Various World News and Local Notes Compiled
A long column of disparate items cites Gorman, an inventor, and a London chest disease treatment. Mrs Emma Stanston Allen joins the Woman's Relief Corps. mentions of Samuel Hopkins signer and Mr. Manning engineer. scientific notes on salt taste and olfaction. Dr Ralph Curtiss appointment at Western Pennsylvania. Japanese auto interest through Korekiyo Takahashi. global life insurance totals and bankrupted risk. diamond shoe spectacle in London. cigarette clubs in Indiana and legality. Roosevelt family letters and nursing capacity claim. Yorkshire peat fires and girdle cakes. U.S. Library data and New York City population projections for 1903-04.
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London
Emma Stanston Allen
Swanton
Woman's Relief Corps
Samuel Hopkins
Korekiyo Takahashi
Imperial Age
House of Peers
Bank of Japan
Westchester County
New York
United States
Armistice talks and Japanese advance threaten Vladivostok
A St Petersburg dispatch reports armistice negotiations likely in Washington with Japan influencing terms. A Shanghai note says Japanese forces near Vladivostok, with a battle imminent near the Triton river. Reports also say Admiral Roz?er ordered fires drawn and crews ashore amid mutinous ship crews.
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Tuu Far Eas
St. Petersburg
Washington
Japan
Shanghai
London
Vladivostok
Triton River
Kruger
Black Sea
Sebastopol
Tokio
Oyama
Hailungehen
Linevitch
Korea
Linesvitch
Kuropatkin
Turbulent Cotton Market Reacts To Government Report
New York July 8 The government release showing cotton quality falling to 77 percent or lower spurred a rush of buying and a volatile session. Prices jumped within ten minutes and moved in large swings as December and January contracts gained over 100 points. Bulls later booked profits and prices steadied near the day’s top before another late surge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San New York
Cote
Kot
Secret Service Report On Cotton Leaks Delayed
Secretary Cheatham, confident charges against the bureau of cotton statistics will be sustained, says the forthcoming report by secret service agents will not be released until Friday or Saturday due to the death of Secretary Hay and public-business suspension.
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Cheatham
Washington
Secret Service
Bureau of Cotton Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Richard Cheatham
Southern Cotton Association
Memphis
Sugar Rate War Breaks Out In Chicago Tariff Battle Revives
Railroads race to cut sugar rates after a New York conference gave Eastern lines leeway. A 37 cent rail sugar rate from New York to Missouri river points signals a 10 cent cut, with Illinois Central announcing new cuts from New Orleans to northern points. Officials expect Eastern lines to respond with further reductions. Rural delivery growth shown by Post Office figures: Mississippi 285 routes by July 1 1905 up from 153 in 1904. Alabama 525 routes. Tennessee 1876 routes. Arkansas 193 routes. Royal Arcanum members in Nashville protest recent rate revisions, plan extraordinary session in New York to press reversion.
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Chicago
New York
Eastern and
Western Railroad Trafic
Tme
Eastern
Missouri River
Mlinois Central
New Orleans
Washington
Ameralstant
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Arkansas
Nashville
Tenn
Royal Arcanum
Supreme Council
Order
New York City
Ministerial Relief Fund Offer Promises Large Gift
Louisville July 3 executives of the Ministerial Education and Relief of the Southern Presbyterian Church report a elder from Atlanta offers 100000 for the endowment fund if a matching amount is raised. The offer is contingent on a similar pledge from the Ministerial Relief Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Ministerial Education and Relief of
Southern Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta
Cloudburst Flood Destroys Homes and Takes Children Near Las Vacas
Heavy rains caused Las Vacas Creek to flood a valley after a mountain cloudburst. Two Aimprienn children were among the dead as panicked crowds watched families lose property and livestock. Funds are being raised and search efforts continue, with exact death tolls and damages still uncertain.
