Bargains in Farm and City Property Sale
Real estate ad lists multiple properties for sale near Washington. Includes 5 to 8 room dwellings on S E 4th Street and Van Trees Street, several lots, and a brick business house eight miles from town. Features prices from 750 to 21000, a variety of farms, timber and river bottom lands within miles of the railroad, with easy terms and quick-sale offers. See us for details and to arrange visits.
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S. E
4Th St
van Trees
Meridian St
van Tree St
Washington
City
R. R
Russian Front Reports Seek End to War as Manchuria Falls
St Petersburg dispatches detail a possible Russian retreat from lower Sungari and Harbin if lines fail, risking Manchuria and Amur provinces. Debates weigh sending Vladivostok to two-year siege, with reinforcements arriving at Harbin and a peace party growing at the war office.
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St Petersburg
Sungari
Chen
Harbin
Manchuria
Amur
Linovitch
Viddivostok
Neader
Linevitch
Nicholas
Smajesty
Vladivostok
Russia
Pacific
Japan
Nicholas Nichblaivitch
Far East
Lake Baikal
Oyama
Darbin
War Office
Witnesses Push Evidence in Beet Trust Inquiry
Twelve out of town witnesses testified before the special grand jury probing meat packers prices and retail dealer costs. District Attorney Morrison seeks enough evidence for possible indictments as witness names remain tightly sealed. Separate note: R B Stearns and W T Korswell held on conspiracy charges tied to fraudulent government land claims.
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Chicago
of Trust
Tranc
Res
C. B. Morrison Ig
R. C. Howe
Cédar Rapids
Robert Hall
Kansas City
Francis Meaghen
Kansas
Morrison
Movement to redeem the Fourth of July through open-air temperance meetings
Columbus reports a movement under the American Anti-Saloon League to reclaim the Fourth of July from misuse. The plan seeks nationwide participation of temperance groups to hold annual open-air patriotic temperance meetings starting July 4, 1905, and continuing yearly. The effort targets every county and urges unprecedented public observance.
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Columbus, O
War in Guatemala Probable and Other 1905 News
Reports note a probable new war in Guatemala and Admiral Dewey improving in health. Women ordered to leave Vladivostok. W. J. Bryan elected president of the Nebraska Democratic Editorial association. Various legal and crime items, including Col. Cody’s divorce petition denied and a fatal house fire in Alanson Michigan. The battleship Kansas christening and other official appointments and plans are mentioned. The total solar eclipse observatory at the naval observatory advances preparations.
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Guatemala
Admiral Dewey
Vladivostok
Geo. Pysell
Alanson
Mich
Pennsylvania
Ohio State
Kansas
Elizgibeth
Goddard
Colorado
Fil Paso
Stephen D. ‘Renfree
Fayetteville
Congress
Congress totals in 58th session bills and actions
Washington report shows 20 074 bills and resolutions introduced, 4904 reported by committees, 11556 of own bills and resolutions passed, 651 of senate acts and resolutions approved, 112 on union calendar unacted, 3841 private calendar with 232 unacted, 122 house bills to senate not acted, 25 postponed, and only one house bill not signed by the president.
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Washington, Mare
F. JH. Wakefield
House ‘of Representatives
House
Senate
Mystery death near Chapline Hill in Wheeling shocks city
Miss Hulda Schubert was found dead in a gulley near Chapline Hill road with neck arteries ruptured. Robbery suspected as watch chain and two rings were missing. Autopsy confirms fatal injury, motive unclear, murder likely.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Hulda Schubert
Chapline Hill Road
Chinamen Drown In Flood In Yuma Yard
Twenty four Chinese immigrants smuggled over the Mexican border perished in a box car flood in Yuma Arizona. They were en route to Los Angeles after crossing at El Paso.
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Yuma
A. T
Southern Pacific
el Paso
Los Angeles
Reed Croshiss Remains Beside Wife in Tomb
Reed Croshiss spent seven years in a tomb beside his wife in New York City after his wife’s death. Following a stroke, he moved to a hospital but later returned to the cemetery and built a tent to live in the tomb, arguing with imagined conversations with the dead. The ambulance found him alive but weak, with hope of recovery.
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New York
Reed
Arriva
Deat
Plague Deaths Rise in Bombay Presidency Reported
London reports give figures for plague deaths in India. For the week ending Feb 28 in Bombay presidency 13 475 died, four weeks ending March 16 in India total 122 950. Jan 1 to Feb 28 Bombay total 28 721 and rest of India Jan 1 to Mar 11 318 178. Open war erupts between Chamberlain and Balfour over fiscal policy.
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London
House of Commons
Broderick
India
Bombay Presidency
Joseph Chamberlain
Mr. Balfour
Hugh Cecil
Greenwich
Chamberlain
Whiteman Charged With Grand Larceny In Buffalo
Alonzo J. Whiteman of Dansville New York a former Minnesota legislator faced grand larceny charges in Buffalo with five indictments including forgery and attempted larceny all tied to a recent trial. Governor Deneen halted a six round prize fight in Springfield Illinois citing public concerns and urged authorities to stop the event.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Alonzo J. Whiteman
Dansville
Minnesota Legistature
Whiteman
Bud
Springield
Deneen
Sherif Ban Brainerd
Sangamon County
Oil pumper Adolph Liebert killed in gas engine accident
Adolph Liebert sixty a Drake Oil company pumper was fatally injured when caught in a gas engine on the Pyle oil lease near New Corydon Portland Ind March 24. Liebert of Geneva was survived by a wife and daughter and was regarded as a pioneer oil pumper in Indiana fields.
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Portland
Ind
Pyle
New Corydon
Adolph Liebert
Drake Oil Company
Liebert
Geneva
Indiana
Famous Priest Threatened in Cronstadt Anti-Revolution Warning
The revolutionary committee warns Father John of Cronstadt to stop anti-revolutionary propaganda by sermons or writings. The military governor of Cronstadt has taken measures to protect the priest.
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St. Petersburg
Revolutionary Committee
Father John of
Market Report Prevailing Grain and Livestock Prices
Readable market notes show grain and livestock prices across multiple exchanges. Wheat No 2 red around 1.12 to 1.15. corn No 2 mixed about 47c to 50c. oats No 2 around 80% to 32c. Cattle and hogs fluctuate with steady to active ranges. lambs firm to steady. New York and Chicago quotes listed, with Toledo wheat futures cited.
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Indianapolis
Chicago
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