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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1904
Page
6
A fragmented account describes a late battle with intense fighting from evening into midnight, involving Tayssians and Russian forces around Sinminting and Thapyang. The Russians eventually evacuated the area, with remaining forces retreating north as Afghan or allied troops pressed the advance.
The fighting around Liaoyang intensifies as forces clash along the Taitse river. Russian and Japanese troops sustain heavy casualties while positions at Anping Yeegow and surrounding locations shift, with both sides claiming gains and losses amid a broad, sustained offensive.
Fragmented account describes a Lingyang battle with massive casualties and displacement. It notes troops totaling about 15,000 across several American cities and discusses tactics, leadership, and the western defense against an advancing force. The text speaks in grand, archaic prose about strategy, discipline, and the supposed global stakes of the conflict.
Fragmented dispatches describe Japanese studies of a Russo German clash with Maykien pressures and coastal actions near Port Arthur. Gen Kuropathin reports Siberian detachments cut off west of Oyang and retreat with evacuations as Marshal Oyan’s forces advance from Tinoyang to Kurepat, shaping a volatile theater.
A five story tenement on Midge street in New York suffered a deadly early morning fire. Fourteen people perished many were children. thirteen residents escaped through shattered doors and torn stairs. Fire officials say a candle left burning near the third floor may have sparked the blaze as flames raced up the central stairs before the first engine could intervene.
Rail developments include 27,000 miles open in total system, Canada cutting freight rates by 4 to 5 cents per hundred pounds, Chicago deliveries of gears reaching 5,147,000, the double track continuous between New Albany and Myersville, and New York General acquiring trolley stakes in Utica Rome Oneida Syracuse Transit. Chicago Refrigerator Car Company raises 300,000 capital. Wabash train D covers 8.2 miles at high speed. Cincinnati area rail officials discuss extending the flag from Obelmatt Hamilton to Chicago.
Early Sunday morning a five story tenement at 164 Attorney Street in New York erupted in flames. Fourteen people perished, including thirteen Jewish families on the upper floors, as a demolished stairway blocked escape and rescuers were hindered by fire department injuries and delayed alarms. The blaze likely started from a candle left burning in a third floor hallway during New Year prayers.
A bold engineering feat is planned in southern Colorado to create an artificial Niagara. Two rivers will be diverted to canals feeding a large reservoir, with water dropped 1,000 feet to power a 40,000 horsepower plant at the precipice foot near Silverton. Initial cost around 1 million dollars, eventual total about 3 million. If successful, cheap power will spur regional enterprises, with a second site considered. Separately, Thomas N. McCaulay sues the International Memconaty Agency in New York court for 54,200, claiming loan balance near 500,000. The National Association of Postmasters of First-Class Offices elected WW. Hall president and planned next convention in Daytona Beach.
Bureau of Education reports 27 460 000 students enrolled for the year ending June 1902 with 16 479 177 in elementary schools and 734 760 in secondary pupils. Higher education enrollments reach 216 003 while total education outlay nears 300 000 000, amid large endowments and federal state funding.
News items note reductions in grain and scrap iron transport costs and proposed consolidations among railroad bodies. A Georgia Florida Alabama system merge is planned with Carrabelle Tallahassee and Georgia railroads. Subscriptions cover Chicago Refrigerator Car Company capital. A New York and New England mortgage issue seeks refinancing. Estimates show rail activity and livestock transport deliveries rising, with mixed reports on mileage and routes.
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