Notable Obituaries and World Items From Diverse Notices
Brief round up reports Wm Plankinton Milwaukee capital death from heart disease Frank Graham Kansas City editor dies paralysis Loomis cable from Panama minister Barrett to fall for Columbia May 16 Paris press hails Ambassador McCormick speech Krupp 8.5 inch guns outrange rivals Kiowa Comanche land leases attract homeseekers Dolleville coal lands purchase in Illinois Missouri St Johns seal catch weak year air industry notes German canal engineers board appointment Taft Isath Mian Canal commission Fire in Home City Kansas and White House chimney damage, Cocos king reigns over tiny monarchy.
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Chicago
Des Moines
New York
Firzhugh Lee
Richmond
General Lee
Frank Graham
Kansas City Times
Kansas City
Loomis
Barrett
Panama
Columbia
Paris
McCormick
Loubet
Krupp
Moppen
Jane German
Joseph Jefferson
Baltimore
Jefferson
George A. Wilbur
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Supreme Bench
St. Louis
T. M. Howell
Denver
Yellow Jacket Creek
Idaho
State Department
Germany
Washington
John Pearce
London
Wilhelm Doltz
Russell M. Lindsay
William Allen White
Kana
Hoch
St. Johns Waters
John Gordon
Dolleville
Christian County
Til
Henton
Coxey’s Army
Northhamptonshire
England
War Office
New York Legislative Committee
Gas and Electric Companies
Adre
Lorraine
Harve
France
Waashington
Taft
Tincants
Fred Vorel, Sr
First National Bank of Milwaukees
Frank G. Bilgelow
Kanens
White House
Cocos
Sumatra
Increases Coinage of Farthings in British Realm
The British mint is expanding farthing production after long neglect. Farthings, once rare in many colonies, are now minted to promote thrift. The small denomination coins facilitate purchases of tiny amounts and aim to bolster savings across possessions.
Right Side Pain Medicine Request Reported
A woman visited the store asking the pharmacist to prepare medicine for pain on her right side. While the apprentice mixed a remedy, she insisted the preparation be made specifically for the right side.
Pioneer Use of Quinine in Early American Frontiers
Soldiers in the Civil War relied on quinine as a key medicine. Early settlers faced fever and ague in swampy malarial districts, making quinine as essential as firearms in taming the frontier.
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Piioneer
Dodd's Kidney Pills Praised By Oakley Resident
Florence Capen of Oakley Michigan describes severe back and hip pain along with fatigue and inability to sleep. After taking Dodd's Kidney Pills she reports swift relief and nightly rest, claiming the pills cured her kidney problems and helped her regain strength.
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Oakley
Mich
Florence Capen
Dodd
Link Sausage Output Surpasses 400 Million Yards
A trade journal estimates annual link sausage output in the country at over 400 million yards or 227 272 miles. The figure would circle the earth around nine times at the equator, though sausage does not stay on the line.
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Thia Counry
Landlord Prerogatives Highlight Welbeck Estate Power
The duke of Portland may select any Welbeck estate house for his residence. Lord Balfour of Burleigh can compel tenants to appear bareheaded and barefooted once yearly and publicly acknowledge him as their lord and master.
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Duke of Portland
Welbeck
Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Wickedness in Luverne Rumor Stirs Town T
Luverne residents react to alleged devil linked behavior among local young women. The Luverne Journal quotes a maxim about fooling some people some of the time, reflecting community concern and gossip about immoral conduct.
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Luverne
Luverne Journal
Harvard Ware Collection of Fiaschka Glass Plants
Harvard’s Botanical Museum houses a famed Ware collection of Fiaschka glass plant models noted as its choicest treasure in the university’s museums.
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Harvard
Harvard College
Fiaschka
Botanical Museum
When entering mixed company a balanced air
The maxim urges hosts to fear no one and offend no one in social mixing. It frames courteous restraint as the proper etiquette for diverse company.
Coffee Heart Turns to Postum For Health Gain
A Brooklyn man credits giving up coffee after thirty years with heart palpitation relief from Postum Food Coffee. He notes proper boiling of 16 to 20 minutes improved taste and that Postum cheered him without harmful stimulation, urging others to try the ten day trial and read The Road to Wellville.
