Neighborhood Notes Highlights Local Happenings
Hamilton has a brother visiting from Illinois. Claud Hitt bought the old stand and will reopen a barber shop in Karier. Bertha Hendrickson hosted a birthday party for twenty. A Christmas tree event is planned at the church. A shipment of cattle will feed into the eastern market.
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Hamilton
Illinois
Claud Hitt
Karier
Bertha Hendrickson
Thorsday
Thors
Church
Local Socials and Visits Roundup Dec 28
Hard of Williams visited Friday. Wilke shipped car load of ore to Chicago markets. Elmer Sibert and Mary Sibert visited W. R. Barns family in Rose Grove and Mystic Iowa. Essie Dateheimer returned from Iowa Falls. Dr Morton of Iowa Falls treated Mr Austin and reported improvement. Kendall visitors to H B Wilke. Ed Quteheimer ill but improving. Mrs Burne Wilke Q Christensen Myrtle and Grace Barns attended Maude Shields funeral in Alden.
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Hard of Williams
Wilke
Chicago
Elmer Sibert
Rose Grove Township
Mary Sibert
Mystic
Iowa
W. R. Barns
Essie Dateheimer
Iowa Falls
Morton
Austin
Henry Kendall
Buckeye
H. BE. Wilke
Ed. Quteheimer
Burne
Q Christensen
Christmas notes and town updates in final weekly issue
Residents report illness recoveries and holiday preparations as Mrs Kellogg and Mrs Hawkin provide care updates. Postmaster announces emergency office status for telegraphic alerts during severe weather. A Sunday school program for Christmas Eve is planned with a decorated tree and gifts for all children. Measles cases noted, while teachers’ efforts at school earn praise. Emil Schroeder heads home for Christmas and travel plans shift to Rock Island.
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H. W. Stafford
Thagediy
Grundy Center
Chariatmas
Reed Haviland
Maud Ferguson
Clear Lake
Vergie Sayer
Beulah Kellogg
Alden
Ida Holt
Clifford Conway
Theodore Hamlin
Neveln
Henry Weiss
Annu
Clarksville
Rock Island
Devastating Pittsburgh to New York Train Disaster
A Baltimore and Ohio Duquesne limited train crashed near Laurel Run, killing 63 and injuring 30. The wreck tore apart cars and many victims, mostly foreigners, burned or drowned in the Youghiogheny river as the smoking car cooked passengers alive. Baggagemaster Thomas Baum crawled from the wreck to flag a westbound train and avert further loss.
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Connellsville
Duquesne Limited
Pittsburg
New York
Baltimore and Ohio
Laurel Run
William Thornley
Hazelwood
Youghiogheny
S. G. Hunter
Thomas Fook
Herbert Holmes
Emerton
Jesse Hines
Taboro
N. C
Charles Lindford
Confuence
W. Edwards
Pittsbore
J. W. Martin
Hancock
Thornley
Youghioghen
Thomas J. Baum
Tin
Hazards of life on railways tied to Civil War losses
Harrisburg Pa December 24 Major I B Brown secretary of the department of internal affairs compares railroad casualties in Pennsylvania last year to Civil War Union losses. Steam and street railway deaths totaled 15 382, surpassing losses in any Civil War battle. Also reports a Louisville and Nashville wreck near Morris Alabama with one killed and eighteen injured and a Dom inican warship bombarding Puerto Plata.
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Brotwn
Harrisbee Pa
I. B. Brown
Department of Internal Affairs
Pennsylvania
Ethnologist Bans Old Race Theories on Esquimaux Origins
New York December 24 Dr Franz Bunz curator of ethnology at the American Museum declares data from Morris Is Jesup funded explorers show eastern Siberian and northwestern American tribes form one race or shared culture. He says Eskimo claims of a distinct preglacial Arctic race are unsupported and invasions mixed populations.
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Esquimaux
New York
Morris Is. Jesup
Franz Bunz
American Museum of Natural History
North Pole
Bering Sea
Greenland
Siberia
Northwest
America
Old World
New World
Arctic
Preacher Uses His Gun in Pueblo Home Raid
Rev J N Sheridan of the Congregational church in Bessemer Pueblo Colo armed himself against a raid by rowdies who tried to break into his home. He fired back and exchanged shots but no one was hit. The attackers soon withdrew. Sheridan has long combated a local tough element.
