Cut and Dried Talk on New Rules and Washington Plans
Washington column notes the shift from rambunctious debates to orderly, scripted sessions under tighter House rules. It highlights Rio de Janeiro exposition gains and American machinery demand, plus a major proposed overhaul to acquire and develop squares south of Pennsylvania Avenue for government buildings.
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Charles W. Arthur
Washington
Congress
House
Thomas RB. Reed
Maine
Bureau of Manufactures
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
United States
Fost
Rio
Pennsylvania Avenue
Treasury Building
Uncle Sam
Prisoner Tchaykovsky Reveals Russian Captivity Life
Nicholas Tchaykovsky, a Russian poet and revolutionary, writes of his year in Russian prisons and fortresses. He describes a bare cell, sleeping on hard oil cloth, no food for eighteen hours, and surviving on a prepared sandwich before a planned journey to England.
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Tehaykovsky
New York
Nicholas Tchaykovsky
M. Tchaykovsky
England
Fourteen Years for Ruef, San Francisco Boss Sentenced
Abraham Ruef, former political boss of San Francisco, was sentenced to fourteen years in the state penitentiary at San Quentin. Judge William P. Lawler sentenced Ruef for bribing a member of the Schmitz board of supervisors in the award of an overhead trolley franchise to the United Railroads.
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San Francisco
Abraham Ruef
San Quentin
William P. Lawler
Ruef
Schmitz Board of Supervisors
United Railroads
Gunboat drives Gut Adherent to Castro
At Macuro on the Venezuelan coast fighting pitted adherents of former President Castro against the Miranda gunboat crew serving the new president Juan Vicente Gomez. About twenty were killed and fifty wounded. General Torres gathered 500 men but chose not to resist landing. Gomez officials will take charge.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
Macuro
Castro
Juan Vicente Gomez
Miranda
la Guayra
General Torres
Torres
Gomez
France Endures Severe Blizzard Across Western Europe
Paris reports a veritable blizzard and heavy snow with traffic paralyzed yet park lakes filled with skaters. The Weather forecast notes colder conditions and snow near the lake for Illinois Indiana and lower Michigan Wisconsin and Iowa with flurries.
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France
Paris
Europe
Illinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Lake
Wisconsin
Iowa
Christmas Bird and Beast Processions in Polish Yuletide
Poles and eastern European neighbors celebrate by masking as storks bears and other animals or birds and touring house to house singing carols. Keepers lead the wild figures as households reward performers with cakes sausages and treats after each carol.
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Jesus
Eastern
Europe
Chicago Markets and East Buffalo Live Stock Report
Winter wheat and spring wheat prices across No. 2 red to No. 3 spring lines in Chicago with corn oats and varied percentages. Hogs cattle sheep and calves trade ranges listed at Chicago Live Stock Exchange and East Buffalo NY with receipts and price bands. Elgin Butter Market quotes creamery and dairy product prices for Dec 29.
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Chicago
Perth
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Elgin
A Merry Christmas Puzzle Pie Recites Letters
Children form a line to arrange cut out letters from a pretend pie crust. With ribbons threaded through the letters they sing Sing a song of Christmas and work to spell A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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Gins
A Christmas Eve Sentence
A humorous verse recounts four stockings of different sizes being brought to court after disappearing with a playful thief. The magistrate asks what was taken, and each stocking confesses running away with a foot, leading to a dramatic yet comical sentencing.
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T. Bapp., JR
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