Japanese Advance Near Liaoyang Threatens Mukden
Tokyo and St Petersburg dispatches report the Japanese Vanguard halting between Liaoyang and Mukden with Russian cavalry screen to the north, while Tokyo dispatches say shells fall on Mukden as Japan hopes a wide turning movement to cut off Europathin retreat. Russians note strong Manchurian reinforcements, with Mukden concentration growing and attitudes toward operations cautious amid rail urged defense.
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Europatkin
St. Petersburg
Mukden
Mectal
London Times
Washington Post
Tokyo
Liaoyang
Associated Press
London
The
Express
St Petersburg
Sakharoff Taid
Quate
Bianiapura
Yentai
Kuroki
Uiraniapura
Yenta
Notices of Marriage and Death in Washington Post
Public notices list marriages and deaths across multiple papers with free insertion. Item names include Browne Coli Driscoll Hodges Klug Murray Murphy Picket Shackelford and others with funeral dates, times, and locations in Washington and Maryland, noting private or church services and interment details.
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Washington Post
NEW York Times
Baltimore Herald
Hoston Glove
Buffalo Courier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST Louis Republic Byracuse Post
Paul
Browne
Forest Glen
Louise Rolcott Knowlton Browne
Willam Henry Browne
St John's Church
Lafayette Square
R_ Hartis
Hattie B Church
Joseph A Repetti
Cnnsylvania Avenue
Eptember
Mount Olivet
Baltimore Sun
Cumberland
Driscoll
Joseph Driscoll
Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast
Hodges
Aurora
Charles R. Hodges
Klug
Peter
Brigitta
Kiug
Eleventh Street
St . Maury Church
Fifth Street
Murray
Poland Springs
Mabel M Murry
Susan Murray
Massachusetts
Avenue Northwest
Murphy
Katia M
James P
Annis T. Murphy
Sexmon
Gales Street
Mount Olivet Cemetery
G Street
John W
Harvey's
Fourteenth Street
Shackelford
John
Harry L
Mr. Shackelford
Massachus Avenue
Undertakers Listed With Names and Terms in Washington
A fragmentary Washington DC funeral directory lists undertakers and embalmers with address lines and contact numbers. Entries include W R Speare, Joseph Gawler, Harvey's Sons, J Wright, J William Lee, and George P Zurvorst along with service notes and modest pricing hints.
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Joseph Gawler
Main 131
Avenn
Parc
R. F. Harvey
Fourteenth Street
North
Captured by Japanese at Liao-yang details
The official Oyama report on Liao-yang occupation is questioned as no prisoners or spoils figures are named. It mentions two old railway cars and broken commissary wagons as immense supplies, empty ammo boxes as ammunition left by Russians, and clarifies that claimed dum-dum bullets are revolver bullets.
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Liao-yang
Oyama
Antung
Peking
Tuly
Motien Ling
Kellar
Ithinto
Yushiling
Japanese Journals Deplore Officials’ Reserve Toward War Correspondents
Special London Times Cablegram reports leading Japanese journals denounce official reserve toward foreign war correspondents while hoping for continued Anglo-Saxon sympathy with Japan. They urge critics to show impartiality and avoid letting personal disappointment affect professional judgment amid the Far East crisis. Movements of Ocean Steamers list arrivals and sailings including Arable, Queenstown, Umbria, Pretoria, and Fried rich der Grosse with routes to New York and Southampton through Sept 18.
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London Times
Washington Post
Tokyo
Japan
Far East
New York
Liverpool
Queenstown
Blwecker
Hamburg
Dover
Boulogne
Georgia
Bremen
Friedrich der Grosse
Southampton Land
Umbria
Moyer
Pretoria
Houlogne
Southampton
Erledrich der Grose
Japan's Silent Army Captures Manchuria War Details
The Associated Press dispatch from Manchuria analyzes Russian artillery and Japanese discipline. It notes Russian strength, superior Russian gunnery, and flatters Japanese restraint, while describing Kuroki as the silent Moltke figure guiding a frugal army that values tea fans and fishing lines over loud bravado.
UPSET KUROKI'S PLANS IN LIAOYANG FIGHT
London dispatch from Liaoyang dated September 7 reports Gen. Kuroki's flank move failing due to Gen. Karapatkin's strong deployment and secure retreat. Russians limited supplies and avoided pitched battle while the Japanese showed the value of their lines. Earlier Tan River action describes Japanese crossing in four columns under heavy fire with limited Russian gains and a noted Russian retreat. A Tokyo dispatch notes a political push in Japan to remove real estate and mortgage restrictions to attract foreign capital.
