Peace terms in Russo Japanese talks at Portsmouth
The report outlines Russia's peace reply delivered by M. Witte to Baron Komura detailing indemnity and Sakhalin cession as non negotiable. It lists cession of Liaotung leases, Manchuria evacuation, open door principle, postwar railway and fishing rights, Korea protectorate, interned warships release, and naval limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
M. Witte
Baron Komura
Sakhalin
Portsmouth
N. H
Liaotung Peninsula
Port Arthur
Dalny
Manchuria
China
Japan
Harbin
Vladivostok
Korea
Siberian Littoral
Behring Sen
Far
Paris
St. Petersburg
Siberia
Linovitch
Plague in the South Strikes New Orleans Officials Fight Fever
Yellow fever devastates New Orleans with 63 new cases and seven deaths as officials urge militia to end illegal quarantines and restore traffic. The crisis spreads into better city areas and disrupts telephones while a leading surgeon falls ill. Louisiana records 124 deaths and a growing toll as the outbreak intensifies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flacide Lewis Chapelle
New Orleans
United States
Louisiana Health Board
Roosevelt supports Monroe doctrine with limits and corporate oversight
President Roosevelt in Chautauqua N Y urged enforcing the Monroe doctrine with restraint and urged wise control of large corporations. A rescue ship saved Arctic expedition members cut off since 1903, with one death. Thirteen bodies recovered after Albany store collapse. feared more in ruins. A mob burned a Black man after an attempted assault in Sulphur Springs Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Chautauqua
N. Y
Fiala-Ziegler
America
J.C. Meyers Company
Albany
Multiple Fatalities Reported Across States and Nations
A roundup of tragedies and events including Samuel Stenman shot near Hurley Wisconsin, boycotts against Americans in Shanghai, oilwell deaths in Michigan, Corydon Indiana sandbank collapse fatalities, lightning deaths in Oklahoma, a Woodlawn Illinois shooting, a Portage Wisconsin murder suicide, bank fraud warrants in Denver, centenarian Captain Osier’s death, drownings in Kansas, and broader news on strikes, politics, and weather impacts across the United States and abroad. The report notes health concerns of Dr. Harper, a presidential reception, and regional crop and storm damage reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Stenman
Montreal
Hurley
Wis
Rodgers
Shanghai
Department of State
Chinese Chamber of Commerce
Aaron Osborn
Dan Fisher
Belding
Mich
Joseph
Edward Fiurd
Corydon
Ind
George Johnson
William James
Cushing
Oklo
Elzie Morgan
Robert Moore
Woodlawn
Ill
Moore
Morgan
Carl Boeck
Portage
Mathew Mamer
Nicholas Kitten
Oscar Benson
Cuicago
Roosevelt
Wilkesbarre
Charles E. Clark
Navy
Kellogg
Battle Creek, Mich
Harper
Chicago University
Cleveland
W. R. Harper
Denver
Cal
Western Bank
Jerome B. Osier
Chicago
Col
John Walters
Hickory Creek
McCune
Kan
Brookfield
Mass
Riga
Russia
Wu Ting Fang
Peking
America
Phillip Loew
Lewis Albright
Delaware
Ohio
North Ohio Methodist Conference
Ada University
Ohio Wesleyan University
Interstate Sheriffs’ Association
St. Paul
Teamsters
Philadelphia
Union Finance Committee
Saginaw
Dozen Killed In Wreck Near Vermillion Ohio
A fast east bound Nickel Plate passenger train collided with a westbound freight at Kishman near Vermillion Ohio killing 12, injuring 25. Most victims were foreign laborers from Fort Seneca bound for Brookfield. An investigation cites orders misread or ignored by the freight crew and slow freight watch as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
Nickel Plate Road
Kishman
Vermillion
Standard Oil Company
Fort Seneca
Brookfield
C. C. Poole
Haefner
Caniff
Nickel Plate
Fever Epidemic Surges in New Orleans as Deaths Rise
Yellow fever reports show 105 new cases and a season total of 955 in New Orleans, with spreading cases in the sugar belt and southwest Louisiana timber lands. Italians flee Godchaux properties, new cases at La Fourche crossing, and banana trains barred to prevent northward spread. Illinois guards tighten watch on the Cairo bridge amid renewed vigilance for entering residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Sugar Belt
Louisiana
Godchaux
St. Charles Parish
la Fourche Crossing
Washington
White
Chicago
Cairo
Thebes
Ill
Kansas Launched as Largest East Coast Battleship
The battleship Kansas was launched at 12 47 p m Saturday at the New York Shipbuilding yard in Camden New Jersey. Gov. Hoch of Kansas and his daughter Miss Anna Hoch sponsored the event joined by a party of 30 Kansans. The Kansas is a sister ship to the Vermont and will carry the same armament as the Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Kansas
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Gov. Hoch
Anna Hoch
Vermont
Fore River Ship and Engine Building Company
Quincy
Mass
Minnesota
Newport News
Teamsters Reelect Shea in Close Philadelphia Vote
In Philadelphia on August 14 President Cornelius P. Shea of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Helpers was reelected head of the organization by a 129 to 121 vote over Daniel Furman of Chicago, the rival candidate of the opposition forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teamsters
Philadelphia
Cornelius P. Shea
International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Helpers
Daniel Furman
Chicago
Their First Cloud
