Strikes Paralyze Moscow Rail System Amid National Unrest
Moscow reports nine trunk lines radiating from the city completely paralyzed by a railway strike. Commercial life of Russia cut off except to St. Petersburg and Baltic provinces. Strike threatens famine relief and grain movement as engineers abandon engines and mills rally.
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Moscow
Russia
St. Petersburg
Baltic
Windau
Rybinsk
Brest- Liovsk
Kiefs
Veronese
Brest-Liovsk
Minsk
Warsaw
Germany
Austria
Europe
Pskoff
Global gold output and major mining notes of 1904
The Transvaal gold fund leads, with 1904 output at 78.13 million dollars from 74 companies and dividends totaling 19.11 million. Hecla Mining declares 28th dividend of 1 cent a share. Reports cover Northport New York, Ontario silver cobalt finds, Wyoming copper, and a fatal cave-in at Highland Bay Utah.
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Transvaal
Review Mining & Milling Company
Northport
Wash
Mountain View
Wallace
Idaho
Hecla Mining Company
Roy Clarke
Spokane
Ontario
North Bay
Lake Nipissing
Earl Company
New York
O. K
Rossland
B. C
Sutherland
Secretary Root Plans Diplomatic Service Reorganization
Secretary Root outlines a plan to reorganize the diplomatic and consular service with presidential authority. He seeks congressional support for pay raises for ambassadors ministers and consuls and proposes U S ownership of foreign legations and a merit based vacancy system. The report also notes other varied items including mountain heights and unrelated incidents.
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Root
Congress
United States
Mrs Planz Killed in Auto Accident on Van Ness
Mrs Theodore Planz wife of a merchant tailor was riding in an automobile on Van Ness avenue when she attempted a quick turn to avoid a pedestrian. The car overturned and Mrs Planz was thrown out and killed instantly.
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San Francisco
Theodore Planz
Anne Warner Finalizes New Susan Clegg Serial for Century
Anne Warner author of the Susan Clegg stories wraps a new short humorous serial to appear in Century magazine in an early issue. The piece marks Warner’s return to the popular light fiction that ran in the publication.
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Anne Warner
Susan Clegg
Student Challenge Sparks Pistol Duel Reference
A humorous London Punch mock dialogue pits a student demanding a pistol duel against a Commercial Traveler who requires a shooting license before engaging, with the traveler declaring his name is Hare. The exchange lampoons illegal bluster and bureaucratic obstacles in a period-appropriate voice.
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Hare
London Punch
North Idaho Notes Roundup of Local and Regional Items
A long list of recent events includes Patrick McGrath’s death after being struck near Mullan by a Northern Pacific engine. Reports discuss possible new train service between Wallace and Spokane, immigration arrests in Bonners Ferry, and state fish and game laws affecting Indians. County treasurer remittances, postmaster appointments, liquor license disputes, and Idaho press association actions are noted. Other items cover court decisions on liquor sales, a peculiar death near Tacoma, a large farm sale, a Seattle power house robbery, and heat on irrigation projects and taxation plans.
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Patrick McGrath
Mullan
Northern Pacific
Wallace
Spokane
Sheriff Doust
Rathdrum
Bonners Ferry
Steele
William Schuldt
Nez Perce
Shoshone County
French
J. M. Elder
Coeur d’Alene
D. F. Mason
Alaska
United States
Buick
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Culdesac
Washington Notes Reflect Local Happenings and Trials
Thomas M. Dickson and wife celebrate a golden wedding in Mayview. A Stevens county teachers institute meets Colville on November 13. Secretary Hitchcock approves 1013 acres of Northern Pacific land grants in North Yakima, Spokane, and Waterville. Railway surveyors prep Fletcher to Connell. work may start by November 1. A child dies after burns from matches. a boy dies from wagon accident in Paha. Robberies, trials, and acquittals include Camden post office case eight years, Chronback murder verdict second degree, Darrow robbed, Johnstone acquitted, Oppenheimer sentenced for embezzlement. Idaho NP motive power expansion announced. 10 W class locomotives to arrive in Spokane. Attorney James Hopkins of Spokane remains listed.
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Mayview
Cc. C. McCoy
Walla Walla
Stevens County
Colville
Hitchcock
Northern Pacific
Yakima
Spokane
Waterville
Fletcher
Connell
Hardin
Bellingham
Willie le Veeney
William le Veeney
Paha
Harry Allen
Camden
Whitson
McNeill’s Island
George Chronback
Joe Bennett
Pe- Ell
Chehalis
O. V. Darrow
Tacoma
Charles E. Johnstone
Alvin Price
North Yakima
Ben Oppenheimer
Portland
Washington
Montesano
Montana Squirbbs Dam Plans Approved Near Great Falls
The secretary of war approves Helena Power Transmission plans to build a Missouri river dam near Great Falls, authorized by 1894 congressional act. Also in Montana news Otto Chenelworth, a famed rustler, is jailed in Casper Wyoming after daring cattle crimes.
