Roosevelt Peace Plan Hailed In Portsmouth Session
A reported compromise by President Roosevelt seeks to end the Russo Japanese conflict. It would allow Japan to reclaim all or part of Sakhalin by payment, with arbitration to decide final terms if no agreement is reached. The plan aims to balance cost of the war with no territorial concessions by Russia.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Baron Komura
Pierce
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Ais
Russia
Sakhalin
Japan
de Witte
President's Message Stirs Envoys Amid Secrecy at Conference
A sensational day unfolds as the president’s message to de Witte triggers top secret maneuvers. McGrew delivers a confidential communication to the Russian plenipotentiaries prompting de Witte and Baron Rosen to visit the conference building under tight security before the full details leak.
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de Witte
J. L. McGrew
Oyster Lay
Baron Rosen
York Beach
Navy Yard
Peirce
al “Tp
New York
Peonage Case Arrest in Valdosta Ga
Deputy Marshal Goodwin arrested William Strickland of Bacontown on peonage charges for forcing Henry Sterling into involuntary servitude. Strickland reportedly brought the boy from South Carolina, whipped him, and kept him to work under a labor contract.
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Valdosta
United States
Goodwin
William Strickland
Bacontown
Strickland
Henry Sterling
Bor
South Carolina
Tananwar
X ray Cure Reported For Leprosy Case In Manila
A leprosy patient treated with X ray therapy reportedly recovered with no trace of the disease upon microscopic examination after death from unrelated liver failure. Dr H B Wilkingon, a University of Virginia graduate, led the treatment.
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Manila
H. B. Wilkingon
University of Virginia
Fatal Scaffold Collapse at Buffalo Radiator Plant
Four scaffolding thirty feet high collapsed at the American Radiator plant in Buffalo. Eight workers were on the scaffold when it fell. Anthony Sehultz was killed. two other workers were seriously injured.
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Buffalo
American
Anthony Sehultz
Two Drowned While Bathing At Kilbourn Wisconsin
Ben Dennis of Chicago and Sophia Nordbloom an attendant at Wine Glen resort drowned while bathing. They stepped from a sedge into deep water and were carried from the river below Kilbourn on August 23.
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Kilbourn
Wis
Ben Dennis
Chicago
Sophia Nordbloom
Wine Glen Resort
Baseball scores from Chicago and nationwide leagues
SCORES ON THE BALL FIELDS reports baseball results across leagues. Key games include New York 5 over Pittsburg 1, Boston 0 over St Louis 1, Brooklyn 3 over Brooklyn 6, Chicago 6 over Brooklyn in one, and Cincinnati 6 over Philadelphia 9 in the National, with Detroit beating Washington 2 to 1 in seven innings and other listed results across Minneapolis, Milwaukee, St Paul, and Sioux City.
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Chicago
Teague
New York
Pittsburg
Oston
St Louis
Boston
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
American
Detroit
Washington
Chicaza
Cleveland
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Louisville
Minneapols
Ailwaukee
Columbus
Milwaukee
St Paul
Indianapolis
Paul
Kansas City
Sioux City
St. Joseph
Denver
Omaha
Western
Pueblo
Des Moines
MURDERS-WANTON SHOOTS HER IN THE HEART
Chicago August 23 Abs and E Mize of New York City was murdered by a robber during an evening walk in the south side fashionable district near the Del Prado hotel on the Midway Plaisance. Mrs. Mize fought the assailant as she called for help, was shot in the heart, and died instantly. The killer fled, detectives and police swarmed the area but no description was obtained. Mrs. Mize, guest at the Del Prado since July 25, split her time between Chicago and New York after her husband died a year ago.
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Chicago
E. Mize
New York City
South Side
Fifty-ninth Street
Washington Avenue
Lost Couple Found After Lake Michigan Ordeal
John Chartres and Miss Zelda Stewart of Evanston were rescued from Lake Michigan near Chicago after a Sunday rowboat trip. A squall broke one oar, leaving them adrift with exposure and exhaustion. They were in precarious condition but survived the after two hours afloat.
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Chicago
Michigan
John Chartres
Zelda Stewart
Evanston
Chartres
Stewart
No Blight Hour Contracts in Chicago Printers
Chicago Typothetae members vote unanimously against eight hour day contracts and brace for a printers strike in job offices under their association. In St Louis Walter Newhall resigns as Wabash chief engineer and will be replaced by Andrew Cunningham, the chief brigade engineer.
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Chicago
Chicago Typothetae
Newball
St. Louis
Wabash Railway
Walter
Newhall
Sle
Andrew ©. Cunningham
Gladden 18 at It Again Tackling Tainted Money Issue
Dr Washington Gladden of Columbus Ohio continues to press the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions over its policy on tainted money. He sent a resolution for the board’s September meeting in Seattle criticizing three points of the prudential committee statement.
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Boston
Washington. Glaidden
Columbus
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Prudential Committee
Giadden
Seattle
Wash
Gladisen
Syndicate to Dig a Canal Worth Billions Hinted
Detroit reports Nelson Thomasson a Chicago vessel man says a syndicate plans to dig a canal from All Train on Lake Superior to Gladstone or Escanaba on Lake Michigan. Using Whitefish River would cut the route by about 265 miles between Duluth and Chicago and save over 200 miles to Buffalo while avoiding the dangerous St Marys River.