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Pueblo
Colo
J. N. Sheridan
Congregational Church
Bessemer
Sheridan
Steel Plant Shuts Down in South Chicago
The Illinois Steel company plant at South Chicago closed indefinitely, laying off 6,500 workers. Company offices indicated a minimum three week stoppage with a wage cut of 10 to 15 percent upon reopening, prompting some workers to consider moving east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
South
East
Vice Crusader Is Laid Low in New Jersey
Anthony Com stock secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice is reported seriously ill at his Summit New Jersey home. Two months earlier he was knocked down stairs in Bridgeport Connecticut while attempting to arrest a physician accused of circulating obscene literature. He suffered broken ribs and bruises but continued work until internal injuries emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Anthony Comstock
Society For the Suppression of Vice
Summit
N. J
Bridegport
Conn
Bandits Ask Delay in Trial
Emil Roeski, a car barn bandit, formally requested a delay claiming public prejudice may prevent a fair trial. The affidavit notes similar concerns by other defendants and indications point to the cases being continued to a future term of court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Emil] Roeski
Roeski
Rocski
Kron Prinz Wilhelm's tempest voyage to New York
The Kron Prinz Wilhelm arrived from Bremen after a seven day stormy crossing. A blade broke on her port propeller three hours from Cherbourg slowing the ship. Winds reached hurricane force Sunday night with the vessel making only 391 knots that day. Escaped prisoner slips away on Oregon train
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New York
Bremen
Cherbourg
Sixth Body Recovered After St Louis Power House Explosion
In St Louis a sixth fatality is confirmed as Jesse Thomas is recovered from the mangled remains after the power house of the Transit Company was demolished by an explosion on Monday night. Eighteen others are injured. In Detroit a trolley strike near Washington Boulevard and Grand River Ave claims Sergeant James F. Lockwood and endangers May Williams of Detroit.
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St. Louis
St. Louis Transit Company
Jesse Thomas
Detroit
Fort Wayne
Washington Boulevard
Grand River Avenue
James F. Lockwood
May Williams
Senator Hanna Leaves Waldorf for Washington
Senator Hanna, held to his room at the Waldorf Astoria by a severe cold, has recovered enough to depart for Washington. He had been resting in New York since December 24, and his condition improved to allow travel.
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Hanna
New York
the Waldorf-Astoria
Washington
War Shipping Tensions Stir Far Eastern Situation
London dispatches report conflicting views on Japan’s naval prep arations amid rising war talk. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha fleet is not mobilized, yet rumors persist of Russia seizing Chin Wang Tao and a six battleship squadron has left Sasebo. Markets remain confident that peace will hold despite tensions.
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London
Daily Mail
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Russia
Chin Wang Tao
Sasebo
Nagasaki
Daily Telegraph
Paris
England
France
Delcasse
Great Britain
Despair for China's Future Reported by Wu Ting Tang
Former Chinese minister Wu Ting Tang tells officials he despairs for China's future and may resign. Japanese minister Uchida and Sir Ernest Mason Satow foresee little chance to avert war as tensions rise over Manchuria and Russian concessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
China
Peking
Wu Ting Tang
Far East
Uchida
Ernest Mason Satow
Russia
Japan
Manchuria
War May Be Averted In Russia Japan Talks
St Petersburg reports Russia's reply to Japan is expected soon as diplomats express belief both sides want peace and allies have urged settlement. Early negotiations seem unlikely, and the foreign office clarifies Viceroy Alexieff's powers as defined by the August ukase remain unchanged.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Japan
Foreign Office
Vladivostock
Alexieff
Berlin Fixes War Odds on Great Britain Not Japan
Berlin estimates the distant eastern conflict will hinge on Great Britain rather than Japan. Tokyo is said to wait for Britain to act, while Britain considers Russia to be a factor in a potential Japan Britain fight.