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Secretary of War
Helena Power Transmission Company
Missouri River
Great Falls
Congress
Otto Chenelworth
Montana
Wyoming
Dakota
Casper
Wyo
Medora
N. D
Charles W. Bailey
Rosebud County
South America
Oregon Items and Miscellany From The Era
Athena to form a town band soon. Holy Moses the camel dies in Cairo in Portland. Albany College will lead Oregon Presbyterians with statewide support. Canadian governor general salary is 50000 dollars yearly and cabinet members earn seven thousand, premier eight thousand. A telegraph pole in Ilfracombe, England, rises 116 feet 3 inches. London county council allows excluding under five from board schools. German emperor reads to Empress at home and favors French novelists. Ribot seeks Audiffret-Pasquier’s seat in the French Academy.
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Athena
Holy Moses
Camel
Cairo
Portland
Albany College
Oregon
Three Men Wounded In East Side Avenue Car Battle
In New York on October 23 a pistol fight on an Eighth Avenue car left three men seriously injured. Thomas O'Brien and two assailants Henry Prang and Thomas Sullivan fought aboard as the car sped to Twenty-sixth Street before police halted the attack.
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New York
Eighth Avenue
Thomas O’brien
Thirty-first Street
Fiist
Twenty-sixth Street
O'Brien
Henry Prang
Thomas Sullivan
O’brien
West Side
Whale and waterspout clash in Bering Sea incident
The Elihu Thomson reports a waterspout forming during a storm as a whale rises within the swirling column. The whale remains upright as the pillar collapses, causing the water spout to break and crash into the sea.
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Tacoma
Wash
Elihu Thomson
Nome
Bering Sea
Americans learning to eat as fine art and pastime
In America eating becomes a refined practice as shoppers seek the white heart of wheat in Pillsbury Vitos. The ad promotes the sterilized two pound packages of pure white wheat meat, claiming it serves as a hearty, economical breakfast and yields twelve pounds of food, available through local grocers for 20 cents.
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America
Pillsbury
Lena to sail for Vladivostok from Mare Island
The Russian cruiser Lena will depart Mare Island California on Saturday for Vladivostok with 2000 tons of coal. No stop at San Francisco planned, crew to return intact with no desertions. Lt Kahtin notes icebreakers will clear a passage near Wiadivestock. Also noted are U S Navy and Marine Corps end strengths and the death at Versailles of General Pierron who burned French colors at Sedan.
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Mare Island
Cal
Lena
Vladivostock
San Francisco
Kahtin
Wiadivestock
Pierron
Sedan
Versailles
Their Babes Are Strong College Exhibit At Vassar
A Vassar instructor collected over 300 photographs of babies born to college graduates. The notes say higher education makes mothers of excellence, noting educated women remain active and healthy with strong bodies and minds. The collection aims to show powerful, capable mothers and their strong, handsome babies.
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Vassar Co
Allege Hag
Intercollegiate golf crown won by Yale standout Abbott
Robert Abbott of Yale captured the individual championship of the Intercollegiate Golf Association on Garden City links, defeating Yale teammate E Knowles. The season also notes no UW–WSU game this year and other sports results across colleges from coast to coast.
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Robert Abbott
Yale
Intercollegiate Golf Association
Garden City
E. Knowles
University of Washington
Washington State College
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
University of California
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Harvard
Walsh-Stanley
Walsh
Louis Nordyke
Tacoma
Pittsburg
John C. Gondero
Willamantic
Conn
Joe Gregg
Jack Allin
Bonners Ferry
al Kaufman
San Francisco
Billy Delaney
George Siler
Chicago Tribune
Kaufman
Jim Corbett
Olympic Athletic Club
Jimmy Britt
A Boy's Life of Lincoln in St Nicholas
Miss Helen Nicolay daughter of John G Nicolay author of the Life of Lincoln writes a boys life of Lincoln to appear in St Nicholas next year. It will be fully illustrated and a leading feature of the magazine.
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Helen Nicolay
John G. Nicolay
John Hay
Lincoln
St. Nicholas
Heaviest Vermont quake rattles Newport area
A major earthquake struck Newport Vermont early Sunday marking the heaviest tremor in the region. It shook houses and crockery, lasted only seconds, and was heard as a distant explosion. No injuries are reported.
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Newport
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