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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1905
Page
2
The Pall Mali Gazette recalls a dreamlike longing for a past hillside homestead and the old shanty, with voices of station children and a shadowy woman by the slip panel. The narrator wonders if the dream will ever be real and pleads for rest in the ranges.
In this frisky scene Miss Moreton balks at a photographer's past snapshot while a narrator presses her for a newer image. He offers to destroy the older print if she yields a living portrait, leading to a tense bargain and a dramatic reveal in a quiet drawing room.
A pompous buyer haggles at a Kansas City auto agency asking for a test drive for his wife and a $25 chauffeur expense deposit allegedly refundable. The salesman outwits him, and the buyer leaves for another dealer. Also notes Mrs. King of the King ranch funds rattlesnake bounty across Texas with thousands of rattles sold. A quip about Adam and Eve ends the column.
In a sharp dialogue from a Sketch piece, Miss Moreton confronts Mr. Mallison over a compromising photograph. He refuses to print it, she demands the original, and after a tense exchange he offers a bargain and keeps both images.
The Sea of Japan clash yields huge Russian losses with 7000 to 9000 killed and nearly 4000 prisoners. Admiral Voelkersam dies aboard Ostrobals, his squadron blamed for earlier North Sea fire. Tsarist fleet’s disaster far surpasses prior naval defeats, signaling a staggering collapse of once mighty ships.
London correspondent for The Telegraph details a naval battle between Imperial Japan and Russia. Togo’s fleet maneuvers with precision while Rosovetsky’s squadron is trapped and decisively defeated after ferocious shelling between noon and afternoon.
A chaotic report states an assassination attempt near a carriage as King Alfonso and the President escaped harm. Five people died in the ensuing confusion and a suspect, along with two others, linked to the plot, were arrested. Paris buzzed with rumors of anarchist targets and threats tied to the young king’s planned visit.
The battle leaves Admiral Rojestvensky wounded and captured after a fierce contest. Japanese forces pursue the Russians to Nagoto coast, sinking ships and disabling the fleet while the Russians lose formation and retreat in disorder.
A historical note recalls Ohio's long absence of veto power until Governor Myron T. Herrick first gained it. It recounts early salary disputes, a vetoed fee abolition, and a legislature that stripped the governor of veto power, leaving leaders like McKinley without real autocratic authority.
Excavators near Breslgn Prussia uncover 400 graves and 150 bronze age cave dwellings dating from early to late bronze age. The site includes a dozen huts and weaving tools, revealing a once buried village.
Weekly weather bureau summary says frost and cool temperatures hampered corn and wheat growth from the plains to the middle Atlantic. Rain slowed farm work in the south and east, while California, Oregon, and Washington saw cool, cloudy spells. Corn planting nears completion with slow germination, oats and hay outlook mixed, and cotton in need of cultivation in much of the belt.
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