11 Nov 1904
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1904
Page
1
Hopkins Allen Company advertises rifles at reduced price with a quality guarantee. The note highlights a model described as superior and available now for immediate purchase at a discount.
Advertisement listing single barrel self ejecting guns with calling price 8.76 now 3.70 and Onrne 2 gun single 5.00 now.
Washington reports President Roosevelt promised to attend the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on November 20. A St Louis committee led by Mayor Rosa Wells Wil liam Thompson and Corbin Spencer urged the visit. He may extend stay to November 27 and be joined by cabinet members.
The beer trust investigation by the Bureau of Corporations is finished and the report will be presented to the president and likely submitted to Congress after the upcoming session opens in December. No decision on legal action is yet made, and publication discretion rests with the President.
Admiral Alesietl arrives in St Petersburg as Japan’s unofficial peace overtures to Russia fail. Crowds gather along Nevsky Prospect while guards restrict access to the platform. He goes to the Winter Palace and then to the Hotel Europe for the present.
London reports Japan unofficially urged Russia toward peace but the bid failed. No intermediary or formal pledge. Japan may deny reports of seeking peace. War developments include Japanese offensives on the Tlun river left bank and Russian counterattacks. Rumors of Stoessel seeking armistice at Port Arthur unsettled, whilePanama-US canal tensions ease as Taft visit looms.
Complete but unofficial returns from nearly every Pennsylvania county show Theodore Roosevelt leading with a statewide plurality of about 494,525 and total votes around 820,125 to Parker’s 712,605. Prohibition and other minor results appear in scattered county tallies as the nation waits on final official counts.
The battleship New Jersey, built for the U S government by More River Shipbuilding, was successfully launched in a ceremony attended by Governor Murphy’s daughter Mrs Wil liam B Kinney and officials including Governor Julia Bates of Massachusetts and ex Secretary of the Navy John Loop. The ship, exceeding 19 knots, features a heavy armament and armor. In other items, preliminary agricultural statistics estimate a corn yield near 13 million bushels with varied history. A separate probate note concerns Parker will and beneficiaries. another report notes cruiser Columbia ashore at Pensacola.
Fragmented items report Roosevelt as highly regarded in the United States and abroad. Italian press praises his character and leadership, while German and Mexican observers frame his victory as imperialist and expansive, with mixed implications for policy. Tokyo notes Japanese goodwill. A separate brief notes a county treasurer shortfall and a domestic double tragedy involving Mrs Green and her husband.
Sixth attempt in weeks to wreck train No. bo on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Kearnstown failed when the locomotive collided with unsecured cross ties, narrowly avoiding derailment. The road’s detective force has been increased and a determined effort is underway to run down the would be wreckers.
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