Express Highlights From 1905 Import, Navy, and Politics
The Express notes six month import totals with breadstuffs valued at $3 652 209 and raw cotton valued at $6 505 378. It reports Papuan village constables earn ten shillings yearly and two uniforms as cheapest police pay in Australia. Also mentions Behring's claimed cure, and Hamburg-American ship Amerika christening figures Kaiser Roosevelt Washington Cleveland and Franklin. It lists South Africa's need for wire screens and outlines U S military leadership changes with Chaffee's retirement and Bates Corbin Arthur MacArthur succession.
Stockholm the City of a Thousand Islands and Rocks
Stockholm sits on a chain of lake islands and reefs formed by Lake Malaren and connects to the sea where the Baltic meets. Steamers offer lake excursions and sea voyages among the isles, with Swedes enjoying open air despite the cold climate.
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Stockholm
Malaren
Jui Lu Dismissed as Censor for Cruelty Under Imperial Edict
The Pekin Times reports censor Jui Lu was dismissed forever by imperial edict for disobeying orders and extreme cruelty to prisoners. He earned the nickname Jui Forty for ordering forty blows, and a man died after receiving 200 blows, triggering the censorate’s report and the dismissal.
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Jui Lu
Pekin Times
Pekin
Italian Count Taeggi proposes electric letter railway
European postal authorities study Count Taeggi's invention an electric system to move letters between distant points. A miniature railway on wires about telegraph height would carry letters in tiny enclosed carriages propelled by electricity.
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Count Taeggi
London doctors prescribe laughter as remedy
London physicians embrace laughter therapy as an alternative to tonics and drugs. For now treatments like raw food, electric baths, open air, starvation, Finsen rays, music and barefoot living are set aside in favor of unrestrained mirth. The doctor claims laughter accelerates circulation and aids digestion while relieving the brain by quicker blood movement.
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London
Vaccine for tuberculosis to reach poorest worldwide in a year
Dr. E Bischoff of C Bischof & Co American agents cites the Paris International Congress announcement by Prof. Von Behring. He says a cure for consumption has been discovered and denies Von Behring withholds the discovery for money.
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Prof. Behring
Paris
von Behring
E. Bischoff
C. Bischof & Co
Bischoff
von Behting
Debate Over Sun Age Divides Geologists and Physicists
The text contrasts tidal friction estimates placing the sun’s age from fifty to one thousand million years with geological reasoning and physics-based limits. It notes claims that solar energy output would cap the sun’s active life at around twenty million years.
Ancient restorations and prosthetics across civilizations
Belzoni and others unearthed a sycamore wood artificial tooth set from an ancient sarcophagus. An Etruscan skull around A D 200 yielded bridgework teeth. Susruta around 300 B C details plaster nose ears and lips restorations. The earliest artificial limb appears on a Graeco Roman vase showing a satyr with a wooden leg and a Graeco roman mosaic features a sportsman with a wooden leg.
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Belzoni
China Awakens to Progressive Civilisation After Wars
Following peace between Russia and Japan, China shows signs of a more active modernisation drive. Lessons from Pekin occupation and a war on Chinese soil have impressed rulers and people with the superiority of contemporary civilization and an urge to imitate it.
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Russia
Japan
Far East
China
Pekin
Fierce Gale Sweeps Lakes Docks Ruined and Sailors Lost
Chicago reports a terrifically violent storm sweeping the Great Lakes from the west. At least 30 vessels wrecked and as many as 12 to 20 lives lost. Dock property in St Joseph South Haven Holland Grand Haven and Muskegon destroyed with extensive damage along Menominee river.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Lower Lakes
Cleveland
Buffalo
Straits of Mackinac
Lake Superior
Straits
Sault Ste. Marie
Minnedosa
Saginaw Bay
David Syze
Joseph Fay
Rogers City
Mich
Lake Erie
Detroit
Sarah H. Sheldon
Lorain
Wisconsin
Kingfisher
F. A. Prince
Walter Metcalf
Buffalo Harbor
Prinkel
Yukon
Ashtabula Harbor
Sheldon
St. Joseph
South Haven
Holland
Grand Haven
Muskegon
Menominee
Menominee River
Marinette and
McCurdy to Stay as Mutual Life Chief
New York and Oct 20 Richard A McCurdy president of Mutual Life Insurance stated he has no plans to resign and will serve until June 7. District attorney plans no action on George J Plunkitt matter as insurance inquiry ends a strenuous week.
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New York
Richard A. McCurdy
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
George J. Plunkitt
McCurdy
Robert McCurdy
Mayor Dunne Loses Bid To End Street Railway Talks
Chicago October 17. In city council a motion by Mayor Dunne to suspend rules and order the local transportation committee to cease negotiations with street railway firms except those aiming to buy property failed. The tally stood 27 yeas to 37 nays.
