Sailors Enjoy Christmas Shore Leave at Port of Spain
Sailors from the battleship fleet spent Christmas in Port of Spain Trinidad with thousands on shore. Torpedo boat crews missed shore leave to sail to Para, undergoing minor repairs. Regatta, festive dinners, and town celebrations highlighted the holiday as Admiral Evans watched from his launch.
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Stin Harbor
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Turkey
Torpedo
Admiral Evans
Connecticut
Para
Christmas Day at Home in Cities Baying for Charity
Christmas Day passed with widespread benevolence as churches, Salvation Army, and volunteers fed the hungry, housed the homeless, and helped the afflicted. From Chicago to New York and across major cities, celebrations and generous acts filled homes and streets despite life’s troubles.
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Chicago
Salvation Army
Volunteers of America
New York
Bronx
Battery
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Washington
Philadelphia
Boston
St. Louis
San Francisco
New Orleans
Lamphere Family Members Jailed in Grand Rapids Robbery Case
Grand Rapids residents report Harry Lamphere, 21, jailed after being convicted as a highway robber. Grace Lamphere, his sister-in-law, imprisoned for sixty days on shoplifting charges. Lat er Lamphere, a brother, convicted for stealing a chicken and meat. Florence Hall, a sister, currently serving a shoplifting sentence.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Harry Lamphere
Grace Lamphere
Garfield Lamphere
Florence Hall
Robberies Shock Carmi as Businessmen Targeted
On December 2 in Carmi Illinois VanCleve Reid a prominent local businessman was waylaid slugged and robbed of a large sum of money and injured seriously. Shortly after an attempted burglary occurred at the home of John W Powell another noted local businessman.
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Carmi
VanCleve Reid
John W. Powell
Two Burned to Death at North Dover Fire
A blaze at J. B. Currier’s general store and apartment in North Dover killed Michael Veltrie fifty and his son Joseph thirteen. Mrs Veltrie escaped by leaping from a ladder but was critically injured with internal wounds.
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North Dover
J. B. Currier
Michael Veltrie
Jseph
Parlous Plunge Narrowly Stages Car Rescue
An electric car carrying passengers on a Beechview to Pittsburg run narrowly avoided disaster when part of the roadbed slid off an embankment and left the car suspended in midair above the downed tracks.
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Pittsburg
Beechview
Teacher Ties Santa Clara Fire to Save Student
In Belleville Illinois December 26 Miss Johanna Guentz a teacher tore the burning Santa Claus makeup from Andrew Uh one of her pupils preventing a panic among the class. Both Miss Guentz and the boy were painfully burned in the incident.
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Belleville
Johanna Guentz
Andrew Uh
Miss Guentz
Aoki to Sail Jan 7 for Japan from San Francisco
Viscount Aoki the Japanese ambassador will sail for home on the steamer Manchuria leaving San Francisco on January 7. The voyage marks the end of his official visit to the United States with plans to return to Tokyo.
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Aoki
Washington
Viscount Aoki
Manchuria
San Francisco
Dying of Lockjaw Follows Pitchfork Foot Wound
Midland Michigan December 26 Floyd Abee is dying from lockjaw caused by a pitchfork wound in the foot while threshing.
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Midland
Mich
Floyd Abbey
Hogs and cattle market summary for Chicago December 26 1907
Market reports show mixed hog prices from 4 15 to 4 60 with light to heavy grades trading differently. Cattle and sheep values varied, with totals of thousands on hand and prices ranging across beef and mutton classes.
John A. Babcock in Chicago Social Note
A brief note from Chicago Illinois mentions John A. Babcock with a cordial invitation to contact anytime for a square deal and courtesy.
Dispute Over Hospital Ship Command Reaches High Level
Surgeon General Rixey argues hospital ships should be commanded by medical officers, citing historical practice and a joint army navy board recommendation. Rear Admiral Brownson resigns in protest, challenging who should hold the helm of the Relief. The president faces a decisive choice amid cabinet support for medical command.
