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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1905
Page
6
A flood of war dispatches from New York papers covers Japan's stance and allied responses, with notes on naval strength and international reactions. Reports reference Tokyo and Manila harbor activity, British and American observers, and United States policy shifts amid the global conflict.
Chief engineer Wallace resigns amid a dispute over compensation and policy while The Isthmus region faces health and political turmoil. The Wallaces seek a $60,000 annual salary in New York, amid criticism of Washington and canal administration delays and mounting project costs.
The weekly weather bulletin describes uneven crop prospects across states with good gains in Iowa and Missouri amid setbacks in the central Midwest and parts of the Northeast. Rain and cold slow corn in the upper Midwest. winter wheat harvest progresses. condition improves in the Northwest. notes rust and smut in select areas.
Reports from Siventa and Lodz describe a broad uprising across Russia with workers and Jews opposing the government. Mass rioting in Lodz, Warsaw, and other cities results in killings as troops clash with civilians. Protests, barricades, and strikes spread, with sympathy actions in Poland and Lithuania. The unrest follows the Lodz massacre and police controversy over Jewish burials.
Rioters and Russian soldiers clash for three days in Lolz leaving about two thousand killed or wounded. The fighting, likened to Red Sunday in St. Petersburg, sees streets littered with bodies and looting of valuables by Cossacks after a lull. Newsprint halted and streetcars stopped across the city.
Long lines of palace stock cars move cattle from the South to the West, with 80 to 100 trains expected to reach Sioux City in coming weeks. Between 90,000 and 100,000 cattle will graze on prime southern grasses before markets abroad next year. Railroads divert funds to handle the surge as cattlemen push for higher prices amid abundant forage.
A detailed account of widespread unrest in Russia through 1904 into early 1905. It traces thousands killed in uprisings, demonstrations, and battles across cities like Lodz Moscow Warsaw Riga and Petrograd, with protests, strikes, Cossack reprisals, and government crackdowns escalating toward revolution.
Attorney General Young announces state authority to levy a liquor tax on railroad traffic between the St. Paul area and Duluth. The opinion estimates annual revenue for the state at sixty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars. Chicago St Paul and Omaha service cited.
New York Central long distance service resumes the Century Limited on an eighteen hour Chicago to New York schedule after an investigation found speed was not a factor in a Mentor Ohio wreck. President Newman ordered return to the former timetable citing safety and official reports by inspectors and the Railroad Commission.
Fragmented text reports divorce thoughts in Norway and Sweden, alongside political asides about General Miles, Tom Lawson, Abe Chicago, and the Quittabla Insurance Company. Other lines hint at insurance, aviation, and local clergy remarks amid a cascade of unnamed names and stray phrases.
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