Ice King Grips South Slowing Travel Across Cities
A historic sleet storm cripples telegraph and telephone service across Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas Oklahoma Mississippi Alabama Louisiana and Georgia. Streets iced over up to three inches as rail and streetcar systems halt while coal and wood wagons aid relief. Major damage and outages expected for days with widespread disruption in Atlanta New Orleans Jackson and Columbia.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Georgia
Louisvill
Atlanta
New Orleans
Memphis
Natchez
New York
Electric
Here
New Orlans
Manor
Jackson Miss
Jackson
South Carolina
Columbia
S&sc
Notice of simultaneous newspaper insertions across cities
Maissage and data notices state that upon application they will appear simultaneously in the listed morning papers at no extra charge. The named papers include New York Times, Boston Globe, Buffalo Courier, Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Record Herald, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Pittsburg Dispatch, Providence Journal, Rochester Herald, St Louis Republic, Syracuse Post Standard, St Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tribune, and Cleveland Leader.
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Washington Post
NEW York Times
Boston Globe
Buffalo Colrier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record Herald
Philadelphia
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST. Louis
Republic
Syracuse Post
ST Pau
Pioneer Press
Minneapolis
Priglae
Cleveland
Marriages and Obituaries in Washington Area
A series of notices from Washington area newspapers lists marriages and obituaries. Frances L Goodale wed Daniel W Hopper on Feb 4 in Washington. Josephine Cousineau Armstrong noted with funeral plans to follow. Susan E Detrick and William C Dix listed with funeral notices. Anson A Fulmer, aged 72, mourned with funeral arrangements for Feb 8. Anna Herrmann, in her 81st year, funeral services planned for Feb 6. Alfred Locker, 60, funeral Feb 7 with Arlington interment. Louis Wine, age noted, funeral Feb 7 with interment at Gettysburg. Notices include residence details and service locations.
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Hopper —Goodale
Samuel H. Greene
James H Davy
Washington
Frances L Goodale
Thomas S Wright
Daniel W. Hopper
Baltimore
Bren Street
William C Dix
Lee's Chapel
Fulmer
Anson A Fulmer
Emma W Fulme
Capr W
Halleck UC S A. Funaril
Maryland Avenue
Heremann
Sutffay
Olympia
Fourteenth
Roanoke Streets
Gettysburg
Snow and sleet halt Atlanta area schools and transit
In Charlotte on February 5 a four inch sleet snow coating shut down all graded schools after a citywide traffic collapse. Streetcar service was crippled after nine o clock. New York reports snow starting around nine p m with heavier fall anticipated through tomorrow.
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Charlotte
N. C
New York
Ice Floes Block New York Harbor Passage
Ice floes fill New York Harbor slowing vessel passage into and out of the port. In the Narrows the ice dense enough to hinder trans Atlantic liners. Displaced buoys amid channels cause several groundings. officials call navigation most dangerous in department history. Sound fleet steamers arrive late after fighting heavy ice. ferries run with little interruption as wind shifts clear rivers.
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New York
New York Harbor
Sandy Hook
Sheperd
Lighthouse Board
Department
Sound
Ice Embargo Grips Newport Harbor Icebound Vessels Halt Shipping
Newport harbor lies under a severe ice embargo with passages blocked and harbor closed. At dawn the thermometer showed three degrees above zero, and by sunset tugs six barges and three schooners were trapped. Nantucket Island also isolated as ice tightens grip from Cape May to Buzzard Bay.
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Newport
R. I
Newport Harbor
Narragansett Bay
Nantucket Shoals
Mishmam Point
Buzzard Bay
Woods Hole
Boston
Mass
New England
Cape May
Sleet Covers Streets as Cold Wave Hits District
Sleet ended the day with icy streets and slow streetcar service. Weather Bureau predicted a change to snow and warmer temps today. Potomac ice prompted Engineer Douglas to use dynamite to break the frozen river. Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co. delayed arrivals by hours amid near total navigation suspension. A second steamer was sent to meet the late ship and aid ice clearance.
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Weather Bureau
Bureau
Kansas City
New England
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Douglas
Potomac
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Tea Importers Press Reenactment Of High Tea Tariff
New York Feb 6 President Thomas A Phelan urged Congress to reenact the high duty on tea from Canada at the National Tea Association meeting. He argued Canadians undersell on border markets and accused repeal of protection. He also criticized railroad delivery of unmerchantable tea to Pacific steamship lines.
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Canada
New York
Congress
Thomas A Phelan
National Tea Association
Phelan
Pacific
Suppress the Revolt in Argentina Restored Order Declared
Buenos Ayres reports say government forces have moved to quell the uprising in Rosario Santafe Mendoza Cordoba and southern Buenos Aires. Mutinous troops defeated at Rosario and near Mendoza while Gen Winters and Gen Fothringham approach Cordoba and Mendoza. Public life resumes and markets hold. Quintana consults cabinet as order restoration continues.
