Crime and labor notes fill Morven Mail June 2 1904
Readable items cover a range of incidents from 400 mine workers laid off at Wakefield Michigan to a Bronx auto crash injuring two. dockside gold transfers for the Panama Canal deal. a New York subway fatality from a 30,000 volt test. labor stoppages in Boston painters and a New Jersey wage cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherton
Sunday Lake
Wakefield
Mich
Cooper
Asiatic Squadron
Sterling
American Window Glass Co
Philadelphia
American Co
Portland
Ind
John Schoonover
R. J. Knox
Jim
Penman
Knox
Muncie
Bank of Greenbri
Paris
Fore River
Quincy
Mass
New York
John Southmayd
Horace Amedo
Liguria
San Francisco
Speyer & Co
Boston
Riverdale
Bronx
Episcopal Diocesan Convention of
Missouri
John T. Cronin
Samuel McAuliffe
Health Department of
Rochester
N. Y
New Jersey
Palace of
Damascus
Syria
St. Louis
West Liberty
Mary Doyle
Painters’ Union
Northwest
Nebraska
South Dakota
Northwestern
Union Pacific
Japanese Army Drives Russians From Kin-Chou As Nanshan Hill Attacked
Tokyo dispatch reports the Japanese seized Kin-Chou early Thursday and pressed south from Nanshan Hill against Russian fortifications on Talienwan Bay. Japanese gunboats aided shelling as Russian forces retreated, while Moscow weighs the possibility of a larger feint to foil Oku’s(Liao-Tung) campaign plans.
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Tokio
Kin- Chou
Nanshan Hill
Talienwan
Nanshan
Talienwan Bay
Liao Tung
Port Arthur
Kin-Chou
Kin-Chou Bay
Japanese Lose Gunboat and Two Destroyers at Port Arthur
Reports from Mukden state May 28 night Japanese attempted to block Port Arthur by sinking merchant ships. One gunboat and two torpedo boat destroyers were sunk. merchants retreated as searchlights detected the attack. Civilian hardship, famine prices, and halted ship repairs reported in New Chwang. Kin-Chou to Wafangtien railway gaps and 15 000 Japanese troops at Wafangtien. Russian evacuation of Dalny noted. heavy fighting continues northeast of Feng-Wang-Cheng near Kin-Chou with both sides bearing losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mathilde
Paris
Napoleon I
Westphalia
New York City
Peddlers’ Association
McClellan
Far East
Pinkett
Gravesend Bay
New York
Wallingford
Seymour
Government Proving Grounds
Sandy Hook
Coney Island
Chicago
Schuettler
W. E. Brown
First National Bank of
Storm Lake
Federal Grand Jury
Eloise Reusse
St. Paul
Minn
State Hospital
Elgin
Whitman
Plymouth
George Shepla
Susquehanna
Anna N. Park
Hiram Staley
Chesterfield
Ind
Green Bay
Wis
Albert Delaport
Fort Wayne
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Ray W. Harrison
Meda Marin
Donnelly, Minn
Harrison
Great Britain
Russia
Behring
Sea
Vancouver
Goff
Webb
Natrona County
Wyoming
Putney Ranch
Big Horn Mountains
Mukden
Port Arthur
London
Daily Mail
New Chwang
ATI
Kin-Chou
Wafangtien
Feng-Wang-Cheng
Japanese Assault at Nanshan Hill Ends in Heavy Losses
Tokio reports nine charges against Kin-Chou fortifications with bayonet fighting to seize trenches from Russians. Japanese casualties total 8,500. Russians lose 68 cannon and ten machine guns with 500 dead in the forts. St. Petersburg notes intense public interest in Japanese dispatches and pending losses.
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Tokio
Kin-Chou
Nanshan Hill
St. Petersburg
Judge Fines Editor Daniels in Contempt Confrontation
Judge Parrnell in Raleigh North Carolina fined Josephus Daniels editor of the News and Observer 2000 dollars and denied appeal on contempt of court charge. The defense claimed Daniels purged contempt and that editorials aimed to present issues in the receivership of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad rather than contempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
Parnell
United States
Josephus Daniels
News and Observer
Daniels
Reported Defeat of Cossacks in Ai Yang Pien Men
From St Petersburg dated May reports a defeat of Cossacks at Ai Yang Pien Men. The brief item notes the loss as the sole news to reach the city.
