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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
6
A chaotic smear of names and events centers on a major bank heist and insider scheme involving First National, Avery, and others. The narrative weaves money withdrawals, arrests, court hints, and a tense stock market backdrop with Morgan and other financiers amid growing public alarm.
A fragmented historical article traces rising divorce rates in the United States and notes regional variations. It cites San Francisco, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and Seattle with multiple years showing shifts from marriages to divorces, including ratios like eight to one and similar figures in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. It discusses social attitudes and changes during era of greater female education and independence.
A fragmented OCR lists numerous large bank defalcations over twenty years, naming institutions in New York Illinois Kentucky and more. It references figures in the millions and hundreds of thousands with scattered names such as New York based banks and national organizations, though many items are garbled.
Fragmented text details a teamsters strike affecting an Alabama contest. Mentions Masatwarners Ward Co and Montgomery Waant Co with references to garment work and a November period. Notes continued support for Cluenga Pade oration and a potential drop in a contest if no resolution. No clear outcome or verifiable names beyond scattered entities.
Secretary of State Nay is reported to be seriously ill. John Jay, stationed at Bad Nau Jasin in Germany, has held multiple diplomatic posts including ambassador to Paris Madrid and Vienna and served as Secretary of State from 1870 to 1881. He was a private secretary to President Lincoln and co author of his life. Born in Sa fem, Tk, Ge in 1885, he graduated from Kruwh University. His wife is a daughter of Sanisa Stone of Cleveland, Ohio.
A May 10 to March 11 casualty analysis by General Dal revises earlier reports on the Mukden battle. Japanese sources deny large plunder claims. Russian losses include 87,077 men with about 45,000 wounded, 2,989 staff and officers captured, plus 15,000 killed and 7,000 captured elsewhere.
The report surveys organized labor actions from Fayetteville to Maine and Michigan, noting wage demands, eight hour day campaigns, and new unions forming in the Lehigh region and Montreal. It cites child labor inquiries in Ching stock yards, central federation activities, and upcoming Exposition labor provisions, with authorities debating contracts and wages.
Japanese officials demand explanation from France over Kamrakh bay stay of Russia’s fleet. Reports claim Admiral Rozhestvensky anchored in Kamrakh bay, Russian ships resupplied under French cover. Britain likely to press France to honor neutrality while avoiding broader war, with French public opinion split between peace and provocation.
West coast alarm over Japanese immigration grows as the California Senate passes a resolution urging immediate treaty action to curb entry. The Attorney General's 1803 report notes courts on the Pacific coast have naturalized many Japanese and accepted declarations of intent to become citizens despite exclusion laws.
Fifty cent general admission is fixed for the Lewis and Quarke exposition. Commutation books will be sold at reduced rates. Tadge Dillon of the Ohio Common Pleas Court ordered a 20 percent dividend paid to the repository of the defunct Columbus Hast End bank. In Limoges France a clash between striking workers and troops left one porcelain maker killed, one mortally wounded, and several others injured.
American stage icon Joseph Jefferson died at Palm Beach Vig on a Sunday after a protracted illness. At his bedside were wife, son Charles, Frank Jefferson, nurse Miss Mabel Bingham, Dr Potter, and servant Carl Kettler. His children Josephine and sons Thomas and Joseph were in New York. Jefferson, famed for Rip Van Winkle, was called the Dean of the American Stage and Grand Old Man of the Stage.
Dispatches from Saigon report heavy cannonading at sea twelve hours after Admiral Rozhdestvensky's fleet sailed from Kamranh Bay as part of the Japanese battle squadron engagement. French and German ships are said to be leaving Saigon with supplies while the Japanese foreign office protests French neutrality measures in Indo China.
Samuel TR Bord, a prominent Cynthan Xyd lawyer and Democratic political figure, aged 46, was found dead in his bed. A separate report from Fet Wenthal, Ark, notes a Winyau being killed during a local Knights of Pythias initiation led by Charles Filler, an officer, who fired a hat believed to be a pistol.
A sermon on John’s vine imagery reviews Jesus as the true vine and God as husbandman, explaining fruit bearing, pruning, chastening, and the need for prayer. It urges believers to selfless love, keep Christ’s commandments, and live in love to find peace and joy.
A garbled archival passage presents disjointed lines about reading and a literary visitor. The scene shifts to an apartment house, a pier, heated calls to a janitor, and nonsensical names, yielding little coherent context or clear event.
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