Japan Demands War Costs and Sakhalin Cession
Portsmouth peace terms presented by Baron Komura to Mr. Witte demand indemnity in effect as reimbursement for war costs and Sakhalin cession with no fixed sum, leaving adjustment to later. main conditions include Port Arthur Dalai Leased areas, Manchuria evacuation, open door, and Japan gains fishing rights and Korea protectorate.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Sakhalin
Baron Komura
Witte
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Barrn Komura
Mr. Witte
Japan
Liaotung Peninsula
Port Arthur
Daley
Manchuria
China
Russia
Harbin
Vladivostok
Korea
Siberian Littoral
Bering Sea
Plen
Strike at Sunday Creek Coal Co. mine erupts into violence
A mine strike at Sunday Creek Coal Co. in Glouster Ohio left about 450 workers unemployed for an indeterminate period. A confrontation between John Rothery and Superintendent David Williams Jr. sparked a general fight in which Rev. Morgan Lewis was struck. Williams was arrested amid rumors of tar and feathers. In Dayton Ohio, the Ohio Building Association league elected officers and set a July 1806 meeting in Cincinnati.
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Williams
Dayton
Ohio Building Association League
Cincinnati
National Association
Rufus Jones
Harry M. Farnsworth
Cleveland
John J. Purington
East Liverpool
Charles G. Klug
Massillon
Leopold Kleybolte
Cioclonati
Will Surrender Its Charter and Job Loss Hit Girard
Harmony lodge of the Amalgamated association in Girard will surrender its charter after Carnegie Steel Co. injunctions against picketing. Girard mill abandoned, over 300 workers left idle. Also reports: Hubbard baby found dumped in a lined soap box at North Cemetery. two women seen with a box. Columbus adds Jack Suthoff to pitching staff. Canton petition seeks receiver for Chippewa Sand and Stone Co with debts around 50000. Pan Handle railroad workers strike over pay differentials.
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Warren
Harmony Lodge
Amalgamated Association
Girard
Carnegie Steel Co
Youngstown, O
Trumbull County
Hubbard
Canton
Chippewa Sand and Stone Co
Massillon
Warwick
Crop Report Highlights 1905 Wheat Yields and Conditions
Washington August crop data show corn condition August 1 at 89.0, winter wheat output near 424,490,000 bushels averaging 14.3 bushels per acre, spring wheat condition 39.2 versus 87.5 a year earlier. In New Albany a mother, in a fit of insanity, drowned her infant daughter, wounded her husband, and killed herself after ingesting carbolic acid.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
New Albany
Ind
Chester Winstanley
Ruth
Financial markets and weather bureau row across cities
Money rates and commodity prices from New York to Washington are listed, including call money at 1% to 2%, prime mercantile paper 4 1/4%, and Sterling at 4.36 6. The report spans grain, live stock, flour prices in Minnesota and Cleveland, Chicago and Toledo trading, with regional updates on butter eggs cheese potatoes hay cattle sheep hogs. It also covers a weather bureau controversy in Virginia, a trotter race upset in Buffalo, a fatal stabbing in Portage, a Philadelphia jewel theft by a valet, and brief local crime notes.
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Financial
New York
Sterling Exchange
Minnesota
Cleveland
Minnegota Spring
York State
Warsaw Police Round Up Jewish Socialists in Synagogue
In Warsaw on Aug 11 police jailed 250 armed Jewish socialists captured in a synagogue and 15 more arrested on the street after a gunfight. An explosive was found in the road, three officers were shot, and gangs attacked government treasuries in Opatow Lubaretow and Wengrow, triggering further clashes.
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Warsaw
Poland
Treasuries
Opatow
Lubaretow
Wengrow
Life on African Railway Described by a Rail Line
Reporting from the Uganda East Africa line, the author notes dull activity with occasional dangers. At Nairobi a sow on a station front stoop surprised the postmaster as natives and white officers pass by. A long train struggle through miles of obstructions and a single engine impeded by locks.
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Nairobi
Homemade outdoor refrigerator described in farm and home note
A home crafted outdoor refrigerator is built from a two layer box with a hinged lid and tin covering. It is buried in a prepared hole in the ground with stones for drainage, covered by branches and a quilt, and designed to rainproof and last well for food storage. Prunes are poorly cooked. proper method includes washing soaking overnight heating slowly to near boiling then finishing with sugar and lemon peel. The Mahavaaral festival in India is noted with bathing in the Ganges and charitable giving to Brahmans.
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California
Baya
Puousoen
India
Eld
Hardwar
Ganges
Lahora
Ravi
Greatness of the Czar Among Russa Phrases
A collection of exaggerated lines about the czars power shows both reverence and skepticism. Observers note humorous quips such as the czars lungs cannot blow out the sun and that time can outpace even the crown. The sayings mix awe with human limits.
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Russa
Skin Food Recipe For Massage Use
A compound for massage blends four ounces sweet almond oil with one ounce white wax and one ounce apermaceti melted together. It then includes one and a half drams pulverized borax dissolved in one and a half ounces glycerin and half an ounce orange flower water. Stir constantly until almost herd then add one half dram tincture benzoin and one drop of nerol.
Fragmented Waifs and Courtroom Feats in Briefs
A Washington state court case ends with the defendant eating a forged document in court, prompting a motion for discharge as evidence seems lacking. A Chicago Daily News quip notes Mrs. Peck and a dog story. International Railways reports a French Ethiopian railway accord to be signed for Abyssinia and Adis-Abeba, under international control. A Cleveland Plain Dealer joke features seven hearts happpy by marrying three couples. Moe Rose-Jagby’s gin phis remark appears in the New York Sun. A quip ponders luck’s reach where not needed.
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Trig
St. James
Abyssinia
Adis-Abeba
Mean Man in Washington Gets a Beefsteak Dinner
A Washington Star piece jokes about Jim, a government worker earning 1400 a year, who rebels against his wife’s social airs by cooking beefsteak and onions at home. He returns from work via the basement to avoid upstairs chatter, then invites his two boys to dine with the odor filling the house, prompting a domestic stunt and a loftily mocked reformist mood.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Dresden
Jim
Tim
Bob
Washington Star
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