Blanchard and Jelks Clash Over Interstate Passenger Traffic
New Orleans reports slow progress against yellow fever as governors Blanchard and Jelks dispute quarantine rules. Louisiana doubts any state can bar interstate travel and seeks a federal test. Alabama blocks Louisianans returning home, seven day detention demanded.
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Pelican State
Leeville
Bayou Laourche
Hanson City
St. Charles Parish
Port Barrow
Ascension Parish
St. Mary
St. Bernard
New Orleans
Canal Street
Holy Cross College
Blanchard
Jelks
Alabama
Louisiana
Atlanta
Union
Alarm in Louisiana Yellow Fever Epidemic Warns Quarantine Tightening
Dr. Tabor declares parts of Louisiana outside New Orleans in an alarming epidemic state prompting strengthened border quarantine. Reports from Peterson indicate twenty cases there while New Orleans tallies twelve new cases and one death by noon Wednesday.
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New Orleans
State Board of Health and
Marine Hospital Service
Meyer Visits Czar in Peterhof Amid Peace Talks
American ambassador Mr. Meyer met with the Russian emperor at Peterhof as peace settlement efforts surface. In Chicago a Weir and Craig plant fire on Wallace street caused about 80 thousand dollars in losses to plumbing supply makers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Weir & Craig Manufacturing Company
Wallace Street
Roosevelt Suggests Compromise to Break Peace Deadlock
President Roosevelt proposes a peace plan with Russia and Japan involving Russia repurchasing part or all of Sakhalin to meet Japan's war costs while avoiding Russian territory loss. The move aims to satisfy Japan while letting Russia deny territorial gains. Witte and Rosen met with Secretary Pierce at the navy yard as details remained sealed amid leaks.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Russia
Sakhalin
Japan
M. Witte
Oyster Bay
M Witte
Baron Rosen
York Beach
Navy Yard
Pierce
New York
Witte
Mr. Pierce
Paris Dispatch Denies Peace Concession Halt
Paris Aug 23 note says the St Petersburg correspondent of the Temps contradicts reports sent to the London Times and Berlin Lokal Anzei ger that a Peterhof council decided not to make further peace concessions.
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Paris
St. Petersburg
The
Temps
London Times
Berlin
Peterhof
Trains Collision at Coney Island Injures Twenty
Twenty persons were injured in a collision between two Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains at a Coney Island terminal. A train entering the terminal struck a crowded train about to leave for New York City, causing shattered windows, damaged cars, and a panic with women trampled as sparks flew from broken wires.
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Coney Island
New York
Brooklyn
Blaze Devastates Oroville Block. Firefighters Severely Wounded
A city fire in Oroville California on August 23 destroyed an entire block before control was regained. Several firemen were seriously injured, three believed fatally, with an estimated $150,000 loss of which about one third is insured.
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Oroville
Cal
New Bank For Abilene
Fort Worth and Abilene capitalists formed a new national bank for Abilene here. John C. Harrison of the State National bank will be connected with the institution along with J. H. Parramore, a west Texas ranch man, and J. M. Radford, a wholesale grocer of Abilene.
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Fort Worth
Abilene
National Bank For
John C. Harrison
State National Bank
J. H. Parramore
West Texas
J. M. Radford
Dallas Police Shoot Suspect at Main and Preston
Dallas officers Murray and Haney attempted to arrest an unknown black man wanted for burglary. He drew a pistol and was killed after the pair fired twice each entering his body at the corner of Main and Preston.
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Dallas
Main
Preston Streets
Murray and
Haney
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Howell Bros
Hunnicutt’s Stable
McCorquodaie
Feed and Sale
J. W. Hunnicutt
Prop
Radon Lewis & Clark
Sitson
BF Ellowstone
National Park
GIN Insurance
Bryan
Oliver Typewriter
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
R. S. Munger
Shreveport
1St Dallas
Czar
Psident’s Compromiis
Mr. Roosevelt
New Bank For Abilene
Bryanice
Stevenson Machine
F. J. Jenkins
Buchanan
Ss. W. Buchanan
Bryan Steam Laundry
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