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Taiwan
Yalu
London
Kuroki
Liaoyang
Tan River
London Times
Washington Post
Tokyo
Paraguayan civil war peace talks falter amid uprisings
Advices from Uruguay report Basilio Munoz, successor to Gen. Aparicio Saraiva, urging peace to President Ordonez after Saraiva's death. Ordonez says no conditions, open to reasonable proposals as delegates negotiate. Paraguay rebels mass near towns along the railway, cutting supplies to Asuncion and signaling an imminent confrontation.
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Buenos Ayres
Uruguay
Basilio Munoz
Aparicio Saraiva
Ordonez
Uruguy
Saraiva
Paraguay
Asuncion
Great Britain and U S Aid Shanghai River Conservancy
The Times correspondent reports Britain and the United States backing a Shanghai river improvement plan. Britain says China will undertake and complete the project without foreign funding, with both powers now actively supporting the effort to carry it through.
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Great Britain
America
China
London
the Times’ Pekin
Shanghai River
United States
Father Agius consecrated as apostolic delegate
In Rome on September 18 Father Agius was consecrated Archbishop of Palmira and named the new apostolic delegate to the Philippine Islands. Cardinal Merellin Vas presided at the Benedictine Church of St Ambrose of Massimo with archbishop assistance.
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Philippine Islands
Rome
Father Agius
Palmira
St. Ambrose of Massimo
Merrynel Vas
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Promises Lung Recovery
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to strengthen weak lungs and cure deep seated coughs and bronchitis. A testimonial from A S Penn of Howe Iowa details chronic lung disease relief after using the remedy, praising its effectiveness and recommending it to others.
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Pierce
Golden Medical Riscovery
A. S. Pen
Howe
R. V. Pierce
R. Wuffalo
N.Y
New Orleans Priest Sees Consecration. Donates to Parish Poor
Chapelle of New Orleans attends the consecration of Father Agius with family from England and Malta. After the ceremony he forgoes the customary luncheon and gives a generous sum to aid the parish poor.
British To Leave Lassa In Early September
British expedition departs Lassa on September 3 amid cold weather and heavy frost. Soldiers equipped with winter gear face risky passes toward Guangtse where warm clothing stores exist. Emperor orders Amban to appoint Tashi Lama of Shigatse as successor to the Dalai Lama’s spiritual duties, warning of possible permanent deposition if the Dalai Lama remains contumacious.
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Lassa
Guangtse
Tashi
Lama
Shigatse
Dalai-Lama
Relief Expedition Fails to Reach Franz Josef Land
Tromsee Norway Sept 18. William Ziegler’s secretary Mr Champ in charge of the relief expedition aboard the Frithjof reached port at 1 pm. The Frithjof to latitude 79 degrees 10 seconds north. Champ reports failure due to insurmountable ice and advancing winter.
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Tromsee
Norway
Champ
William Ziegler
America
Prithjof
Frithjof
Franz Josef Land
Albany Woman Dies After Grieving Loss of 36000
Despondent over 36000 stolen from her lawyer’s office Mrs Thomas Scott drank poison at her husband’s grave in Rural Cemetery Albany N Y Sept 18 She was found by Cemetery Supt Burns and died later officials believe laudanum caused death In Philadelphia a man named Hendrick was killed in a home quarrel with Maximilian Stump Stump under arrest for murder A railroad company to build 580 mile line from Kansas City to Red River in Choctaw Nation planned with Chicago Burlington and Quincy involvement
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Albany
Thomas Scott
Orly
Burns
Scott
Mary B. Hart
Philadelphia
Maximilian Stump
Joseph Hendrick
Stump
Hendrick
Burlington
Gulf
Guthrie
Okla
Kansas City, Grimulges and Gulf Railroad Company
Kansas City
Red River
Burlington and Quincy
Ticket Broker Convicted In St Louis Sale Record Case
The first conviction under St Louis city ticket broker rules occurred in the Second district Police Court. J W Platt was fined 250 dollars for failing to provide a schedule showing ticket destinations and originating roads. An appeal to the Court of Criminal Correction is planned, with many similar cases pending.
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St. Louis
Second District
J W. Platt
Beat
Court of Criminal Correction
Piatt
Federation of Women's Clubs maps two year work plan
St Louis September 18 The board of directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs adjourned after four days of routine work having completed the next two years' program and appointing all committees for the biennial ed in 1906 The council will meet at Chautauqua in June and consider orations for the biennial convention in St Paul
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St. Louis
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Chautauqua
St. Paul
Prominent Educators Gather for Arts and Sciences Congress
In St Louis notable educators specialists and investigators from around the world arrive for the International Congress of Arts and Sciences opening tomorrow at Pestival Hall in the World's Fair complex. The program includes 2235 scientists and scholars with Prof Simon Newcomb serving as president of the congress.
