Cassini Ideal Diplomat Fifty Years in Service
Count Arthur Cassini marks his golden jubilee in the U S diplomatic corps in Washington. The veteran envoy, age sixty eight, remains vigorous and highly respected for tact and confidence building, with critics wary of Russia. He guards a famed arms and cigarette collection and holds a fondness for poetry while navigating China, diplomacy, and media scrutiny.
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New York Times
Washington
Arthur Cassini
Count Cassini
Truth
Cassini
Russia
Great Britain
China
Europe
Claude MacDonald
England
Tsung-Li-Yamen
MacDonald
Pekin
Secret Service Fund
Dowiger
County Cassini
Goldfogle
Russin
Count Cassin
A . Goldfogle
Count Cassini Described as Most Democratic Diplomat in Washington
The article portrays Count Cassini as a highly approachable and affable diplomat in Washington. It notes his charm and simple, plain manners while acknowledging his unmistakable status as a grand seigneur.
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Count Cassini
Washington
New Year Baby Fails to Calm Sunday Subway Guard
A Manhattan New Year celebration ends with a Brooklyn bound elevated railroad guard clashing with a horn tooter who keeps sounding a baby’s cry. The tooter refuses to stop, the guard warns him to quiet down, and passengers witness a tense, uneasy scene as the baby eventually coos instead.
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Brooklyn
Manhattan
Tooter
British Business Outlook from The Times
The Times financial supplement notes no major developments in the past week but a brighter year end. Grain markets show little activity with downward price tendency while raw cotton fluctuates. manufactured goods stay strong. Iron and steel trade is fair, Clyde ship orders up about 40 percent from last year, pig iron prices peak, copper hits a new high.
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Glasgow
Clyde
East Side Civic Club Objects to Shortened School Day
The East Side Civic Club at 254 Grand Street protests a plan to cut the school day from five hours to three in lower grades. They call the proposal a false step for New York City, arguing it ignores tenement life realities and would transform schools into nurseries while addressing part time relief.
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Civic Club
Grand Street
Board of Education
East Sake Civic Club
McClellan
New York
Death by acid drink at Hackensack saloon
William Dawson of 5 Ridgely Place Weehawken killed himself early yesterday by swallowing a mixture of acids in a saloon on the Hackensack Plank Road Union Hill after a late quarrel with his brother. He bought carbolic acid at two drug stores, urged two friends to drink, and after pouring some into his beer exclaimed Here's looking at you before drinking and dying minutes later.
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William Dawson
Ridgely Place
Weehawken
Hackensack Plank Road
Union Hill
Dawson
William
West Indian Fruit Manager Killed in Port of Spain Accident
William Symington manager and director of the West Indian Fruit Syndicate and promoter of the West Indian and Plymouth fruit trade, and Dr. T. Murray, were accidentally run over and killed December 30 by a freight train at the fruit packing shed in Port of Spain, St. Vincent.
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ST. Vincent
William Symington
West Indian Fruit Syndicate
T. Murray
Port of Spain
Minnehaha Brings W. R. Chester Crewmembers to Southampton
The steamer Minnehaha of the Atlantic Transport Line sails for New York carrying Captain Nelson his wife and five crew members from the American schooner W. R. Chester who were rescued at sea by the British steamer Anglo-Chilian and brought to Southampton.
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Southampton
Atlantic Transport Line
New York
Nelson
W. R. Chester
Anglo-Chilian
Cardinal Langenieux of Rheims Dies at 80
Cardinal Benedict Mary Langenieux Archbishop of Rheims dies at age eighty. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1886.
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Rheims
Bénédict Mary Langenieux
Fire destroys oldest mill in Plainfield city center
Early today a blaze gutted French's flour mill in Plainfield New Jersey the town's oldest building. The fire consumed flour grain and the structure with losses estimated around thirty five thousand dollars. The cause was not yet determined and firefighters battled the flames through the morning.
