Autos skid 11 hurt in Virginia road wreck
Two serious accidents occurred with eight injured in one, three hurt in another. Alexander Graham Bell and chauffeur Jackson were involved. Miss Margaret Van Tassel faced spine injury and possible internal injuries. Mrs Christine Van Tassel and several others suffered cuts and bruises as the car overturned near a highway bridge.
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Virginia
Alexander Graham Bell
Connecticut Avenur
Wolman
Ace
Margaret van Tassel
Maitie Street
Jd Jackson
Alexander
Eraham Bel
Frank Dorsey
Seventh Street Southwest
Nor Cruises
Oluck
Seventh Street
Jaques
Government Printing Office
Laura Jaques
Iain Jaques
Information to the telephone inventor
Jackson insisted he had permission to use the automobile and upheld this after Belts told Lieut. Flathers otherwise. Witnesses near the Minth precinct police station reported the accident. ambulance responded but Mr Jaques and his daughters refused hospital. Laura Jaques called Dr Fowler who took them home. Miss Jaques blamed the District commissioners for the mishap and said mud filled ruts on Seventhatres beyond K street caused the skid. She said the road was not kept in repair and the steering wheel was fine. The family hosted a Christmas party after the scare. Henry L Black’s car was rear ended by a Capital Traction street car on Florida avenue. Black escaped injury by leaping to the pavement.
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Garges Jackson
Doracy
Lakers
Tighway Bridge
Washington
Anl
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Miss van Tassel
Mra Garges
Jukson
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al Ahwas Bridge
Virginia
Jackson City
Bell
Lieut Flathers
Fourth Precinct
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William C Fowler
First Street
K Street
Whch
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Eighth Street
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Florida Avenue
Flist
Second Streets
Mr Slack
Black
Santa
Santa Claus
Preston Gibson
Mr. Gibson
Gibson
Sante
Clu
J Henrt de Sibour
Taft bans fake Taft photos in White House order
United States Attorney Wilson wins a ruling upholding the ban on distributing altered or staged photographs showing President Taft with citizens. The White House confirms the action after a photographer was instructed to remove Taft from such pictures. The case echoes prior worries over image manipulation and rights to one’s likeness.
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United States
Wilson
White House
Washington DC
Taft
Pennsylvania Avenue
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Loeb May Head Republican National Committee if Roosevelt Nominates
Washington reports that Jerome Loeb collector of New York may be named chairman of the Republican national committee if Theodore Roosevelt is nominated at Chicago. The plan hinges on Roosevelt's nomination. Taft would oppose appointing a federal officeholder as chairman. The note recalls 1896 and the Minneapolis episode with many federal delegates influencing renomination.
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Washington Post
New York
Dev
Loeb
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Washington
Republican National
Minneapolis
Harrison
Defeated Reyes surrenders amid Mexican crisis
Gen Bernando Reyes, once Mexico’s top military figure and leader of a revolt, surrendered at Linares after a failed bid to rally support. He promised not to leave the city, sought mercy for followers, and awaited orders as Gen Trevino held him in guard pending central government instructions.
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Linates
Rudolpho Reyes
Linares
Mexico
Bernards Reyes
Placido Rodriguez
Perringston
Reves
Tamaulipas
Trevino
Reyes
Registas
Monterey
Geronimo Trevino
Mexico City
Irish babies in Boston are strongest among infants
Special to The Washington Post Boston reports Irish babies born in Boston are the strongest of all groups. The average weight of Irish infants is now 9.12 pounds, higher than American, Italian, and Norwegian babies studied. Norwegian babies show notable vitality in some Boston sections.
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Washington Post
Boston
Christmas Grass Cut Amid Early Spring at Highland Lake Connecticut
Special to The Washington Post from Winsted Connecticut December 25 describes couples canoeing on Highland Lake enjoying unseasonable warmth. Holiday guests tend lawns with a mower as fruit trees and roses leaf out four months early. Gray finds a four leaf clover amid the festive scene.
