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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1905
Page
6
A broad array of measures courses through state legislatures aiming to regulate football participation and protect women. Bills propose fines and penalties for hazing and wife abuse, raise marriage age standards, and set strict rules for players, coaches, and hotels. Roosevelt era framing and regional debates color the proposals as states grapple with reform.
The article notes Risalun estimates claim Wield Marshal Oymna lana BOHN commands about 100,000 reservists and the Japanese credit General Kouropaticin with 440,000 troops, 280,000 on the firing line. Both sides conduct limited operations with raids and skirmishes near Manchuria as Russia eyes stronger fleets and strategic positions. broader war prospects hinge on spring, with political unrest and assassination reports shaping Europe.
St Petersburg officials release figures for the war’s first year showing about 130,439 officers passed through hospitals, with 1,716 wounded and 1,508 killed. Total hospital losses exceed 50,000, with 63,890 wounded and 4,007 deaths in hospitals. Roughly 77,006 returned to ranks. killed in battle estimated between 40,000 and 60,000.
A federal grand jury in Portland, Oregon returned additional charges in the land fraud conspiracy case. Senator J A Mitchell Congressman Binger Mormann and several others already under indictment are once more named as defendants in the probe.
A federal grand jury in Springfield charges William Majors George Rogers and William Burroughs of East St. Louis with stealing a bonded car’s $26000 silver bullion en route from Paso exes to the Philadelphia area.
The Senate approved 20,040,000 for the District of Columbia and 2,100,000 for diplomatic allocations while a secret session weighed evidence in the Swayne impeachment case. Debate covered farm and pension provisions, naval and river projects, and plans to convene after a Wednesday conference on isthmian canal zone governance.
In New Orleans Walter T. Colon, a negro, will be reappointed as regular of the lind odie. Senaloy Quoriva announced a rigid program requiring the cenams Lureau to dole leet wtlonal statistics. The Camptrotee of the Wregsury has decided that the in grantine Aftecn passdb 5 ha Hirst with second avenues poututtines to be med in Afteen days, including intervening Bune days and holidays.
Dispatches report Grand Duke Vladimir gravely ill after the news of his brother’s fate and a looming turn in the national crisis. Crowds surround his bed as officials weigh policy while Kuropatkin’s army potential actions loom, with Russia facing protests, university strikes, and student demonstrations in St. Petersburg.
President Roosevelt directs the Justice Department to cooperate with the Commerce and Labor Department in examining Standard Oil, with no limits on scope. Commissioner Garfield and Kansas Congressman Campbell discuss plans, while state legislatures in Texas Wisconsin Missouri and Oklahoma and the Interstate Commerce Commission prepare independent inquiries and potential exposure of rate plots. Illinois may follow.
The text surveys global and national labor data, noting 44,000 U.S. hotels with over $6 billion in invested capital and 3.3 million hotel workers, plus union benefits totaling $275,806.87 in 1904. It covers shortfalls in employment, wage gains, and unemployment trends in Ireland and Nordic regions, with aggregate union membership over 500,000 and unemployment near year end.
A St Petersburg dispatch indicates Russia would accept peace within days if certain terms are met, proposing Korea under Japanese suzerainty, Port Arthur and the Tanetung peninsula assigned to Japan, Vindivostels as a neutral port, Western Chinese railways under neutral administration, and Manchuria restored north to China up to Duehlir. The agreement hinges on resolving the imperiality dispute, with high odds of a quick conclusion barring a final battle.
The United States government serves subpoenas to department heads and other workers in Chicago and fifteen other cities, launching prosecutions under the Sherman act. Federal authorities allege packers violated court injunctions by bid steering, price control, and territorial divisions, with potential indictments and fines up to 10000 dollars, depending on prosecutions and contempt rulings.
The text references Gary and Indiana figures, including Senator Vornker who purchased a home in Cincinnati for $100,000. It notes Wattham mayor Hervey, cadet commander Roberts Hows, Secretary Taft’s editor brother, Mayor McClellan's water inquiry, and various remarks on Roosevelt, Huguenot descent, and Canton Society events in New York. It mixes biographical notes and political links with scattered place names and dates.
A nostalgic tale describes a scenic route to Manitou springs and nearby Chayrnne and Arapahoe offerings where Native dances lit the canyon with campfire reflections. It mentions Gurny, chief of the Uneown pabgres, courting Chepla in a raddle blanket, amid mythic imagery.
A special from Talo Indiana reports a Mrs Bowers praising Dodd's Kidney Pills for curing her diabetes and related kidney ailments. She describes severe symptoms, weight loss, and tooth loss but credits the pills with complete improvement over three years, avoiding further illness. The item asserts the medicine cures backache and prevents Bright's disease, diabetes, or rheumatism.
An elderly woman asks a well to do Irishman for two pence. He gives a shilling and jokes that she should stop talking since breath is tight yet his strength remains strong.
Scarce, the notice warns against Mercury containing remedies for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as mercury free. It claims internal use, direct action on blood and mucous surfaces, and stresses purchasing genuine Toledo produced medicine from E. Chrney & Co. with mail delivery via agents at 75 cents per bottle.
A boy shown as the household pride dropped a dime and, while searching with a candle, set his room’s bedding ablaze. He retrieved the coin and hid the blaze from executives until smoke alarms aroused the house. The fire department arrived promptly to save the home.
A testimonial asserts external applications fail for rheumatism and the disease lies in the blood.Thomas Stephenson of Springfield reports severe pains easing after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, claiming full relief after two boxes and urging blood remedies over skin treatments. This item urges readers to seek internal blood remedies promptly.
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