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Dunne
Chicago
Local Transportation Committee
Edward to Send Mission to Japan for Garter Honor
A Daily Express Tokio correspondent reports King Edward plans a 1907 mission led by Prince Arthur of Connaught to Japan to confer the Order of the Garter on the emperor.
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London
Tokio
Daily Express
Edward
Japan
Prince Arthur of Connaught
University of Illinois Finishes Installation Week Exercises
The final conference of educators on commercial education in universities ended at noon Friday marking the close of the installation week events at the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana on October 21.
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Champaign
Ill
University of Illinois
Ex Bank President Indicted in Federal Probe
Louisville on October 20 former Western National Bank president Ww. B. Smith was indicted by the federal grand jury on ten counts. Charges include making false entries misappropriation of bank funds and embezzlement. Smith's whereabouts are unknown.
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Louisville
Ww. B. Smith
Western National Bank
Federal Grand Jury
National Bank
Smith
Khedive Bays Launches Shipped from St Joseph to Nile
Four car loads of power launches were shipped from St Joseph Michigan on October 20 to the khedive of Egypt for use on the Nile river.
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Khedive Bays
St. Joseph, Mich
Khedive of Heypt
River Nile
President Roosevelt Tours the South in Major Uplift Tour
President Roosevelt began an extended southern tour visiting Alabama Arkansas Louisiana Virginia North Carolina and Georgia as he strives to visit every state in the union during his presidency. He spoke at Richmond Raleigh and Atlanta railing against deceitful business practices and urging fuller federal oversight while warning China on trade and policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
South
Atlantic Coast
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Union
Richmond
Capital Square
Virginia
Masonic Temple
Old Dominion
Lee Monument
East
West
Cuba
Caribbean
Charlotte
N. C
North Carolina
Raleigh
Durham
Greensboro
High Point
Lexington
Salisbury
Tar Heel
Roswell
Atlanta
State Fair Grounds
China
Celestial Empire
University of Illinois installs Dr Ba Mund Janes James as president
Dr Ba Mund Janes James was formally installed as the University of Illinois president in a large ceremony on Wednesday. The elaborate exercises drew a large crowd and many distinguished attendees.
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Champaign
Bamund Janes James
University of Illinois
Fire Destroys Brick Works in Harrisburg Area
The new brick works of the Hummelstown Brownstone company in Harrisburg were destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss put at 50 000 dollars with 40 000 dollars insured. In Odessa the governor ordered police to fire into mobs without warnings to deter disturbances.
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Harrisburg
Hummelstown Brownstone Company
Odessa
Cold Wave Hits Madison After Snowstorm
Madison Wisconsin reports a Friday cold wave with temperatures at freezing after a snowstorm. Four ladies were injured when a rapid car struck a theater party returning home in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
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Madison
Wis
Pittsburg
Col. J. M. Guffey
Republicans Renominate Utter and State Officers in Rhode Island
Providence RI October 19 Republicans held a brief harmonious state convention renominating Gav Utter and all current state officers by acclamation.
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Providence
R. I
Gav. Utter
Tornado Kills Eight in Sorento Illinois
A tornado struck Sorento Illinois 32 miles northeast of St Louis killing eight people and injuring 35 others. Forty houses were destroyed or moved from foundations with a complete swath through the town. The storm followed by heavy rain and vivid lightning left residents panicked and rushing to aid the injured as doctors treated victims in makeshift shelters.
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St. Louis
Sorento
Thomas File
William Stewart
William Mann
Harrison Mann
Bank Cashier Suicide Ties Bank Collapse to Andrews
Pittsburg October 19. After an inquiry into the books of Enterprise National Bank Beaver Avenue Allegheny the bank was declared insolvent Cashier T Lee Clark shot himself at his Bellevue home Clark died two and a half hours later A telegram from the comptroller of the currency ordered the bank closed Bank figures and names of state politicians figure in the case The confession found among Clark private papers accuses W H Andrews of being responsible for the bank trouble
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Pittsburg
Enterprise National Bank
Beaver Avenue
Allegheny
T. Lee Clark
Lincoln Avenue
Bellevue
Washington
John B. Cunningham
Cwilmer
Clark
Santa Fe Central Railway
Pennsylvania Development Company
W. H. Andrews
Arthur Kennedy
Francis J. Torrante
Andrews
Packers Must Stand Trial On Sherman Act Conspiracy
Chicago officials report Judge Humphrey ruled the indicted packers must face trial on conspiracy to violate the Sherman antitrust law while counts alleging monopoly are dropped. Five of ten counts are quashed though the prosecution can still use substantial evidence. A special plea by the defense, seeking acquittal, will be filed.
