RUSSIANS REPORT NUMEROUS SKIRMISHES IN MANCHURIA
A Russian despatch reports Japanese vanguard in the Sedzi River valley on May 8 and a large force near Douanmyd with further detachments around Takushan and Pitsewo. It notes 10,000 infantry and 50 guns at Hungkiae on May 10 11, plus transports near Cape Siaokohuseitsa and operations toward Kinchau Bay. Casualties include a frontier guard wounded and three horses killed.
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ST. Petersburg
Karkevitch
Sedzi River
Douanmyd
Takushan
Hungkiae
Sluyen
Pitsewo
Cape Terminal
Polandiea
Siaokohuseitsa
Kinchau Bay
Tchengyu River
Tantslafang
Polandien
Poland O
Sanchilipu
Wufungtien
Shihei
Port Arthur
Spiridonoff
Trans-Amur
Mutsiatun
Siatiatin
Poplandien
Tantsiafang
Callahan Re-elected International President of Bartenders Union
Boston official George Wise of 773 Treymont street was knocked down by a car while crossing a street. He suffered a badly cut head. The accident occurred at 282 Common Street where levers and controls failed during the collision. Callahan, former Boston Bartenders Union president, was unanimously reelected international president in Rochester New York. He led membership growth from 60,000 to 100,000 across Canada, the United States, and Mexico. He resides in South Boston.
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Henry H
George Wise
Treymont Street
International League
Rochester
N. Y
Callahan
Canada
United States
Mexico
Boston Union
South
Boston
Japan siege guns ready for Port Arthur
Shanhaikwan May 12 A dispatch from Wufungtieng is denied as exaggerated. The principal Japanese force is said to be near Port Arthur armed with siege guns. Authorities believe they aim to replicate a prior coastal siege strategy.
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Port Arthur
Hair health and skin cure ad from Newark issue
An old classified style ad promotes Hairhealth and Skinhealth products including ointment tablets and a hair restoration treatment. It advertises 25 cent pricing, free samples by mail to PhiloHay Co Newark New Jersey, and a dandruff cure claim with a 50 cent bottle option.
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Halfina
Philo Hay Co
Newark
New Jersey
Freed From Jail In Spite Of Himself
Jeremiah Casey of Newton was freed from East Cambridge jail after two years of court defiance. The Superior Court had ordered $150 plus $6 monthly support to Miss Annie Trainer for her infant, but Casey refused and spent four months jailed. Judge Almy denied a debtor’s oath due to Casey inheriting $1000 from his mother. Casey returned to jail, then friends settled with Trainer and he was released.
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Jeremiah Casey
Newton
East Cambridge
Annie Trainer
Casey
Almy
Hfe
Miss Trainer
Falling Eggs Cover Boys and Woman on Pleasant Street
Two boys Frankie Murray and Johnny Wright and an unknown man were struck by falling eggs when a wagon toppled on Pleasant Street near the subway entrance. Three crates of eggs spilled, soaking the youths as a teamster reacted in anger while bystanders fled or sought shelter in a store.
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Frankie Murray
Johnny Wright
Pleasant Street
Johnny
Frankie
Russian claims Port Arthur can hold out for nine months
A private April 20 letter from Port Arthur reports General Stoessel confident in a siege defense. It describes a fortified fortress with triple ring forts, moats, barbed wire, bomb-proof batteries, ample supplies, and high morale. Kuropatkin offered reinforcements, rejected by Stoessel who said he already had enough men.
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Port Arthur
ST. Petersburg
Stoessel
Thur
Kuropatkin
Russians Accuse Japan Train Fire With Red Cross Flag
The Japanese legation in London released a Tokio foreign office telegram denying Russian claims that Japanese fired on a Port Arthur train on May 6 while it displayed the Red Cross flag. The note said the train had no special markings until after shots fired and that firing ceased once the flag appeared and the train moved away.
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London
Foreign Office
Tokio
Port Arthur
Red Cross
Spe
Cial Marks
Port Dalny the Great Russian Port At Talienwan Bay
Port Dalny near Talienwan Bay was designed as Russia’s eastern commercial nucleus. Construction began after a 1899 edict, opening to trade in 1901. By 1902 over 6 million dollars had been spent with projected costs near 20 million, employing about 2,000 workers for a 60,000 population of Chinese Japanese Koreans and Russians.
