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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1905
Page
2
The Treasury Department seeks to label the oyster as a factory worker in a tax dispute over half pearls imported from Japan. If courts decide these pearls are manufactured, the oyster would be deemed a factory hand and subject to higher duties.
A Japanese private student at DePauw University in Greencastle writes to the Indianapolis News with remarkably progressive views. He criticizes Russia as fighting under Christianity and Japan as fighting for humanity under heathen terms, condemns hypocritical preachers and wealth influence, laments declining morality, and urges editors to uphold duty to God and man.
Nursing has shifted from family and neighbor care to hospital based training. After a three year apprenticeship, nurses gain graduate certificates and serve in homes, providing skilled, accepted care. The profession is valued alongside physicians, offering strong pay and attracting bright young women.
President Roosevelt abandons a 30 year old rule against dining out and attends a dinner at the house of the vice president elect. He argues there is no reason to miss good times at others homes due to his presidency.
European observers praise American women for independence and courage citing cases of a girl stopping a wrecked train and a woman driving off workers with a revolver. The piece argues US girls are raised to ride, compete, and govern personal safety, with chaperones and espionage viewed as harmful.
The article decries college football as harmful to academic life. It condemns secrecy in play, coaching on the sidelines, offside by players, and violent actions from kneeing to heavy blows, arguing the sport promotes exploitation of the weaker and corrupts public standards.
The text argues that divorce is not a divine statute but an ideal for marriage. Jesus taught the purpose and divine conception of marriage as a perfect permanent union, leaving legal enactment to authorities. Divorce is framed as a failure to attain the ideal, not an impermissible act.
Unprecedented cold and deep snow cripple rail travel across the Midwest and Southwest from Chicago to Oklahoma and New Mexico. Record lows, frostbitten livestock losses, coal shortages in Marshalltown Iowa, and a Missouri Pacific relief train heading to Butler.
The Herald reports District Attorney Jerome has directed experts to inspect 60 or more playhouses in the county over two months. Findings show risk to patrons, prompting plans to present reports to Mayor McClellan and, if needed, seek grand jury indictments against managers for unsafe conditions.
Silvia, sailing from New York and Halifax, endured a epic North Atlantic blizzard that drove her 80 miles offshore among ice floes on the Grand Banks. Engines failed for 24 hours as passengers and crew pumped tirelessly, fearing foundering until repairs restored power and Trepassey became her safe harbor.
Albert E. Leighton of 41 South Nineteenth Street Philadelphia was arrested in New York after a bill against America and the Young Men's Christian Association for 5 000 000 000 appeared in his possession and a revolver was found in his pocket. A letter to Miss Helen M. Gould was also found and police say he has been writing proposing marriage. Leighton is described as suffering from religious melancholia.
President Roosevelt spoke on the race problem at a Lincoln dinner in New York praising southern reform efforts against lynching and urging northern support to elevate backward and preserve forward race progress. Sen Dolliver Knight Beck also spoke as the Waldorf Astoria event drew a large crowd and lavish decor. The same evening the New York Press club dinner at the Astor honored Roosevelt with Baron von Speck-Sternberg delivering a speech.
Tracey C. Becker’s inquiry into the Buffalo German Bank shows Arthur E. Appleyard of Boston gained control in 1904 and borrowed heavily, with officials alleging check kiting. When the bank closed December 1904, Appleyard and connected street railways owed over 662000, secured partly by railway bonds. Becker estimates 25 percent recovery.
In Cincinnati on February 18 a ice gorge broke causing a steamer to sink and 150 barges released to drift down the Ohio River. Another steamer was carried away in the ice and several vessels suffered damage as North Bend and Covington waterworks gorges failed, risking half a million dollars in river property.
London reports the Torrey-Alexander revival began slowly last week due to seating fears but gained momentum. By last night Albert Hall was filled within 15 minutes and about 10,000 people were turned away, with attendance spanning all social classes.
Denver officials report the Colorado house of representatives passed an eight hour bill. The measure applies to labor in actual mining or those at blast furnaces smelters stamp mills and chlorination and cyanide processes and excludes other mining mill and smelter workers.
Detroit residents fled in night attire as a fire at the six story Alhambra apartments triggered the upheaval. The building had been robbed recently and over a dozen tenants who dined at the in building cafe were poisoned by arsenic in muffins, with a woman employed in the building under arrest. Several victims remain in dangerous condition.
In Lodz and Poland the strike wave shows some workers returning but large factories still shut. Pay from an unknown source supports families, while employers fail to reach terms. Officials fear spring cholera and typhoid outbreaks, with cases rising in St. Petersburg and other cities.
Chicago reports Johann Hoch admitted marrying thirteen women in the last decade. Eight wives are dead, Hoch says he claimed natural deaths and denies poisoning anyone. He says his marriages were business ventures targeting women over 45 for money.
Mount Sterling Kentucky February 15. The ice gorge on the Kentucky river has reached danger stage forcing families in the lowlands to relocate. Ice piles 20 feet high with a ten mile log jam behind it. Mills suffer losses over 100000 dollars and about 200000 logs are in the river as more drift in. Men worked all night in freezing water to save logs. many were exhausted and clothing had to be cut free.
Fire partly destroyed the Brevoort house at 143 145 Madison street in Chicago on Tuesday causing about 100000 in losses for the building and hotel furnishings. The blaze burned for nearly an hour and forced 150 guests to flee. Three firemen were injured one severely, but none of the guests were hurt.
At Huanshan on Feb 11 the Japanese focus on the railway corridor and two main roads to Mukden. Armies along the line are in close contact. Local natives have fled, leaving stone houses and walls converted into fortresses, with icy declivities making ascent nearly impossible.
The Battle House and the Commercial Hotel in Mobile suffered a devastating fire on February 14. Firefighters contained the flames by daylight Monday. Total loss estimated at 400000 dollars. No fatalities, but Fire Chief Price and Fireman McMahon were injured by falling bricks.
An Illinois Central passenger train is stalled three miles from Monroe Wisconsin in a snow drift. A helper double-header from Freeport was sent to assist but remains stuck. The two locomotives were eventually released, but the passenger train could not yet be freed.
In BloomfieldNew Jersey on February 13 Mrs Elsie Loux killed her two young children aged 18 months and 3 years then attempted suicide. After neighbors found them the mother lay dying and left a note to her husband claiming it was better that she and the children die than endure further suffering from asthma.
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