Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1912-12-06
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Arms OF the Senate. died. aged 70
Joseph Eisenberg. a Milwaukee
newsboy, has saved enough in five
years 70 quit business and 90 10 Yale
Albert X Smiley. father Of the Lake
MohOpk conference on Indiana, i
dead IN Realands. Cal
Bruce NJ. Priddy. secretary Of the
Real estate Board OF Kansas CITY, com
mitted suicide
Letters Ter Santa Claus are piling
into the postohlce. One received in
New York sas addressed 70 Heaven.
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Crude oil advanced FIVE cents bar
rel Ia nearly all grades in Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania crude was quoted al
s2.05 a barrel
The eonsttutionality Of the New
York state unk dealers law was up
held by the United States supreme
Court.
Hugh s Knox. son Of the secretary
of state, has resigned his position as
private secretary TO his father. 70 en-
gage in business in Pittsburgh.
The Board Of Public Utilities Of Los
Angeles is considering a measure To
force all women 10 do their Christmas
shopping before s.ou p, m.
Mrs Melville f ingalls,, Of New
York shot the largest deer ever bag
ged in Hot Springs, Va. It was four
year old buck. weighing $50 pounds.
The town of Washington. Texas,
where the Declaration of lndepend-
| enee of the Republic Of Texas was
signed 76 years ago, was wiped out by
FIRE
Boston & Maine train employees
have been ordered to quit chewing
gum. wearing iashy neekties and tan
shoes They must aise stop talking
| 70 women passengers.
Former United States Senator John
P. Jones. who represented Nevada
from 1873 to 1908 died in Los Angeles
after a long illness. He was born in
England in 1929
Ross Reynolds. Of Scranton, Pa.
went skating on thin ice and broke in,
his aunt, Mrs. A. Reynolds and her 10
year old son following All were
| drowned
David L. Short said he was ready to
swear again en- behalf Of Albert T.
Patrick that he saw William Marsh
Rice syn the viii that has been pro
nounced a forgery.
After being blind for Is years, the
Rev G G. Rupert. of Oklahoma City.
had his sight restored when his grand;
child struck him in the eye with a
piece of tin foil
Two men known as "Curke" and
the Candy Kid were burned TO
death when the Flora, the old side
wheeler. was burned in the Chicago
River
Gov. Carey of Wyoming, at the
Brooklyn Nav Yard. presented sill
yer service of 1913 pieces TO the bat
tleship named after his state, a gift of
the people of Wyoming
The Wagner-Smith Factory Investi-
eating Commission announced that it
would soon present to the Legislature
thirty.th or more measures aimed
TO improve the conditions of factory
employees throughout New York State.
Although fewer deer and moose
were killed in Maine this year, the
number of human casualties is far IN
excess of the usual crop. At least IL
men have been killed and the season
is not over,
Former United States Senator,
James Gordon, died at Okolona, Miss,
aged 10 He served as Confederate
captain in the war. and as Senator
from December 81. 1908. to February
%. 1910. In that time he became a
national figure.
The open season for hunters and
deer closed in Michigan, showing rs
men were killed and Is wounded. Last
year the figures were 100 killed and
81 wounded. The woods were thick
with hunters and lumberajcks refused
to take chance and enter them.