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Brooklyn
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Nearing a Fight Movements Indicate Land Battle
Reports show troop movements suggesting an impending land engagement. Analysts note acceleration toward the front with units massing near strategic locations, signaling renewed hostilities and potential clashes.
Japanese Push Forward In Manchuria Assaults
Reports from Manchuria say Field Marshal Oyama widened his offensive on both flanks with heavy columns moving toward the Lino river. Japanese cavalry attacked Cossacks near Palitoun, and Russian forces retreated. Four Vladivostok torpedo boat destroyers sighted off Hokkaido captured a crewless sailing vessel before vanishing west.
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Tokio
Manchuria
Oyama
Linovitch
Lino River
Fakoman
Bashienchen
Palitoun
Vinodivostok
Hokkaido
Subl
Vladivoestok
Japs Set Junction Date for Russian Squadron Meet
Report from Tokyo says Vice Admiral Rojestvensky may meet Vice Admiral Nebogatoff’s division by May 9. Nebogatoff’s ships reportedly slow for coal and stores, possibly awaiting exchange at a friendly port. Movement prospects for the Russian Pacific squadron remain speculative amid Indo China coast delays.
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Tokio
Rojestvensky
Nebogatoff
Indo-China
Vladivostok
Viadivestok
Germany Hopes For Treaty Negotiations This Year
Berlin officials expect Menipotentiaries from the United States and Germany to meet in autumn to negotiate a commercial treaty. Preliminary proposals to be exchanged late summer. Germany notes the tariff agreement of July 10, 1900 would terminate by March 1, 1906, but says this is not a denunciation and notice may be given by December 1, 1905 or after three months.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
United States
Germany
May Bet on Races at Track
Houston Texas governor Lanham approved a bill permitting betting at race tracks on race days. The measure allows wagers at venues hosting horse racing within the state.
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Houston
Tex
Lanham
Comanche Chief Quotas Lands Promise and Pay Stated
Quanah Parker, Comanche chief, told a mixed audience that President Roosevelt promised the Kiowa Comanche Indian pasture lands of Oklahoma would remain with Indians forever and that the lands should be allotted. He requested payment of $100 annually to the Comanches and said the president would discuss the matter with the commissioner of Indian affairs.
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Lawson
Quanah Parker
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Indiana
Parker
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Married Again at 95 in Ocean Grove
Great grandfather George Schmidt aged 95 wed Mia Ellen Day Schwartz in Ocean Grove New Jersey. The bride knew him from her girlhood days and the couple keep the ceremony private for family reasons. Schmidt, a former Newark butcher, remains active and healthy with two great grandchildren.
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Asbury Park
N. J
George Schmidt
Newark
Orean Grove
Mia
Ellen Day Schwartz
H. C. Smith
Ocean Grove
Korean grafter deposed in treaty rights case
Washington reports from Seoul that Penyang magistrate Paing Man Chun, accused of oppressing locals and extorting over 100000 dollars, has been removed. Minister Alten notes Americans complained of his conduct and interference with treaty rights, and that he sought payment for lands and military needs in 1904.
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Washington
Allen
Seoul
Korea
State Department
Penyang
Alten
Penyane
Paing Man Chun
Reciprocal Inspection Agreement Between U S Britain and Canada
The British embassy informs the Department of Commerce that Great Britain and Canada will accept American hull, boiler, machinery and life saving certificate inspections. The United States will issue a reciprocal order for British and Canadian vessels. This streamlines port clearances and reduces costs by relying on certificate compliance.
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America
England
Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
Great Britain
Dominion of Canada
Grand Jury Probes American Tobacco Firms Secret Session
A federal grand jury in New York has been secretly investigating American Tobacco Co and its subsidiaries. Special assistant U S attorney Henry W Taft leads the inquiry under the antitrust law, with officer BE F Hale invoking privilege and delaying replies.
