Russia Calls Hague Peace Conference Second Invite After War
St Petersburg reports Emperor Nicholas issued invitations for a second Hague peace conference. Roosevelt approved the plan and is said to have relinquished convoking duties to the czar. Russia may have sent invites to powers and Japan, with a likely early date and a formal program to come.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
The
Hague
United States
Russia
Roosevelt
Japan
Great Increase in Washington State Assessed Valuation
Olympic Sept 19 An increase in one year of 17 133 974 in total assessed valuation of all property in Washington equalized by county boards is shown in a comparative statement from the state board of equalization. Total assessed value 327 997 919 personal property 80 631 725 minus exemptions 17 483 796 leaves net 63 147 929 Real property up 12 39 044 Four counties show decreases Yakima Klickitat Kenton Skamania Asotin King leads with 4 185 535 Spokane 2 333 311 Garfield 2 070 113.
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Olympic
Washington
State Board of Equalization
Yakima
Klickiat
Yellowstone Road Project Linked To Oregon Short Line
The Yellowstone Park Railroad Company filed incorporation papers in Pocatello Idaho. It plans to extend the St Anthony branch of the Oregon Short Line to Yellowstone National Park about 75 miles for tourist use next season. A second line from St Anthony to Victor Idaho over 50 miles would serve Fremont and Bingham counties near the Wyoming border.
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Salt Lake City
Yellowstone Park Railroad Company
Pocatello
Idaho
Oregon
St. Anthony
Yellowstone National Park
Fremont
Bingham Counties
Victor
Wyoming Line
Teton Range
Public Square in Ninove Named Place Roosevelt
The public square of Ninove in Belgium was named Place Roosevelt by cantonal lawmakers in tribute to Theodore Roosevelt for his role in concluding the Russia Japan peace treaty. The announcement appears in the Army and Navy Journal.
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New York
Canton of
Ninove
Belgium
Roosevelt
Russia
Japan
Army and Navy Journal
Effect of Boycott Report From Shanghai by Consul General Rodgers
State department receives Rodgers report from Shanghai detailing commercial strain from Chinese boycott. Shanghai warehouses hold 169000 bales of American piece goods valued near 8 million gold, with marketing and collection difficulties amid Manchuria closure. Forecasts show potential 25 million gold in foreign goods affected. Sammons reports suppression of boycott at Newchwang and Japanese river-shipment restrictions to Manchuria eased.
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Rodgers
Shanghai
Washington
State Department
Manchuria
Sammons
Newchwang
China
Taft Inspects China Boycott Impact in Japan Remarks
Secretary of War Taft and party sailed from Yokohama to San Francisco aboard the Korea after a reception. He said the Chinese boycott has cost them 15 million dollars and that anti foreign sentiment reports were exaggerated. Alice Roosevelt to return aboard the Siberia. Tokyo notes welcome Yoshikawa resignation by belligerent class.
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Yokohama
Taft
San Franciso
Korea
America
Japan
Tokyo
Alice Roosevelt
Siberia
Perkins Reveals Large Campaign Gift Tied to Insurance
New York September 18 George W Perkins of J P Morgan Co and first vice president of New York Life Insurance Co testified to a legislative committee on life insurance methods revealing a $48702 entry marked ordered paid by president a political contribution to the national Republican committee paid to Cornelius Bliss. He said the payment was to safeguard the insurer assets from Democratic success and noted contributions in 1900 and 1896. Palouse Washington September 18 Thomas Wren of Wren and Greenough moved railroad grading HQ to summit nine miles east of Princeton rails laid four miles east depot under construction this fall.
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New York
George W. Perkins
J. P. Morgan & Co
New York Life Imsurance Company
National Republican
Cornelius N. Bliss
Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
Palouse
Wash
Thomas Wren
Wren & Greenough
Washington, Idaho and Montana
Princeton
Anthropologist Starr Granted Year-Long Leave for Africa
Chicago Sept 18 Professor Starr of the University of Chicago anthropologist receives leave of absence exceeding a year to study savage tribes of Central Africa. He will travel and conduct field work starting this autumn.
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Chicago
Starr
University of Chicago
Central Africa
Youth at the Forefront of Modern Professions
A composite reflection compares old and young professionals across fields. It argues youth offers access to newer methods, greater time for commissions, and rising reputation through superior current knowledge. The piece suggests a saner civilization comes when human life is valued above wealth.
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Indianapolis News
A Wise Development Promotes Train Rest on Sundays
The St Paul railroad system orders Sunday rest with no extra trains and freight crews to finish by Saturday night. The move aims to give workers a break and reflect growing prudence in a modern era of safety and moderation.