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Berlin
Great Britain
Far East
Japan
Russia
Slifer Charged With First Degree Murder in Melrose Bride Death
Eldora La December 24 A young farmer William Slifer of Melrose township near Eldora was arrested by Grundy county sheriff on a murder in the first degree charge. It is alleged he killed his bride of under a year while she lay sleeping beside him. An empty chloroform bottle was found on a dresser nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldora, la
William Slifer
Melrose Township
Grundy County
Stig
Mayflower Reports Pinzon With 800 Men Aboard
Navy message from Rear Admiral Coghlan dated Colon reports Mayflower met Pinzon carrying 800 men and munitions bound for a base at Tutumati. Washington dispatch notes the connection to Bears Men and Munitions.
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Washington
Navy Department
Coghlan
Colon
Pinzon
Titumati
Pope Receives All Cardinals in Christmas Greetings
Ronnie Dec 24 The pope welcomed all cardinals and high prelates and they exchanged season's greetings. The function proved unusually interesting as the first of its kind under the present pontiff.
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Ronnie
Deportation Rule Keeps Glass Workers From Abroad
Secretary Cortelyou sustains a ruling that a Corning glass company cannot import English skiled blowers. The men detained at Ellis Island under the alien contract labor law were ordered deported after the British board of special inquiry found the company did not prove sufficient U.S. labor search. They landed in Montreal and were bound for Corning New York.
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Cortelyou
Washington
Stourbridge
England
Ellis Island
Montreal
Corning
N. Y
Cartelyou
British Board of Special Inquiry
United States
Cruzen Resigns Porto Rico Collector Post
Secretary Shaw accepts Alonzo Cruzen resignation as Porto Rico customs collector in San Juan. W. H. Elliott of Indiana may succeed, with Regis H. Post as possible next auditor. Roosevelt may allow Beveridge to name the new collector. Resignation linked to navy port corruption probes. Also: 32 000 New York families to receive Christmas dinner via freight train from St. Louis. 19 cars carried 2000 boxes of turkeys distributed to retailers.
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Shaw
San Juan
Porto Rico
Bec
the Treasury
Alonzo Cruzen
W. H. Elliott
Indiana
Interior
Cruzen
Regis H. Post
New York
Roosevelt
Beveridge
United States Navy
St. Louis
Missouri
Abandon Bond Issue Plan by Rock Island Company
Directors of the Rock Island company decide to abandon the $250000000 bond issue. The decision will be announced to stockholders at the adjourned annual meeting in Davenport Iowa on January 7 next.
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New York
Rock Island Company
the Herald
Davenport
Conductor Killed in Wreck at Butler
Conductor Her zalt of Mattoon was killed in a head on collision between Big Four freight trains at Butler. Train No. 96 ordered to pass an extra train at Butler and the extra ran into the regular train on the main track.
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Paris
Til
Herzalt
Mattoon
Butler
Trading and Closing Quotations Features of the Day
Market notes from Chicago show drought in Texas lifting wheat futures with May up 44 cents and supportive export demand. Cash grain prices mix with livestock receipts at Chicago and Kansas City with cattle, hogs, and lambs trading higher or steady. South Omaha reports mixed results and higher cattle demand.
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Chicago
Yexas
Dee
Kansas City
South Omaha
South Gipaha
Tee
Vette
Jong
Jugh Ous
Pueshe Hecht
The Old Man with the Fish Emulsion Heads ThisHealth Claim
A long traveling figure known as the old man with the fish promotes Scott s Emulsion as a tonic and nourishing food. The copy claims he travels worldwide for nearly thirty years delivering strength to consumptives and the sick, with benefits for children and the elderly. The ad cites Scott & Bowne of New York as chemists and a $1.00 price.
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
New York
Snc
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Blairsburg
Tulnois
John Alden
R. Hoyt
Sity
Baltimore and
Ohio
Puerto Plata
Cape Haytien
Amushes
Preacher
Portland
Ore
Thurlow W. Parker
Oregon Railway and Navigation
Umatilla
Detective Day
Parker
Waring
CORTE
Serlin
WU Ting Fang
St. Joseph
Siaa
Pepsin Syrup Company
Montigello
Ill
Pratts
Des Moines Street
Treat @ Miller
Fred L. Miller
Ambalhers
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