Kuropatkin Seeks 500000 Men for Russia War
In a dispatch from St. Petersbuerg dated April, Kuropatkin demands mobilization of 500000 troops for service in Manchuria by August. The czar’s edict calls full strength, with quarters assigned. a rapid mobilization is ordered as the war intensifies. Japan orders two battleships from Clyde shipyards, asserting nation’s naval expansion amid the conflict.
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ST. Petersbuerg
Kuropa
Japan
Glasgow
Clyde
Jasin
Hosnide
Widow Corpse Found After Three Days In Mass Home
Mrs Jaydin Parker of Formerville Massachusetts, 76, was seen at her window daily, smiling at neighbors. After three days with the same pose, police forced entry and found the elderly woman dead, her body lying in wait.
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Fomerville
Mass
Jaydin Parker
Bed Covers Are Shot Ten Pledts Disaster at Mrs Long’s Home
Elwood, April 9 Miss Cora Sewage survived a Friday night shooting when six pistol shots shattered bed covers and lodged in the room’s wall. WIlliam Farr was arrested and released on nine dollar bond after he allegedly pressed his attentions on the woman who stayed at Mrs Henry Long’s residence.
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Elwood, Inc
Agenilant
Miss Cora Sewage
Williem Farr
Henry Long
Miss Sewage
Gambling Schools Rampant in Chicago Ten-Day Evidence Report
Chief ONeill released a tabulated report detailing ten days of evidence gathered by tenant officers on gambling operations near public schools. Devices include slot machines, policy, prize lotteries, wheels of fortune, crap shooting, and cards. Gambling rooms were found in fruit stores, barber shops, basements, coal offices, and back buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Polles O'Neil
Boy Killed During Chicago Union Picket Incident
Chicago April 9 early Friday a boy named Travis was killed during a confrontation with Pranktin union pickets near a union protest. The injured teen, 18, reportedly died after being assaulted. police say the scene involved prior violence and several hospitalizations tied to the unrest.
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Chicago
Pressferder
Michael Tatami
Travis
Branetin Wuten
Knockout Drops Death Tied to Bowery Gang Trio
New York on April 3 Joseph Janiah confessed that he and Steven Martello with Bestun Prova were involved in a Bowery gang scheme. They allegedly put chlorn and optum knockout drops into a beer can, killing Boston Frank and making Jarish ill while Martello avoided drinking. The case centers on a deadly concoction used to terrorize rivals.
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New York
Joseph Janiah
Steven Martello
Bestun Prova
Janiah
Martello
Boston
Frank
Jarish
Woman Drowns After Prayer on Randolph Street Pier
In Chicago on April 2 a well dressed young woman knelt in prayer above Lake Michigan at Randolph street viaduct, then leaped into the water. She drowned before help arrived. An hour later her body was recovered and taken to the morgue where identification was attempted. clothing suggested refinement.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Randolph St. Viaduct
Church On Rollers Moves To New Location In Kentucky
The episcopal church in Yelvington will be moved on rollers ten miles to Powers due to congregants living nearer that town. Construction begins immediately with an estimated cost of 1.0 dollars to complete the move. The building is large and aims to be relocated safely despite anticipated difficulties.
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Rockport
Methodist Episcopal Church
Yelvington
Powers
Light Cats New York Hatabit Arrest For Death
Albert Rossiter was arrested on suspicion in New York after the death of Rose Beckett. Her body was found in her room at 2 West Fifty-Eighth Street. Rossiter, appearing brutalized from a spree, confessed he was in the room with her and that they had been drinking. Eight vats lay in the room with the remains as they awaited discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Albert Rossiter Fis
Rose Beckett
Philippines to have new capital in Benguet province
Reports from Chicago and Washington describe plans to move the Philippine capital from Manila to Baguby in Benguet. The site lies 153 miles from Manila, atop high terrain, with electric railway links planned and a climate likened to Adirondacks. Also noted are remarks on pneumonia by Dr Harty alongside local police and weather commentary.