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Chicago
Humphrey
United States District Court
Morrison
Pension Bureau to Dismiss Loans at Usurious Rates
Commissioner Warner of the pension bureau plans to dismiss several employees found loaning money at usurious rates. He cites cases charging as high as ten percent per month and says removal is the only effective remedy to stop the practice.
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Washington
Warner
Pension Bureau
Strike Threat Looms Over Soft Coal Mines
Danville Illinois October 20 industrial trouble threatens the entire soft coal industry as bituminous miners in Illinois and other states unite for wage increase of 5.55 percent to take effect when the present contract expires April 1. The Pennsylvania anthracite contract also ends at that time.
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Danville
Ill
United States
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Oskaloosa Man Kills Family Then Takes Own Life
Harry Mc Glasson shot and killed his wife a five year old daughter and his sister in law at Frakerville near Oskaloosa Iowa Tuesday night He then shot himself while trying to find his two young stepsons He died a few hours later Jealousy is cited as the motive.
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Oskaloosa
Harry McGlasson
Frakerville
Centenarian Ehlert W. Strelow Dies in Detroit at 100
Detroit resident since 1869 Ehlert W. Strelow died Wednesday at age 100 years two months. Neighbors noted his steady nerves and good sight as he could still shave himself after his hundredth birthday.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
Ehlert W. Strelow
State Board Bans Tuberculosis in Schools
The Minnesota state board of health will issue a circular to county superintendents forbidding hiring teachers with tuberculosis and barring tuberculous children from schools. Secretary H M Bracken says the measure protects public health and benefits sufferers by avoiding crowded school rooms.
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St. Paul, Minn
State Board of Health
H. M. Bracken
Board of Health
Heatherbloom Sets World High Jump Record at Norfolk Show
Howard Willett’s Heatherbloom clears seven feet ten inches to break the world record for high jumping at the Norfolk horse show. Rider Dick Donnelly guides the horse over the barrier, surpassing the previous air record by one inch.
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Norfolk
Howard Willet
Heatherbloom
Bryn Mawr
Dick Donnelly
Supreme Court Sustains Nebraska Laws on Cigarettes Inheritance Tax and Flag Desecration
Lincoln October 20 The Nebraska Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the anti cigarette law the inheritance tax law and the law against flag desecration in separate decisions. The rulings affirm state powers over public morals taxation and patriotic protections.
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Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb
Supreme Court
Carnegie Ties Linked to Early Job Story in Pittsburg
Gallatin Tenn Oct 21 Martin Barth died at his home. In 1848 he was chief messenger for the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph company in Pittsburg where Andrew Carnegie first found employment as a messenger boy. Philadelphia Oct 21 William H Wanamaker head of Wanamaker Brown died at his home after a short illness at 65. Waukesha Wis Oct 20 Carroll college President Wilbur Carrier announced a $35000 contribution by Ralph Voorhees toward a girls dormitory.
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Carnegie
Gallatin
Tenn
Martin Barth
Mr. Barth
Old
Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Philadelphia
William H. Wanamaker
Wanamaker & Brown
John Wanamaker
Waukesha
Wis
Wilbur O. Carrier
Carroll College
Ralph Voorhees
Record Breaking Rains Hit Central Illinois
Record-breaking October rainfall drenches central and southern Illinois with over ten inches in places and more than 48 hours of steady downpour across the region. Localities report dramatic weather impact and uninterrupted precipitation.
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Decatur
Illinois
The Change of Life Intelligent Women Prepare
Dangers of the change of life are described with symptoms such as suffocation hot flashes dizziness and heart palpitations. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is promoted as the remedy to strengthen the nervous system and carry women safely through to a healthy old age. A testimonial from Mrs A E G Hyland of Chestertown Md supports relief from stomach falI soreness and nervous symptoms after using the product. Special advice is offered to write to Mrs Pinkham for free guidance.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
A. E. G. Hyland
Chestertown
Curious tombstone found at Culross abbey dates from fourth century
In Fife Scotland a tombstone at Culross abbey is believed to date to the fourth century. A partridge shot near Bainbridge England dropped into a locomotive smokestack and was lost. Bishop Mora Hidalgo Mexico celebrated Mass 1500 feet underground in a long worked silver mine.
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Culross Abbey
Fife
Scotland
Bainbridge
England
Mora
Hidalgo
Mexico
Leigh
Dover
N. H
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A. We McCormick & Buns
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W. L. Douglas
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