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St. Louis
International Congress of Arts and Sciences
Pestival Hall
Simon Newcomb
Miss Boyd Home After Crete Expedition Reveals Hidden City
Miss H Boyd, sent by the Pennsylvania Archaeological Society to Crete, reports finding a hidden city and bringing specimens from the field. She traveled aboard the steamer Pannonia arriving from Trieste Fiume and Palermo. Separately seventy delegates arrive in St Louis for the eighth international geographic congress amid sessions of the arts and science congress.
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Miss Boyd
Crete
New York
Miss H. Boyd
Pennsylvania Archaeological Society
Pannonia
Trieste
Fiume
Palermo
Mies Boyd
Society
Thie
St. Louis
International Geographic Congress
Washington
Chicago
Geographic Congress
Congress of Arts and Science
Minstrel's Wife 2 Death by Own Action in New York
Mrs Mary T Thatcher forty five wife of minstrel George W Thatcher commits suicide tonight at her West 106th Street home by inhaling gas She suffered from a nervous trouble and had inherited fifty thousand dollars recently from an uncle in Philadelphia Philadelphia Restaurant Burned at 18 North English Street causing about twenty five thousand dollars in damage Strawbridge Clothier adjoining store sustained smoke and water losses about two thousand all insured
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New York
Mary T. Thatcher
George W. Thatcher
Weat 106Th Street
Thatcher
Philadelphia
H. Mosebach & Sons
North Englith Street
Strawbridge & Clothier's Department Store
Mosebach
Monster Mission Meeting in Austin
About 90 000 Negro attendees converged on a mass meeting in Austin, Texas, linked to the National Baptist Convention. Delegates arrived from across the state for the event, with plans to adjourn the convention the following day.
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Austin
Tex
National Baptist Convention
Texas
College Crusade Alarmed by Sororities Moral Dangers
Nine national Greek letter sororities in Chicago launched a reform crusade to improve morals and social conditions in coeducational colleges across the United States. Resolutions call for faculty cooperation and prosecution of the reform effort, led by Mrs Jean Nelson Penheld. Key figures include Laura Norton, Elizabeth Gamble, Lillian Thomn, C Kimble, Bessie Krape, Grace Telling, Amy Olgen, Ruth Terry, and others representing Kappa Alpha Theta, Beta Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Pi Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Delta Delta, and Alpha Phi.
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Greek Letters
Chicago
Saprt
United States
Jean Nelson Penheld
New York
William Warner Pen Feld
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Laura Ho Norton
Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
Elizabeth Gamble
Detroit
Beta Phi Sorority
Lillian W. Thom N
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority
C Kimble
Abingdon
Alpha Pi Delta
Bessie M Krape
Chi Omega
Freeport
Grace E Telling
Delta Gamma
Amy Olgen
Delta Delta Delta
Ruth Terry
Alpha Phi
Murder Over Card Game Ends in Fatal Shootout
In Monongahela a mining town Hagelkirk a game of cards led to murder when George Kopko shot George Nazok after Nazok accused Kopko of cheating. Nazok died almost instantly and Kopko fled the scene. Nazok’s wife and child were informed by phone and expect to meet the murdered man here next week. In Columbia a Burned Woman Dies at Greenville Residence Mrs M V McGee of Anderson South Carolina died from burns suffered earlier in the day. She reportedly ran from her room into the hall with clothing on fire and perished before aid could reach her.
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George Kopko
Monongahela
Hagelkirk
George Nazok
Nazok
Kopky
Ciild
Columbia
M V McGee
Anderson
C J Giles
Greenville
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Ion
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Vladivostok
Sakhalin
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Foreign Office
Rojestvensky
Baltic Sea
Germany
Russia
Allgemeine Zeitung
Kamchatka
Cronstadt
Libau
San Francisco
Russ
Bourse Gazette
Mare Island
Bourse Gavette
Siberian
Manchurian
Sakhaln
Novoe Vremya
Denmark
Sweden
Baltic
Schultz
Port Arthur
Alexander Station
Undertakers
W.R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Wricht
Sae Bigs
J. William Lee
Baz Penosrvapia Ave
George P. Zurvorst
umeTz Pariars East
East
Tienshi-tien
Manchuria
Healing
Hamatan
Skobeleff
England
Moltke
Imperial Guards
Pengwang-cheng
Feng-wang-cnens
Field Post
Kuropatkin
General Furniture Department
Massachusetts Avenue N. W
Shanghai
Younghusband
Ziegler
Athens
Domville
Mediterranean
Thomson
Pribilof Islands
Nikolaievsk
Belgrade
John B. Jackson
Greece
Roumania
Servia
Federation OF Women’s Clubs
Congress OF Arts and Sciences
Morton C. Stout & CO
F St. N. W
Cranston
Wonton
QUT Ano Co. Tailors
Hrehives
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