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Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1903
Page
2
Daily Evening Edition Carrier Delivery Rates
Classified notice lists subscription options for city and outside mail delivery with prices. Details include weekly, six month, and three month terms and payment in advance.
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Ity
Cheap Homes on Cotton Belt Route in Texas and Arkansas
Advertisement touts affordable farm and grazing land from $2 to $5 per acre with long growing seasons and mild winters across Texas Arkansas and Louisiana. Promotes literature on regions and quarterly one way and round trip train tickets with $2 extra plus 21 days to return. Contact E. W. Labeaume G P T A St Louis for full details.
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Southwest
Missouri
Arkansas
N. W
Louisiana
Texas
E. W. LA Beaume
St. Louis
Travel rates to multiple states offer reclining chairs and dining
Low rates for one way and round trips from Louis and Kansas City to Kansas Missouri Nebraska Utah Colorado Arkansas Flexas Louisiana and Pacific Coast points. Through tourist and standard sleeping cars from St Louis and Kansas City. Free reclining chair cars on all trains. Best dining car service. Write for illustrated printed matter and full particulars. G A A Deane dr 200 Sentinel Blog Indianapolis.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Utah
Colorado
Arkansas
Flexas
Louisiana
Pacific Coast
St. Louis
G. A. A. Deane
200 Sentinel
Indianapolis
A Trait of the Times Satire on Roosevelt Goats
The piece notes public hunger for trivial tales about notable men and cites a Chicago Post satire on Theodore Roosevelt. It recounts how, while shaving, the president reacted to goats leaping down a hill, illustrating promptness and decisiveness and urging youths to seize opportunities as they appear.
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Roswell
Chicago Post
Rhoosevelt
Yellowstone
Burroughs
Roosevelt
Ancient Alexander's Gift Spurs Early Natural History
The text notes that 350 years before Christ Alexander the Great provided Aristotle with 1000 men across Asia and Greece to study life in nature. He funded books and lab supplies with $15,000 in gold, illustrating early interest in natural phenomena and research funding beyond modern philanthropists.
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Aristotle
Asia
Greece
Alexander
Directions For The Distinguished German Agricultural Tourists
A pamphlet for German agricultural tourists notes fashion guidance, stating that an American wears light trousers, a feather belt, and a short light jacket. It adds a caution to postpone ice cream trousers for pivoting adjustments a month hence.
Messenger Boy Held Up Near Tombs in New York
A messenger boy was held up near the Tombs in New York recently. He was robbed of money and did not seem overly concerned about the loss.
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New Wek
Fragments Describe Harsh Medical Plaster Practices
A fragment notes the use of an aggressive metal and radium in early medical plasters. It warns the material is costly and that a rival plaster remains not fully replaced, signaling ongoing, unsafe treatment methods.
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Wilse
Howser
Nine Die in Roanoke Area Rock Slide at Eggleston Springs
Nine men were killed and five injured when a rock slide at tunnel No 2 in Eggleston Springs Giles County Virginia buried a labor gang. The mixed crew of white and colored workers faced a dangerous rescue with a 50 foot rock face awaiting dynamiting to reach the victims. Trains were delayed by a second slide in Big Tunnel at Montgomery.
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Roanoke
Eggleston Springs
Giles County
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Radford
Big Tunnel
Montgomery
Eggleston
Roosevelt's Western Welcome Tour Across California
President Roosevelt travels a coast to coast tour through Arizona and California drawing large crowds. In Grand Canyon and Redlands crowds greet him with flags and cheers along with formal receptions in Barstow Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. The visits include schoolchildren galas and floral arches with Governor Pardee Lieutenant Governor Anderson and local officials in attendance.
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Ariz
Arizona
Roosevelt
Flagstaff
Redlands
Cal
California
Barstow
Casaloma
Pardee
Anderson
Legislative Committee
Grand Army
Teddy
Los Angeles
la Grande
de Las Flores
Riverside
Santa Fe
Claremont
Pomona College
San Gabriel Valley
Pasadena
Wilson High School
Marengo Avenue
Santa Barbara
Ventura
Plaza del Mar
Italians in New York Subway Strike Reject Arbitration
About 15,000 Italian laborers vote to refuse returning to subway work until $2 for eight hours is guaranteed. The repudiates the arbitration agreement with subway contractors and federation officials. Police suppress a later demonstration at 118th Street and Second Avenue as contractors threaten to hire nonunion workers from other groups.
