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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1905
Page
3
Professor Felix Adler told the Ethical Culture Society that a new form of child slavery has grown in recent years. He cited 69,000 children under fourteen in southern mills working long hours, plus 8,000 in mines and many in clothing factories, with the practice expanding.
Oklahoma City reports the Oklahoma Ice and Brewing Company's cold storage plant owned by Adolphus Busch of St. Louis burned today. Loss listed at 75,000 dollars with 2,500,000 eggs destroyed. A meat wagon driver was arrested on arson charges connected to the fire.
Large Mormon colony from Utah, about 10 000 people, will settle in Chihuahua Mexico after holidays. They seek land and can practice their faith with no government interference.
Report from Bakersfield California describes Charles Ehler in a hospital who admits possible information that could clear Caleb Powers of complicity in Governor Goebel's murder. Superintendent Buckreus presses for testimony but Ehler declines, citing risk to others. Powers remains sentenced to death pending Kentucky actions.
Libbie Garrdbrandt of Patterson won parole from the New Jersey Board of Pardons by a five to three vote. Convicted of first degree murder at seventeen, her sentence was commuted to life. She had spent thirty four years in state prison.
A Scotch collie owned by Gilbert Le Place of Deep River is praised as highly intelligent. The dog fills the woodbox each morning by carrying one stick at a time from the woodpile to the kitchen and notifies the household when the telephone rings. It distinguishes the Le Place call from other lines.
A humane guard on the Great Western railway offered a hot water tin to a cold old man who sat in a foot warmer for nearly thirty miles. The man gratefully accepted and said another warmer for his feet would have been welcome.
Vatican sources believe former empress Enogenie influenced Princess Enno of Batonburg toward converting to Alfonso of Sprain's faith. The empress, noted for vast wealth, is said to plan a large fortune for Enao to make her a queen, with no papal involvement.
Mrs Lillian Kleign sought an injunction to stop her husband from telephoning and professing love. The court denied the request. The piece also recalls a rural editor’s real time bulletin practice and a joke about a thief in a church sermon with an unusual display.
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