Massachusetts Faces Senate Race Since 1892 Contested
The Massachusetts General Court meets January 4 to choose a successor to Eugene Cabot Lodge in the U S Senate. Lodge faces anti reelection attacks from Governor Foss, with Republicans holding a majority in the council and initial opposition prominent in the session. Foss, set to be sworn January 5 as the first Democratic Governor since 1905, will need council approval for most appointments.
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Massachusetts
Gov. Foss
Council
Boston
Great and General Court
Eugene N Foss
Fourteenth
West Virginia Candidates Battle for Senate Seat
Wheeling West Virginia legislature to convene January with a 40 seat Democratic majority on joint ballot. Democratic candidates McGraw Watson Tiernay Edmondston vie for the U S Senate seat held by Republican Nathan B Scott. Other named aspirants include Cornwell Davis Tavernes Miller and Henry G Davis with Parkerburg noting Sen. McGraw’s bloc backing Parks.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
United States Senate
Nathan B Scott
John T McGraw
Clarence W. Watson
Fairmont
Wold
Laurence Tiernay
Bluefield
Andrew Edmiston
Weston
John J. Cornwell
Wampshire
Bannon
Lewis Tavernes
Parkersburg
John J Davis
Clarksburg
James H Miller
Henton
Henry G Davis
Viking
Parker
Davis
Joseph E Carle
Patton
John T. McGraw
Clarence & Watson
Harry D. Parkins
Rhode Island Senate Race Narrowed To Colt Or Lippett
Rhode Island legislators convene January 3 with a Republican majority to choose Aldrich’s Senate successor. The field includes Judge Le Baron Colt and Henry F Lippett as GOP contenders, while Democrat Arthur L Brown seeks the seat. Gen Charles B Highton departs from party guidance in the statehouse.
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Rhode Island
Colt
Lippett
Providence
RTI
General Assembly of
Rhode
Taland
United States Senate
Nelson W. Aldrich
Upo
le Baron B Colt
United States Circuit Court
Henry F Lippett
Arthur L Brown
United States District Court
Charles Bo Hiagton
Sherif
State
Legislative Party
Hartford State Capitols Edge in January Assembly
Hartford Conn Dec 25 As the general assembly meets January 4 Connecticut will have its first Democratic governor in eighteen years Simeon E Baldwin while the legislature remains Republican The initial two weeks focus on selecting a United States senator to succeed Morgan Bulkeley Bulkeley seeks reelection facing former Gov George McLean The contest promises a close race Interest also centers on Gov Baldwin s administration with Roosevelt backing and the potential appointment of Joseph Alsop as Senate pro tempore.
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Hartford
Conn
General Assembly
Simeon EH. Baldwin
Supreme Court
House
Senate
United States
Morgan G. Bulkeley
Jossph R. Hawtey
Bulkeley
George P. McLean
Baldwin
Roosevelt
Joseph Alsop
Col Rosevelt
Train Kills Man Sought In Savannah Search
Savannah, Ga December 25 alarmed by the absence of James O’Hara, his father and brother traveled from Lumpkin to join a search. As a train neared Savannah the man was struck, crushed and fatally injured. The victims identity was later confirmed as James O’Hara.
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Savannah
James O'Hara
O'Hara
Lumpkin
James O Hara
Smith Delays Reply On Wilson Statement
Special to The Washington Fort New Yok Dec James Smith Jr did not issue his promised reply today to the statement of Dr Wilson made last Friday He said at his Newark home he had not touched the matter due to Christmas but would publish an answer tomorrow Gov elect Wilson received Bayonne City Democrat Club letter notifying indorsement of his efforts to elect James E Martine to the United States Senate The club’s letter praised the Democrats phrasing and encouraged further action within the party
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Washington Fort New
James Smjtth Jr
Woodrow Wilson
Smith
Dr. Wilson
Washington Place
Newark
Elece Wilson
Bayonne City
Democrate Club
James E Martine
United States
Du Ponts In Bribery Inquiry At State Level
Special report from Washington notes Attorney General Gray prepares cases against Senator Henry A. du Pont and Gen T Coleman du Pont of Du Pont Powder Company. All Republican State committee members from the past two years are to be summoned, including Dover treasurer Alden Robenson. Investigation centers on the recent election with broader reach anticipated across Delaware. no prosecutions yet.
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Delaware
Republican
Washington Post
Wamington
Gray
Henry A. du Pont
T Coleman du Pont
du Pont Powder Company
Republican State Committee
Alden Robenson
Dover
du Pont
General Assembly
Maine lawmakers face liquor amendment and senate shift
The seventy fifth Maine legislature convenes January 4 with a Democrat shift in both chambers. Governor-elect Frederick W Plais ted governs Augusta and the senate stands 22 of 31 Democrats. house 81 of 161. A bottled-up liquor amendment and a U S senator seat to replace Eugene Haley loom. In caucus four Democrats seek senate nomination: George St Haley Obadiah Gardner Charles F Johnson and William M Pennell.