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Rixey
Brownson
President
Washington
Bureau of Navigation
Bureau of Medicine of the Navy
Presley M. Rixey
Navy
Admiral Brownson
Army
Army and Navy Board of Medical Officers
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Hospital ships under medical command urged in Navy debate
A naval officer argues that hospital ships should be commanded by medical officers and run as floating hospitals in peace and war. He criticizes navigation bureau interference, cites Geneva Hague doubts on neutrality with line crews, and notes the Relief lacking a ship during a fleet cruise.
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Russia
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Bureau of Navigation
Magdalena Bay
Brownson
Secretary of the Navy
President Backs Rixey In Relief Dispute
The article notes the president siding with Rixey in a controversy involving Brownson and the Relief. Brownson reportedly resigned under pressure after being ordered to place command of the Relief in a staff officer’s hands, an action the president quickly accepted.
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Rixey
Brownson
Navy hospital ships command policy questioned
The discussion at the White House centers on who should command the hospital ship Relief at Mare Island. Dr. Rixey supports line officers in command while Brownson argues staff officers are unsuitable due to discipline concerns. Brownson notes civilian navigation of army hospital ships justifies commissioned naval oversight, yet Navy policy for ten years has trained navigators to lead these ships.
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White House
Rixey
Charles B. Stokes
Relief
Mare Island Navy Yard
Bureau
Navy
Brownson
Army Hospital
Old Man's Gold Dig Yields 750 Dollar Sum
Shelbyville reports Daniel Oldham urged son Martin to seek a hidden fortune on Hugh McFadden’s Sugar Creek farm. The pair, aided by grandson Charles, dug two feet under an orchard tree and unearthed a tin box containing 750 in gold.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Daniel Oldham
Martin
Hugh McFadden
Sugar Creek Township
Franklin
Charles
McFadden
Oldham
Mayor Fined for Assault in Elgin
Elgin Newfoundland December 26 Justice of the Peace George R Thompson finds Mayor Price guilty of assaulting Jack Reavis a newspaperman in the police station on December 4 He is fined 3 dollars plus costs and appeals bond set at 50 dollars No jury trial was requested The mayor testified he acted to eject Reavis while performing official duties as ex officio chief of police.
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Elgin
Justice of the Peace
George R. Thompson
Price
Jack Reavis
Charles Fisher
Reavis
Mallory's Successor Appointed in Florida
Governor Broward appoints William J. Bryan of Jacksonville to the U S Senate to fill the deceased Mallory's term ending March 4 1909. Bryan age thirty one is a prominent attorney and county solicitor for Duval county, not related to William Jennings Bryan.
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Mallory
Jacksonville
Fla
Broward
William J. Bryan
United States
Vice Mallory
Bryan
Duval
William Jennings Bryan
Drought Shrinks Punjab Wheat Planting Area
Lahore reports a dramatic drop in wheat sowing in the Punjab due to a long drought. The area falls from nine to five million acres as many canals run short and irrigation failures continue.
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Lahore
India
Punjab
Immigration surge noted in November reports
The November figures show 117 476 immigrants arrived at U S ports versus 94 621 in November 1906 with 1 304 turned back. Russia led with 25 213 arrivals up 25 percent from last year while six months to November total reached 678 375 up 18 percent.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Immigration
Russia
Shah Saves His Job Amid Persian Assembly Demands
Tehran reports the shah submitted a declaration to the assembly outlining terms after constitutional leaders pressed for reform. The measure calls banishment of Saad Ed Dowleh and priests, allows Ala Ed Dowleh to return, deploys 200 infantry as guards, places all troops under war ministry, and limits Russian Cossack brigade officers to instruction only.
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Teheran
Saad-Ed-Dowleh
Ala-Ed-Dowleh
Persia
Ministry of War
Cossack Brigade
Fire in a Tenement Tak es Toll on Hero Fireman
A New York five story tenement on East 110th Street burned with one man killed while rescuing his sister. A fireman was gravely injured and several others were burned. James McQuicken, 10, aided a blind woman and was lightly hurt. Acting Battalion Chief Boling fell three stories through a collapsing stairway.
