Meeting of Generals Nogi and Stoessel at Port Arthur
A calm meeting at Shuishi Cottage near Port Arthur brings Gen Nogi and Gen Stoessel to cordial exchanges after mutual praise of bravery. Nogi notes a Czarist clemency allowing Russian officers to return with swords limited to their ranks, while Stoessel thanks Japan for preserving his family’s honor and accepts a charger as a gift to the army. Burial plans for Russian dead and the end of major combat near Port Arthur are also touched on as fires flare in the city.
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Port Arthur
Tientsin
Mnogi
Gen Stoessel
Vilage
Shuishi
Plum Tree Cottage
Col Reiss
Nogi
Taichi
Yasuharu Matsudaira
Watanabe
WM Kangwarin
Foreign Office
Tokyo
Ogi
Stoessel
Stoensel
Stoeszel
Stoeapel
Japan
Nicholas
Russia
Sungehu
Sungshu
Gen Nog
Gen Nogi
Nanshan
Meter
Gen &Joessel
Gen Sloesser
Bunal
Nogl
Notice of Marriage and Death Insertions Across Newspapers
Notice states that marriages and death notices inserted in The Washington Post may appear simultaneously in multiple newspapers at no extra insertion or telegraphing charge. Listed papers include The New York Times Baltimore Herald Boston Globe Buffalo Courier Cincinnati Enquirer Chicago Record-Herald Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburgh Dispatch Providence Journal Rochester Herald St Louis Republic Syracuse Post Standard St Paul Pioneer Press Minneapolis Tribune Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Washington Post
NEW York Times
Baltimore Herald
Boston Globe
Hlffalo
Colrier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsbrg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochflor Herald BT
Louis Republic
Syracuse Post Standard
LICENSED TO MARRY Tuan Riaro Gasangos and Ale F Ward
Announcement of multiple marriage licenses and forthcoming nuptials, listing individuals and residences in Elliott t ty Wa Ravell J Barney and Rebecca Ottenmiller, plus a born child and funeral notices for several local residents with dates in January 1906. Includes obituaries for Bateman, Grass, Norris, Omot, and Plunkett families, and funeral details at various Seattle and Washington locales.
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Tuan Riaro
Ale F Ward
Oscar P Anderson
Baith P Smith
Liwren
Frances Healer
Elliott T Ty Wa
Ravell J Barney
Rebecca Ottenmiller
Becy
Yrh
Parreeny
Rosetta Tucker
George Woolier
Clara A Marquette Thomas Wo
Lyard
Neosho Mo
Etta B. Fazeltine
Seaie Wash
Robert Henry Dunlop
Annapolis Ma
Katharine Thomas Woo
Health Office Record Deaths at Various Hospitals
Health office record lists deaths including Joseph Blum at LS Soldiers Home age seven years George Bradshaw thirty three Virginia area three years Man J Wo oR Coper 1183 Dartmouth st ninety nine Fred Davis Chidnis Hosp months Charles Hamilton Emergency Hosp thirty four years Sarah Jackson Freemens Hosp twenty five Jeremiah Wi Carth Providence Hosp fifty two Annie Ro Pkisbury 1114 Host nw twenty nine Arthur B Procto Gov Hosp insane sixty Hazel YC Thorne 680 T t se years Michael Thornton Wash Asyl Hosp twenty eight Joalh Wilver four sixteenth st se sixty three fiveea
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Joseph Blum
George Bradshaw
Virgina
Man J Wo
Coper
Dartmouth St
Fred Davis
Charles Hamilton
Sarah Jackson
Jeremiah Wi Carth
Undertakers and Embalmers advertise services and prices
The notice lists several Washington funeral homes including R. Speare Joseph Gawler J W Lee and Harvey Sons with addresses on F Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. It emphasizes first class services, moderate prices, and available chapels and crematoriums for funeral arrangements in 1950s style copy.
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J. William Lee
Commodions
Pennslvania
Joseph Gawler
R. F. Harvey’s Sons
Fourteenth Street NW
Tommadious Chapel Telephone
North
Christmas in Russia Marked by Mourning in War Times
Russian Christmas observed in somber mood as war losses weigh on families. In St Petersburg all government offices closed and revelry canceled, while the imperial family kept a quiet celebration at Tsarskoye Selo. Intense cold confined people indoors. In Mukden, officers and soldiers crowd shops for gifts, reporting good health and adequate food in hut quarters.
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St Petersburg
Russia
Fetersburg
Sarskoe Selo
Mukden
Celebration at Tokyo Marks Victory Parades and Speeches
Tokyo witnessed a joyous event at Hibiya Park with speeches, fireworks, and street parades by students and merchant guilds. Five hundred wounded Port Arthur veterans left hospitals to be feted at the Imperial Hotel as celebrations spread citywide. The Emperor issued a rescript praising Gen Wogi, Admiral Togo, and the fleet for Port Arthur’s capture. Admiral Togo ordered the Shao-tung Peninsula blockade lifted today.
