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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1905
Page
2
A compilation of short items touching on retirements, deaths, marriages, press battles, legal opinions, social mores, crime, and curiosities. Highlights include Harry Lehr’s impending retirement into vaudeville, John J. Dowd’s death with a $30,000 fortune, a Maryland man’s 75 vote claims, and King Alfonso’s near automobile accident.
The passage notes that large hats are once more in favor, joking that they have always been in fashion. It questions the lingering image of women content with minimal headwear and hints at ongoing style debates in society.
Prof. A. J. Crooks of Northwestern, notable for declaring he had never kissed a woman, has married. The entertaining line captures the public curiosity around his personal life.
A New Jersey girl displays an unusual appetite eating coal waste paper toothpicks and string. Medical observers note a possible unusual eating pattern resembling pica or a compulsive appetite common to certain cases.
The Congregationalist notes ministers could improve sermons by reading the Wall Street Journal more often. It adds a caution that such reading might tempt them to speculate.
Twenty women testify that Bar bara Long of Mahony City Pa is a common scold with a sharp tongue. The Chicago university dean reveals the average graduating co ed is 26, explaining many things about the campus.
A dispatch notes M. Delcasse moves cautiously in demanding redress from Morocco for fear the sultan may declare a holy war. The remark highlights the tense diplomacy and potential to provoke broader conflict.
A Philadelphia judge faces potential manda nus proceedings from his wife to uncover how he gained extensive knowledge about the kissing question, hinted as a personal consequence of his legal decision.
Summerfield plunged 140 feet from the Williamsburg bridge into the East River. He swam until a tug rescued him and brought him ashore where he called for a ball.
A letter to Santa was opened in Oklahoma from an eight year old Indian boy requesting a typewriter. The note sparks a hopeful line about Lo progressing toward better prospects.
The article analyzes the term zemstvo and argues that clarifying what it is proves easier than defining what it isn’t. It critiques attempts to describe the concept and reflects on the complexity of the term in context.
A scientific sharp notes that every drop of water the body takes adds to the heart’s workload. A young man experiencing a racing heart is advised to drink a long cooling drink at the faucet.
A speaker notes that farmers have never struck, since cows must be milked and onion beds weeded regardless of farmer satisfaction with pay. The comment emphasizes daily farm duties persist despite disputes.
Berlin reports Russian forces under Kouropatkin near 700,000 as winter holds dark over Port Arthur after its surrender. Paris and Tokyo concur that mediation is unlikely while Japan edges to expand control in the region with prisoners and material transfers continuing from Port Arthur to Japanese authorities.
Washington reports that Japan has accepted Stoessel's surrender terms as General Nogi takes Port Arthur. Russians blow up most ships at harbor entrance and hostilities pause pending Russian surrender talks. Japanese minister Takahira says Japan seeks peace with justice and rights respected.
In Sioux City Iowa three states Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota wholesalers launched an organized campaign to back Roosevelt s push for stronger railroad legislation. Every jobber was urged to write to his congressman urging passage of the Cooper Quarles bill or similar measures to give the Interstate Commerce Commission more authority. Lawmakers were asked to oppose legalizing pooling as it would destroy competition.
A Tokyo telegraph publishes the capitulation text for Port Arthur. Articles cover prisoners and property transfers to Japan, forts and ships, armaments, personnel lists, and conditions for parole and post surrender arrangements.
The Mukden correspondent notes Field Marshal Oyama sent a letter to General Kuropatkin announcing Port Arthur's capitulation and praising its defenders. The news confounds expectations of continued resistance and may shift the Shakhe situation amid renewed cannonading near Sinchinpu and Shakhe.
The British cruiser Andromeda, sent to Port Arthur with hospital stores and surgeons, returned after being denied a landing. She reached a bay ten miles north of Port Arthur, where Japanese forces refused offers of aid, citing unlocated mines as the reason.
The joint statehood bill remains the Senate’s main topic this week with other measures like the omnibus bill and a fishermen’s compensation measure under consideration. Opponents plan debates to extend discussion, aiming to withhold pressure on the pure food bill while keeping Arizona and New Mexico in play.
Japanese move to establish a naval station at Port Arthur with Vice Admiral Y Shibayama likely in charge and a small garrison after prisoner withdrawal. Mines clog the harbor hindering navigation for months while government craft alone enter. Dalny may open to neutrals and Japanese firms plan weekly services. A fourth domestic war loan is proposed. Prisoner transfers completed totaling 78 officers and 23,491 men. General Stoessel and other Russian officers will be paroled to Nagasaki and then sail to Russia via Suez on a French steamer.
Thousands paid tribute to Theodore Thomas but were turned away as the Auditorium Theater seats sold out before the Chicago Orchestra memorial concert. While the public service proceeded, a program of his favorite numbers was performed in halls across the city.
Nebraska supreme court rules the 1895 sugar beet bounty law void for lack of annual appropriation. Oxnard Beet Sugar Co and Norfolk Co sought $40,000 in premiums from the state. lower court ruled against them, and the high court affirms.
London dispatches say the Port Arthur garrison was marshaled at Yakutsul on Thursday under a supplementary agreement. The town appears lightly damaged, with carriages and well dressed residents seen about. The Andromeda narrowly escaped two floating mines while heading to Port Arthur with hospital stores.
St Petersburg editor M Souvorin of Novoe Vremya signs an editorial urging a nation wide answer to the war. He says the emperor should consult land representatives as in old times and questions ending the war now, fearing a peace move would harm Russia's standing and aspirations among nations.
Robert W. Taylor of Ohio, named to the United States district court in the northern district of Ohio, plans to assume duty February 1 after Judge Francia J. Wing retires. He currently serves as principal attorney for Protestants in the Senate inquiry into Senator Smoot of Utah and would withdraw if the inquiry is not finished by February 1.
The Tokyo foreign office cable reports that by January 8 General Nog states Russian prisoners under capitulation were delivered by Saturday. Total 878 officers and 23,491 men. 411 officers and 229 noncommissioned officers have given parole. General Smirnoff Fock Gobatovsky and Admiral Willmann chose Japan as their destination.
Russian prisoners at Changkingstu awaited transport to Dalny and held morning religious services led by a priest in canonical dress. Afterward they danced on the station ground. an eight year old daughter of a Russian officer was present among the detainees.
In New York at Cooper Union a memorial meeting for the late Samuel M. Jones, long time Toledo mayor, drew nearly two thousand attendees Sunday night.
TOKIO reports the prisoner transfer concludes Sunday with 23,491 enlisted men and 878 officers moved. The tally reflects a mass relocation affecting multiple units and commands.
Thomas J. Campbell of Chicago sat guard for over a week to deter repeat break ins at his office. When two burglars forced entry, Campbell shot both as they tried to flee. Joseph Sher was shot in the body and will be. The second robber, unnamed, was wounded in the leg but escaped.
Japanese minister Kogoro Takahira says Japan has made no overtures for peace with Russia and will press the war from Liao Yang after Port Arthur's fall. Russia vows to fight on, while Europe and the United States see President Roosevelt as a possible intermediary when belligerents seek settlement.
President Roosevelt spoke at the American Forest Congress in Washington with Secretary Loeb present. Howard Elliott presided, as directors discussed an advisory board and annual meetings. Charles Manderson urged timber preservation and planting to meet rail tie demand while criticizing waste and private land sales. Herman von Schrenk cited creosote injection as not weakening wood.
The local grand jury in Washington recommends establishing the whipping post in the District of Columbia in its final report for the current term. The report aligns with the president’s message endorsing corporal punishment for wife beaters and also urges marriage applicants to prove freedom from certain diseases.
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