Trade Growth With China and Japan Drives 1905 Exports
A Commerce Department bulletin shows U S exports to China and Japan surged in the first ten months of 1905. Exports to China topped 980 million, while shipments to Japan reached about 46 million, with gains in copper clothing and flour. Cotton cloth and copper lead China demand. flour drops slightly. Japan buys American cotton less, but imports Indian and Chinese staples. The piece also recalls a Tearless battle anecdote and a burglar’s quip about safe openings.
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United States
China
Japan
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
India
Abstract land titles for 632 acres near Brazos County
Office in Taliafero building opposite Court House lists Brazos County land titles for 632 acres. The land is described as located about twelve miles east of the county seat. Contact phone 37 for details on abstracts and records.
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Court House
Brazos County Land Titles
Firing in Moscow as Sunday battles continue
Across Moscow on Sunday artillery rifles and revolvers hammered barricades in Trabois square Sadovia and Kuretaia as dragoons set fire to districts. Casualties run high with an estimated 500 dead or wounded. gendarmes were attacked in Karemata street while railways faced continued plundering and bombs. Warsaw reports rail lines operating and socialist proclamations calling for rebellion.
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Anothr
Trabois Square
Sadovia
Kuretaia
Karemata
Kastan
Mrs Gay Dead A Texas Republic Era Figure Dies
Mrs Louie J Gay of Seguin Texas died at Menardville at about eighty years old. She was reared here and counted among early settlers. She was the eldest daughter of Judge Claiborne West a signer of the Texas declaration. Her husband Coronel Thomas A Gay was a prominent county figure and Confederate officer famed for racing stock breeding and training.
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Louie J. Gay
Menardville
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Claiborne West
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Coronel Thomas A Gay
Three Assaults and Robberies Reported in Columbus
In Columbus Mississippi on December 25 three highway assaults and robberies were reported. A white man and a Negro died from the attacks. One victim near the hosiery mill was found unconscious with head injuries and rifled pockets. A man named A. Kelly from Scranton Pennsylvania was found on a Mobile and Ohio track with a gunshot and knife wound and declared robbed and murdered. Another victim, Mr Wells, was struck and robbed. No clues were available.
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Frederickson
A. & Kelly
Scranton
Wells
Three Cars Smash At Busy Los Angeles Intersection
At Second and Spring streets in Los Angeles on a Sunday night a runaway west Second Street car crashed into a second Second Street car and a Hollywood car, injuring more than forty people. All three vehicles were wrecked and most passengers were hurt, though no motorman or conductor on the runaway car or the Hollywood car were injured. Most injured locals, no visitors.
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Spring Streets
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Stabbed to Heart After Price Remark at Store
Wathena Kan Dec 25 A prominent merchant John Schaltz told farmer Edward Morris price of shoes was too high and that shoes were too good for him. Morris stabbed Schultz to the heart at the store threshold before Christmas shoppers. Schultz left a wife and eight children. Morris jailed with a family of six.
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Hankow Fire Ruins Five Thousand Homes in China
Shanghai dispatches report a massive Hankow blaze dubbed the Chicago of China, wiping out about five thousand houses and causing heavy loss of life with estimates ranging from 100 to 500.
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Lawyer Killed in Texas Shooting by Wife
Jewett Texas reports Mrs J T Autrey wife of Dr J T Autrey Luna Texas shot and killed prominent lawyer and real estate agent R R Reeves of Oakwoods Texas. She then shot herself and is not expected to live. Cause of the shooting unavailable. Rockdale Texas reports John Martinez killed in a fight at Vofels coal mine and Salvador Rodriguez arrested after wounding and jailed.
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Vofels
John Martinez
Howard
Salvador Rodreguez
Wealthy widow funds Christmas dinner for Lampasas poor
A rich widow in Lampasas Texas who asked to remain unnamed financed a Christmas dinner for all the city’s needy. The meal was prepared to feed every poor resident, reflecting a generous holiday gesture by the donor.
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Killed by Train in El Paso Death
An unidentified Mexican man was killed by a train in El Paso. Authorities reported a fatal railroad accident with few available details at this time.