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New York Times
Plainfield
N. J
Jay
de Joss Ie
Chauffeur Returns Mrs Barney's Jewels After Honest Find
Herman Dudeck a chauffeur recovered a pearl and diamond necklace worth 18060 lost on a New Year's shopping trip. He kept the piece, informed Mrs Barney by private wire, then returned it for a $50 reward after she showed gratitude. Mrs Barney and husband were said to be out of town.
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Herman Dudeck
Charles T. Barney
Dudeck
Barney
Electric Vehicle Company
Mrs. Barney
Broadway
Fortysixth Street
Tiffan
Albany Plans First Annual Report on State Highway Improvements
State Engineer Henry A. Van Alstyne reports highways receive equal emphasis with canals. Since 1898 state aid funded 1,398 miles in 30 counties with $3,275,000 from the state and matching county sums. Boundary surveys with New York and Vermont are complete, with permanent monuments marking lines across several counties, though litigation delays full completion.
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Albany
Henry A. van Alstyne
Boards of Supervisors
New York
Vermont
St. Lawrence
Franklin
Lewis, Herkimer, Hamilton
Essex Counties
A Telephone to Heaven Haunts Doctor in Bellevue Ward
Dr Oswald Lillecrone a 34 year old connected with a South sanitarium was carried from 27 West Nineteenth Street to Bellevue Hospital after a bout of hallucinatory visions of communicating with heaven by telephone and a distant wireless system. He feared beheading while in the psychiatric ward.
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Oswald Lillecrone
West Nineteenth Street
Bellevue H Hospital
Andrew Kirby
Lillocrone
Heaven
Bellevue
Trade Minister Mclean weighs state cotton bonuses
Melbourne January 1 Mr McLean Commonwealth Minister of Trade plans a conference with State Premiers at Hobart in February to discuss possible state bonuses to encourage cotton cultivation in Australia.
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Melbourne
Australia
McLean
Commonwealth
Tie
Hobart
Phi Beta Kappa Charters for Colorado and California
In the western third of the United States two states Colorado and California attract distinct populations for climate and opportunity. Colorado leads in college graduates and public school spending. Phi Beta Kappa has chartered only four western institutions, including Colorado College, the University of Colorado, and the University of California.
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United States
Colorado
California
Colorado Springs
Italy
Far West
William and Mary College
Nebraska
Kansas
Phi Beta Kapper Society
Colorado College
Universit of Colonia
Univerersity
Bos
Beef Trust Men Arrested in Montana Conspiracy Case
Helena Mont December 31 warrants issued by Attorney General James Donovan target Montana agents of the beef trust for conspiring to fix meat prices and restrain trade. Representatives of Hammond Packing Armour Swift and Cudahy released on $50 bonds to appear January 9 in Justice Smith's court as Donovan retires at midnight.
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New York Times
Helena
Mont
James,Donovan
Montana
Beef Trust
O'Connell
Hammond Packing Company
Chicago
Pueblo
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Cudahy & Co
South Omaha
Smith
Justice Smith
Donovan
Supreme Court
Iron Dogs as Real Estate in Ridgely Estate Battle
Dover, January 1 Special to The New York Times. Dispute between Mrs Annie Kemp Ridgely and her stepdaughter Mrs Ruthana J Wilson over the Ridgely estate resurfaces over four iron dogs said to be part of the mansion. Wilson seeks damages claiming the dogs were real estate since they were part of the house and removed to Easton Maryland amid a prior settlement that left the daughter half in cash and half in real estate.
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New York
Dover
Del
Annie Kemp Ridgely
Ruthana J. Wilson
Henry Ridgely
Ridgely
State Street
Wilson
Easton
Chattanooga Nets Speed Triumph in Bay Trials
The protected cruiser Chattanooga completed two speed tests in Nar Ragansett Bay, averaging 16.1 to 16.375 knots on the measured mile and 16.605 knots in a four hour run off Newport. Built for 16.5 knots, the ship exceeded design in today’s trial. The endurance test begins tomorrow with a 24 hour run under gunfire and seaway. Commander J K Reeves, head of the Engineer Trial Board, was hospitalized with grip. Afterward the board will test torpedo boat Blakely at the measured mile. Blakely’s contract calls for 26 knots.
