Senate approves fortifications bill and Wood nomination
The senate passed the fortifications appropriation bill on the 15th while the house focused on the postoffice appropriation bill. On the 16th and 17th executive sessions the senate considered Brig. Gen. Wood for major general, with confirmation on the 18th. The house kept debating the post office appropriation bill throughout the period.
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Senate
House
Brig
Wood
Leonard Wood
Russian Japanese War Updates From Ports and Fronts
Reports from St.Petersburg Che Foo and London detail naval bombardments and mine incidents near Port Arthur and Chemulpo. Dispatches describe Port Arthur damage, Japanese transports, and Russian bunker actions, with Chinese neutrality concerns and five potential land operation targets across the Yalu, New Chwang, and Vladivostok areas.
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St. Petersburg
Japan
Associated Press
Pekin
Russia
Kuropatkin
Liao-Yang
Che Foo
Port Arthur
Skorri
Alexieff
London
Daily Mail
Chinampo
Korea
Chemulpo
Daily Telegraph
Tokio
Starving lion mourns mate taken to Canadian zoo
In St Louis on March 19 a lion in the zoological exhibit mourns its moved mate. The animal refuses food and paces the cage ceaselessly while a fresh ox carcass lies unheeded. The mate was transported to a Canadian zoological garden.
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St. Louis
Russians Fear China Amid Reported Port Arthur Skirmishes
London dispatches summarize rumors of a Japanese land and sea offensive around Port Arthur with Russian casualties and clashes near Chyong Syong on the Yalu river. A Shanghai report notes Japanese forces crossing Tatung Pass amid collisions with Russians. Officials in St Petersburg discuss the matter with concern.
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St. Petersburg
Associated Press
Port Arthur
Mukden
Frank
Vlastini
Vladivostok
London
Yalu
Ping Yang
Yalu River
Gensan
Victoria
B. C
Manila
China
Japan
Augustus Libby
Cornelius Hoff
Libby
Hoff
Harbin
Tokio
Russia
Paris
Delcasse
San-Shan-Tao
New Chwang
Daily Telegraph
Liao Tung Peninsula
Chyong Syong
Wiji
Daily Chronicle
Shanghai
Tatung Pass
Hai Cheng
Warning to the Sultan on Macedonia reforms insistence
The Russian and Austrian embassies renewed pressure on the Porte to accept unaltered the Austro Russian reform scheme for Macedonia. They noted that the Porte’s March 17 counter proposals conflict with Turkey’s original acceptance and warned of grave consequences if delays continue.
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Constantinople
Macedonia
Turkey
Record of Kearsarge Target Practice Sets Navy Mark
A Kearsarge crew report from Pensacola shows a 13 inch gun hit six of seven in 5 minutes 20 seconds an 8 inch gun hit ten of ten in 5 minutes 20 seconds and a 5 inch gun hit 18 of 18 in two minutes. Officials call it the best American warship record and unmatched by foreign navies.
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Washington
Navy Department
Kearsarge
Pensacola
Tea Shipments to Russia Suspended
Moscow reports tea imports halted due to the end of volunteer fleet trips and freight train suspensions on the trans Siberian line. A merchant with 20 000 chests in Manchuria offers tea to the government for soldiers. Merchants consider returning to the Mongolian caravan route as delivery proves difficult.
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Russia
Moscow
Ceylon
China
Manchuria
Campaign Committee Chosen for Republican Campaign
Washington March 22 Thirty four of the forty eight members of the republican congressional campaign committee were chosen at a caucus of senate and house members last night The Ohio member is Congressman Longworth of Cincinnati The vacancies are from states with no action by their delegations.
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Washington
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Fifty-ninth Congress
Senate
House
Congress
Ohio
Longworth
Cincinnati
Masticating Wooer Describes Love Found in Letters
The Penang Gazette recounts a humorous note from a love-stricken Babu to a daughter’s guardian. He writes of faltering penmanship and a passion that “masticat[es]” his education, claiming Rangoon College rejection and clinging to the daughter’s hair like a shipwrecked mariner.
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Babu
Rangoon College
Penang Gazette
Teosinte and Billion Dollar Grass for Fodder
The article touts Teosinte and Billion Dollar Grass as premier fodder plants offering 14 tons hay and 80 tons green fodder per acre. Victoria Rape is claimed to yield 60,000 lbs per acre for sheep and swine. It promotes sending 10 in stamps to John A. Salter Seed Co. for catalogs and seed samples. A tongue in cheek town anecdote follows about a husband and wife discussing Miss Pep ertree.
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Victoria
K. C
John A. Salter *Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Eight Years of Torture Ends in Kidney Cure
Henry Soule of Pultney St Hammondport N Y endured eight years of kidney trouble with gravel excessive secretions and severe pain and sleepless nights. Doan’s Kidney Pills cured him and improved digestion. Sold by all druggists 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY offers free trial by mail.
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Dean
Henry Soule
Pultney St
Hammondsport
N. Y
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
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