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Port Dainy
Russia
Port Dalny
Talienwan Bay
Pacific
St. Petersburg
Port Arthur
Dalny
M. Witte
Council of Ministers
Wrights Labor Board Healing Coal Disputes Cites 116 Grievances
Hon Carrol D Wright reports at the American Social Science Association in Washington Hall that since the Boards of Calculation were created three operators and three miners handled 116 grievances. Of 71 acted on, 41 favored workers, 18 favored operators, 17 withdrawn and 18 privately adjusted. Wright argues the Board prevented 71 strikes and claims the solution lies in conciliation. He notes miners favored the award but questioned its reasons while operators disliked the decision yet approved its reasoning. He links industrial growth to urban population shifts.
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Carrol D. Wright
American Social Science Association
Washington Hall
Board of Calculation
Col. Wright
Anthracite Coal Commission
Brighton High Wins Prize Drill
Twelve Boston School Cadet companies from district high schools took part in Mechanics Hall prize drill before about 3000 spectators. Brighton High School won multiple prizes in senior and junior company drills and earned several individual honors amid a festive, well-organized event led by Colonel Benyon.
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Boston School
Mechanics
Benyon
E. R. Acer
Fifth Infantry
Er. M
F. F. Cutting
J. 8. Smyth
Brighton High School
Watkins
Stanley H. Packard
John H Casey
May End Quincey Strike Hopes Rise After Talks
Quincy May 12 The long conference between Fore River Ship and Engine Co representatives and striking workers and their employers ends with a proposed settlement to be answered by the strikers tomorrow. Admiral Bowles declined to reveal the text. Strikers filled Quincy square as they waited for Carpenters Hall address by R. M. Waugh amid cautious comments from company officials. City businessmen prompted the talks through ex Mayor Hall.
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Quincy
Fore River
Francis T. Bowles
Quincy Square
Carpenters’ Hall
R. M. Waugh
Smith
John O. Hall
Mob Pursues Negro Into Church After Attack
A large Cambridge mob hunted a fleeing black man who struck a colored woman near John s Baptist Church on Columbus Avenue and Chandler Street. Conductor J H Woodland intervened, was injured, and the crowd stormed the church seeking the attacker, but the man and a woman escaped through the rear as officers and car workers aided.
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J. H. Woodland
Cambridge
Columbus Avenue
Chandler Street
Woodland
Dedham Street
Boylston Street
Labor union notes from Boston and surrounding area
Labor notes report various union activities across Boston, Lynn and Quincy. International Organizer J. W. Carlin spoke to Metal Mechanics' Union 100. Frank Jennings and A. Bowman elected to Boston Machinists' Lodge 264 board positions. Boston Engineers' Union 16 hosted a smoke talk with 600 attendees where Professor Abrams spoke on Pumps. Hatters, laborers and other unions endorsed strikes and efforts to organize. The Ladies' Auxiliary of Boston Machinists lodges plans a Wells Memorial meeting to complete organization. Team Drivers' Union 242 of Chelsea plans stables visits to organize drivers. The Free Home for Consumptives on Quincy Street has 60 unused beds due to funding shortages. union members discuss fundraising and support efforts.
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Metal Mechanics’ Union 100
J. W. Carlin
Lynn
Boston Machinists’ Lodge 264
Frank Jennings
EB. A. Bowman
Boston ‘Engineers’ Union 16
Abrams
Union 155
Hatters
Quincy
Rochester Garment Workers
Ladies’ Auxiliary of
Boston
Wells Memorial
Teamsters
Quincy Street
Elizabeth Powers
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Peery
Manchuria
Ilago
Niuchwang
Tientsin
Miller
Congers
Czar
Moscow
Trinity Sergius Monastery
Kharkoff
Far East
President Callahan
Robert A. Callahan
Boston Bartenders’ Union 77
Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Alliance
R. A.callahan
Harfina
Wright
Brighton High
Opepang
Charlestown
Harry J
Brighton
Charl M
Featherstonton Flightast Bus School
Harold
Best
Comany ‘East Boston High School
Berman
Willard Dry
Prise
Kerrigs
Choot Ergeagan
Righton Prise
Barsoom
Charlestown High School
Barry
Walsh
South Boston
Cushman
Peterson
Weatbury
Prentiss
Hamburger
Dorchester
Iral Prout
McCony
Taylor
Bowles
LABOR
LD Croy
Atlas
J. A. Williams
Kirk& CO le Bottlers
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