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Washington Post
Dee
Highland Lake
Gray
Society Has a Romp Gave Toys and Trinkets at Playhouse
Miss Taft and Mrs Hitchcock head the Washington set at the Dancing Club Playhouse annual Christmas event. Santa Claus arrives with a sack of rattles teething rings balloons red wagons and other gifts for debutantes and society’s elite. Names like Miss Helen Taft Postmaster General Hitchcock and Preston Gibson appear among the recipients as mystery lingers over the distribution at 1811 N Street NW last night.
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Washingtons
Missy Helen Taft
Santa Claus
N Street Northwest
Hitchcock
Preston Gitaon
F Oden
Horst~mann
Helen Taft
Regie’ Jdufdekoper
Santa Paymaster
Merriam
Usn
Erlay Kringle
Laura Merriam
Franklin Bills
Nick
Playhouse
Quakes Mark Sea Passage For Pennsylvania Liner
The Pacific Mail liner Pennsylvania arrived in San Francisco from Panama after enduring strong seas and earthquakes. Chief Engineer J E B Keenan was swept 19 feet along the deck by a massive roller off the Gulf of Tehuantepec and bruised badly. The quake zone was reached at 8 AM December 17 and continued with 20 minute intervals until 3 PM, while the ship was near Capulco.
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San Francisco
Pennsylvania
Panama
J. EB. Keenan
Gulf of Tehuantepec
Capulco
Admits He Shot Wife in New Jersey
New York report says Andrew McConnell magazine writer and lecturer was arrested at a Times office while drafting a confession to shooting his wife Marion D McConnell at Ocean Grove New Jersey late Saturday night The confession claims divorce was obtained last spring and he was driven to shoot by forces he mentions in class talks on electricity and self healing He previously ran Alkahest magazine in Atlanta Georgia in 1898.
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New York
Andrew McConnell
Marion D McConnell
Ocean Grove
N. J
McConnell
Times
Calvary Baptist Church
Alkahest
At- Tanta
Orders 155 Passenger Cars For New York Central
The Weebington Post reports a $23 million＋ order by the New York Central lines for 155 steel passenger coaches and related cars from the American Car and Foundry Company. The steel will be rolled by Jones & Laughlin. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also distributed its latest rail order totaling 40 000 tons.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Can a hog be checked as baggage on a railroad
Special in The Washington Post Handington Ind reports a man named Christ tried to check a large hog from Bluffton as baggage on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The agent refused, leading to a dispute on the train with neighbors hearing only distant noises and no public outcry.
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Furst
Parker
Washington Post
Christma
Quefly
Johnson
Davis
Lynch Murderer Shot After Escape Near Baltimore
King Davis a 28 year old African American who killed Frederick Schwab white in Anne Arundel county was dragged from Brooklyn lockup by eight to ten men and shot four times in a nearby field. Witness Hubert Chase testified Davis fought for life but was silenced and the mob left unchallenged as police learned of the shooting.
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King Davis
Frederick A. Schwab
Fairfield
Anne Arundel County
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Dans
Johnson
Elis
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Irwin
Davis Cell
Hubert Chase
Schwab
Chase
Davis
Regrets Giving Millions By Ailing Diet Trickery
Dr BD K Pearson aged 92, after dining on mock turkey at Hingdale Sanitarium, worries a seven thousand fortune will not outlive him. He fears living too long will deplete funds despite selling most of his wealth.
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Dr. Pearson
Washington
Chicago
BD K Pearson
Hingdale Sanitarium
Pearson
Man held after fatal shooting of wife and another woman
In Cambridge Maryland John Nelson fatally wounded Eliza Elliott at her Wash ing Creek home with a shotgun after a quarrel with his wife. He also shot at a second woman, injuring her back and arm, before lawmen arrested him. The physician said Elliott could not live many hours. Nelson was jailed in Cambridge.
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John Nelson
Washington Post
Cambridge
Washing Creek
Lower Dorchester
Eliza Elliott
W H Houston
Nelson
Elliott
Bullett
William Nandrews
Calvin Trice
Winnie Bradshaw
58 Hurt When Car Falls Near Pottsville After Trestle Plunge
A trolley car of the Eastern Railways plunges 26 feet from a Cape Horn trestle into a creek south of Pottsville. Sixty one passengers aboard. 58 hurt, several critically. One man, Harry Butz of Schuylkill Haven, missing. Broken rail blamed for the wreck.