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Buenos Ayres
Mendoza
Cordoba
Rosario
Santafe
Plate River
Bahia Blanca
Momembelle
Quintana
Winter
Fothringham
Maj. Matoso
Villa Maria
Rio Cuarto
Matoso
San Lorenzo
Benavides
Tucuman
San Juan
Pedro Molina
Crotto
del Fer
Delvalle
Martin Irigeya
Paris
Manuel Quintana
Argentina
Relief Corps Convention Names Campaign Ticket
The Department of the Potomac Woman's Relief Corps opens its convention on Tuesday at Grand Army Hall with at least two evening sessions. A full ticket for department officers is announced by the campaign committee, plus details on endorsements and past procedures. A separate note reports a missing boy, John Weston, found in Washington and en route home, with authorities coordinating return.
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Department of the Potomac
Woman's Relief Corps
Grand Army Hall
Lida J. Hart
Burnside Corps
Marion B. Parker
Farragut Corps
Fannie E. Worden
Lincoln Corps
Sarah E Beach
Thames Corps
Julia W. Hamilton
Sumner Corps
Miss Athes Burke
Morris Corps
Lucinda Gruber
Mre. Fisher
Gertrude Morgen
Thomas Corps
Mrs. Dou
Isabel W. Ball
Carolé Thomas
Morton Corns
Anna M. Baden
Hattie Saunders
Morton Corps
Lincoln and Thomas Corps
Hart
Department
Vina M. Calhoun
Lafayette Corps
Ida L. Chase
Lida A. Oldroyd
Washington
Washington Post
Norfolk
John Weston
Robert Weston
Berkley
Felice Richard Sylvester
Boush
Bouth
Erie’s Future Settled in Vanderbilt Pennsylvania Interest
New York reports Wall Street has learned that J Pierpont Morgan and A J Cassatt have amassed sufficient Erie Railroad stock to keep control within the Vanderbilt Pennsylvania community of interest. They partnered with First National Bank allies and may apportion stock to Lackawanna and Reading. Erie's voting trust ended last February.
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Vanderbilt-Pennsylvania
New York
The
World Today
Wall Street
J. Pierpont Morgan
A. J. Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Erie Railroad
Vanderbilt- Pennsylvania
First National Bank
Lackawanna
Reading
Mr. Morgan
Watson Landed in Prison Unconcerned and Chatting with Guard
J M A Watson Jr of Washington, the former district of Columbia auditor’s clerk, arrived at Moundsville West Virginia penitentiary in mid morning with a single guard. He is to be measured for stripes and placed in a cell then assigned to work, likely in the accounting department, after formal processing by Warden Haddox. Watson declined to speak.
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Moundsville
W. Va
J. M. A. Watson, Jr
Washington
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Watson
Haddox
Emperor Opens Berlin Auto Show with New Volunteer Corps
Emperor William opened the international automobile exposition in Berlin, praising it as better than last three years. He displayed three of his own cars while the public saw olive green volunteer corps uniforms designed by Baron von Braidenstein. The corps can be called into war duty and drilled yearly. Paris observers deemed the show excellent though not equal to Paris, noting German industry contesting Britain and the US for second place. Baron van Zulyen of France presented a gold medal to the Emperor for the 1904 James Gordon Bennett Cup race.
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Berlin
William
Volunteer Corps of
United States Army
Baron von Braidenstein
German Automobile Club
Paris
Great Britain
United States
Baron van Zulyen
French Automobile Club
James Gordon Bennett
Expressmen Arrested After Wedding Trip Return
Philadelphia february 5 two United States express company foremen at philadelphia and reading and baltimore and ohio stations were arrested on charges of larceny. they allegedly purloined about 1000 dollars in express packages containing diamonds and jewelry. ter ris confessed after returning from a wedding trip and presenting for pay at the company office. knight of pythias decision notes a hotelkeeper may run a bar in connection with hotel business. ocean steamer movements report wireless update from slauconsett mass with arrivals including neckar and umbria and others.
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Philadelphia
John B. Terris
United Statesxpress Company
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Bartholomew Mcllhenny
Baltimore and Ohifo
C. H. Campbell
Terria
Knights of Pythias
Richmond
Ind
Charles
Shively
Knights of Pythias of the World
Rational Cure for Dyspepsia Promotes Rested Stomach
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets pitched as a safe remedy for indigestion and nervous dyspepsia. Claims include rest for the stomach, improved digestion, better sleep, and restored appetite without strict dieting. Emphasizes vegetable ingredients and no overstatements.
