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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1905
Page
11
In St Petersburg on the eve of the serfs emancipation anniversary rumors swirl of a wide revolutionary plot. Officials see possible worker demonstrations or a government manifesto but no firm plan. The cabinet debates reforms while police struggle to control the terrorist threat.
Notice states marriage and detrinces insertions in The Washington Fos upon application with extra charge for insertion or telegraphing in major newspapers including New York Times Boston Globe Buffalo News Cincinnati Enquirer Chicago Tribune New York Herald Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburgh Leader Providence Journal Rochester Evening Standard St Louis Post Dispatch Syracuse Post Standard St Paul Pioneer Press Missoulian Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The fragment lists marriages and obituaries with many names from Goochland, Columbia, Clinton, Linden, and Richmond areas. It notes a drowning in James Creek Canal on February 2 1903, a morgue hold for John Lucas, and funeral notices for Nellie Timebine and Rebecca Webster among others, with dates and locations such as Glenwood Cemetery and 104 Binnes Street North West.
Health office ledger lists numerous patients with ages and addresses including Alexander Goyt Hesp insane six to seven years old and others such as Arderson 1687 16th sw 8% years, Wallach pine four years, Mirtle Campbell 34 Hope two months, R Carter Paterson ten months, Nelle Clubb 1942 Ist se 21 days, Jub Del inance 48 Fone 67 years, Cherlks Gard Lite O Dern 8%, Beers turothy two Firley, Cipiles Gorasn 442 dech nw manta Damon Gordon 72s D nw So year, Indermauer 505% J aye nw 76 years, Garfield Hoap Joseph Bo Louthan Breckland three years, Joseph Miller Children_s Hosp, Lizzabe McHegh 817 E Cap st 44 years, Tiuws as AH Nefor 142 Nsw 1 sear, Wiliam t G Dwyer Goyt Hosp Insane 36 year, Tiomas sites 711 9d sw 55 years, Ema se gvich Geo Wash Univ Hosp 75 years, Arbutas Warren 618 3d se 1 year, Stephen Willow Reform School 19 years, Cearg Wolson foo 4 nw 61 years, Augusta Mohoung 13 Ist ne 99 are.
Feb 28 Warsaw reports show Jewish clerks parading the quarter and forcing merchants to shutter shops. Bank clerks in Warsaw and Lodz to strike over pay and hours. a general shop assistant strike looms with 55 percent ready to concede. Domestic servants threaten action, while police strike leaders face arrests and drumhead court-marshal threat. Vistula Railroad directors grant most striker demands. Minsk clerical students wreck officials’ homes and burn papers. Batoum schools reopen tensions. Ekaterinoslav two thousand miners resume work after owners concede 22 of 26 demands.
Russian author Maxim Gorky, released from fortress on bail, banished to Riga after Gov Gen Trepoff ruled he could not reside in St Petersburg. Gorky asked to live in Riga and was moved by train. Mme Gorky and family join him. relatives condemn the treatment and note his unconditional release was signed but a move to Riga followed.
Vienna dispatch reports Bukowica, near the Russian frontier, ordered about 300 Russian refugees and deserters to leave within six weeks. Officials say Russians underbid locals for work during high unemployment and allege many suffer from trachoma. Refugees arrived in the last six months escaping mobilization and other conditions in nearby Russian districts.
A secret store of bombs dynamite and revolvers is found in Moscow near Margina Stototka raising suspicions that the assassin of Grand Duke Sevelus may hail from Paris and be an artificer. Hig rame remains unnamed. Steamer Tacoma report confirms ice floe entrapment on Vladivostok voyage. Kutais confronts clashes with troops. de Freyne sells estates after eviction disputes. de Brazza to head Congo inquiry in March.
Fire broke out in the Oregon cargo while en route from San Francisco to Portland. Fifty six passengers were rescued by the Del Norte, which ferried them to Crescent City. the Oregon headed to Humboldt Bay under its own power with heavy freight loss but fire under control.
A Mansion House gathering led by Lord Mayor Pound elected a committee to organize an international Shakespeare monument in London with a site to be provided by the London county council. Princess Louise heads the panel, with figures such as Premier Balfour and ambassadors among its members. committees to be formed abroad.
Berlin February 2 The Reichstag accepted the naval appropriations committee’s cuts to Admiral von Tirpitz estimates. Items reduced or omitted include one gunboat and one river gunboat, 315000 dollars for artillery, 75000 less on two battleships and an armored cruiser, and 25000 less on three small cruisers. Total cut 799500 from 27874612.
A reader cites Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alexander Smith in a letter to The Post, noting familiar verse parallels from Bartletts Quotations and Lippincott Life Drama, with a Feb 26 sign-off from Anna H Southworth. The page also repeats ship movements and a light jab at De Phipps fashion, ending with an ad for Hoods Sarsaparilla.
