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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
2
Publication entry for Pioche Weekly Record from RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY Wn E Orr and Eugens Goodrich as lessees. Includes subscription and postal entries, referencing local post office handling and class designation.
A chaotic report lists a fireman killed and multiple injuries tied to a fight at the Davie Smith company block in Tacoma. Various notes follow on crimes, indictments, political moves, and regional incidents across Colorado Nevada Wyoming and nearby areas.
Chinese authorities seized the Japanese steamer Tats Maru ten miles off Manila Bay awaiting a pilot to reach a Portuguese port. The action followed Japanese protests over flags and a demand for release, with Chinese gunboats and armed troops securing the vessel. Reports say Tokyo and Pekin will press for restitution and punishment of those who seized the ship.
A Sunday fire in Tampa northern neighborhood raged for four hours, burning 55 acres and 18.5 blocks. Loss estimated at 600000 dollars. One woman died from shock. The blaze consumed cigar factories, restaurants, saloons, boarding houses, and over 200 homes in a wide urban area.
A fragmented mix from a 19th or early 20th century US paper covers a Bible-era Job dialogue, hog cholera warnings, a police wagon anecdote, a Virginia hunting style tale, a West End Republican club remark, and a Postum- coffee health testimonial. It weaves literary, civic, and medical notes through brief vignettes and quotes.
A port banker named Edmund Clarence Stedman loses his temper with a servant. A thrown book, valued at fifty dollars, is recovered by a passerby who steals it back after it is bought at a secondhand shop for forty dollars. He discovers the returned copy bears his own card. The incident cures him of throwing books at servants.
The fleet of American battleships departed Callao on Saturday bound for Magdalena Bay with an arrival targeted around March 14. The voyage covers about 3012 nautical miles and may extend thirty days for target practice at Magdalena Bay before continuing toward San Francisco. The squadron began in Hampton Roads on December 16, stopping at Trinidad Rio de Janeiro Punta Arenas and Callao, completing a South American circuit in roughly 73 days.
In New Mexico, famed gunman Pat Garrett, known for killing Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by J Wayne Bratte a ranchman near Las Cruces after a ranch dispute. Garrett was returning from a visit to a ranch with a friend when overtaken by Bratte who fired twice.
A leading Novo Vremya article argues American plans for the Manila project will make Cavite a premier Pacific naval base, enabling the United States to press for an open door in Manchuria. It states Roosevelt’s intent to raise the issue is real, not just hinted, and that soft words accompany a big stick policy.
Mrs. Sallie French of Pancannla Indian Territory describes seven years of female troubles and near collapse. After seeking doctors’ help with no improvement she wrote to Mrs. Pinkham and used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, now reporting she is strong and well.
An aged advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard cure for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and backache. It invites letters to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice from a trusted reformer with decades of experience.
Six National Sulphur Company mill employees in Brooklyn suffered severe burns and lacerations from a sulphur explosion that wrecked the plant. A truck driver was struck by falling roof debris, fracturing his skull. The factory, destroyed by fire, faced about 100000 dollars in losses, likely sparked by a grinding machine igniting powdered sulphur.
Police move against socialist obstruction as woman leads crowd at a Broadway Franklin street gathering. George M Woodby, J Hicks and Mrs Josie Shuck arrested during a meeting with several hundred bystanders. Demonstration followed the arrest amid rising tensions.
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