Italy’s stamps feature Michetti designs portraits on high values
The Express notes that Italy’s new postage stamps are designed by the painter Michetti and that higher denomination issues bear a Portrait of Victor Emmanuel. It also mentions five U S citizens naturalized as British subjects since the 1902 Transvaal ordinance and a New York firm offering glasses insurance for one dollar a year.
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Italy
Michetti
Victor Emmanuel
United States
Transvaal
New York
Japanese Sailor Responds to Cablegram Call to Serve
A Pacific coast Japanese sailor receives the cablegram Hoshirukaere and promptly leaves for Japan to join the ranks, heading home to pledge service in the upcoming conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Japan
Bulkhead Flaw Found In New British Warships
An inspection of the Channel Fleet revealed that the bulkheads in some of the newest British warships are effectively useless against sea water pressure, signaling structural concerns for the fleet.
Mormon Church President Buys 66500 Acre Calgary Ranch
President Smith of the Mormon Church buys a 66 500 acre cattle ranch near Calgary Alberta for 400 000 dollars. One land will be colonized by Mormons.
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Calgary
Alberta
British Columbia
Smith
Mormon Church
Coolie Labor Shifts in Formosa Under Japanese Rule
Before Formosa came under Japanese control, 20 000 Chinese coolies were imported annually for tea picking. The current figure is under 6 000 as Japan relies on its own labor force for these tasks.
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Formosa
Portand hotel dish washer hailed prince of India
A Portland New York hotel serves as the humble setting for K Mogumdar, a prince of India of noble Hindoo lineage, who aspires to teach his low caste countrymen. Once lionized in Bellingham Massachusetts, he was a prominent figure at the state normal school lecture room with a bright future.
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Hindoo
K. Mogumdar
Prince
India
Portland
N. Y
Bellingham
Mass
State Normal School
Isham shell would sink largest battleship in minutes at proving grounds
The inventor claims a new Isham shell can sink the largest battleship in three minutes. Tested at Sandy Hook, the shell weighs 900 pounds of cast steel and carries a 120 pound charge of dynamite and nitro glycerine. A 12 inch gun fires it into Harveyized steel backed by oaken timbers and sand.
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Isham
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Misconceptions Fuel Carbolic Acid Injuries Says Doctor
A physician warns that excessive at home use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic causes new affliction carbolic gangrene. He notes cases where only wounds are treated at home and tissues rot before reaching medical care.
Prospectors flood Nevada desert after Salt Lake line opens
In June and July 1905 more men per shed between the Colorado River and Sierra Nevada’s southern end than in the prior 50 years were lost in the region. The desert swarmed with prospectors since the Salt Lake railroad opened in May, all hoping for rich leads like Goldfields and Bullfrog. They hurry to strike before winter rains refill springs and revive water holes amid intense heat.
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Colorado River
Sierra Nevada
Salt Lake
Yellow Fever Declared Doomed in New Orleans Campaign
Signed statements from Surgeon White and health leaders claim the fever crisis has passed with science’s campaign meeting success. The disease appears milder, with 39 new cases and 281 total deaths statewide by Friday evening, despite heavy expenditures and outbreaks in Mississippi and at Leeville.
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New Orleans
White
Kohnke and
Souchon
Boards of Health
Beverly Warner
Metz
Tulane University
Janvier
Citizens’ Committee
Mississippi
Leeville
Marine Hospital Service
Warner
Meerschaum Mining and Grading in Asia Minor
Meerschaum is mined as a key industry in Asia Minor. The crude stone, called hamtash, is yellowish white with a red clay skin. Blocks cost 25 to 200 dollars per carload, are knife cut, sun dried in summer, heated in winter, and sorted into 12 grades before packing in cotton.
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Asia Minor
Yellowstone coyotes numbers rise threaten park wildlife
Yellowstone park sees a rapid rise in mountain lions risking deer elk and other wildlife. President Roosevelt recommends action and awards John and Homer Goff of Meeker Colorado a contract to remove the cougars.
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Yellowstone Park
President Roosevelt
John and
Homer Goff
Meeker, Col
John Goff
Roosevelt
Colorado
Tiny Chihuahua: World’s Smallest Full-Grown Dog Revealed
Deputy Sheriff Hamilton Rayner of El Paso Texas owned a 23 ounce Chihuahua, the smallest full grown dog. The native Mexican breed hails from Ghibuahau and traces to a wild dog lineage seen in Aztec times in Northern Mexico.
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Hamilton Rayner
el Paso
Tex
Sheriff Rayner
Chihuahua
Ghibuahau
Texas
Mexico
Fog Eye Affects New York Steamship Officers This Summer
Many harbor officers on ships bound for New York suffer an eye inflammation called fog eye caused by looking into dense mists. The condition is painful but temporary, and this summer the coastal fog has hung over the waters longer than at any time recalled by veteran captains. One skipper even said his crew had to eat fog on every voyage to New York for six weeks.