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune piece shows a tense scene with a young woman whispering and a man named Jack growing suspicious as a kiss is proposed. The text hints at danger and conflicting emotions aboard a vessel under heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Tim
Chicago Tribune
Indecision on Making a Musician of the Baby
A friend teases the professor about turning his child into a musician. The professor answers with uncertainty, noting the baby has no hair yet and leaving the question unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onkers Statesman
Darwin Refuted by a Child Over Ancestry Claim
A courtroom style quip has a father and son debating evolution. The child asserts he will be an ancestor someday and denies being a monkey, prompting a judge to intervene with a humorous remark. The exchange playfully contrasts scientific theory with young skepticism in a staged or satirical context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darwin
Geoffrey
Parrot Quips About Illness During Summer Vacation
A man left at home with a parrot while his family vacationed. Upon return the wife asked if Polly was lonely, and the bird replied with a humorous misstatement about having a white attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly
Painter Overcomes Pain With Dodd's Kidney Pills
In Sault Ste Marie on August 14 Mr L Smith a local painter and decorator describes severe pains blamed on lumbago sciatica or rheumatism. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills he reduces reliance on canes and claims complete cure proving the remedy effective for his condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sault St. Marie
Mich
L. Smith
Anne Street
Thin City
Dodd
Tame Lions Baffle Streetwise Visitor At Zoo
A slangy young lady toured the zoo and found the lions unusually tame, calling them something fierce in a tongue in cheek remark quoted by N. QO. in the Times-Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. QO
fimes-Democrat
Excursion Fares From Chicago Announced
Detroit and return six dollars fifty cents going dates at once through August fifteenth Philadelphia and return nineteen dollars going dates September fifteenth sixteenth and seventeenth Liberal limits and stopovers Full particulars at city ticket office corner Clark Street and Jackson Boulevard Chicago Telephone Harrison 1757 One of the first microbes down Panama way to get in its work in the United States was that of the hat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Iladelphia
Clark St
Jackson Blvd
Chicago
Harrison
Panama
United States
Chicago Chronicle
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised cure for feet
An ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a remedy for hot sweating calloused and swollen feet with price 25c and a free trial. It lists Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY as contact and warns against substitutes. Also included is a quip about wisdom and a testimonial claiming Piso's Cure for Consumption saved a life three years ago from Mrs Thomas Robbins Norwich NY dated Feb 17 1909 and a note calling a factory lockout merely a case of shaking hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
All
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Fifteen Years of Torture Ended by Cuticura Cure
A testimonial from H. B. Franklin of Allegheny Pa describes fifteen years of scalp and forehead sores, severe itching, and failed treatments until Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment were used. After three days of bathing and ointment application, the head cleared and one week yielded a complete cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H- B. Franklin
Washington St
Allegheny
Woman Daydreams Beneath Tree About Marriage and Family
A man sits at a girl's feet under a tree and plays a banjo to her. She imagines how life would unfold after marriage with seven children.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advertised as Cure All
Thousands of American women have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letters on file claim cures for menstrual pain backache bloating leucorrhea and uterine disorders, with physicians and nurses noting successes and urging women to consult Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Indiana
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Gov. Johnson
Maj. Taggart
Germany
William H. Belcher
Paterson
Stockton
Jeffersonville
John Taylor
Lou Phelps
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Providence
R. I
Naomi Aldrich
Grayling
New York City
Dun
Andrew E. K. Benham
Lake Makopac
Schley
Harry Parker
Harry Johnson
Joseph Moyer
Bennington
San Diego
Val
Edward Drouin
Peoria
Perry J. Luster
Cumberland Telephone Company
Guthrie
Ogden
Utah
Peter Hale
Gregson Springs
Butte
Anaconda
Montana
August Deseck
Rock Island
Illinois Steel Company
William Bissetter
Dixon
J. E. Ort
Harrisburg
Pana
Noah Fowler
Pere Marquette Railway
New Buffalo
Pere Marquette
Nashville (Tenn
Shea
Teamsters’ Brotherhood
Joint Council
Taft
Manila
Horace M. Reeve
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Limon Junction
Wright Andyman
Joseph Miller
Omaha
Chester Winstanley
New Albany
Seville
Spain
Nicholas
Weather Bureau
Wisconsin
Orrin W. Potter
Steel Trust
Bell
Europe
Kishman, O
Grand Trunk Railway System
New York
Bears
Castoria
the Caentaur Company
Citv
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