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del Rin
Tos
Thorowd
Lae Vacus
Lite Vacas
Plan to Move Immigrants to Regions with Labor Shortage
National Civic Federation outlines an immigration regulation plan to ease labor shortages in the South and West. It proposes a large national conference in New York on September 26 and 27 to decide steps for distributing European laborers and skilled workers across the country for national and citizen benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Civic Federation
United States
Chinese cannot prevail. Boycott will fail for American cotton
Memphis July 3. T Nagashima former Japanese Commissioner at St Louis said Chinese boycott of American goods will fail because they cannot secure enough cotton elsewhere. He spoke at the Peabody Hotel during an interview with the Commercial Appeal reporter, discussing the Chinese exclusion act and Orient affairs. He warned that if Chinese merchants persist in the boycott, they will be forced to buy cotton or cotton goods, with the United States supplying at favorable prices.
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Preaide
Hes
Charles H Orerne
Pangmarou
Panama
George Gray
Wilmington
Del
Tllinois
Boston
Governors
Boards of Trade
Chambers of Commerce
Labor Organizations
New York
United States
Ottumwa
Walpella
New Acacia Fraternity
Ann Arbor
Mich
Michigan
Kansas
Nebraska
California
Leland Stanford
Batavia
Java
Terek
Down
Fall River
Mass
Manufacturers’ Association
Milwaukee Grand Jury
John Hay
Lake Sunapee
Newbury
N. H
Hay
Thames
New London
Conn
Yale
Harvard
San Antonio
N. M
A. A. Wells
el Paso
Tex
Hecuador
Russia
Li~bau
Odessa
Cronstadt
Constitution
Wholesale Grocery Association of the
Milwaukee
William Judson
Grand Rapids
Watkinsville
Thomas Johnson
Chicago
Michael Mejedly
Charleston
Provincetown
Honolulu
China
Kulaz Potemkin
Memphis
Tenn
Peabody Hotel
T. Nagashima
St. Louis
Commercial Appeal
Nagashima
Orient
Japan
Indian Lands to Let Lease Offer for Half Million Acres
Indian Agent Randlett orders to lease about 500000 acres in Caddo Comanche and Kiowa counties southwest Oklahoma. Bids start December 4 at a minimum 25 cents per acre yearly for five years from January 1 1906. Restrictions limit bids to quarter sections and require fences and cultivation of up to 75 percent. End of term valuation option and Secretary of the Interior consent required.
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Randlett
Anadorko
O.T
Scretary Hitchcock
Secretary of the Interior
Caddo
Comanche
Kiowa Counties
Oklahoma
Mississippi month by month July weather and notable events
The article outlines July climate patterns for seventeen years in Mississippi, noting average temperatures around 81 degrees, record highs near 105–107 and lows near 55, plus monthly precipitation peaks and wind from the southwest. It also reports a public uproar over arithmetic content in school textbooks, railroad commission data requests, and various regional notices including rail and postal service improvements, weather damage from Panola and surrounding counties, and a Farmers' Convention set for July at A. and M. College with cattle pasturage and meals offered.
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Tata
Abov
Eer
Batesville
Hill
Lake Como
Pittsboro
Loch
Stookhaven
Columbus
Magnolia
Hernando
Austin
Royalty and Lives of European Figures Highlight Pastimes
The piece surveys royal figures and elites including Alexandra and the Prince Victor lineage, Empress Eugenie in Paris, the Princess of Wied with her horses, Queen Christina of Spain’s US bond holdings, and her remark on memory of a garden view. It notes Eugenie’s rooms facing the Tuileries and her bittersweet happiness in recalling her son’s childhood garden.
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Turin
Victor
Wied
Herlin
Holland
Christina
Spain
Archduke Albert
Austria
United States
Bank of England
Eugenie
Paris
Tuileries Gardens
Women of note in education and faith
Mrs. Mary Cobb of Northampton gifts Smith College estate in the suburbs. Miss Owen of Warwick England, aged 92, has taught Sunday school 82 years. Helen Gould funds Leroy Irvine Dixon’s Denver education after his rescue of a Rio Grande train from a rock slide. Mrs. Wheaton, mother of Wheaton Seminary, dies at Norton aged 96. most estate to the seminary. Myrtle Parke, 18, called to pastorate at Ramsey IL, evangelist and Eureka College student. Caroline Hazard, fifth year as Wellesley president, proves college heads need not be graduates. studied to match Brown U. requirements.