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Newport
Chattanooga
Narragansett Bay
Jamestown
Brenton Reef
J. K. Reeves
Engineer Trial Board
Naval Hospital
Coaster’s Harbor
Blakely
London Weather in 1904 Observed at Regent's Park
The Regent's Park observatory recorded a high of 89.2 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of 25 degrees in 1904. Grass temperature dropped to 2 degrees with 1282 hours of bright sunshine and rain on 157 days.
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NEW York Times
New York
London
Regent's Park
Pottery Price War Looms Across Regions
Eastern pottery manufacturers plan a drastic price-cutting contest starting tomorrow, with a clash against Western firms. The move, led by the East Liverpool Ohio group, is blamed on smaller producers who refuse to join a selling agreement.
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New York Times
Trenton
Liverpool
Ohio
Transmission of photographs by electricity described
Dr. Arthur Korn outlines a method to transmit photographs by electric lines. Light passes through the film onto a selenium cell whose resistance varies with light, sending signals to a galvanometer. For half tones and handwriting a metal foil with non conducting ink carries the signal. A strip 0.5 cm by 10 cm sends in 100 seconds.
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Arthur Korn
Electrical Review
Husband Wife Chat From the Phone Box
A brief dialogue notes a quarrel over a phone call and a hidden box. The wife asks why the husband shouts into the line, while she reveals a desire regarding a woman in a car and a mysterious box. The exchange hints at domestic tension and secrecy.
New York City Bond and Mortgage Ledger Details
A historical ledger page shows figures for bonds and mortgages, loans on collateral, cash in vaults and banks, receivables and liabilities. It lists capital, surplus, undivided dividends, checks outstanding, reserves for taxes and interest payables totaling about 19.08 million dollars.
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New York City
Money raised for New York Citys largest church progress
The Cathedral of St John the Divine in Morningside Heights plans a 5000 seat expansion to be ready within three years. A $750000 fund is in hand with $100000 more pledged to reach a million. Rev Dr William R Huntington is lauded for fundraising and constitution work.
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New York
Morningside Heights
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
West Side
Tenth Street
St. John the Divine
Diocese of
William R. Huntington
Grace Church
Huntington
Belmont Chapel
John P. Peters
George William Douglas
Ernest Voorhis
George F. Nelson
Potter and Reer
John Cornell
Automatic cheese cutter debated by Detroit Tribune
The Detroit Tribune questions whether an automatic cheese cutter accounts for density as well as volume. A store incident prompts the doubt after a man complains about holes in two pounds of cheese, suggesting imperfect cheese affects the machine’s accuracy.
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Manistee
Tribune
Detroit
Mich
Missouri Manufacturing Booms in Labor Commissioner Report
State Labor Commissioner Anderson releases annual report detailing Missouri factory growth in 1903. Reported capital investments total 145 million dollars across grounds buildings and machinery, up from 1902, with goods manufactured value rising to 311 million dollars. Total employment and wages show significant gains across industries.
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Anderson
Missouri
Val
Ee Ermally
Durig
Artme Od
Advertising for business leads to success for manufacturers
A man should push for broad trade and bold advertising to secure brilliant business gains. The piece argues that productive effort plus effective ads reach millions, with Tu Lapis Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post as profitable channels. It notes subscribers pay, making magazines valuable advertising media. Curtis Publishing Company.
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Tue Lapis’ Home Journal
Tue Saturday Evening Post
Campaigning in Wyoming Fun Up as Dances Mark Rallies
The Washington Post quotes a Cheyenne resident hailing Wyoming campaigns as joyous with county dances after speaker events. Candidates from U S Senators to constables attend, partners chosen on the spot, creating festive political gatherings and broad voter appeal.
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Wyoming
Union
F. M. Brandon
Cheyenne
United States
Washington Post
Weather Snapshot From Washington Jan 1
There will be snow Monday in the upper lake region and the New England coast will see winds light to fresh and variable becoming west by Tuesday. Rain or snow is forecast for the lower lake region, upper Ohio Valley, and Western Montana with generally fair conditions elsewhere. Temperatures will be colder in the lake region Monday and the Atlantic States Tuesday. Steamships en route to Europe will face light to fresh southwest winds and fair weather to the Grand Banks.
