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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1904
Page
2
A submerged youth crying for help during a severe early morning storm earned rapid rescue and a trip to the hospital. The man, heir to part of a notable estate, was stripped and rubbed down by first responders before being rushed to safety and treated for exposure and shock.
A two sleigh scuffle on Water Street Southwest ends with both sleighs captured by firemen. Property losses total 1600 dollars as engines respond to an overheated blaze. police search for suspects who drove off with one sleigh while another occupant is wrested from a vehicle.
The California State Association met at the Rigel House and elected M F OW Donoghue president C E Williams vice president Charles W Otis secretary C T T Vogel treasurer. An inauguration committee was formed to arrange ceremonies and hospitality for visiting Californians in the city.
Rheumatism clings unless blood is corrected by acidity, say makers. Hood's Sarsaparilla is claimed to cure thousands by improving the blood condition it depends on.
A string of crises unfolds as hostile actions threaten towns and forts while a Boston University law student Maurice Butler is found dead by gunshot in a West End hotel room. The New York wreck of Glen Island ships claims seven crew members and two passengers, with divers sent to recover bodies.
Sheriff Blackwell orders bloodhounds to Demopolis to pursue a murder suspect after Dr F R Jonson’s body is found near a railroad track. A torn clue and missing items hint at a violent crime. further details remain unclear. Mass Dee 18.
Farmers from Triggs Wilkinson Laurens and Puliski counties in Georgia voted at a large meeting to hold 10000 bales of cotton already in hand. They expect the purchase price to bring one cent per pound in the market.
A vast Christmas store shelves a wide array of gifts from packet books and photo frames to games and cases. Shoppers find affordable options alongside higher end items like suitcases trunks clocks and mirrors, all in one tempting destination that saves time on gift planning.
Secretary Metcalf approves broad steamboat regulation updates after the Slocum disaster. New life saving gear requirements include more lifeboats air tanks and hand pumps. revised lifeboat and life preserver specs and placement rules tighten safety. Fire apparatus rules mandate buckets axes steam fire branches portable extinguishers and pressurized pumps with gauges. Expanded licensee and crew discipline provisions accompany mandatory watertight bulkheads and additional watchmen on excursion steamers.
Fireman Keir of the steamer Uved at 160 Ohio Street Buffalo New York died after a boiler explosion on the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company vessel at its dock. Four injured workers John McWain Pete O'Toole Stanley Rogers and J L Walker residents of Buffalo reported at the scene. The accident occurred as steam and hot water shot into the engine room.
A 26th century view argues women can enter most professions while society still links womanhood to wife and mother. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Pellets as cures for leucorrhea and weak health, with a testimonial from Mrs A Davis of Sweetwater Alabama claiming renewed strength after three bottles.
Elwood W. Chapman, 75, longtime recluse and former prominent movie and stage painter, lived unseen in a Pelham Bay Park mansion with valuable paintings and antique furniture. After his hospitalization at Polyclinic Hospital in Westchester, a young thief was arrested for stealing from the house, uncovering Chapman's past as a Virginia artist and military staffer to former Governor Wise. Attorney Henry Wise, Chapman’s supposed grandson, pressed the case as prosecutor, tying the missing years to Chapman's estrangement from Virginia.
Police arrest two men in Carbondale Mafia probe. John Casta of New York, linked to the New York hierarchy, was found hiding under a bed after a colony roundup and charged with shooting Pasquale Cerretti. Frank Mazurka accused of extorting Carmen Pretro under threat of violence. both in jail.
A Princeton commercial man, William Lutz, received a tobacco plug with an unsigned note promising a Christmas gift. Opening it revealed a concealed slit and powder inside, later identified as thirty-two grams of arsenic and Paris green, suggesting a murder attempt.
A World’s Work excerpt warns the Chinese population in the United States may shrink to near extinction if current laws persist. It cites declining numbers in San Francisco and nationwide, with many returning home. Other items report legal, rail, and hospital incidents, plus immigrant statistics and a note on a headache remedy.
The Sunday evening bulletin reports cleared eastern districts after a storm moved to sea. A central low in Manitoba drove a Lake Region storm with light snow in the Lake region, Northern New York, and Northern New England. Temperatures rose in the Mississippi Valley and Upper Lake region while Missouri Valley and Northwest cooled. Fair to improve conditions forecast Tuesday with wind shifts along coasts and Great Lakes.
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