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Mary 8. Cobb
Northampton
Mass
Smith College
Miss Owen
Warwick
England
Helen Gould
Leroy Irvine Dixon
Denver
Rio Grande
Elizabeth B. Wheaton
Wheaton Female Seminary
Norton
Myrtle B. Parke
The
Christian Church
Ramsey
Eureka College
Parke
Staunton
Caroline Hazard
Wellesley College
Massachusetts
Brown University
Providence
Miss Hazard
Notable literary figures and scholars in brief notes
E H Sothern plans a poetry book. M Sebillot succeeds M Deniker as Paris Anthropological Society president. Tbsen, the Norwegian dramatist, will write no more, despite strong health. John Richepin, born in Medeah 1849, has been clown, sailor, miner. Dr Pollock of Georgia university donated his 25 years of library. Theodore Hansen, Russian embassy secretary in Washington, is a pianist who performs for Bart. George Leyton lives in Paris and helps guests at dinners. Guy Boothby, novelist, claimed to be a mechanical author, composing via phonograph.
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E. H. Sothern
M. Sebillot
M. Deniker
Anthropological Society of Paris
Tbsen
M. John Richepin
Barry
Medeah
Algeria
Pollock
Georgia University
Theodore Hansen
Washington, D. C
George Leyton
Parisia
Superstitiou
Guy Boothby
Census data on packing industry margins in 1900
The census report shows packing firms operated on slim gross margins. Flour and meal mills earned about seven percent on volume, while meat packing plants in New York earned just over two percent. Mills appear more profitable than packers amid widespread mill competition.
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Tha
American
Tinos
Til
Nyls
United States
Photograph Captures Exact Physiological Moment
Mrs. Lapsling displayed her latest photograph claiming it shows her best expression. She noted the artist captured the shot at what is described as the exact physiological moment, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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the Leader
B. T. Hobbs
Brookhaven
Lortolue
G. W. Manning
Monroe City
Missouri
Mining
M. Vanchide
Ralph Hamilton Curtiss
Carnegie
Lick Observatory
University of Western Pennsylvania
Curtiss
Peer of California
Indianapolis
Indiana
Leathers
Roosevelt
Arthur M. Dodge
Federation of Day Nurses
Yorkshire
Hug
Fales
Cemeta Oy
Federal Commissioner of Education
Soe Credse Iu
Bes Bean
Old
Manhattan
Bronx
New York County
Ciy
Reno
Wey
Tana
Kniaz Potemkine
Roumanian
Georgi Pobiedonosetz
Drago Palace
Rome
White
Paris Journal
W. W. Blackmar
Grand Army of the Republic
Hingham
Count Muravieff
Italy
Baron Rosen
Baron Komura
Kogoro Takahira
Lee Reynolds
Whiting
Ind
Rose Manning
Cleveland
Housands
Hegre
Asversons
Heboil
Hicks van Oees
Parle
Pramier Rowrier
Sigsimo Wu
Hote Lucie
Joba
Otis Conrad Sr
National. Civic Federation
Vanderbilts
Berlin
Emperor William
Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Clarksville
A. B Ores
Orne
Candle
Chamberey
New Albany
Benderton Brothers
Seemisyr
Pontter
EE Smith
Babe
Tina
Alg Co
Cvee
Bea Aon
Murtarer
Ale
Toly
Perey Geuech
Lee
Bret Bheru
Uniform Textbook Commission
Sanborn & Co
Biddeford
New Oreans
Texas
Maxwell
Railroad Commission
Prospect
B. S. Candler
Corinth
Nettleton
Tupelo
Aberdeen
Fulton
Monroe County
Secretary of Agriculture
First District
Panola County
Tront
Tal- Inhatchie
J. C. Hardy
A. & M. College
Hardy
Pat Geary
Illinois Central Railroad
Mr. Geary
McComb City
Amite County
Gloster
Gulf Coast
Ciriat Canneh
Billy Sprinew
J. W. Walls
Lebanon
Doan
Foster-Milburn ,Co
Buffalo, N. C
W. F. Giesecke
Jeseck
Onta Dla’ Bey Mano
Mr. Giesecke
Kila
Tes F. Paxton Company
Busan, Mane
Libby’s 5 Food Products
Aiirese
Libby, McNeill & Libby Chine
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