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Augusta
United States
Eugene Haley
Dilsworth
Maine
Frederick W Plaisted
Senate
House of Representatives
Democrata
House
George St. Haley
Saco
Obadiah Gardner
Shepard's Platform Calls Tariff Provisions Intolerable
Special to The Washington Post New York December 2 Edward M. Shepard candidate for Chauncey Depew's seat in the U S Senate outlines his positions. He endorses new nationalism as alive but argues tariff clauses are intolerable. He supports government regulation of public service but not private business and favors popular election of senators.
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Depew
New York
Edward M. Shepard
Chauncey M. Depew
United States Senate
unrest over railroads signals hard times for financiers
Roswell Miller of the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railroad says unrest grips the country as bankers curtail buying railroad stocks and expenditures. He notes halted construction, mass layoffs, and doubt about any quick turnaround, blaming new laws shaped by lawmakers for prolonged financial strain.
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Fos
Pasadena
Cal Dee
Gtl Hnes
Roswell Miller
New York
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
Muller
Hvtel
Congress
Four Killed in Wrecks in Texas and Massachusetts
Three trainmen died when a Missouri Kansas Texas freight derailed at Greenville Texas injuring others. In Somerville yard of Boston and Maine one death followed a Christmas morning wreck with eight injured as a passenger train collided with a freight and shifting engine. fireman William J. Noyes died from a broken back.
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Somerville
Maas
Greenville
Tex
Dee
Thomas A Cox
EB J Henderson
Smith
Missouri, Kansas, and Texas
Boston
Mass
Boston and Maine Railroad
Haverhill
Motor Fails On High Glide Saves The Aviator
New Orleans December 2 Aerial meet reports Roland G Garros forced to glide to lower levels over Lake Pontchartrain due to a frozen carburetor. He set a record by reaching 7120 feet before the thawed engine resumed. Charles K Hamilton had a narrow escape when bolts broke. he landed safely. Moisant climbed to 3000 feet and Rene Simon to 4200 feet. Simon won the 5 mile monoplane race in 6 minutes 35 seconds.
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Hamilton
New Orleans
Lake Pontchartrain
Roland G. Garres
Trenchman
Garros
Charles K. Hamilton
Moisant
Rene Simon
Simon
Hoxsey Sets Pacific Coast Altitude Record at 9288 Feet
On December 25 at Dominguez field Los Angeles aviator Arch Hoxsey soared to 9288 feet, a Pacific coast mark and near the American record. His rivals Hubert Lathan in an Antoinette monoplane and Walter Brookins in a Wright biplane failed to near his height. Day’s biplane overturned on landing but he was unhurt.
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Washington
Los Angeles
Cal
Menbirds
Dominguez Field
W. H. Day
Day
Arch Hoxsey
Belmont Park
Johnstone
Hoaxsey
Hubert Lathan
Walter R. Brookins
In & Wright
Hoxsey
Wright
No Trace Yet of Aviator Grace in North Sea
London reports indicate Cecil S. Grace, the aviator who vanished returning from Calais to Dover, may be lost as rescue tugs fail to locate wreckage. A Flushing pilot saw debris resembling aircraft parts near Ostend, but families continue the search with hope unresolved.
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Cecil S. Grace
Calais
Dover
Grace
Ostend
Belgian aviator to fly from New Jersey over Manhattan
Charles Frank Mo 10k, a 33 year old Belgian pilot born in Antwerp, plans a public flight tomorrow from across the river in New Jersey to cross the Hudson and land near Columbus Circle. The craft, built by German builder Fred P. Schneider, uses a two cycle engine with four water cooled cylinders and 40 to 46 horsepower. Morck, who previously excelled in European bicycle racing and the New York six day race, aims to become the first to land in Manhattan proper.
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Washington Post
New York
Charles Frank Mo
New Jersey
Hudson River
Manhattan
Columbus Circle
Thia
Morok
Hudson
Fred P. Scneider
Morck
Antwerp
Europe
Grahame-White’s biplane burns before Chanell prize flight
Claude Grahame-White, after a narrow escape a week earlier, prepared to fly for a $20,000 prize when his new biplane caught fire and was destroyed in Dover England on December 25. The attempt to cross the English Channel was jeopardized by the mishap.