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St .Petersburg
Ai- Yang-Pien-Men
Department Finds Ant Threat to Boll Weevil in Guatemala
The Department of Agriculture reports discovery of an ant in Guatemala that acts as an enemy to the boll weevil and will be introduced into cotton states. Botanist O F Cook, head of tropical investigations, will report needed assistance to the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Guatemala
O. F. Cook
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department
Japs Thank Americans for New Life Under Perry Treaty
Tokio scholar gathering from the Imperial University and others passes a resolution praising the United States for opening Japan to a new life and civilization via the Perry treaty and thanking Americans for friendship over the past fifty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Standard
Tokio
Imperial University
United States
Japan
Nothing But Chickens At The Free Hospital Dispensary
A humorous incident at University hospital shows a patient misinterpreting medical terms. After admitting possible pneumonia the doctor asks about chills coughs and phlegm, the patient answers with a literal twist saying he raises a few chickens. The tale, cited from the Philadelphia Telegraph, highlights patient doctor miscommunication.
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University Hospital
Philadelphia Telegraph
Nickel Plate Road Announces Elegant Train Service Features
The Nickel Plate Road promotes its up-to-date passenger service with clean well-lighted coaches and uniform porters. Dining cars offer club meals with menus from thirty-five cents to a dollar and a la carte options. No excess fare on any train, encouraging ticket purchases via Nickel Plate Route for lower rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nickel Plate Road
Experts test a man's sanity at a baseball game
A Boston Globe note humorously suggests experts assess a man's sanity by watching him at a baseball game. The line implies that intense attention to the game could reveal madness. The remark reflects early 20th century attitudes toward sports and behavior.
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Boston Globe
Sewing Machine Offers From Sears Roebuck Co
A promotional notice invites readers to mail back and cut out to receive a catalog and offers on Minnesota Singer Wheeler & Wilson White Standard and New Home sewing machines. It promises low prices and surprising propositions to tempt buyers. Sears Roebuck & Co. Chicago is the sender.
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Minnesota
Singer
Wheeler & Wilson
Standard
White
Sears, Roebuck & CO
Chicago
Market Roundup From New York to Pittsburgh
The daily markets report grain and livestock prices across several cities. New York lists flour wheat corn oats hay and livestock values. Cleveland shows flour corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes hay cattle and sheep. Toledo notes wheat corn oats and cloverseed. East Buffalo covers cattle sheep hogs. Pittsburgh records cattle prices for choice and good steers.
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New York
Minnesota
Cleveland
York State
East Buffalo
Time to Act When Kidney Pain Flareups Hit
The ad promotes Dean's Kidney Pills for sick kidneys and fatigue. It cites Mrs. W. S. Marshall of Dawson Georgia reporting swift relief for her husband after taking one box, claiming a full cure in three days. A free trial offer is available by mail from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY with the standard 50 cent price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Buffalo, N. Y
Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Gae
Boston
R. Paxton CO
Pope Bldg
Mass
Rosebud Reservation lands open for homestead entry
The Rosebud Indian Reservation lands near the Verdigre Bonesteel line will open to Homestead applicants with United States Registry Land Offices at Yankton Fairfax and Bonesteel opening July 5 registration runs to July 23 and drawings begin July 28 final entry starts August 8. Personal presence required at registration points and Bonesteel for final entry. Lands valued high in fertile Missouri Valley region, healthful high altitude, influx expected.
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Chicago & North-Western
Ba Y
Rosebud
Chicago
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Sioux City
Omaha
Roosevelt
United States Registry Land
Yankton
Fairfax and
Bonesteel
8. D
H Bonesteel
Missouri
Niobrara
Missouri Valley
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Manchuria
Kurol
Kuropatkin
Oku
Liao-Tung
Boll Weevil
Toledo
Pittsburg
F. S
Cash
Louan
OHV
Rosebud Indian Reservation
Harris
Barlow
Loston
N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
Free Homestead
Islands
Western Canada
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Canada
Ottawa
M. Walliams
Iow Building
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