From outcast to police helper the dog Rags in Brooklyn
A ragged stray dog named Rags earned the trust of New York police at the Brooklyn Bridge area. Once feared by bluecoats, he now accompanies Captain Burke and patrols near City Hall Park, gaining daily bones and shelter from officers.
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Brooklyn
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Burke
New York
Rags
Cherry Hill
Schwartz
Brooklyn Ridge
City Hall Park
Bridge Squad
Bones
Itttle
Bridge
Oak Street
Flarry Smith
Joe Schlip
Joe Smith
Rags the Dockyard Dog Guides Mayor Gaynor in Brooklyn
In a bustling Brooklyn terminal Rags the police dog patrols with Acting Captain Burke keeping order. The dog befriends Mayor Gaynor, greeting him each day as the blue coats watch over travelers, and accompanies the trio on daily bridge crossings near Manhattan toward Brooklyn.
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Tle
Burke
Degins
Rags
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Capt. Burke
Raga
Mayor Gaynor
Capt Burke
Croxton Motor Company expands with new Massillon leadership
The Croxton Motor Company of Massillon Ohio purchases all assets of Croxton Keeton Motor Company. Tl A Croxton becomes president and GM with J P Stoltz VP H D Michaels secretary treasurer and W F Meihersh managing sales. 1181l models focus on 35 horsepower French type cars in roadsters five and seven passenger cars landaulets and taxicabs.
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Croxton Motor Company
Massillon
Ohio
Croxton- Keeton Motor Company
Tl. A. Croxton
J. P . Stoltz
H. D. Michaels
W F. Meihersh
WIN
Harahan Plans to Travel After Illinois Central Presidency
Memphis, Tennessee December. J. T. Harahan declares retirement from active railroad leadership not imminent. He will remain a director on the Illinois Central and other lines and plans to travel extensively while staying involved in railroading.
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Memphis
Tenn
J. T. Harehan
Harahan
The
Illinois Central
Mr. Harahan
Tuppence for Each Officer in War Budget Item
New York December 26 Army officers discuss a London paper item about a war budget provision for "tuppence" per commissioned officer to pay for sharpening swords. The joke centers on pay clerks and who will handle the checks when Britain goes to war.
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New York
John A. Hull
United States Army
London
Col. Hull
Adelbert Cronkhite
Department of the Fast
Col. Cronkhite
Governors Island
Col. Blull
Col. Littell
Col. Little
John Bull
Col. Cyonkhite
Col. Wall
Intercollegiate fencing tourney eyed by Ml Athletic Club
Chicago plans an intercollegiate fencing tournament larger than any before at the Illinois Athletic Club within the next month or two. Invitations have gone to East and West colleges with favorable replies. Expected Western entrants include Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Chicago Iowa with New Mexico likely to attend. Syracuse also invited from the East.
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Chicago
Inois Athletic Club
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
New Mexico
University of Minnesota
University of Wisconsin
University of Michigan
University of Illinois
University of Chicago
University of Iowa
Syracuse University
Negro baseball league meeting eyed for Wednesday in Chicago
A Negro baseball league may form with five cities including Mobile Louisville and New Orleans. A meeting called by Beauregard F Moseley at 5324 State Street will hear a plan modeled after organized baseball offering salaries reserve rules and a schedule with Leland Giants likely owning the local franchise.
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Chicago
State Street
Beauregard F. Moseley
Leland Giants
Mobile
Ala
Louisville
New Orleans
Moseley
Jealay
Finland Suffered Heavy Bow Damage After Baltic Collision
The Red Star Line steamer Finland was severely damaged in a collision with Belgian freighter Baltique at the mouth of the River Bacaut and will be drydocked at Southampton for examination. Nine Baltique crew members are missing. the rest were rescued by the liner and a pilot boat.
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Antwerp
Belgium
Red Star Line
Finland
Bacaut
Southampton
New York
Flushing
CURED OF in personal crisis DESIRE
Chippewa Falls Wisconsin December 26 Johns Christianson leapt forty feet from a wagon bridge into the Chippewa River seeking suicide. He disappeared under ice but surfaced thirty feet downstream at an air hole, clawed to the surface and escaped. He said the cold water erased the desire to die and left him happier than before the plunge. Notre Dame Football Team Wins. St. Louis December 26 The Notre Dame eleven of Indiana defeated the peeone All Stars today by a score to
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Commercial Auto and Supply Company
Flanders 20
Los Angles
Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal
James Artman
Chippewa Falls
Wig
Johns Christianson
Chippewa River
Notre Dame
St. Louis
Indiana
Robs Clerk in Hotel in Boston Robbery
A well dressed man registered under Dr R B Wilson of Portland Me at Hotel Westminster Copley Square Boston then returned with a loaded revolver and demanded money from night clerk Jerome Carey. Carey handed over $4 from the safe and the robber fled dropping wigs false mustaches and disguises.
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Boston
R. B. Wilson
Portland
Westminster
Copley Square
Jerome C. Carey
Carey
Grand Dukes Plan Hunt With Austrian Royalty in Poland
Grand Dukes Nicholas Nicholisevich Michael Nichollaevich and Serge Mikhailovich left St. Petersburg for Skierniewice in Russian Poland to hunt with nine Austrian personages led by Arch Duke Rudolph, crown prince of Austria. The gathering is deemed highly important.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas Nicholisevich
Michael Nichollaevich
Serge Mikhailovich
Skierniewice
Russian Poland
Rudolphe
Austria
British force clashes with Arab gun runners in Persia
A British landing party from the cruiser Hyscinth engaged Arabian gun runners on the southern Persian coast. Fourteen Britons were killed or wounded while Arabs suffered about forty deaths or injuries in the exchange.
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Buships
Persia
Hyscinth
Mutiny on schooner G J Cherry off Red Hook flats
The three mast G J Cherry sailing from Charleston reported mutiny by two crewmen, George Lee and Joseph Prescod, at midnight Friday. Police rescued them from the foresl'le as the captain fired warning shots and the pair remained locked up aboard.
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Washington Post
New York
G J. Cherry
Storay
Charleston
D. C
Red Hook Flats
Brooklyn
George Lee
Joseph Prescot
John J. Day
Lee
Day
Prescod
Martin Harris
Plague Spreads in Harbin Suburb with Seventeen Deaths
In Harbin Manchuria on Christmas Day, twenty three deaths occurred in the Chinese suburb of Fudziadian from bubonic plague. Ninety eight others were taken to the hospital for treatment as health authorities warn of the outbreak.
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Harbin
Manchuria
Fudziadian
Houges
Bandit Robs Missouri Pacific Train. Capt Newbold Wounded
Police in Kansas City and Leavenworth pursue a young, well dressed bandit who robbed a Missouri Pacific passenger train from Leavenworth to Kansas City. At least $200 taken, watches reported missing. Capt L Newbold was shot at, hat knocked off, but his wound deemed not serious. He returned to Fort Leavenworth and was advised against continuing to Washington.
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Kang
Leavenworth
Kans
Missouri Pacific
Kana
L. Newbold
Fourth
United States Artillery
Fort Leavenworth
Newbold
Washingston
D. C
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