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New York
Chevalier Bianchi
Federated Union of Labor
One Hundred and Eighteenth Street
Second Avenue
South
West Indies
Dozen Laborers Cremated in Canadian Pacific Collision
Reports from Dexter Ont. describe a deadly Canadian Pacific railway accident near Port Arthur where a work train’s caboose caught fire after a passenger train collided. Twelve laborers were killed or burned, eight injured, with relief efforts hampered by poor wires and incomplete details.
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St. Paul
Dexter
Canadian Pacific Railway
Port Arthur
Ont
Caboose
Irish land bill passes second reading in Commons
London May 8 The Irish land bill passed its second reading in the house of commons by 443 votes to 262.
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London
House of Commons
Italy rejects blood price in lynching inquiry
In the chamber of deputies Foreign Secretary Baccelli says no convictions yet in the 1901 Erwin Mississippi lynching of Italians as witnesses refuse to testify. He notes the American Congress provided 50 000 dollars for victims’ families, which Italy cannot accept as a price for blood.
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Rome
Chamber of Deputies
Erwin
Miss
Baccelli
Signor Baccelli
American Congress
Ocean Tragedy: Gloriana Schooner Lost Off Nova Scotia
The American fishing schooner Gloriana, captained by George Stoddart of Gloucester, Massachusetts, ran ashore near Whale Cove White Point Nova Scotia in thick fog and a gale. Of 18 aboard 15 died including the captain as crews attempted to reach shore amid wreckage and raging seas.
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Canso
N. S
Gloriana
George Stoddart
Gloucester
Mass
Whale Cove
White Point
Sable Island
Stoddart
Richards
Leblanc
Nickerson
Machen Dismissed in Post Office Shakeup at Washington
Washington May 9 A sweeping change at the post office shifts oversight of the free delivery service from Machen to Inspector Fosnes under the Bristow led investigation. Machen receives leave of absence as Fosnes takes charge and the 4th assistant postmaster general gains control amid prior charges of corruption and subordination disputes.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Payne
August Machen
United States
Post Office
M. C. Fosnes
Bristow
Machen
Mr. Machen
Postal Service
General Wynne
Wynne
Free Delivery Service
Toledo
Fosnes
Norway
Des Moines
Pension Bureau
Philadelphia
Chicago
Helena
Mont
St. Paul
Cuba
Estes G. Rathbone
Loud
California
House Committee On Post Offices
Tuscarora to Patrol the Lakes
Under treasury department orders the Tuscarora, a new revenue cutter, will sail to the Great Lakes with headquarters at Milwaukee. Her crew consists of four men and six officers, and she will relieve the cutter Fessenden, which heads to the Atlantic coast.
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Tuscarora
Lakes
Washington
Treasury Department
Great Lakes
Milwaukee
Fessenden
Atlantic
Brutality Allegations At Kansas Insane Asylum
A former attendant, A. M. Mason of Lawrence, testified before a legislative committee in Topeka on May 8 alleging the Kansas asylum beat new patients into docility by order of the superintendent. He stated patients were struck to enforce obedience even before breaking rules.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Insane Asylum
A. M. Mason
Lawrence
Legislative Committee
Mason
Faulkner Resigns From Army Over Misconduct Charges
Secretary of War Root accepted the resignation of First Lieut. Charles P. Faulkner of the Eighth Infantry for the good of the service. Faulkner, serving in Alaska, was charged with misappropriating funds of enlisted men and having shortages in his accounts. His father, ex-Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, made good the losses. Leniency cited for his fine record in the Philippines.
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Faulkner
Washington
Root
Charles P. Faulkner
Eighth Infantry
Potters' union adopts four resolutions in Wheeling session
Four resolutions were adopted at the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters meeting in Wheeling West Virginia on Friday. One resolution calling for a 10 percent wage increase in all departments was defeated.
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Wheeling
W. Va
National Brotherhood of Operative Potters
Mystery Solved As Body Found Near Niagara Falls
Charles Dennison of Sidney Shepard Co. disappeared from a Buffalo hotel weeks ago and his body was recovered Friday in the Niagara River below the Falls near Niagara Falls New York.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Charles Dennison
Sidney, Shepard & Co
Buffalo
Chicago
Niagara River
Penn Edges Columbia In Franklin Field Dual Meet
The University of Pennsylvania defeated Columbia 68 to 49 in a dual track meet on Franklin Field. The standout event was the half mile where Penn’s Orton and Klaer faced Columbia’s Kohn and Taylor, with Orton finishing first and Kohn second after a late surge.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Franklin Field
Pennsylvania
Orton
Klaer
Kohn
Taylor
Columbia
Methodist Christian Endeavor Union Opens in Washington
The eleventh convention of the Methodist Protestant Christian Endeavor union opened in Washington with about 500 delegates from Maine to Michigan in attendance. The gathering will continue through Sunday evening.