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Dover
England
Claude Grahame-White
English Channel
Baron de Forest
Mrs Faber Murder Arrest Follows Bedroom Tragedy
In Cleveland Ohio on December 2 a body of 30 year old Mrs Paul Faber was found under a mattress in her home with severe head bruises His husband was arrested on murder charges after their ten year old daughter Mar told of hearing a quarrel and seeing him strike her mother with a club which was later burned in the stove The incident followed by a separate note on the General Slocum survivors festival in New York where over 100 attendees including orphans participated in Christmas rituals and gift distributions.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Paul Faber
Andrew Faber
Pail Mabon
Mar
New York
The
New York Herald
Zoological Gardens
Bronx
Methuselah
Topsy
Oklahoma City Defines the Jimswinger Garment
Gov elect Lee Cruce issued a definition of the Jimswinger a long tailed coat worn in the social set. He explained the term traces to a Southern expression for a coat with tails that flap in the wind wearing a prince Albert style. The piece notes humor and local culture in Oklahoma City's social scene.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Camtal City
Lee Cruce
Snake lore and hobby life work of St Louis man
Julius Hurter, a Swiss born herpetologist living at 2346 South Tenth Street, has hunted snakes worldwide and now studies venomous Missouri and Illinois reptiles. He preserves specimens at home and has helped stock museums, detailing the Gila, copperheads, rattlers, and other snakes. He has written Missouri's herpetology and spends part of each year dragafting and hunting, with April and May his active months.
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St Louis Republic
Julius Hurter
South Tenth Street
Missouri
Lllnois
Hurter
America
Ufe
Tenth Street
Grand Canyon
Ing Pyramids
Sturter
Missouri River
Illinois
Christmas in Mexico Puestos in the Alameda
The piece describes Christmas in Mexico with much about Las posadas, pinatas, and santos peregrinos. It covers church novenas, home grottoes of the nacimiento, processions, the breaking of pinatas, and nightly festivities, plus Alameda street puestos selling trees, moss, toys, and treats to visitors and nomadic sellers.
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Lillian Wester
Las Posadas
Mary
Saint Joseph
Bethlehem
Nazareth
David
el Nacimiento
St. Joseph
Nacimiento
Santos Peregrinos
Mexico
Heaven
Christmas tree vendors camp in streets of Mexico City
In Calie de San Diego Mexico City vendors sell Christmas trees and greenery from booths and makeshift homes. Families sleep under blankets amid moss and timber, using street fountains for water and a tiny stove for meals as crowds move through the night market, creating a unique nomadic camp within the modern city.
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Jesus
Puestos
Bootha
Alameda
Calle de San Diego
Tagster
Calie de San Diego
Char
Ager
Mexico City
Mistletoe poisons three children near Luxora
Special to The Washington Fest from Blythesville Ark on December 2 reports three Griffin children aged under ten died after eating mistletoe berries on a woods outing. The berries caused violent symptoms and the children died within two to three hours of ingestion.
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Arkansas
Washington
Blythesville
Ark
Sam Griffin
Luxora
Peabodys Die After Streetcar Collision on Ninth Street
John J. Peabody aged 75 and his wife Mary 70 were struck by a streetcar at Ninth and L streets while returning from Christmas shopping. Both severely injured with skull fractures and head trauma. they were not expected to survive 24 hours. The car crew, H L Hoffman and G C Keyes, were released on bail of 2000 each.
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John J. Peabody
Mary
Ninth
Peabody
H. L. Hoffman
G. C. Keyes
J. Street
Takoma Park
Christmas Parrot Causes Mix Up at Wells Fargo Ex
A parrot shipped from Chicago to St Paul chewed its address tag, causing days of confusion at Wells Fargo Express. The bird, named Polly, reportedly spoke constantly and could not be recaptured after daily feeding. Polly died before reuniting with her owner after the label was damaged and replaced.
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Potty
St Paul
New York Herald
Chicago
Wells-Fargo Express Company
Polly
New Phrenology by Colored Light Persists in Eye Tests
London readers learn of John Gray’s color light eye tests claimed to measure intellect and character. He says lasting color sensations reveal whether a person is common sense, witty, brilliant, or frivolous, with tests to judge perseverance and learning speed, noting gender and hair color differences and potential educational uses.
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London
John Gray
British Association
The
Anthropological Institute
Edinburgh
Mr. Gray
Middlesex Hospital
Germany
Open Air Schools Prove Worth in Storm Raving
In bitter weather last week open air classes at Montclair and Mount Airy Philadelphia thrived. Students bundled and writing on snow enjoyed a full day outside while indoor classes paused. Adults, by contrast, hesitate to adopt outdoor living as these pupils show the benefits of bold learning.
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Montclair
Montclal
Mount Airy
Philadelphia
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