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Federal Grand Jury
New York
American Tobacco Company
Henry W. Taft
Secretary of War
United States
Taft
BE. F. Hale
Circcuit Court
Hale
Finle
Former State Senator Harry Bunkers Sentenced Five Years
Sacramento reports former state senator Harry Bunkers of San Francisco was convicted of accepting a bribe and sentenced to five years in the San Quentin penitentiary.
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Sacramento
Cal
Harry Bunkers
San Francisco
San Cuentin
Taft Calls Davis to Washington Over Isthmus Health Crisis
Taft cables Panama Governor Davis to resign and clear way for Colonel Gore to oversee canal administration until Magoon arrives. Davis, ill with malaria, resisted departure but doctors advised rest to recover amid adverse isthmus conditions.
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Taft
Davis
Wangton
Washington
Ravis
Panama
Goreus
Canal
Magoon
Fourth Squadron Evades the Enemy in Naval War News
Report from St. Petersburg states Admiral Ro jestvensky has sailed south to meet Nebogatoff's division, as Japan plots to disrupt the Russian fleet using fast cruisers and torpedo destroyers. Japanese ships were said to watch Sunda Straits near Dutch Borneo while the Gromobol left Vladivostok.
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Nebogatoff
Lso
Straits of Sandy
Straits of Malacca
Admiralty
China Sea
Rojestvensky
Madagascar
Russ
Clado
Foreign Office
Russia
Netherlands
Dutch Borneo
Straits of Sunda
Union Pacific Approves $160 Million Preferred Stock Issue
In Salt Lake City at a special stockholders meeting, Union Pacific shareholders voted unanimously to authorize issuing $160 million in preferred stock. Of 657,761 preferred and 1,118,017 common shares represented, all authorized the move with Judge W D Cornish as proxy head. Joseph F Smith and two Salt Lake City reporters held the remaining proxies. No purpose for the fund of 100 million dollars was explained.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Saares
W. D. Cornish
New York
Harriman System
Nixon Builds Boats for Russia Sebastopol
Torpedo boats built at the government yard under Lewis Nixon of New York near completion. Trials in the Black Sea will begin soon to test advantages claimed for the Nixon boats amid expected stiff competition and the precedent set by the Gregory crossing the Atlantic.
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Gregory
Atlantic
Oregon
Russia
Woman Freed From Troubles By Dr Williams Pink Pills
A Louisiana woman named Miss Stella Blocker credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing years of headaches caused by anemia and general weakness. She reports rapid improvement after three boxes, noting prior remedies failed and her health included fever liver and kidney issues. Pills are sold by all druggists and also claim to relieve neuralgia sciatica nervous prostration and rheumatism.
Open to tranquillity and peace. no quarter for dis content
A declarative line stresses that embracing calm and peaceful conduct leaves no room for discord. It emphasizes unity and restraint as the path to harmony.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Offers Reward and Testimonials
Deter one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The firm Wallace, Kirwann & Mangin of Toledo endorses F J Cheney. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to act internally and on mucous surfaces with testimonials. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by druggists. Hall's Family for constipation.
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Hall
J. Ceerey 4 Co. Fonte
Wihermane
F. J. Cheney
WaLorve, Kirwann & Mangin
Wholedale Draggrista
Toledo
Take Hall
Petrified People and Trees Spark Finish Polish
A brief note recalls petrified people and trees as a finish polish curiosity. The item highlights relics and the curious claim of petrification in a local record.
Defiance Starch Push Aims For Extra Value
Grocers report not stocking Defiance Starch due to existing stock of 12 ounce brands. Defiance offers 16 ounces for the same price, urging buyers to choose more quantity per dollar. The ad promises no cooking required and ends with a moral line about sorrow.
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Defiance
Defiance Starch Promises Superior Results and Value
Ad touts Defiance Starch as giving better results than any other brand and claims customers receive one third more for their money. The copy contrasts the product with cheaper rivals and markets durability and reliability.
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Wm. Plankinton
Milwaukee
Vanguard
Ruéians
Pointe
Wensela
American Tobacco CO
South
Rojesventsky
Mikado
Gromobol
Vindivostok
Harriman
Nixon
Lane
Ashitees
O. V. Woodwart
Alabastine Company
Grant Ave
Grand Rapida, Mich
Water St
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