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Dee
Martin Killed In Auto Crash Near Flushing New York
James M Martin a prominent New York society member of the Yacht Club Metropolitan Club and Country Club was instantly killed when his automobile overturned on a dirt verge near Flushing Long Island. Stacy Clark was seriously injured. The accident was witnessed by his wife and son and daughter-in-law who followed in another car.
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Comet with Two Tails Reported by Lowell
A telephone message to the Harvard Observatory from Professor Percival Lowell states a second comet was found on the Nov. 29 photograph. The comet moved two minutes of arc per hour and showed two tails, one pointing north and the other northeast.
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Italian Labor Suggested for Kiowa County Cotton Harvest
Hobart Oklahoma December 25. Mayor Rummons asks Italian immigration agents to colonize families across Kiowa County to secure permanent labor for upcoming cotton harvest amid strong local hostility to Black workers.
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Rummons
Hobart
Broken Arrow Emerges as Major Indian Territory Corn Center
Tulsa district notes Broken Arrow, near Tulsa on the Osage division of the Katy, is already a leading corn hub in Indian Territory with three elevators serving its under three year old town.
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Broken Arrow
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Accidental Death When Nephew Fires Fatal Shot
Lindsay I T December 25 Bud Tyre was accidentally shot and killed by his nephew John H Mitchell. The incident occurred in Lindsay I T as family tragedy and accidental fatality.
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Aged Lady Dies Daughter of Revolutionary Soldier
Northampton Mass December 25 Mrs Drusilla Hall Johnson died at her home this Sunday aged 160 Her father Aaron Hall was captured by the British during the War for Independence and carried to England Health had been remarkably good until a few days before death
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Stolen antique jewelry at Fifth Avenue shop
Four thousand dollars worth of antique jewelry including diamonds emeralds rubies topazes and pearls was taken from a Fifth Avenue antiques firm show window in New York. A thief smashed the window and seized a jewel box containing the missing pieces.
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Storm Delay Hits Ocean Liners New York and Coronia
In New York on December 25 a storm delayed the American line steamer New York from Southampton and the Cunard line steamer Coronia from Liverpool on December 19 and 20. The New York traveled at reduced speed for eight hours during the unsettled seas.
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Tragedy near plantation ends with fatal shooting
Shreveport officials report that on a plantation near the city Bill Lockett a Black man was shot and killed on December 26. Further details were not provided.
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Bill Lockett
New York Election Certificates Amid Platform Shakeup
Certificates of election will be presented to Mayor McClellan and other successful candidates. McClellan’s plurality is reduced by about 800 from police figures, giving a corrected lead over Hearst of about 3,400. No opposition planned to McClellan’s certificate, but lawmakers may pursue a full inquiry and possible quo warranto action. About $1.5 million in bets remain tied up with stakeholders.
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McClellan
William R. Hearst
Hearst
Meclelan
Cardinal Mezzofanti Master of 111 Languages and Dialects
Biographer Dr Russell claims Cardinal Mezzofanti could command 111 languages and dialects. He spoke nine fluently, eleven variably, eight imperfectly, and read eleven. his German was near native, and his French and English were flawless. He conversed in German Arabic Spanish Flemish English Latin Greek Swedish Portuguese and created a Persian poem while learning Cornish. He knew several American Indian tongues and most Indian dialects.
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Russell
Germany
Tholuck
Mezzofanti
India
Rats as Foes and Fables Across Europe
A mock calculation shows a pair of rats growing to 656 808 in three years and equating their food to 65 680 men annually. It notes rats’ enemies, yet their nuisance persists. Ireland singse hair on captured rats while Germany bells a belled rat to trigger a panic among others.
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Germany
Indian summer and its obscure origin across Europe
The article explains Indian summer as a warm spell in October or November, lasting up to two weeks and occasionally recurring. It compares with St Luke and St Martin summer in Germany and England, notes the term's uncertain origin, earliest records after 1704, and cites Horace Walpole in 1778 attributing it to the West Indies torrid summer rather than the northern autumn period.
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St. Martin’s
England
Horace Walpole
West Indies
Thunderstorm Safety Rules in Detroit Tribune Opinion
Authorities advise during a thunderstorm to stand in the center of a carpeted room, avoid chimneys and cellars, and stay away from open air under tall trees. Shelter under low shrubs if possible, but near large trees is unsafe. Water nearby increases risk, so avoid stream banks during storms.
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