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Washington Post
Pottsville
Dee
Eastern Railways Company
Cape Horn
Mount Carbon
Schuylkill River
Harry Butz
Rich Men Deliver Mail in Pasadena Autos
In Pasadena on a Yuletide day, postmen haul thousands of letters in chauffeured cars. Millionaire riders atop motorized mail delivery reflect a citywide relief from heavy loads, thanks to a plea by Rev. Robert Freeman, pastor and temperance leader.
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Washington Post
Pasadena
Cal
Millonaires
Uncle Sam
Robert Freeman
First Presbyterian Church
Municipal Temperance Commission
Moros Surrender After Hunger Siege At Bud Dajo
Moros confined to the Bud Dajo stronghold on Jolo capitulated to American troops today after supplies were cut off and hunger. Brig Gen Pershing’s ultimatum for disarmament preceded the surrender as a stubborn defense collapsed. A twenty man rush on an outpost failed and some Moros were killed, with no American casualties.
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Manila
Bud
Dajo
Jolo
Pershing
Algirid
TAFT SHAKES UP NATION WITH FAKE PHOTOS SENT TOWARD TAFT
An index entry notes a day of sensational items including Gen Reyes surrendering Watterson on Roosevelt odds, a lynching in Balthmore, and Taft receiving many greetings while stopping fake photos. Other items previewed cover social events, crimes, political moves, and public notices.
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Watterson
Roosevelts
Balthmore
Taft
Octagon Club
IL Gourowski
Mack
Big Tim’ Sullivan
Navy
Rockefeller
Washington
Man seeks return of gifts after jilt by West Hasleton woman
Wilkes Barre December reports that Miss Anna O Sada of West Hasleton jilted George Michaelwich and refuses to return presents and a wedding trousseau. Warrants issued for the girl and her parents on alleged obtaining goods under false pretenses. Alderman Brown to hold hearing next day as Michaelwich asserts he was to marry within days but she resisted.
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Washington Post
Wilkes-Barre
Anna O Sada
West Hasleton
Trousseau
George Michaelwich
Alderman Brown
Michaelwich
Why T. R. Cannot Win In For Life If Chosen Again
Atlanta December item reports Toursville editor quoting Col Henry Watterson on the fear of Roosevelt securing a third term in 1912 and the GOP split, arguing Taft cannot be renominated and Roosevelt would threaten power with feet first occupancy of the White House.
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Roosevelt
White House
Taft
Washington Post
Atlanta
Hoogevelt
Henry Watterson
Col Watterson
Harrison
United States
Union
Taft Image Removed From Juarez Custom House
Special to The Washington Post El Paso Tex Dec The Taft portrait was removed from the reception room of the Ciudad Juarez customs house where he met Mexico’s Diaz two years ago. The move follows President Madero’s order banning displays of living persons’ pictures in federal buildings. Diaz’s portrait, hung beside Taft’s, was taken down the day Maderistas entered the town after Diaz’s soldiers were defeated.
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Juarez Custom House
President Madero
Washington
el Pago
Tex
Taft
Ciudad Juarez Custom House
Diag
Mexico
Madero
Federal
Senor Diaz
Crown Prince Has Cold Despite Official Message
Berlin dispatch reports Crown Prince Wilhelm has a slight cold, with a telegraphic note from Dantzig stating relief may come in a few days. Berlin observers doubt the cabinet’s account and suggest the throat complaint stems from heavy cigarette smoking, especially at Potsdam.
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Dec .S
Wilhelm
Dantzig
Bertin
Potsdam
Taft Christmas at White House Fans Echo Faith and Joy
President Taft spent a quiet Christmas at the White House with family and cabinet members. Letters cables and telegrams poured in from around the world and the United States, many expressing faith in his administration and hope for the future. A Life of Job presented as a gift pleased him, and he spent the morning reading and dictating letters.
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White House
United States
Job
Taft
Dingley Dell
Wiite House
Mr. Taft
Robert Charles
Mias Kelen
Tuscaloosa
Washington
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