Christmas at the White House Through The Years
The article traces Christmas at the White House from Andrew Jackson to Theodore Roosevelt, detailing how each administration celebrated. It highlights Tad Lincoln’s theater dream, Grover’s theater aid, Cleveland family customs, McKinley turkey gifts, and Roosevelt children’s festivities, open houses, and the handling of gifts from the public. It notes Christmas as a family affair with New Year open house and legation traditions abroad.
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White House
Jackson
Amone
Tennessee
Tad Lincoln
Tad
Mr. Lincoln
Washington
Diplomatic Corps
Cleveland
Ruth
Esther
Mrs. McKin
Executive Mansion
Grover
New National Theater
Lincoln
Seward
Playhouse
Washington Circle
Pennsylvania
Capital
McKinley
Roosevelt
Roosevelts
New World
Latin America
Chile
Argentina
Europe
Hay Cause for Joy in Whimsical Exchange
A Baltimore American line notes a jokey moment where Mr Henry Peck reacts to jokes about women gifting cigars to husbands for Christmas. He scoffs at the notion while out in the hall, shaking hands with himself, reflecting lighthearted newsroom chatter.
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Hay
Henry Peck
Henry
Baltimore American
Denver seeks 1908–10 asylum funding and state notices
Secretary Hager received from Dr. Busey a request for Colorado insane asylum appropriation totaling 467000 for two years. The list itemizes new storage plant ten thousand, artesian well ten thousand, heating upgrades eighteen thousand, boilers four thousand, lab and hospital work two thousand five hundred, land fifty five thousand, maintenance one hundred eighty thousand, kitchen ventilation one thousand, repairs ten thousand, three new cottages one hundred fifty thousand, store and dining room fifteen thousand, steward cottage two thousand. Also noted are Canon City church building, Greeley school occupancy, University of Colorado alumni banquet in Denver, milk price rise to fourteen quarts per dollar, and various regional developments including Japanese labor at Eilers smelter and Fort Collins street railway planning.
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Denver
C. E. Hager
State Board of Charities and Corrections
A. P. Busey
Pueblo
Christian Church Society of
Canon City
South Ward
Greeley
University of Colorado
Dairymen’s Association
R. L. Chambers of
Colorado Springs
Tabasco
Mexico
Colorado
Eiler
United States Surveyor General’s Department For Colorado
New Empire
Sixteenth and
Glenarm Streets
Kansas City
F. G. Bonfils
Denver Post
Denver Chamber of Commerce
James T. Callbreath, Jr
George ‘Ritch
Charles F. Onderdonk
H. A. Lindsley
Denyer
E. K. Whitehead
The
Humane Society
Federal Immigration Department
Boulder
Robert B. Lewis
James Denslow Eggleston
President Eggleston
Pacific Express Company
T. S. McMurray
Fort Collins
London
Ontario
Bentons
Loveland
Colorado Yale Association
University Club
Yale
Theron R. Field
Colorado National Bank
Frederick H. Morley
Colorado State Society
Seattle
C. W. Clise
J. T. Cornforth
D. B. Fairley
B. Sweeney
Kansas Claims Riparian Rights in Arkansas River Dispute
In the Kansas vs Colorado Supreme Court case, Judge Ashbaugh argued Kansas suffers irreparable injury from Colorado's irrigation, estimating damages at not less than 75 million dollars and seeking a fair division of 700 cubic feet per second. Colorado's side contends the river often runs dry in western Kansas and that surface flow does not dictate underflow.
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Washington
Kansas
Colorado
Supreme Court
Ashbaugh
N. H. Loomis
Arkansas
Loomis
Justice White
Clyde C. Dawson
Pike
Sue
Great Plains
Arkansas Valley
Dawson
Platt Rogers
Denver
D. C. Beaman
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Denver Postoffice Site Sought By Treasury Official
Assistant Secretary Edwards reviews Supervising Architect Taylor report on Denver site for a new post office. Taylor prioritizes a full block bounded by Stout Champa Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets as the most desirable location considering current business activity and future growth.
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Denver
The Age of Clay and the Future of Building
A historical view argues iron and steel decline as cement houses rise in America. It cites Prof Shaler on iron's obsolescence for vessels and buckets, predicts cement replaces steel in roofs and structures, and notes New York’s steel skin as a relic while cement houses proliferate amid rising output and lower costs.
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Jon
Shaler
Tero
Cera
New York
T Dians
America
The Little Tin Soldier described by Vance Thompson
Vance Thompson in Everybody's details the toy soldier trade in China, noting mass production of redweight figures and US sales of 50,000 quintals. A 60 cent pound box holds about 150 pieces including cavalry artillery and accessory pieces.
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Vance Thompson
Chi! Everybody's
Themberg
United States
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Mrs. Roosevelt
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Massachusetts
Washington Star
Insane Asylum
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Little Tin Soldier
Lars Denver
Pullen
Lawrence
Deny
Sinéus J. H. Wilson
American House Paxy" Depot
American Plan
Brown Palace
E. E. Burlingame Assay Office
Lawrence St
Nan
Pianos and
Teale
Colo
Gutshall
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