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Tokyo
Hibiya Park
Togo
Port Arthur
Imperial Hotel
Wogi
Shao-tung Peninsula
Defective Russian Charts Threaten Rojestvensky Fleet
Paris reports official warning that Vice Admiral Rojestvenskys fleet sails in waters with faulty charts. The Indian Ocean navigation changes may risk catastrophe. Also noted from Tokyo is Baron Kanekos White House visit with no public peace talk details. London reports port access limits at Port Arthur amid Liao-tung Peninsula blockade. Ekaterinoslav dispatch notes a nobleman shot at the police chief, motive undisclosed.
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Rojestvensky
Indian Ocean
Paris
London
Tokyo
Liao-tung Peninsula
Port Arthur
Poles in Revolt as Riots Roil Lodz and Radom
Paris cable reports widespread unrest in Poland over conscription. Rioters clash with troops. a Russian colonel and a lieutenant are killed at Radom while workers parade with a red banner in Lodz. Warsaw prefect Nolken plans resignation if Warsaw is drawn into the recruiting zone.
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Warsaw
Lodz
Radom
Czonstochowa
Alexander II
Baron Nolken
St Petersburg
Russian naval plans and visits to Paris detailed
Vice Admiral Doubassoff arrived in Paris to lead a naval technical commission on rehabilitating the Russian navy. Russian experts Dolgoroukoff Porechkine Brinck and others toured European shipyards, including Toulon and La Sagne sur Mer, to study capacity for a $200,000,000 three year program. The effort foresees four torpedo boat destroyers and a large Czarevitch model as future construction.
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Paris
Doubassoff
Kaznakoff
International North Sea Commission
Delcasse
North Sea Commission
Naval Technical Commission
Port Arthur
Japan
Dolgoroukoff
Porechkine
Brinck
Germany
Holland
Austria
Italy
France
Toulon
la Sagne Sur Mer
Czarevitch
Recalled Baltic Fleet signals Russian strategy shift
Tokyo reports the recall of the Russian second Pacific squadron not as discouragement but as a strategic move to gain reinforcements and train officers for a future supreme effort. A naval officer notes Japan awaits the squadron’s arrival but prepares for heavier action, while Rear Admiral Kataoka cites disarmament of Russian ships at Kia Chau and Chefoo. Nearby, a Japanese army lieutenant, Matsumoto, is described as prisoner by Russians after capture at Yavine.
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Tokyo
St Petersburg
Togo
Associated Press
Japan
Far East
Kataoka
Kia Chau
Chefoo
Chiyoda
San Francisco
Harold Dollar
Petropavlovski
Ste Matsumoto
Yavine
Kamehatka Peninsula
Port Arthur fall news and Gen Fock death claims
Mukden dispatches report Port Arthur capitulation first announced, with Russian sources confirming Lieut Gen Fock killed or wounded at 203-Metre hill while Kondratenko’s fate unclear. Doubts persisted about Fock’s death as details circulated from St Petersburg and Peking.
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Mukden
Peking
Port Arthur
Ine
Liaolong
Ater
Fock
St Petersburg
Russian Admirals Escape to Chefoo in Disguise
A Chefoo dispatch reports Rear Admirals Ouktomsky and Dochinsky arrived in Chefoo disguised on a launch. Ouktomsky led the Port Arthur squadron after Sakaroff’s death in April during the Petropavlovsk sinking, then replaced by Withoft, then Wiren after Withoft’s death in August. Rumors say he faced court martial, denied, and Vyren later took command. Dochinsky’s name has not appeared in Far East dispatches.
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Prince Ouktomsky
Port Arthur
Sakaroff
Tris
Wiren
Prince Duktomsky
Dochinsky
Far East
Russians shell Japanese lines near Linzhimpyu on Christmas Eve
Gen Oku's headquarters reports heavy rifle fire from Russians beginning at 10 p m January 6 opposite Linzhimpyu. Russian artillery joined at 11 p m and fired for two hours along the front. Japanese suffered no damage and did not reply, occupying trenches in preparation for a potential assault that did not occur. Mukden notes unusual center cannonading continuing in moderate form.
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Gen Oku
Fusan
Linzhimpyu
Shakhe
Mukden
War Averted by Diplomacy Says Liberal Leader
Berlin January 1 National Liberal Leader Dr Paasche told constituents in Creuznach that Germany and Great Britain were on the brink of war last week after German foreign office representations. He claimed diplomacy averted the danger with difficulty and noted American duties on German wines caused friction with Chancellor von Buelow trying to ease the issue.
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Berlin
Paasche
Creuznach
Germany
Great Britain
Panache
von Buelow
Tidal Flood Destroys Scarborough and Dover Promenades
English coast towns from Scarborough to Dover suffer heavy damage from a morning tidal flood. Scarborough pier and promenades vanish, Yarmouth inundated with flooded homes, seawalls washed away, and costly attractions destroyed. Vatican action, Napoleon relics secrecy, and Danish minister denial also reported.