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Stuart
King Lost Cold Mine Let It Lapse To Crown Worth Millions
Special Washington Post report details a Yukon gold claim near Eureka Creek once owned by King Edward VII via a Sparling deed. The claim lapsed to the Crown, leaving others free to relocate. Recent prospecting hints the pay streak may extend through adjacent fractions, suggesting potential rich dividends for a successful jumper.
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Eureka Creek
Washington Post
Seattle
Wash
Yukon
Edward VII
England
J. K. Sparling
J. K. Sparring
Eureka
W. E. Carlin
Edward
Hureka
Sparling
Jr. Sparling
King Edward VII
Summer Burglar Game Warns and Warnings From Puck
An 1800s humor sketch describes a country game called Summer Burglar. It requires only a householder wife cat and a night setting with score rules for squeaks beds revolver slippers sneezes alarms tacks and hazards. Variations include multiple householders burglars or a hired boy and horses in stables.
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Collers
Talk With English Actor Forbes Robertson on London Plays
Mr Forbes Robertson chats about Shaw and Pinero, London productions, and the Haymarket rumor. He praises Shaw while defending Pinero, notes Beauty and the Barge, The Tempest, and Taming of the Shrew, and looks forward to Love and the Man in Washington. Mrs Robertson stays in France as Kate Rorke is praised.
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Forbes-Robertson
London
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
America
England
Kate Rorke
Robertson
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Parker and Jacob
Tree
Mr. Asche
Mr. Pinero
Pinero
Messrs. Harrison
Maude
Mr. Harrison
Haymarket Theater
Harrison
Haymarket
Shaftesbury Avenue
W. S. Gilbert
Columbia
Washington
Henry V. Esmond
New York
Gertrude Hott
France
Detective Hall Telle Advocates Christian Reform at YMCA Meeting
Baltimore detective Todd B Hall spoke at a Lafayette Theater Young Men's Christian Association gathering on conversion through Christianity. He cited stories of criminals improving via faith and offered a Bible to the "meanest old sinner" in Washington, a marine noncommissioned officer responded by stepping forward to receive it.
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Detective Hall
Young Men's Christian Association
Lafayette Theater
Todd B. Hall
Baltimore
Lyric
United States Marine Band
Halil
Hall
Washington
Mr. Hall
Whisky Floated Down Near Cheraw Seizure of 330 Gallons
Dispensary constables in Columbia and Sumter districts halted a contraband float of North Carolina corn whisky. Twelve barrels were discovered near Cheraw. seven reached town, four were located underwater by divers, one barrel remains unfound. About 330 gallons total will be seized by the revenue department.
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Columbia
Thia
Sumter
Osborne
North Carolina
Pee Dee
Pegues and
Harling
Grady and
Ogg
Cheraw
Interval Revenue Department
New Salvation Army Leader Shares The Song Of The City
Commander Eva Booth, recently promoted in the Salvation Army, spoke at the Columbia Theater on The Song of the City to a packed audience and standing room. The talk highlighted music’s power and noted Rock of Ages and the Bible as globally influential works. Col. Higgins and other officers joined on stage as Salvation Army musicians performed. Another evening talk, Toward a Better World, followed at the same theater.
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Eva Booth
Salvation Army
United States
Canada
Consul Booth- Tucker
Columbia Theater
Booth
Commander Booth
E. Higgins
Col. Clifford
New York
Central Province
J Willis
Baltimore
New York City
Final Sunday Concert at Chase's Theater
A sizable audience attended the Washington Symphony Orchestra's final Sunday night concert at Chase's Theater despite bad weather. Conducted by Rakemann in the absence of Reginald de Koven, the program opened with the Mignon Overture, featured Grieg's Peer Gynt suite, and closed with Cornelius Rubner's Peace War and Victory, a Rubner piano concerto, and Schumann songs. Loreta Legete-Rowan entertained with Saint-Saens Amour, Viens Alder, receiving an encore. A de Koven tribute was set for Tuesday at the Columbia Theater with Mr Sydney Wrightson inviting all musicians to attend.
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Chase’s
Washington Symphony Orchestra
Chase
Reginald de Koven
Rakemann
Thomas
Grieg
Peer Gynt
Asa
Anitra
Mountain King
Cornelius Rubner
Rubner
Schumann
Loreta Legete-Rowan
Amour
Saint-Saens
de Koven
Columbia Theater
Sydney L. Wrightson
Lectures on Tennyson In Memoriam at First Congregational
Rev Dr Newman delivered a Sunday night illustrated sermon on In Memoriam the fourth in a series on Tennyson using stereopticon views. The final sermon next Sunday will cover Idylls of the King as the pastor continues the series for his congregation.
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Newman
Tennyson
M Newman
First Congregational Church
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