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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 07, 1905
Page
11
The narrative thread shows Mr Atkins detached from politics while Mr Chamberlain and Lord Rosebery loom as figures in a wartime debate. A veteran rooms talk about officers and soldiers, with comic interludes about barroom life and a mock reproof for mischief in the ranks.
A Saturday night blaze at 19 Par road Plumstead killed Emily Gritton 44 and Annie Parkinson 5 and left Grace Parkinson 3 dying after rescue efforts. Mrs Parkinson’s husband works in South Africa. Mrs Gritton and two children perished as flames spread from a front sitting room trapping them upstairs. Grace Parkinson survived long enough for first aid before dying at Woolwich Workhouse Infirmary. An inquest will follow the deaths.
In a playful exchange, a young man offers to read Evie's fortunes while she jokes about him reading between the lines. Evie teases that he can read her thoughts, and the two share light banter about signs and fate.
English bishop records Gorky visit at Bilderlingshof on the Gulf of Riga. The interview covers religion, war, and politics with Gorky praising England as the home of liberty and expressing a deep love for English history and literature.
A Dally Mail report notes over 8000 travelers with various diseases were stopped in Germany last year while heading from Austria Russia and interior Germany toward Bremen and Hamburg for embarkation to the United States. Officials say 89 evaded detection at Bremen but were deported upon arrival in the United States.
An inquest at London Hospital on April 19 heard a letter from Joseph Halpern, a 44 cigarette maker born in Roumania then raised in Cairo, who died after consuming poison at Torwt Cohen's Restaurant. The German letter warned friends away from cards and lamented life as a game, urging care to avoid ruin, with Halpern identifying himself as the author and calling for readers to stay clear of gambling. The jury returned a verdict of death by self act while of unsound mind.
In Swindon on April 27 John Page Smith aged 33 shot his wife in Bridge Street and then killed himself. The woman and their daughter fled. a bystander rescued the child. The wife may recover while the husband died after being refused hospital admission and sent to Stratton Workhouse.
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