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Chicago
Philippines
Maria
Stertary Otwar Taft
Province
Renguet
Mania
Manila
Adirondacks
Mauile
Philips Ping
Baguby
Washington
Bagolo
Benguet
Oine
Europe
Magic Foot Draft Co Promises Rheumatism Cure
A promotional letter asks all rheumatic sufferers to send their names and mail for a trial pair of Magic Foot Crafts, claiming relief by absorption through the skin. It offers no payment unless approval and promises a free boomlet on rheumatism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Jaesson
Mich
Former Queen Isabella Dead in Paris influenza death
Paris reports the death of former Queen Isabel la of Spain on a Saturday morning from influenza. The exile figure faced multiple expulsions from her homeland and lived in Paris to avoid endangering the ruling house. Her birth date is listed as October 30, 18.
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Paris
Apri
Isabella
Spain
Isabilla
Syn
IBM
Marie Cxabetts
Louse
Mad- Th
Get
Knife blade in brain ends decades of pain in Yale student
In New Haven on April 9 Christopher Osborn, a Yale art student, carried a half inch knife blade in his head for 21 years after a fight. He finally underwent surgery to remove the blade, which had threaded through his skull and brain, causing convulsions before the recent hospital procedure.
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New Haven
Conn
Christopher Osborn
John F. Weir
Yale Art School
Asbern
Old Man Friend of Lincoln Is Dead
Thamis Howard, found dead in his room in New York, was once a close associate of Lincoln. A hermit by choice, he lived modestly with wealthy relatives scattered across the country. A carpenter by trade, he had not worked much recently, and neighbors had chipped in to aid him. Authorities will move his body to a neighbor’s home while relations are sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thamis Howard
New York
Linco
Telephone ordinance passes council with transfer of rights
The city council approved a ordinance ratifying the transfer of rights and franchises from the New Telephone Company to the Indianapolis Telephone Company. The vote was unanimous with no reconsideration motion. Also Friday night Butler College alumni attended the unveiling of the Bong Armstrong portrait at the memorial library, with directors reporting about $450 in donations.
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Doard
New Telephone Company
Indianapalis Telephone Company
Fishback
Wright
Storms
Butler College
Bong Armstrong
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Indianapolis Citizens
Relief for rheumatic sufferers bad backs and urinary disorders is claimed thanks to Doan's Kidney Pills. Mr Frank Coan, an employee at the Aiking saw works, reports a severe back dragging pain eased after taking the pills. He bought them from Henry J Huder's drug store and noticed a complete improvement. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's a14.
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Indianapolia
Doan
Indianapolis
Frank Coan
South Meridian m
Aiking Saw Works
Sys
Dean
Henry J. Hueder
Stern
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
United States
Indiana News Roundup Sparks Towns and Tides of Progress
Rural Indiana items report Owensville drilling for gas and a Lerner building boom in Waterloo while Jackson county endures a measles outbreak. Orleans ponders telephony, Sullivan plans additions and a Carnegie library cornerstone is laid. Purdue’s Turner fights smallpox, local officials resign, and a Glenville stagecoach washout disrupts travel. A four eyed pig is born near Hartsville and a hen in Columbus captures a rat. Carroll County forms a burial club, a murder trial unfolds in Lebanon, and a Washington County man regains his lost voice. A Princeton burlesque suspect pleads, an anti puff society forms in Jonesboro, and blue ribbons signal the social reform.
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Owensville
Waterloo
Jackson County
Orleans
W.C.T. UL
Anderson Splders
J.B. Midtine
Sullivan
Sullivan Public Square
Lebanon
Sullivan Seinory
Indiana
Princeton
Loogcotes
Samuel C. Layton
Anerson
Hartsville
Thomas Fowler
Columbus
Fowler
Carroll County
Frank Shockley
George Dodson
Shockley
Danville
R. R. Shanks
Washington County
Misa Lena Moore
Mae Davenport
Wiliam St. Harris
Linton
S. Harris
Jonesboro
Family of beggars found after seven years of search
A long hunt ended when Supt. Minnick of the bureau of charities took custody of three small children of Mrs. Missouri Boehm. Two hours later five other children were arrested in a city relief sweep. Cyclone kills six in Texas. six dead and 18 injured nationwide. A tornado across Limestone and Freestone counties claims a husband wife and child near Brewster plus a woman and two children killed nearby.
