Conference Adjourns as Envoys Study Terms in Peace Talks
Portsmouth Aug 18 The peace envoys completed credential exchanges with Komura forgetting his yesterday The talk centers on Japanese demands including Manchuria evacuation Saghalien cession and a billion dollar indemnity Russia seeks time to study terms and may offer written reply Vladivostok optimism grows as M Witte reports acceptable terms with amendments Talks plan dual language protocols and secretaries to draft the accords Bar on Komura’s credibility questioned amid cautious Russian stance on indemnity and possible in kind concessions such as Sakhalin transfer
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Scripps-McRae Press
Portsmouth
Barom Komura
Fijiro Takasugi
Manchuria
Saghalien
Lurcheon
Navy Yard
Boilermakers Strike Denounced as Failure at Santa Fe
George F. Dunn grand president of the Boilermakers and Shipbuilders Union says the strike against the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railway is a failure. He reports an order advising striking members to seek work elsewhere after a conference with Santa Fe official McKendrick.
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Tope&a
Ave. 10
George F. Dunn
Usion
Kansas City
Kan
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
McKendrick
Santa Fe
Yellow fever situation creates city cleanup turmoil
City streets lie littered as mayor orders a sweeping cleanup. Officials mobilize crews to address waste and health concerns amid ongoing health scare and public dissatisfaction. Residents await clearer guidance and safer conditions.
TO ABOLISH POST OFFICES
Rail and rural district readers report a drastic plan to close post offices. Mail will be returned or sent to the dead letter office as districts face service reductions. Five deaths are noted in the rural area amid officials weighing the proposal.
Vast throng at Wilkesbarre parade greets Roosevelt
Wilkes Barre was crowded with temperance advocates miners and others for the Catholic Total Abstinence parade to see President Roosevelt. John Mitchell Cardinal Gibbons Mayor Weaver and other national figures attended. Five deaths and twelve new cases were noted in the area.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Wilkesbarre
Special Commission to Probe John Byers Store Collapse
Albany Aug 10 a special commission will investigate the John Byers company department store collapse which killed thirteen people and likely fatally injured two others To prevent bias the mayor ordered all investigators to be from out of town.
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Albany
N. Y
John Byers Company
Gaus
Roosevelt heads to Wilkesbarre for union abstinence rally
President Roosevelt and party left Oyster Bay for Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania to address a joint meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union and the United Mine Workers. About two hundred townspeople gathered at the station to see him depart in his private car. He is expected to return Saturday.
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Oyster Bay
Aus
Roosevelt
Wilkesbarre
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
United Mine Workers
Man Found Dead by Suicide in Fairview Cemetery
An unidentified man, about 65, shot himself in the head at Fairview cemetery in Council Bluffs after arriving from Kansas City. A Kansas City restaurant card with a pencil name, Frank R, was found on his clothing. The body is described as five foot six, about 110 pounds, and identified by a conductor.
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Omaha
N.p
Council Bluffs
Cochran
Fairview
Kansas City
Frank
Quarantine Guards Hold Couple During Memphis Drive
In Memphis on August 10 a young society couple Miss Nannie MacGruder and James Newton were held outside the city due to quarantine rules requiring health certificates. After an all night wait Newton returned to obtain the certificate, while Miss MacGruder explained she had not eloped amid gossip. Cars at Union station faced broken windows as travelers were kept from bursting air.
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Nannie MacGrucer
James Newton
MacGruder
Newton
Missy MacGruder
Union Station
Post Office Robbers Nab Three Cincinnati Crooks
United States Commissioner W R Jeffries jailed George A Ruffin for his role in the Smithton post office robbery. Deputy Morrison captured accomplices near Warrensburg. Charlie Cramer alias Bill Crumman and Charles Sstaff alias Tommy Ryan denied guilt but were remanded in jail after evidence. The trio, from Cincinnati, are believed involved in multiple robberies around Semalia.
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United States
W. R. Jeffries
George A. Ruffin
Smithton
Morrison
Clinton Ruffin
Warrensburg
Charlies Cramer
Bill Crumman
Charles Sstaff
Tommy Ryan
Cincinnnati
Semalia
Clinton
Practical Christianity Elder Russell Speaks at Camp Meeting
Elder Russell addresses the Adventist camp gathering on Bible conversion and practical Christian living. He emphasizes personal faith and nurture of new believers during the event attended by church members and attendees.
Proceedings on Educational Work at Camp Yesterday
Yesterday focused on practical instruction with nurses from sanitariums present. Prof. Lewis Kern taught church school teachers and the congregation while C Phillips spoke daily on spreading God’s truth through books. Elder K C Russell led a Bible study on Bible Conversion as Adventists discuss heart change and moral reform.
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Lewis
Kern
C. Phillips
Iola Dynamiter Case Opens Insanity Proceedings Awaited
The case against dynamiter C. L. Melvin in Iola Kansas ends with planned insanity proceedings. Attorneys will await the charge outcome as a heavy jail guard remains on duty and no public demonstration occurs.
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Scripps-MecRace Press Association
Iola
Kas
Agianst
C. L. Melvin
Drownings Probe Spurs Startling Theories In Toledo
The Toledo inquiry into a mysterious double drowning shifts toward alarming theories. Authorities note frailties of human nature and cite biblical passages while examining links between Ella Graybill Jessie McCoy and others. Anonymous letters threaten abducting Ella unless she ends relations with Brenninger.