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New York
Cholera Scare Spreads Across German Regions
Berlin reports 29 cholera cases in 12 localities from Weichel to the Baltic and Warthe, with Hamburg seeing cases. The government forms a cabinet committee, deploys bacteriologists, and issues cautions to towns and villages as authorities mobilize to prevent wider spread.
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Berlin
Weichel
Baltic
Warthe
Hamburg
Germany
Russia
Studt
Herr von Budde
Herr Moller
Commerce and Industry
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Interior
Bursting fly wheel destroys mill at National Tube
In McKeesport Pennsylvania four men were killed and three more seriously injured when a 55 foot fly wheel burst at the National Tube plant. One worker is missing and believed to have been blown to pieces as the wheel shredded the mill causing a large hole and machinery damage while over 400 men were at work.
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Pittsburg
National Tube Company
McKeesport
Official Exonerated in Meat Inspection Tag Scandal
WashingtonAugust31 The investigation into charges that Dr D Salomon head of the bureau of animal industry was linked to the Howard Label Co of Washington which holds the government contract to supply meat inspection tags was concluded on Wednesday and the official fully exonerated of any wrongdoing.
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Washington
D. ©. Salmon
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Howard Label Company
Tragedy in Pueblo Believed Suicide Pact
In Pueblo Colorado on September 1 the bodies of Mrs E B Haver and her five year old son were recovered from the Bessemer ditch tied together with a cord. Authorities say the woman likely drowned herself and child due to ill health.
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Pueblo
Col
E. B. Haver
Bessemer Ditch
Public debt rises to over one billion in August 1905
Washington reports a monthly public debt statement showing a total of 1,005,524,595 dollars at August 31 1905, excluding cash in the treasury. The figure increases by 3,475,394 dollars from July.
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Washington
Will Abolish Martial Law In Warsaw
Warsaw dispatch reports General Skallon the new governor general intends to abolish martial law as normal conditions have been restored in the city and region.
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Warsaw
Skallon
Indiana Coal Prices Rise Ten Cents A Ton
Terre Haute Indiana September first miners announce a coal price hike of ten cents per ton from the summer rate and twenty cents above the recent cut prices. The change takes effect immediately across Indiana mines.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
Noted eye specialist Dr Henry F Garey dies in Baltimore
Dr Henry F Garey a renowned eye specialist died Thursday night in Baltimore Maryland from Brights disease He invented the ophthalmic oscillator in 1899 a device that marked a new era in scientific eye surgery and earned him lasting recognition
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Baltimore
Henry F. Garey
Bright
Garey
Balloon dynamite exhibition ends in fatal blast
Aeronaut Baldwin of Losantiville Indiana exploded midair over a county fair at 2000 feet while demonstrating dynamite use from a balloon. The blast tore the balloon and Baldwin to fragments as thousands watched. His wife witnessed the horrific scene and parts of his body were found in a nearby corn field. The exact cause remains unclear.
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Greenville
Aeronaut
Baldwin
Losantiville
Ind
Train wreck at Witham station kills ten and injures many
An express from London to Cromer on the Great Eastern railway derailed at Witham station. Several cars left the rails and smashed into station buildings, killing ten people including six women and wounding twenty. The third car led the collapse and fire, with most casualties drawn from other wrecked cars. A lone passenger in the first car escaped harm.
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Witham
England
London
Cromer
Great Eastern Railway
Witham Station
Reception to President Plans for Washington Welcome
Washington dispatch reports L West says Washington will tender President Roosevelt a public reception on his return to recognize Portsmouth conference success. The president consents and will be met with a large demonstration including a street parade and no speeches.
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Washington
L. West
District of Columbia
Roosevelt
Portsmouth
West
President Roosevelts Mail Floods Niagara Falls Issue
Washington reports a flood of letters to President Roosevelt from across the country urging protection of Niagara Falls. The communications are filed at the state department and may prompt a push for an international commission to oversee the issue amid hydro power development on both sides of the Niagara River.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Niagara Falls
Nigara River
State Department
Japanese Merchant Renounces Allegiance in Cleveland
Sinosuke Kitani, a leading Cleveland Japanese merchant, has renounced allegiance to the mikado by filing naturalization papers after Japan’s peace settlement terms. Similar actions are reportedly planned by other Japanese residents who accuse Japan of showing weakness. Oyster Bay reports an imperial ban on the boycott of American products with provincial governors to enforce suppression. The U.S. State Department received Rockhill’s cable summary from Peking.