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Washington
Methodist Protestant Christian Endeavor Union
Maine
Michigan
French convoy attacked in Figuig district
In Algiers on May 9 a French convoy was attacked by tribesmen in the Figuig district. The baggage train was captured after fighting in which 30 men were killed.
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Algiers
Figuig
Wyoming Back From 48 Hour Coast Trial at Sea
The coast defense vessel Wyoming returns to harbor after a 48 hour sea trial. Officers say she met all test requirements and performed to expectations.
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San Francisco
Coast Defense
Wyoming
Strikers Refuse to be Caged at Columbia Silk Mill
In Columbia Pennsylvania eighty boys and girls in the spinning room struck for a 33 1 3 percent raise. The plant locked the workers inside but the boys escaped via a fire escape and the girls battered down doors to leave the building.
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Lancaster
Columbia Silk Mill
Columbia
Doubt Over Prince Ferdinand’s Return to Sofia
Vienna May 9 reports uncertainty in political circles over whether Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria will return to Sofia amid a national crisis. The prince, now in Paris, suffers a severe throat infection that hinders breathing. Varna telegram notes a pamphlet accusing him of betraying his fatherland and threatening violence.
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Vienna
Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Sofia
Paris
Varna
Building Collapses in Denver Injuring Several
A fire department report states the building at 1510 to 1514 Laramie Street in Denver housed Michelson Bros. clothing and a second floor rooming house. The collapse occurred last evening with several injuries and no fatalities.
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Denver
Col
Laramie Street
Michelson Bros
Plague Alarm Sparks Peru Callao Rumor
Guayaquil reports alarm over bubonic plague appearing in Callao Peru with officials monitoring the situation as May 9 record notes a rising concern in Peru.
Strike Row Ends in Murder in Greenwich
In Greenwich Connecticut on May 9 a violent strike incident left an Italian laborer dead after a fellow countryman shot him as union protesters pressed to force him off the job. The assailant faced attackers from the striking group who tried to compel him to quit work.
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Greenwich
Conn
Mobile Ohio Strike Ties Up Lines Across South
Mobile and Ohio railroad workers from St. Louis to Mobile strike over wage demands. About 800 conductors brakemen yardmen and baggagemen seek raises of 10 percent for freight and 7 percent for passenger service since January. Incidents in Jackson Tennessee include a fatality and train wrecks as disruption spreads. In Mobile the strike stalls lines though some trains run by officials. Meriden Mississippi reports mixed productivity with nonunion crews. Overall, the strike outcome remains unsettled with quiet at St. Louis.
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Mobile & Ohio
St. Louis
Mobile
Jackson
Tenn
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Gaston
Union Station
Ala
Meriden
Miss
Fatal blaze kills Herman Blaisdell and wife in explosion
In Buffalo New York on May 11 Herman M. Blaisdell of North Collins and his wife died hours after a fire caused by a gas explosion destroyed their home. An adopted son was slightly burned while rescuing their mother.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Herman M. Blaisdell
North Collins
Blaisdell
Demand Granted Miners In Wyoming Region Get 10 Percent Advance
Miners in the Wyoming region will receive a 10 percent wage advance dating from April 1, matching coal miners. Some workers got the raise over the weekend, others this week. Rock miners seek 10 percent back pay from November 1, and a conciliation board is expected to meet in Scranton or Wilkes-Barre to resolve the dispute.
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Wyoming
Wilkesbarre
Conciliation Board
Scranton
Trains Collide in Adirondacks Killing Three
A head on collision between New York Central passenger trains 650 and 651 near Nelson Lake Adirondacks Saturday afternoon left three dead and eight seriously injured. The Nos. 650 southbound from Montreal and 651 from Utica to Montreal had extra coaches due to heavy traffic.
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Nelson Lake
N. Y
Utica
New York Central
Hudson River
Adirondacks
Montreal
Longshore Strike Near Settlement Reached in Montreal
In Montreal on May 11 a conference between strike leaders and shipping executives yielded a draft settlement. The basis of the agreement will be sent to the strikers today with expectations they will approve, and then the scoopers are also likely to agree.
