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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
3
Daily round up of military actions between Russia and Japan with brief dispatches from Washington and notes on international developments. Highlights include troop movements, naval maneuvers, and political reactions from various countries as the conflict unfolds.
M. Nelidoff, Russia's ambassador to Paris, is definitely chosen as a peace plenipotentiary. Russia agrees to August 1 for the plenipotentiaries meeting, with instructions to Cassini to accept. Japan says no armistice without envoys meeting and exchanging credentials. British officials warn against armistice now. Manchuria engagements continue as Russia retreats under threat of a flank move. Oyama reports Liao Yang port fought and captured. Takahira says Japanese plenipotentiaries reach Washington early August. selection not yet announced. A German expert notes high Russian losses due to Japanese artillery.
John Driscoll testified before the Chicago grand jury about paying labor leaders to settle or avert strikes. The Chicago Teamsters' Joint Council ousted Cornelius P. Shea and named a committee to end the prolonged walkout. A nonunion painter Henry Hucksold was killed and union driver Cleave White injured by a deputy sheriff amid the turmoil.
The world’s fastest train, the Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore line, wrecked at Mentor Ohio. Nineteen people were killed and the disaster blamed on wreckers. The 20 hour schedule will replace the 18 hour run immediately.
Reports from across the country and world note Kitchener predicting war with Russia over India, Nebraska election law fights, Wisconsin river drownings, and Illinois Pennsylvania court actions. Other items include Roosevelt visits, corporate frauds, bank dividends, and a Cuba leader’s death.
Cleveland reports a growing belief that the switch tampering caused the Twentieth Century Limited wreck at Mentor. Officials shadow a suspect as Lake Shore offers 2000 dollars for arrest or info, with secret service tracing actions the night of the crash.
Milwaukee report shows the Modern Woodmen of America head camp approving A. Crozier of Delaware as proposer of a fraternal congress to promote fraternal insurance in New York City. A liquor question vote passed 330 to 132 with changes limiting brewery and distillery workers and department store liquor sellers from membership.
Philadelphia June 24 The city reels as an additional warrant issues for John W. Hill former chief of the Filtration bureau on forgery charges involving forty thousand dollars. Hill previously appeared before a magistrate on similar counts and remains under eight thousand dollars bail pending court. Captain James J. Donaghy signed the affidavit alleging fake records of work by contractor Daniel J. Mc Nichol to defraud the city. contracts cited are not specified.
In Lodz Russian Poland on June 24 troops stormed barricades as a general strike closed factories and shops. Fifty killed and 200 wounded reported with martial law likely. Rioters sacked liquor stores, damaged street lamps, and rail traffic halted while casualties remained uncertain.
A fragmented Chicago Daily News item quotes a waitress and a couple discussing marriage. The exchange mentions a man earning twenty dollars weekly and weighing less than the woman, hinting at doubts and hopeful acceptances in a domestic scene.
Quotation from Answers This world would be a better place if more men pursued being good instead of merely making good. The Boston Globe notes a humorous exchange about a judge and a prisoner.
In Sedgwick Arkansas on June 19 a father details his son’s recovery from dropsy after doctors failed. Three daily Dodd's Kidney Pills were given for eight days then thirty five in total. swelling disappeared and the child could run, dance and sing. The note ends with a testimonial about the medicine saving the life. Also mentions travel rates to the New England Association meeting and other ad copy lines.
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for female complaints including ovarian issues uterine problems and nervous debility. It claims high success in treating leucorrhoea dissolving tumors and easing bearing down headaches and other symptoms while offering confidential correspondence with Mrs Pinkham.
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