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Cleveland
Russia
Sinosuke Kitani
Oyster Bay
N. Y
China
State Department
Washington
Rockhill
Peking
Japan
Russias
L. I
Roosevelt
Far East
Tokio
Mutsuhito
Molten Ladle Burst Kills One in Donora Steel Plant
In Donora Pennsylvania a large ladle of molten steel burst in the molding department at United States Steel works. One worker was burned to death and six other employees suffered serious injuries in the Friday incident.
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Donora
United States Steel Corporation
Alberta Becomes New Province with Gov Bulyea Inauguration
Edmonton reports Alberta formally becomes a province of Canada on Friday with Governor Bulyea inaugurated as the new provincial government begins to operate.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Bulyea
Record Price for Stock Exchange Seat Sells at 84000
New York Sept 1 records for stock exchange seats were smashed when a seat sold for 83000, plus initiation brings the total to 84000. The buyer is believed to be Frank W Graves former financial writer.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Frank W. Graves
Southern Lumber Association announces pine price advance
Beaumont Texas September 1 The Southern Lumber Manufacturers association has announced a general advance of one dollar per thousand feet on pine.
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Beaumont
Tex
Southern Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Depew Exonerated as Depew Improvement Loan Paid
Equitable Life Assurance society announces payment of 298850.82 to clear indebtedness of the Depew Improvement company. Public letters from Henry B. Anderson and Paul Morton reveal Depew’s role and deny unjust allegations about Senator Chauncey M. Depew. Morton says matter disposed satisfactorily to Equitable.
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New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Senator Depew
Equitable
Depew
Morton
Improvement Company
The
Equitable Society
Partial solar eclipse observed from Washington to Egypt
The August 31 solar eclipse was only partial in Washington with clouds. At the U S Naval Observatory Profs Skinner Hall and two men observed three sun spots using a five inch telescope. International expeditions led by Rear Admiral Chester photographed the event in Guelma Algeria and Assouan Egypt with corona hazy but totality at Assouan lasting 2 minutes 24 seconds.
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Washington
United States Naval Observatory
Profs
Skinner
Hall
Messrs
Price
Hammond
Guelma
Algeria
American Astronomical Expedition
Chester
Assouan
Egypt
Man blinded by cannon blast at East St Louis plant
George Jones was struck by an explosion after his sledge hammer hit an old cannon at Republic Iron and Steel. The blast tore through the roof, leaving him badly lacerated and possibly permanently blinded. Doctors at St Marys Hospital confirm likely lifelong vision loss. He did not know the cannon was loaded.
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East St. Louis
Ill
Republic Iron & Steel
George Jones
Jones
St. Mary’s Hospital
Fire at Yale club kennels kills thirty eight dogs
A fire at the Yale club kennels in New York fatally burned thirty eight pedigree dogs after an oil lamp toppled during a kennel tour. Five dogs survived as the blaze was brought under control.
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New York
Yale Club
Ben
Chip of the Old Block
Kermit Roosevelt, son of the president, returned to Deadwood after a ten days hunting trip with Capt. Seth Bullock and party. He killed a small brown bear and two wild cats during the trek, which covered 350 miles by horseback.
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Deadwood
S. D
Kermit Roosevelt
Seth Bullock
Roosevelt
King Oscar Knights Memphis Trader in Royal Order of Vasa
The King of Sweden has awarded Knighthood of the Royal Order of Vasa to B. Lowenstein of Memphis Tennessee. Mr Lowenstein has been a regular visitor to Sweden for twelve years.
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Oscar
Stockholm
Sweden
Royal Order of
Vasa
B. Lowenstein
Memphis
Tenn
Lowenstein
Fire destroys business section in Wiemingsburg Ky
In Maysville Kentucky on September 2 a Friday fire wiped out nearly the entire business section of Wiemingsburg. The blaze destroyed the railroad depot several stores and two newspaper offices with losses around 75000 dollars and little insurance coverage.
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Maysville
Wiemingsburg
Factory Destroyed in Stockton Fire
The Tesla briquette factory and coal bunkers on the waterfront in western Stockton were destroyed by fire, with an estimated loss around $50,000.
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Stockton
Cal
Tesla
Farmers Bank Reopens After Gobin Absence Triggers Run
Metcalf Illinois September 1 The Farmers bank reopened Thursday after failing to open Saturday due to president John L. Gobin's absence. A run began at opening and continued briefly though much of the money was later redeposited.
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Metcalf
Ill
Farmers’ Bank
John L. Gobin
Aged Fire Chief James McMenamin Dies at 76
Kansas City records the death of James McMenamin the first chief of the city fire department at age 76 in a September 1 report. The obituary notes his long service and leadership during the department’s early years.