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St. Paul
Miller
Jevel Best
Weaver
Philadelphia
Key
Proposed Presbyterian federation could unite nine states of faith
The Chicago Tribune reports plans for a federal council of reform and northern Presbyterian churches to supervise joint missions and policies while preserving each denomination’s creed and governance. Committees have endorsed the idea. Southern assembly refers it to a panel, aiming for broader church cooperation and eventual consolidation.
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United States
Reformed
Northern Presbyterian Churches
Southern Presbyterian General Assembly
Chicago Tribune
Population growth and immigration pace in five years
The article notes the 1900 census counted 76,303,000 people in the United States. It estimates the 1905 population at 2,910,000 above that base, a five year rise of 8.7 percent totaling about 83,? million, with immigration heavily contributing and projections toward 90,000,000 by 1910. Also mentions over eight percent rise in sugar consumption.
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United States
Denver News
From Errand Boy to Mayor of Philadelphia
The piece traces John Weaver’s rise from a Kidderminster boy and Wanamaker clerk to Philadelphia’s mayor and a potential gubernatorial candidate. He learned shorthand, joined the Jennings family, stayed with them, and worked refused leisure to build a legal career. Weaver pastors Tioga Baptist Church on Sundays and keeps his campaigning and public life separate.
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Kidderminster
England
United States
John Weaver
Philadelphia
United Gas Company
Weaver
John Wanamaker
Wanamaker
Jennings
Wanamaker's
Kiddermininster
John
Mayor Weaver
Heis
Tioga Baptist Church
Nps
Frightened townsfolk attend Chicago scientist talk
A Kansas town invited a Chicago bacteriology lecturer for sanitar y lessons. A gardener and his wife among the audience were puzzled by the science, with both admitting confusion and fear after the show.
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Kansas
Chicago
Maggie
Death leaves business intact in quiet reflection
A man dies and his enterprise continues without him, prompting a wry thought on the futility of wealth and the neglect of personal legacy. The remark questions whether the deceased understood his own business impact while alive.
Physician and Surgeons Office Hours Listed
PAUL SMITS MD offers offices at Aberdeen General Hospital with hours 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 pm and 7 to 9 pm telephone 614. WATKINS has Crowther Wooding block office hours 10:30 to 11:30 am 1:30 to 4:30 pm and 7 to 8 pm telephone 135. Hayes and Hayes Building offices with 9:30 am to 4 pm and 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm hours telephone 493.
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Hayes & Hayes
Hayes & Hayes Bank
Dentists and attorneys listings for local offices
The page lists professionals with addresses and hours including a dentist at 815 Market Street in the Commercial Block with hours 9:00 am to 8:00 pm and telephone 1543, a state and federal course practitioner on Zelaska Block G Street, attorney E H Fox at Postoffice Block Rooms 10 and 11, and Robert E. Taggart in Dabney Block Room 14, plus Ben Sheers in Dabney Block Room 7. notes building plans and estimates by a builder with 30 years experience at 94 Heron Street and telephone 626.
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Market Street
Heron Street
Land Office Defender Advertises Help for Homesteaders
Four years register Olympia land office offers legal aid to protect homesteaders against squatters. Understands the law and defends all homesteaders. CONSULT HIM. Room 3 Hayes and Hayes Bank Building Aberdeen Wash.
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Olympia Land Office
Hayes & Hayes Bank Building
Aberdeen
Wash
Hayes and Hayes Bankers Operate General Banking Services
Hayes and Hayes Bankers offers foreign and domestic exchanges, taxes for non residents, and discounting of local mill paper. Office hours run 9 to 3, Saturday 9 to 2, with one evening hour from 7 to 8.
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Invita
Yellowstone
Yoshikawa
Jiji
Africa
Presbyterian Federation
Errand Boy
Paul Smits, M. D
Watkins
Crowther-Wooding Block
G and
Heron Streets
Ffice
Everett E. Lane, D. D. S
M. Robb Stapp
U. G. Kinnison
Co. Cross
Attorney AT Law
Zelaska Block
G Street
E. H. Fox
Rrobert E. Taggart
Dabney Block
Ben Sheers
W. Mason
Jesse F. Murphy
Continental
O. C
Heron, Wash
Humboldt Sale
Fred Hewett
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
Hayes & Hayes Bankers
Independent
Grays Harbor
San Francisco
Los Angeles
C. E. Burrows Co., Ag
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