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Aptil
Minnick
Bureau of Charities
Missouri Boehm
Houston
Tex
Dornado
Limestone
Frewstone
John Butlard
Brewster
John Mitchell at Zergler in CarroNdale Illinois
Natural president John Mitchell of the Walled mine workers leads a meeting at Zergler to mediate the miners dispute with Joseph Leiter. A tentative agreement is deemed unlikely and the process is costly. Center township has spent $275 daily since March 1 to appraise taxable property. Assessing started earlier and will end May 16 with 126 deputies and 13 office clerks on the force.
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John Mitchell
Zergler
Carrondale
Ill
Higheen
Joseph Leiter
Tr Hag
Center Township
An Attack On Jews Warned In Neustadt Report
Report from Neustadt Prussia details anti Semite violence against Jews in the ghetto with a mob attack and plunder. The piece mentions a massacre being prevented by defenders and references a promotional ad for small income tables and local merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werlin
Neustadt
Prurala
Gen Cronje Arrives in St Louis for World’s Fair Exhibits
Gen Pret A Cronje, the Transvaal farmer-soldier, arrived in St Louis Friday night leading 20 British soldiers and officers and 20 Boer veterans for exhibition at the World’s Fair.
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Cronje
St. Louis
Pret A. Cronje
Transvaal
Sunday at Florence Witnesses Christ in Renaissance Art
Rev Thomas J Villers will describe a Sunday at Florence in Florence Ohio. The program focuses on Christ as depicted in sculpture and painting by Raffaele, Ghiberti, Fra Ancelico and Angelo. Body of Teacher Found. Clara Phelfer, a schoolteacher who escaped from her home two weeks ago while suffering nervous prostration, was found in the Scioto River on Friday night.
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Grana Opera
Thomas J. Villers
Florence
Christ
Raffaele
Ghiberti
Ancelico
Angelo
Conmontd
Clara Phelfer
Scioto River
Cheap Colonist Rates to West Coast Points Begin March 1
The Union and Southern Pacific announce one way second-class colonist fares to California Oregon Washington and Idaho from Chicago to the Pacific for $2.00 and from St Louis or New Orleans $3.00 with daily through tourist and reclining car service. Rates apply through April 20 with intermediate points discounted proportionally. For details contact Wm Connor, general agent, 62 Fourth Cincinnati.
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Union
Southern Pacific
California
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Pacific
Louis
New Orleans
Connor
Cincinnati
Special Train to California with $50 Round Trip
Special train service to California offers a $50 round trip from Chicago with no extra travel charge. Travel via Chicago Union Pacific and North-Western Line with stopovers at Denver, Colorado Springs, and Salt Lake City. Also valid on The Overland Limited, two trains daily, direct transcontinental route with limited time to coast. Write for itineraries to W. B Kniskern, 435 Vine, Chicago.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Chicago
Union Pacific
North-Western
Denver
Colorado Springs
Salt Lake City
Missouri River
W. B Kniskern
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Continental Tobacco Company
Burley
Gil
MEW Capital
Milwaukee
Wis
Peter J. McBride
Ng Petters
Upper Grane
Steve
Harty
France
Lincoln
Leyrea
Lymansville
L. S. Ayres
Hazelton
Stuyverant Draumakter
Honington Meinway & Bons
Heller & Co McCammon
Pearson's Music House
Pennsylvania
Companioa
Nillus
J. B. Couchman
Grand Opera
EL Market
Security Trust Building
Rayan's
Merchants
Maryland
Grand Hotel
Mra Winslow
Thi
Tae
Peowe
Speer's
Paasale
N. J
Weberbrug’ Company
Stewart
Ment
Hirk
Willachner
Cao Indiena
Larceet Music
Bonne
Penmsylvania Street
Menter & Rosenbloom CO
Pennsylvania St
R. Adams
Pater
Hudeoo Street
J. M- Bole
RED Cross
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