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New York
East One Hundred and Tenth Street
James McQuicken
Frederick Koenig
Thomas Corker
Koenig
Boling
Emigration of Japs Ignored By Our Ambassador
Rodolph Lemieux Canadian labor minister says his lips are sealed on emigration to Canada and will brief Ottawa. Japan plans future control of emigration and may present details to Ambassador Brien. Lemieux ignored US ambassador OBrien during talks as Hayashi maintains treaty rights.
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Tokio
Rodolphe Lemieux
Canada
Associated Press
Dominion
Ottawa
Lemieux
Claude M. McDonald
Thomas J. O’brien
United States
Foreign Office
Brien
O'Brien
Viscount Hayashi
Morton C Rankin Buried In Terre Haute
The funeral of Morton C. Rankin killed on Thursday by a Vandalia train was held Sunday in Terre Haute Indiana. It was conducted by the G A R and the Odd Fellows. His only daughter had died fourteen years earlier about the hour he was killed.
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Morton C. Rankin
Terre Haute
Ind
The
Odd Fellows
Grand-nephew of pioneer found dead in Homer
Harrison Brown aged twenty six of Homer was found dead in his bed. Brown, a rural route carrier, was a grand-nephew of Isaac Brown the Homer pioneer who died last Wednesday. He suffered from organic heart trouble.
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Champaign
Harrison Brown
Homer
Isaac Brown
Convicted killer from Zeigler quarrel gets forty years
Carmi Illinois December 24 Jack Drew a negro was convicted of murder in Franklin county for killing two Italians and possibly a negro in a craps quarrel at Zeigler a year ago. He receives a forty year sentence.
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Carmi
Lil
Jack Drew
Zeigler
Franklin County
Widely Known Telegrapher Dead
Evansville Indiana reports Charles H. Wise longtime Western Union chief operator dies after two years of tuberculosis illness. He was widely known among telegraph operators nationwide.
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Evansville
Ind
Charles H. Wise
Western Union Telegraph Company
Hitchcock Accuser Pleads Guilty in New York Case
Hugo Voecks, brother of Elsie Voecks, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging extortion against comedian Raymond Hitchcock before Judge Rosalsky. He was remanded for sentence.
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Hitchcock
New York
Hugo Voecks
Elsie Voecks
Raymond Hitchcock
Rosalsky
Man Shoots Himself as Wife Shops for Christmas
Terre Haute Indiana December 24 Oliver Key ended his life by shooting himself while his wife browsed for Christmas items. The couple’s three year old child was on the floor nearby when the incident occurred.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Oliver Key
Inventor James Rensley Dies By Self-Destruction
James B. Rensley 87 a noted inventor of the spoon oar and oars for leading boat clubs shot himself. Born in Poughkeepsie he worked on the Spoon oar in 1853 and supplied oars used by the Ward brothers in Hud son races. He once faced Indians in Utah territory and killed a brave to spare a sixteen year old girl whom he then married.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
James B. Rensley
Rensley
Ward Brothers
Hudson
Bensley
Salt Lake City
Utah Territory
Peter Hunt
Billiard room owner dies after highwaymen shoot in McKeesport
Pittsburg December 24 William Mathias proprietor of a billiard room was fatally wounded by highwaymen at McKeesport. He knocked one robber down with a canvas bag of silver but the brothers escaped. Mathias had an arm shattered by bullets and later died in hospital after amputation.
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Pittsburg
William Mathias
McKeesport
Here
Mathias
Taft Visits Cincinnati To See Mother's Grave
Secretary Taft arrived from Washington on business tied to the Taft estate and visited his mother Mrs Louisa M Taft's grave at Spring Grove cemetery before returning to Washington late at night.
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Cincinnati
Taft
Washington
Louisa M. Taft
Spring Grove Cemetery
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Texas
Beach- Wickham Grain Company
John A. Babcock
Is WiTt
North American Commission Company
Chicago, Ill
Bureau Disputation
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His
Constitutional Party
Tali
Japan
Inventor
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