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Montreal
Scooopers
Canal System Debate in Panama May 11
Lagardo Puieco of the conservative party argues in Correo Nacional Bogota that renewing the canal concession granted by President Sanclemente is legal and within constitutional powers. He says no company or European government will risk money in the venture after De Lesseps failures, and that the United States may undertake construction with better odds.
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Panama
Lagardo Puieco
Correo Naccional
Bogota
Sanclemente
de Lesseps
Senor Pulacio
United States
Ten Thousand Brick and Tile Workers Strike in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburg on May 11, about ten thousand members of the National Association of Brick and Tile Makers of America walked out. They protest alleged discrimination by Harbison-Walker refractories against union workers.
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Pittsburg
National Association of Brick and Tile Makers of America
Harbison-Walker
Pittsburg Tragedy: Husband Kills Wife Then Self
J F Kuntz fatally shot his wife with two bullets and then killed J Walsh a wealthy local contractor. Police say jealousy sparked the killings in Pittsburg Pennsylvania on Saturday.
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Pittsburg
J. F. Kuntz
J. Walsh
Daughters of the American Revolution Open Twelfth Annual Convention
The twelfth annual DAR convention opened with a special service in St. Pauls church New York drawing 1,200 members and friends yesterday May 11.
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New York
of the Daughters of the American Revolution
St. Paul's Church
Society
Plague Declared In Guayaquil Banks Aid City Cleanup
May 11 Guayaquil Ecuador reports official bubonic plague infection in Callao and Pisco Peru. Local banks and businesses subscribe funds to clean and sanitize the city streets and commerce.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Callao
Pizco
Peru
Unrest in Labor Ranks and Trade Highlights
New York May 9 R G Dun & Co Weekly Review of Trade notes rising labor unrest with frequent small strikes and idle workers, while footwear shipments hit records and clothing makers push fall samples. April prices eased, rail earnings up, and iron and steel activity steady amid contract closures and uncertain labor outlooks. Structural material orders near 50,000 tons closed. billets scarce and merchant steel demand strong as mills report full capacity. Textile markets lag, print cloths dull, wool mills fewer, new wool clip firm. U S failures total 175 last week, 218 last year. Canada 22, versus 24 a year ago.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Boston
United States
Canada
Russia Reoccupies New Chwang in Manchuria
Peking May 8. Russia reoccupies New Chwang with a large force and garrisons forts at the Liao river mouth. They report warlike preparations and bring large guns. A 14,000 troop force is noted between the Liao mouth and Port Arthur as forts near Liao Yang are built.
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Peking
New Chwang
Liao River
Tien Chwang Tai
Port Arthur
Liao Yang
Yalu River
Russia
China
Manchuria
Gulf of
Pe-Chi-Li
Street Railway Workers Denounce Mail Interference
The Amalgamated Street Railway Employer of America convention ends with officers elected and a plan to urge President Roosevelt to enforce postal laws. Delegates cite mail interference in San Francisco and New Orleans to deter unionizing, including opened letters and posted photos.
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Pittsburg
Amalgamated Street Railway Employer of America
United States
San Francisco
New Orleans
Roosevelt
Western Pennsylvania bricklayers to strike at noon
All union bricklayers in western Pennsylvania along with the International Stone union and the National Association of Brick and Tile Makers of America their helpers and clay miners and their helpers affiliated with the AFL will quit work at noon today. About 50 000 men will be idle until a settlement is reached and all construction in western Pennsylvania will stop. The action was decided at a mass meeting of the brick layers and stonemasons.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
International Stone Union
National Association of Brick and Tile Makers of America
American Federation of Labor
Paris Ballooning Record Day in 1900s Air Ventures
Paris notes a record day in ballooning with Lebaudy airship test and Santos Dumont’s first ascent of season in No 9 from Neuilly balloon park. No 9 followed guide rope to Bois de Boulogne drill ground for maneuvers up to thirty yards high over half an hour.
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Paris
Santos Dumont
Neuilly
Bois de Boulogne
Baseball Managers Suspended for Kicking by Ban Johnson
Chicago May 9 Clark Griffith and James Collins managers of the New York and Boston American league clubs are the first to feel Ban Johnson authority this season. Each is suspended for three days for kicking.
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Chicago
Clark Griffith
James Collins
New York
Boston
Ban Johnson
Wage settlement at stockyards raises pay for oilers and firemen
Chicago May 9 stationary firemen reached a wage settlement with the packers at the stockyards yesterday. Oilers will receive 20 cents per hour, firemen 25 cents per hour, and water tenders 26 2/3 cents per hour.
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