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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1905
Page
2
A highly garbled OCR sample from the Grand Rapids Tribune includes scattered fragments about people, places, and events. Readable bits mention railroad, city figures, arrests, and legal matters, but most names and specifics are incomplete or obscured. The text resembles a collage of headlines, ad fragments, and crowded notes without a coherent single story.
A sprawling, fragmentary Chicago penny press market page lists names, places, and events from a wide range of topics. It mentions commodities, transportation, church affiliations, presidential figures, and scientific notes, with scattered ad hoc references to individuals and institutions. The garbled OCR links seem to touch on finance taxes, ambassadorial movements, ecclesiastical rulings, rail appointments, and astronomical observations.
A severe gale on the Great Lakes caused massive shipping damage estimated at $2,000,000 with numerous vessels driven ashore or wrecked. The storm left unknown numbers of lives lost as crews battled freezing conditions. notable losses include the Matawan and other ore carriers, while harbor facilities suffered widespread destruction and many ships sought shelter or were overtaken by waves.
Qaraboo dispatch reports Portage, Wisconsin, stirred over the disappearance of Scorkie Burton, 19, and Gortle Cumming, 16. The pair traveled by livery car to town early Sunday, secured rooms at the Wisconsin House, then left on the train with house tickets to Bltos, and have not been seen since.
Edmund J. A. Tunner shot and killed a man as authorities hurriedly moved lawyer secretary Peterson Coal Co. official from county jail. A mob organized in Mexico, Missouri, seeking action.
Ches tor Hasi a pupil in the eighth grade of public schools was arrested for robbing lock boxes in post offices. He confessed. Bank robbers obtained 1200. Lincoln dispatch: robbers broke into the State Look of Chapman Neb and looted the safe with ultraglycerin. escaped with about 1300 in paper money. George W. Graham, 58, deaf carpenter, was struck by a Chicago Burlington and Quincy train at Lewiston Neb, severely injured.
In Far Bovlefonte Pennsylvania students at the State college walk out, protesting a system of "guts" and "ex cesses" in force term. The lead over $0 students joined the refusal to attend classes except the Hell squad, arguing that cuts should be laid to gain time off at their pleasure, while the faculty asserts the right to grant time as it sees fit.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Wilson issued a regulation allowing entry of parasites that attack the brown tail moth and the gypsy moths. The parasites will be released to fight destructive insects spreading disease among them. Illinois dispatch notes Thomas Rinaker of Carlindale, TH, named receiver for the Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny, Pa after months under national bank examiner oversight.
Milwaukee dispatch notes Wisconsin deer season results with twenty six killed and fifty one injured including indirect hunts. East St Louis reports a fire at the South Bend hotel leaving the shell standing and one man dead with six others injured. At the Anti Imperialist League annual meeting in Boston Moore field Storey was re elected president with Green Gaskins Jr elected treasurer and Erving Winslow secretary.
Reports from St. Petersburg detail arrests of guards regiments near the emperor at Tsarskoe Selo. Soldiers from yellow cuirassiers, guard hussars, and guard riflemen protested policing uses, signaling spreading disaffection inside imperial ranks amid mutinous moves by naval forces near Sevastopol.
The Gtehakof burned after launch and gasless conditions forced the squadron to abandon ship. Survivors were rescued by boats and wounded crew tended. A relief vessel carrying 300 tons exploded and sank. Captain Stavotschinsky, commander of the Seventh naval corps, was severely wounded during the attempt to reach the mine ship and died later.
Joliet Wis Der 1 Newton C Dougherty a Peoria banker embezzler and forger completes a Thanksgiving in prison. He exits confinement early to a remand cell and spends the day with a Remnsi¢el program from a Chicago company. Convicts dine on a holiday meal with cranberry sauce potatoes gravy coffee pie and apples and may write letters. A concert company visits the female cells and Warden Murphy hints at Dougherty’s future clerical work prospects amid reduced convict labor by a new law.
