Store Ad Promises Better Stock and Friendly Service
The ad pledges improved merchandise and courteous treatment for the coming year. It asserts the store will offer exactly what the advertisements promise and invites continued patronage.
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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1905
Page
3
The ad pledges improved merchandise and courteous treatment for the coming year. It asserts the store will offer exactly what the advertisements promise and invites continued patronage.
Tokyo officials say peace talks are unlikely despite Port Arthur’s fall. They expect Russia to intensify pressure on Oyama’s forces and seek naval advantage, while dismissing early peace as feasible. Officials stress the war remains military, with no immediate end in sight.
Amid conflicting reports in St Petersburg and Port Arthur, Vice Admiral Rojestvensky delays a Vladivostok approach awaiting the third Pacific squadron, with Madagascar or Polynesian islands considered as possible bases. In Port Arthur, Japanese entry is set for Jan 8. Wantai Hill reveals fortress weaknesses and Port Arthur’s beleaguered relief efforts amid scarce meat and medical supplies.
Washington records show Congress returning from recess to discuss a statehood bill for two new states, Arizona and New Mexico, with Oklahoma and Indian Territory also in play. Key vote favored proceeding. Heyburn sided with Democrats on a reform attempt. session adjourned in memory of Rep. William F. Hathand. Governor Otero opposes uniting New Mexico with Arizona as a single state.
Mrs Casie L Chadwick announces a private party in New York possesses a formal financial statement about her affairs and she will not release it without consent. She argues its public disclosure would absolve her and her husband of suspicion and show they were victims of circumstances, not crime. Planning for New Capitol in Kentucky described. Governor Beckham calls extraordinary session Jan 12 to authorize a new site in Frankfort for a million dollar capitol. No other business allowed.
A blaze in Berlin New Hampshire on January 5 largely destroyed the Clem ent Opera House block the C H Gannon block the Thorndike hotel and C H Brooks drug store with an estimated loss of 200000. Several lodgers leaped from the Opera House block and one man was killed. In New York an attempted bombing by The Black Hand injured no one but damaged the barber shop door after its owner refused a 300 demand.
The report lists varied events including 88 Idaho postmasters named, Hungary setting elections for January 28, a Russian loan decree for 81 million dollars, Indiana’s sixty fourth assembly convening, three receivers for Fall River’s Davis Cotton Mill, and Pan American medical congress inaugural success. Also noted are Theodore Thomas’s death, naturalization frauds, immigration station proposal at Angels Island costing 250000, Siberian cold and 12 deaths, Westphalian mine strikes, Japanese capture of 25000 Port Arthur prisoners, New York Bird Protection Society incorporation, Cassatt joining New Haven Railroad oversight, German Turners to attend Indianapolis Turnfest, a congressional statistics petition on marriages and divorces.
Secretary Hay states Jewish colonization in East Africa harms no Americanism or patriotism. He denied that Zionist movement participation would discredit loyalty, aiming to ease objections from wealthy American Jews.
Meromi Mich reports a separated couple after a brief marriage, with details referencing Mrs. Peter Stevekin formerly Margaret Seymour. The fragmentary item hints at disputes over a sum of money amid domestic tensions in January 56.
Fragments list names D H Aretsetan and W E Harris with an Evanaville Indiana and a Washington reference. Details are unclear but indicate a local figure pair and place.
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