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Dover
Scarborough
London
Yarmouth
Prisoners of War in Russia Treated as Guests
The article discusses how Russian authorities treat Japanese POWs with exceptional care and attention. Emperor Nicholas oversees their welfare, funds and housing are arranged, and a bureau records prisoners to ensure food, clothing, medical care, and morale. Officers and men receive defined pay, lodging, and limited freedom, with censorship on correspondence and rules to prevent exploitation. The piece asserts no ill treatment and emphasizes efforts to maintain dignity and prevent distress while awaiting exchange.
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John Callan O'Latghlen
Russia
Cervera
Annapolis
Santiago
Czar
Umperor Nicholas
Bureaau
Novgorod
United States
St Petersburg
Janax
Charcoal Lozenges touted as health aid and purifier
An early 20th century sales piece extols Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as a safe remedy for cleansing the stomach and bowels, improving breath and complexion, disinfecting mouth and throat, and benefitting liver health. It cites a Buffalo physician endorsing daily use and notes a low price per box.
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Stuart
Buffalo Phiyaician
Attitudes Toward War Prisons and Suicide in 1905 Reflection
The excerpt contrasts Russian and Japanese war conduct, noting Russians resist surrender and fight to the end, while Japanese are depicted as grimly resolute even without hope. It discusses how treatment of prisoners shapes expectations as the war continues, with a critical tone on civilized norms.
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Grater
John Callan O’laug
Liberal wins in Stalybridge by election lands seat
In the Stalybridge Cheshire by election Liberal J F Cheetham defeated Conservative Travis Clegg by 51 votes. Clegg stood for Ridley’s seat after he became Viscount Ridley, ending a twenty year Conservative hold. The contest centered on free trade versus Chamberlain policy and opposition to food taxation.
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London
Jan T
Stalybridge
Cheshire
J F Cheetham
Travis Clegg
Matthew White Ridley
Viscount Riddley
Chamberlain
Clegg
Balfour
Porter’s Successor Rumors At Paris Embassy
Paris January 7 The American colony shows great interest in Porter's successor Unofficial reports point to Meyer ambassador at Rome as the coming man Arthur Hardy minister to Spain is also prominent Gen Porter receives many letters of regret on departure Elsie Porter daughter of the general is to wed Dr Mode of Zurich March 4 at the American Embassy with ceremony there
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Paris
Ambassador Porter
Meyer
Rome
Arthur 8 Hardy
Spain
Gen Porter
Elsie Porte
Dr Mode
Zurich
Switzerland
Pope Prohibits The Veto In Papal Election
Rome January seven one of the most important acts of Pope Pius X is a secret bull barring any cardinal from carrying a veto message from a temporal ruler under exclusion threat. It centers on Austria France and Spain rights to veto the papal election and stems from the Rampolla affair. The bull bars any cardinal from conveying known veto intentions or voting if such actions occur. Pius X is also nearing completion of an encyclical urging Central and South American Catholics to end frequent revolutions and seek concord and avoid foreign intervention.
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Rome
Pius X
Austria
France
Spain
Cardinal Rampolla
Cardinal Rampola
Leo XIII
Cardinal Puzyna
Krakowiec
Francis Joseph
Pope Pius
Death notices from early January wrap diverse figures
A collection of brief obituaries and notices from January 7, detailing deaths and final arrangements. Subjects include J H Elliott former Choate partner. Capt William Rule’s son James Rule. C M Wilkes engineer. Andrew O’Connell pioneer. George W Van Cleaf swimmer. Lieut Gen von Tretha report. Maj Meialer in Africa. W E McBee and W J Edwards named receivers. Rev W W Armer convicted. ocean steamer movements with arrivals and sailings in New York and Europe.
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Ambassador Choate
Washington Post
Denver
Colo
J H Cheste
Great Britain
J. H Elliott
New York Bar Association
Roosevelt
James Rule
Manila American
Manila
Philadelphia
C. M Wilkes
D H Burnham & Co
Chicago
Wilkes
Watbois
Berlin
Jan T
von Tretha
Africa
Meialer
Grossnabas
Thousands with kidney trouble urged to seek Swamp Root remedy
The Washington Sunday Post notes thousands suffer kidney trouble unseen and urges trying Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root, a vegetable remedy for kidney liver and bladder issues. Includes testimonial from IG Richardson claiming full recovery after use and offers free sample bottle and information by mail.
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Melrose Mass
IG Richardson
Swamp-Boot
Swamp-Hood
Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
Washington Sunday Post
Lover's Lies Don’t Count Divorce Ruling
New York Judge Justice Dickey ruled misrepresentation during courtship cannot be grounds for annulment. Beatrice E Wood sued Seymour Wood after a four day courtship and sixty four days of marriage in England and Nottingham. She claimed he lied about being a New Jersey official and a general’s son to gain wealth and status, but the court found no wrongdoing beyond deceit and denied divorce on these grounds.
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New York
Brooklyn Dispatch
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Dickey
Supreme Court
Beatrice E Wood
Seymour
Wood
England
Nottingham
New Jersey
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Heurich Brewing Co
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Cityfatt
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