Spring Meeting at Massillon State Hospital Plans Ground Beautification
Trustees meet in Superintendent Eyman's office to discuss spring and summer grounds work with Nelson Brothers of Chicago. Plans include replacing cinder walks with stone flagging, landscaping the west slope, and building a new station at the hospital line end. The season’s baseball hopes, sugar camp, and social events are noted.
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Massillon State Hospital
Eyman
Nelson Brothers
Chicago
Canton-Akron Railway Company
Hospital
Agai
Kuropatkin's Faults Cited By Frontline General
A Russian general returning from the front says Kuropatkin's faults as commander arise from bureaucratic training and a desire to control all reins. He accuses him of turning army commanders into orderlies and monitoring every unit from corps to regiment. The critic notes Napoleon's genius would not solve Kuropatkin's task.
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St. Petersburg
Associated Press
Kuropatkin
Napoleon
Karopatkin
Ali
Russia reinforces troops toward Indian frontier on frontiers
St Petersburg reports show Russia steadily strengthening its forces in the direction of the Indian frontier. A traveler from Tashkend cites fifty six military trains with artillery moving toward Kashgar between mid January and mid February. Secrecy surrounds the push as baggage is seized and English travelers barred from Turkestan.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Russian Turkestan
Associated Press
Tashkend
Pamirs
Kashgar
Orenburgh-Tashmend
Krasnovodsk
Turkestan
Caspian Sea
India
England
Great Britain
Central Asia
Younghusband
Thibet
Ameer
Afghanistan
Bombay
Persia
A Russian Revolution Planned for May Day
Aaron Emden, an immigrant from Russia in Sioux City, reports a Russian revolution party member naming April 18 on the old calendar or May 1 on the American calendar as the opening of a national uprising. The plan envisions a coordinated strike across roads and industries with troops pledged to support and mobs seizing cities, following prior revolutionary suppressions in St. Petersburg.
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St. Paul
Minn
Sioux City
Aaron Emden
Russia
Russian Revolution Party
St. Petersburg
Emden
Court This Week In Canton Shows Full Hearing Schedule
Canton March 10 Judge Harter will hold court next week with jurors ordered to report. A full list of cases for each weekday outlines motions and trials including Siligyi, City National Bank, Dorrance, Baron, Steinmetz, and others across two dozen actions involving railways, banks, companies, and individuals. Women love a clear healthy complexion. Pure blood makes it. Burdock Blood Bitters makes pure blood.
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Canton
Harter
Siligyi
City National Bank
Dager
William Edwards & Company
Pontius
Baron
Steinmetz
Werner
Gaskill
Oliver
Dorrance
Wanamaker
Navarre
Smith
Webb
Dever
Stroup Persky
Mathie
Edney
Doolin
Miller
Hay
Friday
Hansen
Fetters
Loutzentheiser
Kreibuill
Whitacre Fire Proofing Company
National Surety Company
Burness
City of Canton
Ellison
Hartzell
Graham
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company
Persians Shops and Trade Tactics From a Missionary Letter
The Rev. Baba N. Shabaz, a Persian American Christian missionary, writes of a year of troubles in Urmia and cholera, noting two faithful members lost and a school enrollment of twenty seven. He describes bazar life, shopkeepers, barter games, and the awakening of converted Muslims into sturdy Christians, amid patient perseverance.
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L. H. Burry
Baba N. Shabaz
Souj-Bodak
Persia
Urmnia
Bazar
America
Western tree planting study sketches future forestry gains
Bureau of Forestry agents finished field work across the eastern Dakotas and western Minnesota, analyzing planted groves and native timber. Findings stress drought resistant cone bearing species for windbreaks and profitable timber, noting wind and cold harm crops and livestock. Dr Woods Norway Pine Syrup is recommended as household medicine.
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Washington
Bureau of Forestry
Dakotas
Minnesota
Europe
Bureau
Court Reverses Hall Will Ruling For Industrial School
Canton circuit court judges reversed the common pleas on the John Hall will issue, siding with trustee James H. Hunt to carry out the eighth clause for an industrial school for colored children. If the heirs appeal to the supreme court, a six to twelve month delay is possible. The Hall memorial school has raised about 10,000 dollars, up from the original 2,500, and Miss Frances Riley started the school last fall amid financial struggles.
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Circuit Court
Canton
Donahue, McCarty
Taggart
Common Pleas Court
John Hall
James H. Hunt
Mr. Hunt
Supreme Court
Frances Riley
Court Sustains Trust For Colored School Fund In Ohio
Circuit court backed J H Hunt trustee and allowed $10 000 trust for education of colored children, overturning common pleas ruling that will was indefinite. Original fund grew from 2660 to 10000 through Arvine C Wales and later Hunt, while heirs claimed no entitlement. Massillon area scholars have received small distributions as trust remains intact.
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Canton
Circuit Court
J. H. Hunt
John Hal
Keyerton
Common Pleas Court
John Hall
Massillon
Arvine C. Wales
Wales
Hunt
Hall
Hent
Tower Court
Safe cure advertised for skin itching plague
A crude ad promises a universal cure named Dean's Ainimet available at any drug store for 50 cents, claiming it relieves itching and worsened skin conditions with dramatic, blanket reassurance.
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Dean
Retreat and Uncertainty In Russian War Effort
The dispatch to Emperor Nicholas reports a retreat with harassed flanks and heavy losses, especially the second army under Vailderting. Kuropatkin’s later message claimed full retreat, but his whereabouts are unknown. A peace overture could come from Japan if terms recognize Russia as a Far East power.
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Tokio
Hun
Mukden
Hampu
Oyama
Pu River
St. Petersburg
Associated Press
Nicholas
Kuropatkin
Vailderting
Kuropathin
Tohio
Japan
Russia
Far East
Soviet officials view retreat as planned tactics at Harbin
Paris dispatch reports Russian embassy officials framing General Kuropatkin’s withdrawal as deliberate while predicting a larger clash at Harbin with heavy reinforcements. They deem Mukden’s fall a political and strategic blow, and French critics see Tieta’s capture as severing Europatkia’s northern retreat, with Mukden’s fall carrying moral weight.
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Paris
Kuropatkin
Harbin
Mukden
Tieta
Europatkia
Manchuria
Reed praised for natural art at Tuscaloosa church event
A Tuscaloosa Gazette column from March 14 praises Miss Reed as a heightful artist with naturalness and simple style, noting her work as wonderfully captivating and repeatedly recalled by attendees at the Christian Church event.
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Christian Church
Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa, Ala
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