The schooner Alta, wrecked off Grend Island near Munisiey, is abandoned and likely to break apart as it drifts on a reef.
Mrs Cassie L Chadwick and Dr Leroy S Chadwick married in Windsor while nonresidents of Canada. The attorney general’s ruling questions the validity of the union under Canadian law and could impact numerous border marriages. Mrs Chadwick vows to reveal financiers who profited, claiming a bank vault proved a prior wedding. She expects to face penalties after losses in federal court. Doctors Company barred by Ohio Supreme Court for defense against malpractice in state.
A digest of short dispatches notes Mrs. Jacob Loeb in Alexandria accidentally taking arsenic and dying, a sworn-in Public Printer in Washington with first acts, a sanity verdict in Colesville for a murder case, Roccu Soraggio near Lucci destroyed by a landslip with no deaths, smallpox fears in Janesville prompting local action, and Mrs. Enegren resigning a chairmanship in Illinois due to leaving the state.
Elderly ladies encountered a young Vanderbilt on Fifth Avenue when they tried to board a visitor taxi. The man offered ten cent fare for a park tour ride and guided the ladies into the machine with polite assistance. The episode ends with the ladies learning the rider was a young Mr. Vanderbilt.
President Roosevelt approves Herbert J. Hagerwag to govern New Mexico while Roswell notes the shift, amid internal strife and factional dissatisfaction. The selection follows a bitter split as observers weigh the governor’s fit and loyalties during the nomination process.
Supreme advantage in conduct of business rests on scientific training. W W Turion stresses clear problem solving through method and education. Emphasizes rigorous training, time to apply knowledge, and experimental effort to connect science with commercial efficiency.
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi is designated by Speaker Cannon to oversee assigning Democratic members to committee seats in the House of Representatives. The move concentrates control over committee assignments within the party leadership.
A New York Medical Journal note warns of disease risk from contaminated currency amid rising redemption facilities. The other item reports Bradley Curzon, a truck driver, telling police he is Lord Curzon’s cousin, a claim met with polite disbelief and hints of humble living conditions.
August Forster a millionaire son of a late St Louis packer slaughters hogs at ten dollars weekly. He is twenty two years old and a graduate of the University of Missouri.
A committee in England forms to raise funds for a monument to David Livingstone. The tribute is to be set up in Chitambo at the spot where he met his end.
A chaotic report narrates a violent incident where Jealous Pole fatally wounds or injures multiple individuals and triggers a sequence of eerie events. Names and places drift in a fog of OCR garble, leaving a fragmentary but grim impression of a public tragedy and its aftermath.
The son of Chicago merchant Marshall Field Jr died in a violent incident at his residence. Early reports indicate a struggle occurred before the fatal wound was inflicted. Police and medical personnel investigated the scene as details emerged about motive and other involved individuals.
A ghastly discovery at a secluded Los Angeles cottage reveals the box containing a young woman’s corpse, prompting an inquest. The aged recluse Dina reportedly led the authorities to the grisly find as they examined the scene and the box contents.
The Vermont governor stated he will not interfere as the execution of Mrs. Tragerson proceeds on December 8. In other items, cigarette smokers Pak Bier and James Cottve in Omaha are fined for illegal sales, as authorities consider reinstating cigarette laws.
In a fragmentary report, investigators claim evidence shows cashier Adams, labeled an old offender, was linked to defalcation of United States assay at a facility dating back to 1943. The text notes disputed claims and ongoing inquiry.
The American National Bank of Lexington has been closed by order of federal authorities after rumors of financial trouble. Regulators plan to replace it with a different banking corporation to safeguard deposits and stabilize the local financial system.
Reports suggest Takle cablegram indicates M Katsara may replace the Japanese premier at Seoul. The prospect of Marquis Ilo succeeding him as premier is mentioned as a possibility in diplomatic dispatches.
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