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Kansas City
James McMenamin
Peace treaty outline seals Russo Japanese accord
En voys of Japan and Russia finalize a 13 article draft in Takahira's canopied room confirming terms on Manchuria Korea Port Arthur railways and Sakhalin plus prisoner exchange. Roosevelt receives a Japanese telegram praising his role in peace efforts.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Japan
Russia
Takahira
China
Manchuria
Saint Louis Man Receives Papal Honor
James Ghio of St Louis was decorated with the cross of the order of Pro Ecclesia et Pontificio by direct order of Pope Pius X. This high civilian honor was bestowed on Sunday, Sept 5, in St Louis.
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St. Louis
Order of Pro Ecclesia el Pontifico
James Ghio
Pius X
Seven Horses Cremated in Canton Stable Fire
Stark county race track stables burned late Sunday night. Of 35 horses housed there seven perished in the blaze.
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Canton
Stark County Race Track
Boy Confesses to Train Stone Death in McKeesport
Nine year old George Toal of McKeesport tells coroner he threw a stone at a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train on July 17, killing Albert P. Campbell of Charleston West Virginia. He says no harm was intended. Plague declared in Zanzibar with ten cases and five deaths.
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Pittsburg
George Toal
McKeesport
Baltimore & Ohio
Albert P. Campbell
Charleston
W. Va
Zanzibar
Crab Apples and a Curious Sack at Hotel Wendig Cafe
Four men enter the Hotel Wendig cafe with a large sack. A German waiter peeks inside and a crab escapes, releasing two hundred crabs that swarm the area before being recaptured. The men explain the apples are for the children and depart.
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Hotel Wendig
Twelfth
Market Streets
Philadelphia Press
Fritz
Liberty
Severn
Baker Aims for Light Bread In City Feats
A humorous exchange between a woman customer and a baker centers on making bread so light that two of the pound loaves would weigh 16 ounces. The quip highlights the baker's boastful lightness and the customer’s witty retort.
Perjury quip cited in Yonkers satire
A Yonkers Statesman joke mocks false statements by a husband from Mrs. Bacon and Ms. Egbert asking if he is improving. The punch line notes he now makes an affidavit about his catches during fishing rather than reporting them truthfully.
Dodd's Kidney Pills Credited With Curing Dropsy
Special from Monticello Mississippi reports Mrs. L E Baggett cured of dropsy after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. She says her urine flowed normally and doctors had diagnosed dropsy. The note claims the pills purify blood and strengthen the body, calling Dodd's Kidney Pills the greatest tonic.
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Monticello
Miss
Lawrence County
Dodd
L. E. Baggett
Photographer Offers Reduced Rates for Tribune Portraits
A humorous exchange shows the photographer urging a more pleasant pose while offering half-rate portraits for Chicago Tribune coverage, promising a satisfactory result and scene-friendly photographs.
Complexion Cure Promises Clear Skin With Cuticura Regimen
Advertises Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap for pimples blackheads and eczema promising rapid improvement. Claims cleansing scalp and preventing skin troubles with a morning and evening routine. Ends with a Boston Globe quip about a pretty girl and a man's watch.
Excursion Fares From Chicago to Philadelphia
Philadelphia and return, 19 dollars with going dates September 15 16 and 17. Liberal limits and stopovers. Full particulars at city ticket office corner Clark Street and Jackson Boulevard Chicago. Telephone Harrison 1757. A man is likely to get along very well in the world if he can realize there are some people who know as much as he does.
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Boston Globe
Philadelphia
Return
City
Clark St
Jackson Blvd
Chicago
Harrison
N. Y Press
Quincy
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain Territory
The Nickel Plate passenger service praised for care and trains
The article extols the Splendid Passenger Service of the Nickel Plate Road with colored porters in uniform aiding 1st and 2nd class passengers. It promises excellent dining and sleeping car service with no excess fares and departs from Ta Salle Street Chicago. It catalogs contact details for tickets and rates and ends with unrelated ad copy and a quote about a new era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ta Salle Street Station
Chicago
Calahan
Adama St
Severe Surgery in India Prompts Urgent Cardiac Relief
A physician hears a curious swelling over the heart and insists on immediate relief. The patient laments the swelling is his pocketbook, urging gentler treatment as a medical record notes a fee of two dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Panama Canal Reference Echoes in Proverbial Talk
A fragmented quotation discusses the Panama Canal as a long line of politics across the Isthmus. It contrasts listening and speaking, urging one to choose silence over provoking audiences. The piece cites a Chesterfield adage about being heard.
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Panama Canal
Isthmus
Panama
Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People T
An ad touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a dual remedy for typhoid after effects and nervous debility. It cites a Maine case of post fever weakness with heart palpitations and numb hands, claiming rapid improvement and full recovery after weeks of use. It notes the product is drug-free, guaranteed, and available via druggists or the Schenectady company.
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Williams
Charles Worth
East Vassalboro
Maine
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
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