Missouri State Fair to Spotlight Record Horticultural Exhibit
The Shepard and Cross nursery firm of Lamonte Missouri plans the largest single exhibit ever at the Missouri State Fair, surpassing the world’s fair display in St Louis. The fair features four auto races on the track including a one mile attempt to set a world record, with Barney Oldfield possibly competing after recent injuries.
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Shepard and Cross
Lamonte
St. Louis
J. W. Hill
Chillicothe
Rippey
Fair Grounds
Barney Oldfield
Messrs. M. B. Coleman
H. B. Harris
Hand Bruise at Laundry Causes Minor Injury
Laura Strickland, a worker at M. Finnegan and Co. laundry on Last Third street, caught her right hand in a color machine this morning around 11 o'clock. Dr. W Ferguson treated the injured hand, and doctors believe no serious damage will occur and the hand will be saved.
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Laura Strickland
M. Finnegan & Co
Last Third Street
W. Ferguson
Horse killed by fright near Fifteenth and Ingram
A gray horse attached to the Lemp Ice and Refrigerating delivery wagon was frightened by the city’s new willirus wallions and fell dead near Fifteenth and Ingram avenues. The animal, valued at 150 to 175 dollars, appeared to be injured internally and died almost immediately.
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Lemp
Fifteenth and
Ingram Avenues
Tragic Wedding Day Death In Joplin Mine Shaft
Albert Merithew 21 of Prosperity died after falling into a mine shaft at Phoenix mine just after dressing a coworker's wound. He was about to wed Miss Dicia Powell and had fainted earlier, health poor. The incident occurred in Joplin Missouri on August 10. The Terra Nova rescued Fiala party sighted off Nonnigsvamg with all aboard saved except one Norwegian sailor who died.
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Marine Hospital Service
Scripps-McRae Press Association
Christiana
Anthony Fiala
Brooklyn
William Zeigler
Nonnigsvamg
Fiala
America
Rich Man's Son Commits Suicide in Los Angeles
Charles Hinckle, son of a wealthy Pennsylvania man and 1939 graduate of Pennsylvania and Lehigh universities, unable to find work, died by his own hand in the street in Los Angeles on the night of August 10.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Los Angeles
Cal
Charles Hinckle
Pennsylvania
Lehigo
Professor Snow Resigns From Sedalia High School
Professor R E Snow resigns as instructor in the commercial department at Sedalia High School and will take a government position, notifying the board of education of his departure.
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R. E. Snow
Sedalia High School
Board of Education
Sugar famine hits Northern Texas amid quarantine block
Dallas reports a sugar famine across Northern Texas with no barrels in jobbing houses. Authorities blame Louisiana quarantine for blocking traffic and delaying refinery orders. San Francisco and New York expected to relieve the shortage.
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Sertons-AlcRae Press Association
Dallas
Texas
Louisiana
San Francisco
New York
Marriage of Laura Pearson and Herbert Castle
Miss Laura Pearson wed Herbert Castle in a Wednesday ceremony at the First Christian church with Rev. J. M. Rudy officiating. The couple resides at 801 North Grand Avenue and will live on Castle’s farm near the state grounds.
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Laura Pearson
Herbert
Castle
First Christian Church
J. M. Rudy
North Grand Avenue
St. Castle
Mr. Castle
Government orders seek arrest of telegraph wire cutters
Seattle August 10 The government acts against the telegraphers strike on the Pacific coast with District Attorney Frye ordered to arrest anyone cutting or molesting telegraph wires. The move signals strict enforcement of labor disruption controls during the walkout.
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Scripps-McRae Prews Association
Seattle
Wash
Pacific Coast
Frye
Wies
Rev McNally Dead In Missouri
Rev. Charles T. McNally a prominent Missouri Methodist divine died suddenly Monday morning at his daughter's home in Chillicothe from heart trouble.
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Charles T. McNally
Missouri
Chillicothe
Enjoying Western Trip by County Collector Scott
County Collector W. S. Scott and wife are visiting Winfield Kansas on the way home from Colorado. Scott reports a pleasant trip and plans to be home in about a week.
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W. S. Scott
Winfeld
Kas
Colorado
Mr. Scott
Smith Improves From Rheumatism Not Paralysis
J. W. Smith, a farmer near Houstonia, once thought to have paralysis after a stroke, is improving. The physician now says the ailment is rheumatism and not paralysis.
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J. W. Smith
Houstonia
Mr Smith
Knights of Columbus Picnic at Forest Park
Knights of Columbus members and their guests spent an evening at Forest Park enjoying dancing bowling and other amusements in a well attended outing with friends.
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Knights of Columbus
Forest Park
Knights
Rev Sitler Coming to Visit Sedalia Pastor
The Rev. J. S. Bivler formerly of Sedalia and now in Chicago will be the guest of Rev. S. B. Martin Sunday. He was once pastor of the First M. E. church in Sedalia.
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J. S. Bivler
Chicago
Sedalia
M. E
Martin
Driving Club Meeting Called for Elks Rooms
Dr. W. J. Ferguson, president of the Gentlemen's Driving Club, issues a call for a members meeting at 7:30 tonight in Elks rooms. The gathering aims to arrange the races planned for the fair week.
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W. J. Fergnson
Gentlemen's Driving Club
Elks Clrooms
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