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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
7
A military tale follows Billy facing court martial after a brutal charge and a failed charge at Chickamauga. The story shifts to memory and love as the narrator recalls a survivor’s honor, a pardon, and a haunting romance tied to Decoration Day graves in the South.
A fragment recalls Decoration Day scenes in Portland with birdsong and two young hearts amid flowers. The text evokes tribute to fallen soldiers and a sense of springtime renewal in the city.
Rev Frederick L Odersbach of St Ignatius College Cleveland demonstrates a ceramograph based forecast method for storms. The device uses a telegraph like relay to produce a band record hours before a storm arrives and warns of danger to coastal and inland craft.
Poem praising Memorial Day values and those remembered. It evokes reverence, sorrow, and heavenly thoughts as it honors lives that linger in the hearts of mourners.#
Kansas University regents acquire fifty one acres west of the campus with no fixed price. An elderly seller will receive an annuity of six hundred dollars for life, funded initially by Lawrence citizens. Legislature may cover future payments. Nearby drilling in Junction City uncovers petrified rye-like grain.
Vindirostok in the far east is described as Russia's sole stronghold, a terminus of the Trans-Siberian line on a peninsula between Ussuri and Amur bays. ANorwegian captain reported extensive land fortifications, large stockpiles of food and munitions, vast coal reserves, harbor mines seven miles out, and electric links to nearby mines. Submarine arrivals are rumored with at least four in Vladivostok.
The article notes Rojestvensky’s fleet leaving Indo China on May 14 15 with transports near Saigon and sighted May 18, while Japanese forces advance near Mukden. It discusses possible routes around Formosa Luzon and potential reinforcements for the Japanese fleet, and outlines Oyama’s buildup to seize key cities and isolate Vladivostok as the war enters a decisive phase.
Argentina has planted about 500 000 motherly trees over two years and now reports around 704 000 such trees. The raw silk industry is set to become an important product for the Peachy Automobile era amid rising automobile fatalities and general road danger across major cities.
Trussia warns the United States that a Japanese plan to invite the Korean Emperor to visit Tokyo masks a scheme to keep the Enquerer in Japan and crown a ruler under Japanese dominance, potentially making Korea a Japanese possession. The Russian claim includes a Tokyo palace for the Korean Emperor, while the Japanese minister in Washington denies any detention plan.
Population experts note a potential turn in the U S center of population from westward to eastward motion. By May and June censuses in about a dozen states will clarify the new location since 1900 when it stood southeast of Columbus Indiana. Experts cite rapid eastern growth, especially in New York and the Southeast, offsetting Washington state gains and suggest the shift may continue into the next decade.
After fifty six years in the city Miss Jenkins decides to buy a small country farm. She plans a steady horse two cows hens and a pig with help from the Adams boy who will drive milk and harness duties. She praises country neighbors as obliging and eager to assist.
Smith offers a hand painted house with each lot as a special inducement to buyers. Jones asks for the answer, while Smith presents the scheme as an enterprising promotion in real estate.
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