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Detroit
Mich
The
Detroit Journal
Nelson Thomasson
Chicago
Lake Superior
Gladstone
Escanaba
Lake Michigan
Whitefish
Michigan
Duluth
Chicago Boy
Buffalo
Marys River
Conger Resigns as U S Ambassador to Mexico
Edwin K. Conger of Iowa resigns from his post as United States ambassador to Mexico effective October 18. President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation. Reports suggest a possible China mission to mediate Sino American trade tensions, though the assignment may have been abandoned or declined.
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Edwin K. Conger
Iowa
United States
Mexico
Rooosevelt
Conger
Peking
Russian Internal Loan Falls Short in Moscow Subscriptions
Reports from Moscow state that subscriptions to the new internal loan are unsatisfactory with totals only reaching 100000 dollars. An imperial base issued August 17 authorized a loan of 106 million dollars at five percent to be issued. The note hints at fiscal caution and limited investor interest.
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St. Petersburg
Moscow
Heinze Buys Mexican Mines in Oaxaca
F. A. Heinze of Montana has purchased the San Martin copper mines in Oaxaca near Ocotlan. The San Mar tin mine was worked by Spaniards in earlier centuries and by native Indians before the conquest of Mexico.
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Heinze
Mexico City
F. A. Heinze
Montana
San Martin
Oaxaca
Ocotlan
Mexico
Russia Warships Renamed by Japan Amid Conflicts
The report notes Japan renaming several captured Russian warships. Eleven wreckers were injured when a rock collapsed in the educational building at the world’s fair grounds in St. Louis. James Marcellus Ross, famed pilot of the upper Mississippi, died at La Crosse Wisconsin at age 63. Representative Rourke Cochran to lecture August 31 at Mania for Philippines free-dispenaries funds.
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Japan
St. Louis
James Marcellus Ross
Upper Mississippi
LaCrosse
Wis Te
Rourke Cochran
Philippines
Wikton
Hays
Department of Agriculture
Kate
Evelyn W. Walsh
Newport
Barney Oldfield
Benjamin Hanford
Social Democratic Party
New York
Tangier
Morocco
West Shore Railroad
Utica
Syracuse
X.Y
Tait
Wis
Fever Fights Still Urge Vigilance Despite Less Mortality
In New Orleans the yellow fever report shows 57 new cases and 214 total deaths, with 319 still under treatment. Officials urge continuing measures as August and September are historically deadly, while Hart Newman faces a brief jail stint over three unscreened cisterns at Athletic Park before being released.
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New Orleans
Oley
Hart Newman
Baseball Club
Isider Newman
Newman
Athletic Park
Seméone
Mayor Behrman Tackles Fever Skeptics and Aid
The mayor reports fighting yellow fever via mosquito transmission, accepting help from various offerors including Thomas Taggart of Indianapolis who sent water supplies for the hospital and poor patients. Additional nurses sent to Patterson and Riverside in St. Mary parish accompany a mild fever outbreak. state physician Devron notes 69 positive, 53 suspicious, 145 dengue cases in Leeville and widespread illness across about 306 houses. In other notes, Mediterranean moths close two Minneapolis flour mills and a Lansing gasoline stove accident injures a child and endangers the mother.
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Behrman
Thomas Taggart
Indianapolis
Ind
Taggart
French Lick
Patterson
Riverside
St. Mary Parish
J. A. Devron
State Board
Leeville
Bayou la Fourche
Protests and Rules Under Review on Chinese Immigration
Washington reports ongoing protests over the Chinese boycott with few shown losses. a new committee led by Lawrence On Murray requests field opinions on current rules for immigration and exclusion laws and plans public hearings to gather criticisms. July saw 253 Chinese admitted and nine deported, with citizens and various exempt classes among the admitted.
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Washington
State Department
United States
China
Department
Shanghai
Amoy
Metcalf
Department of Commerce and Labor
Kermit Roosevelt Arrives for Ten Day Visit in Deadwood
Angee Kermit Roosevelt arrives in Deadwood to meet Forest Reserve Supervisor Seth Byock for a ten day stay. He plans excursions to the Domestake mine Belle Fourche and a Bucking horse mystery, with hunts and pack-hound activity throughout his itinerary.
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Deadwood
S. D
Angee Kermit Roosevelt
Washington
Seth Byock
Don
Brouigreddy
Gordy Setter
Te Hills
Teldy
Guth Kernit
Belle Fourche
Marvin Hugh
Northwestern Railway
Barney
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Sakha- Min
X. HL
St Petersburg
Nabukoff
Plancon
McGrew
Baron Rozen
Mies-Senger
Emperor Nicholas
Rhinelander
Frank Sayner
Rhinelander Boat Company
Sayner
William Gillivan
Chillicothe
Baltimore
Winton L Plave
Detroit Tribune
Evening News
Detroit News
Wisconsin
Grand Trunk Car Ferry Company
Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
Gladden
Prudential Committeed
Lakes Superior
Chicago Automobile Club
Oidfield
Earl Kiser
Webb
Carondelet Street
Whitaker
Citizens' Fund
Tom Taggart
Minn
Lansing
Marion Simmons
Harry Simmons
Simmons
Are. Mary
Ah Lin
Boycot
Immigration Service
Kermit
Ottumwa
M. Harris
James Bfarris
Harris
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