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Ashington
Upper Lake Region
Lower Lake Region
Upper
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic States
New England
Montana
Washington
Lake
Atlantic States
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Lake Michigan
Rts
Weather forecast for the Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes region
Eastern New York and Pennsylvania expect partly cloudy skies Monday with possible light rain or n at night. Tuesday brings fair weather and southwest to west winds. Western New York faces Monday rain or snow, colder conditions, and Tuesday snow with stronger winds. Western Pennsylvania sees rain or snow Monday, then colder Tuesday with lake-effect effects and brisk west to northwest winds. Temperatures range around 40s to mid 50s with humidity noted.
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New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Dominion considers adding West to Canadian Senate
Ottawa reports the Dominion Government weighing a proposal to create a new 24 seat group for the Canadian West. Currently 83 senators exist with only 11 from the West, and expansion would require Imperial approval for Manitoba and British Columbia before legislation at the next session of Dominion Parliament.
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New York Times
Ottawa
Cat
Dominion
Canadian Senate
Maritimerovinces
Quebec
Ontario
West
Senate
Northwest
Manitoba
British Columbia
Five Men Nabbed in Philadelphia Counterfeiting Raid
Secret Service agents swept a lodging house room and seized five men described as dangerous counterfeiters and burglars. The haul included molds, confectionery equipment, burglars' tools, and two drawers of jewelry. Names given: Frank Kelly alias Clark New York Harry Franks Danville Alexander Kelly Edward Parker and John Burns Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Secret Service
Frank Kelly
Alias Clark
New York
Harry Franks
Danville
Penn
Alexander Kelly
Edward Parker
John Burns
Comet Borelli Sighted by Two Observers
Harvard College Observatory reports Borelli's comet seen yesterday by Cole in Koenigsberg and Hammond in Washington. Right ascension 1h 15m, declination minus 8° 29'.
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New York Times
Boston
Harvard College Observatory
Borelli
Cole
Koenigsberg
Hammond
Washington
Death notices from 1904 1905 with multiple by names
This page lists multiple obituaries and funeral notices from December 1904 and January 1905. Included are Barklie Browne Calkin Carpenter Corbett Dealing Denman Gillet Lockwood Mackenzie Marshall Martin Norton Schenck Seaman Sieker Shannon Underhill and Wallace entries with ages, residences, and funeral arrangements, reflecting local customs and timing.
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Brooklyn
Calkin
Hervey C
Edith A. Calkin
Decatur Av
Bronx Park
Kensico
Carpenter
Horace Graham Carpenter
Spruce St
Richmond Hill
L. I
East 34Th St. Corbett
Ida A
Aanger
Otis G
Josephine Corbett
West 05Th St
Bishop Place
New Brunswick
N. J
Margaret Hi
Samuel F. Lealing
Greenwood
Yonkers
Denman
Cranford
Elsie Conger
John C .Denman
Mary Higginbotham
Joseph Gillet
East Skth St
Lockwood
Edwin L. Lockwood
Lek
Plymouth Church
Cranberry St
MacKenzie
Tompkinsville
Staten Island
Anna Clarkson
M. R
Henry Hewgill Stevens
New York
Christ Church
Tee Brighton
Arriages
Snug Harbor
South Ferry
Marshall
South Oranges
William Todd Marshall
James
Eleanor T. Marshall
Brewster Station
Grand Central Depot
Salege Centre
North Salem
Schenck
Charles Voorhis Schenck
Madison St
Seaman
Herbert Lowerre Seaman
Herbert Royal
Alice Adams Seaman
Lefferts Place
Booklyn
M. Sieker
St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Elizabeth St
J. H. Sieker
Shannon
Mary E. Shannon
E. H. Shannon
Denesie
West Sth
Emily M
Aert Taylor
William E. Dean
Puneral
Underhill
T Underhill
Benjamin T Eliza Weeks Underhill
Oyster Bay
St. Nea Aeening
Green Wood
Wallace
West
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