News Notes of Interest A World Wide Digest
Secretary of War Taft arrives in Honolulu. A lynching near Golinda Texas follows an assault on Mrs. Benjamin Roberts. Arkansas anti trust law upheld by the state supreme court. Odessa leaders executed. other nations report fires, drownings, and political clashes. Peary begins polar quest while rail transport and weather disasters gather pace across multiple states.
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Taft
Honolulu
Benjamin Roberts
Golinda
Tex
George F. Chaplin
Monroe County
Ark
America
Theatrical Trust
United States
Canada
Iowa Central Railroad
Richland
J. W. Warfield
St. Louis County Bank
Clayton
William Dwyer
Oakland
Ethel M. Cram
New York
Lenox
Mass
Chicago
John
John D. Bowen
Cumberland
Odessa
Gen. Agnatieff
Raymond V. Stough
St. Louis
Concord
N. C
Benjamin Webb Williams
Dorchester
Paris
Prevet
Senator Delpech
Herman Bartels
Bay City
Mich
Supreme Court of
Old Line
Coal and Coke
Charleston
Elkins
W. Va
Henry G. Davis
Senator Elkins
Vanderbilts
West Virginia
Emil Arton
Pittsburg
Keuka Lake
N. Y
Maude Maston
Penn Yan
Remer Faulkner
Mansfield
Russian envoy Witte named chief plenipotentiary for peace talks
Emperor Nicholas signs M. Witte’s appointment to lead Russian negotiations in the United States with plenary powers. In parallel, Tokyo announces a July 11 12 fight near Darline and vicinity where Japanese forces broke a Russian defense, seized prisoners, captured four field pieces and a machine gun, and sustained around 70 casualties versus 160 Russians.
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Nicholas
M. Witte
Committee of Ministers
United States
Tokio
Darline
Mauka
South Sakhalin
Heat Wave Devastates Cities With Record Temperatures
Eastern cities report record highs from July heat with New York reaching 96 and Philadelphia 98.3 as prostrations and deaths mount. Officials note many street thermometers read higher. Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington also suffer widespread distress and fatalities.
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New York
New England
Philadelphia
Weather Bureau
Boston
Baltimore
Washington
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Chief of Statistics Bureau Hyde resigns amid cotton scandal
John Hyde, head of the bureau of statistics in the department of agriculture, resigned and handed the notice to Secretary Wilson. Willet N. Hays takes temporary charge as investigation of the cotton scandal continues. Hyde says he faces criticism and health prevents continuing the fight against the cotton growers’ campaign to remove him.
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Grand Jury
Philadelphia
John W. Hill
Filtration Bureau
Rosebud
8. D
Roy McFadden
St. Elmo
Herrick
Hazel Mountain Coal Co
Black Ridge
Royal Arcanum
New Jersey
Supreme Council
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
John Hyde
Statistics Bureau
The
Agricultural Department
Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Willet N. Hays
Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde
Department
Edwin S. Holmes
Systom Secret Service
Aeronaut Maloney Falls 300 Feet to Death at Santa Clara
Daniel Maloney, a frequent flyer with Prof. Montgomery, died after his aeroplane released from a balloon at Santa Clara college. Witnesses say the craft swerved and capsized twice during a dive from 400 feet, with Maloney unable to regain control before the fatal plunge.
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San Jose
Cal
Daniel Maloney
Montgomery
Santa Clara
Maloney
Santa Clara College
College Garden
Terribly Fatal Gasoline Explosion in Newberry Area
In Newberry Michigan on July 19 a gasoline blast in Dan Zong’s McMillan home fatally burned him. His eight year old daughter was burned severely and his wife leapt from a second story window, breaking her ankle, and is expected to die. The house was destroyed.
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Newberry
Mich
McMillan
Here
Dan Zong
Six Die in Fire at Wabasha Depot Hotel
A blaze at the Depot hotel in Wabasha Minnesota Tuesday morning killed six people. Local authorities investigate cause as firefighters battled flames, amid investigations into safety lapses and possible structural issues.
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Wabasha, Minn
Refuge of the Boy and Come to Me Then Verse Fragments
Poetic lines reveal longing and memory in Come to Me Then, with a speaker seeking presence as life wears on. Reflections switch to a child's view of parental knowledge, contrasting a mother’s instinct with a father’s routines, ending with a New York Times note.
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Yesteryear
J. M. Lewis
Houston Post
The Doorway to Love and Fear
The narrator nears a desolate portal in a tangled wood where two bolts named Sorrow and Pain guard passage. Two dim lights glow red as Blood and Tears. a frightened heart beats against the bolt, then, through effort, the door yields and the other side reveals Love. Ella Heath, in Lippincott's.
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Love
Ella Heath
Lippincott’s
Half Rose Half Thorn and Lyrical Blossoms in Verse
The piece opens with a Romantic fable of a rose wooed by Cupid, showing love as half rose half thorn and a fading bloom. It shifts to a Boston Transcript citation and a second verse praising lyrical blossom, ending with a bold line to slay sorrow with beauty.
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Cupid
Boston Transcript
Louise Morgan Sill
Harper's Weekly
Musicians and Writers in a World of Eccentric Beliefs
Josef Hofmann the pianist is an avid electrician and dedicates spare time to science. Prof Angelo Heilprin edits a world gazetteer while Dr Richard Strauss earns 500 for conducting his own works. Mme Paderewski fears public scorn if Paderewski cuts his hair. Sarasate clings to a lucky silver Guarnerius model. Blaine retires from Harvard music chair after 66 years. The Fulwood chapel in Staplebay will open debt free on August 19 for a hymn anniversary. Mrs Luke, author of I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old, will receive a tribute.
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Josef Hofmann
Angelo Heilprin
Mont Pelee
Richard Strauss
Luke
Fulwood Congregational
Staplebay
England
John K. Blaine
Harvard
Department of Music
Sarasate
Guarnerius
Paganini
Mme. Paderewski
London
New York
Notes About Norway Reveals Social and Economic Strengths
The article praises Norway with more reindeer than horses and more sheep than cows, wide telegraph access, and banking hours. It highlights government loans at three percent for young farmers, universal army service, low illiteracy, and high physical fitness, noting low death rates and high living standards.
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Army Services Universal
Proverb Collection Of Witty Sayings And Mottos
A selection of traditional maxims and sayings covering caution luck timing and virtue. The notes present familiar lines about slips in red danger implied by words about birds mice and cats. The collection reflects common wisdom about prudence perseverance and resilience.
Commercial Currency and Trade Highlights of 1904
The report notes Britain produces about 90 000 tons of butter annually and Denmark shipped 420 million eggs and 1 780 000 hundredweight of butter to the UK in 1904. American built cars export growth reached 40 percent in the past year. The Empire's largest flour mill is Montreal’s, outputting 5 000 barrels daily. Hand spun thread for Brussels lace reaches £240 per pound.
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Great Britain
British Empire
Montreal
Denmark
United Kingdom
Postum Food Coffee Restores health for Rome matron
A Rome New York matron describes coffee causing dizziness stomach upset and nervous irritability. She quit coffee and switched to Postum Food Coffee and reports recovery of appetite digestion and overall health with the product credited to Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan.
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Rome
N. Y
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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