with families.
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Saks & Co
Washington
Pennsylvania
Saks & Co.'s
Alabama Street
Devenoonts
East Clan Street
Baks & Co
Ceara Micnoat
Men Worth a Million
New York Press questions the counts of U S millionaires. Officials dispute Depew and Rockefeller estimates, citing 7000 in the United States and 1000 in New York City, with 15000 names on the Red ik list. Wealth hiding and tax concerns explain undercounts and secrecy.
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New York
Boston
Pittsburg
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
United States
Depew
John D. Rockefeller
New York City
Financial Redik
Jor Depew
Mr. Rockefeller
Senator Bacon Explains Heat and Cold Rule
In Washington Times a Georgia senator and natural sciences enthusiast discusses heat expansion and contraction. He recalls a classroom tale where a teacher asks a student to apply the rule to a winter day, illustrating the concept with a humorous misfit.
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Washington Times
Senator Bacon
Georgia
Brown
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H. G. Cox
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H. J. Schonacker
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Mary Hastings
E. Ballard
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RE. P. Clancy
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