A major blaze in East Liverpool Ohio began at 7 o clock and by midnight left six large buildings and many smaller ones in ashes. The loss exceeds 300000 with insured values including Michigan Hardware and Supply Company at 130000 and A S Young's Boston Dry Goods Store at 80000. Other businesses damaged or destroyed include Wasbutaky Brothers Yates Novelty and Bendheim Shoes. In Philadelphia the Frank Teller Co cigar factory on South Second Street burned, worth about 100000 with 250 workers left jobless.
The Senate Judiciary Committee adopts Spooner’s view that no constructive recess exists and defines recess as a real period when Senate sits neither in regular nor extraordinary session. It holds nominations during 1903 adjournments were not under lawful authority and that no constructive end or beginning of a session can occur.
Reports from Cincinnati Denver and Paris confirm the deaths of Dr Adolph Ziperlin a University of Tuebingen honorary member aged about ninety a Civil War surgeon. Calum Reed Colorado assistant attorney general at thirty eight from pneumonia. and Eugene Guillaume Paris sculptor and Villa Medici director aged eighty three. The note also describes the historic John F Hillis & Co music firm at 97 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington highlighting its four story building with piano and instrument showrooms repair shop and electric elevator run by widow Mary A Hillis.
San Francisco Feb 28 The French cruiser Protet commanded by Commodore Adigard sailed for France today. At Panama she will meet the cruiser Cadl on her way from France to assume the Protet prior role as flagship of the French navy in Pacific waters.
Field reports describe renewed dawn battles along a twenty mile stretch east of Kandalesan to Laclinzan. Japanese forces push toward Da Pass, Fushun, and Mukden while Russians bolster lines and shell Japanese positions. Casualties mount as fighting rages near Tsinkhetchen and along the Shakhe River with Japanese gains against Rennenkampf's forces.
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure for indigestion, claiming the pill digests 3,000 grains of food per grain of active ingredient. It describes a home test with eggs, lists ingredients, and asserts safety for children, noting global availability and a 50 cent price.
Troops pushed sixteen battalions from a strong position near Penstho with a snowstorm and ice hampering moves. By February 24 dawn the attack resumed with grenade fighting and Tsinkhetchen fell by evening. Russians report three machine guns captured, numerous rifles and ammo seized, enemy losses heavy, and no frostbite cases among their men.
Paris reports from parliamentary social circles indicate increasing French impatience for peace as Russia delays talks. The longer the war lasts the more the French question the value of the Russian alliance and fear indefinite hostility may erode sympathy for Moscow.
Tokyo February 28 Diet adopts report on Hokkaido barracks contracts and declares the spending illegal and unwarranted. Turbulent closing hour follows a dispute over addressing the Emperor as War Secretary Teracutehi is questioned. Opponents concede Teracutehi blameless. Quartermaster Tomatsu expected to resume post.
General Stoessel left Moscow for St Petersburg after attending services at the Tchondoff Monastery with wife Grand Duchess Sergius present. Moscow officials, including the mayor, greeted him with bread and salt. Stoessel spoke of surrendering Fort Arthur to avoid slaughter, noting hopes for relief from Kuropatkin and Rozhdestvensky until the end.
The British steamer Carlisle chartered by the Russian government traveled eight five days from Vladivostok and anchored in San Miguel Bay on February 10. It is now towed to Manila with a Russian supercargo in charge. The cargo includes powder shells and other munitions of war and customs have sealed the hatches awaiting the war’s end.
Special Agent A A Delakoff of the Russian bureau of finance arrived in Seattle to inspect Moran Brothers shipyard and report on Russia's plan to build a battleship two cruisers and several torpedo boats in the United States within the next year for delivery after the war in the Orient. He says the project was decided two months ago and that there is nothing secret about the order.
A large meeting of colored citizens at Second Colored Baptist Church planned support for the Ninth Cavalry’s inaugural parade visit. A finance committee formed to grow a broader citizen committee with subscriptions to be sent to listed local leaders and clergy. The gathering chose Anderson Taylor as chairman Frances James treasurer and John T C Newson secretary.
A Northerner journalist visits Georgia to document postwar education and industry and befriends the Turpin family of old planter stock. Ellen Turpin remains proud and gracious as debt and mortgage press the estate, while romance and revived patriotism frame a nuanced social drama.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a kidney and bladder remedy. It details back pain as a warning sign and lists numerous symptoms, claiming the product cures Bright's disease and other kidney issues. The ad offers free sample bottles and a book by mail, with the address in Binghamton, NY.
A group of business leaders and interested citizens demand centralized control of the canal project amid commission jealousy. Critics note commissions have limited progress and ongoing Panama Railway ties worsen public trust. The piece mocks sensational rumor culture surrounding a fictional kidnapping innuendo.
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