New York Christmas Gifts Range From Pearl Necklace to Toys
A New York correspondent notes Christmas gifts span vast wealth gaps with figures about $20 million in gifts while a few rich purchases like diamond necklaces highlight extreme disparities. The piece contrasts billionaire gifts with gifts to children in tenements and recalls Vanderbilts’ necklace worth $1.6 million as a famed example.
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Flaine
Snrga
Hid
Rays
New York
Burm
Grant
Birth Avenue
East Side
William I
Vander Bilt
Holiday Shopping Frenzy Across Great City Streets
Vivid, overlapping scenes show shoppers buying heavy clothing, furniture, toys and trinkets with prices slashed at merchants. A Bowery couple negotiates small diamonds while families and street vendors push through a crowded center, each with quick buys and busy hands.
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Grand Street
Hnah
Bowery
Victoria
Roadly stution of Brooklyn park and suburban towns
A large park near Brooklyn draws shoppers from Brooklyn and many suburban towns within fifty miles of New York. The area becomes a hub for regional shopping, attracting visitors from multiple communities throughout the region.
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Brooklyn
New York
Worlding Threads and Scarlet Plaits in China
In parts of China young women wear a long single plait woven with a bright scarlet thread signaling they are marriageable. The custom marks status and traditional expectations within local communities.
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China
Christmas shopping contrasts and street life in New York
A chaotic snapshot of holiday giving and last minute shopping in New York. It contrasts Rockefeller’s large gift to a church with street vendors on Vesey Street and Grand Street seeking bargains. It notes the end of year timing affects pay and prices and includes anecdotes of shoppers and a claim about elderly twins born in 1815.
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John D. Rockefeller
Fifty-Seventh Street Baptist Church
Mulberry Bend
Roosevelt Street
New York
Vesey Street
Esteam
Broadway
North River
Newell Brothers
Missouri
Chicago Times-Herald
H. H. Johnson
Kankaloo
Omaha
Neb
David Noggis
Janesville
Wis
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Anne M
Benjamin and
Munice Mosher Lewis
Bristol
N.Y
Milan
Ohio
House Republicans Pass Pension Bill Without Amendments
The House voted Friday to approve the pension and appropriation bill without amendments and adjourned to Monday. Dingley projected a $10,000,000 surplus next year as receipts are seen exceeding expenditures under the Dingley law. Debates covered pensions, civil service reform, and treasury revenues with optimism over future balance.
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Treasury
Dingley
J'ons
Illinois
E. D. Cooke
Sullivan
Mississippi
Messrs. Garmack
Gaines
Sime
Tennessee
J. Dingley
Pacific’ Railways
Mr. Allen
Luetgert Wife Alive Said by St Louis Editor
St Louis editor John H. Schofield tells Boston Globe readers that Mrs Luetgert, long thought dead in the Chicago sausage murder case, is alive and was seen in Boston in July. He cites her identity and explains why she left her husband, who faces another life trial.
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St. Lauis
Boston
Boston Globe
Luetgert
Chicago
John H. Schofield
St. Louis
Globe
Two Soldiers Fail To Kill Sultan In Yildiz Kiosk
Athens dispatch in the Daily Chronicle reports two soldiers in imperial service at the Yildiz Kiosk attempted to murder the sultan. The sultan had them tortured to uncover instigators but they died without naming anyone.
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Athens
London Daily Chronicle
Yildiz
Assassins Leach and Hock Hanged in Clinton Tenn
Mynatt Leach and J D Hock were executed by hanging in Clinton Anderson County Tennessee for the murder of J D Heol of Piney Engine Royal Coal and Pulke Co Goat Creek. The crime dated February 17, 1897 involved ambush shooting as Heek returned to his bride of four months. A Knox County jail confession described a $200 bounty and a conspiracy among four men to commit the killing.
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Mynatt Leach
Clinton
Tenn
J/D. Hock
Mynatt
Anderson County
J. D. Heol
Piney Engen
Royal Coal and Pulke Co
Leach
Hecks
Con Ores
Heck
Tueach
Knox County
Georgia Populists Plan Committee Meeting in Atlanta
The Georgia populist state executive committee met in Atlanta to map next year’s campaign and platform. They set March as the state convention date, discussed reorganizing the party, and considered Allegiance to populist principles. Chairman John Cunningham offered to resign twice, but was not accepted. The session occurred at the state capitol amid busy legislative work that could influence party policy.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Conaide
John Cunningham
State Capitol
Cunningham
Governor Sustained in Georgia Veto Override Fight
Georgia Governor wins a pivotal clash over a football bill veto in the House. The session featured a major debate on whether two thirds of all members or those present could override the veto. The ruling favored the governor, and the attempt to pass the bill over the veto failed by five votes.
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Georgia
House of Representatives
Woman Confesses to Murder in Kerr Death
Delilah Wales of Waverly Iowa admits firing the shots that killed Jerome Kerr whose body was found in a secluded woods last August. Indicted on Wednesday she alleges years of harassment by the elder Kern starting when she was thirteen, and says he tried to ruin her reputation to deter others from courting her. Her alleged accomplice, a son of the victim, is also expected to face indictment.
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Miss Aves
Kern
Delilah Wales
Waverly
Jerome Kerr
Miss Fales
Durrant Loses Appeals in Lamont Williams Case
California Supreme Court rejected two appeals by W H Durrant the condemned man in the Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams murders the ruling ends any chance for post conviction relief despite claims by a woman asserting a Blanther wife that a written confession implicated him in the killings and prompted renewed efforts to reopen the case
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California Supreme Court
W. H. ‘I Durrant
Blanche Lamont
Minnie Williams
Blanther
Durrant
Weyler Celebrates McKinley Attacks on Spain
From Barcelona a dispatch quotes Lieutenant General Weyler rejoicing at attacks on the Spanish government by President McKinley. He says such criticisms prove his policy displeasing Spain's enemies and expresses surprise that Madrid tolerates the attacks on the nation’s representative.
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Barcelona
Weyler
McKinley
Spain
Reforms and political shifts sweep through state politics
The article reports on Governor race dynamics with Hon. Pope Brown eyeing the governorship, efforts to influence candidacy, and a large farmer gathering addressing cotton pricing. It notes a government work shift from Captain G B Gillette to Colonel W B H Benguard, rumored stoppage by Atlantic Grain & Cattle Co., and local reactions including a Twiggs County murder case tied to Mrs. Nobles.
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Oimbire Land
G.B. Gillette
Snes Yannab
Collnel W. B. H. Benguard
Gillette
Atlantis Gonatinovo
Sthon
Hnd Bonide
Pope Brown
Pulaski County
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Brownlyn
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