Japanese blockade bids fail at Port Arthur again
St. Petersburg reports Vice Admiral Togo’s fireship and torpedo flotilla raid failed to block the Port Arthur entrance for a second time. Lieutenant Krinizki’s Silni led a bold defense, sinking and disabling several enemy craft while Makaroff’s squadron pursued but Japan withdrew at daybreak. News notes further bombardments, casualties, and strategic moves in the Manchurian theater.
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St. Petersburg
Togo
Port Arthur
Makaroff
Silni
Krinizki
Bohr
Otvajny
Swyereff
Stoessel
Liaotishin
Golubinaia Bay
Pigeon Bay
Retvizan
de Liaotishin
Alexieff
Bobi
Otvazuy
Askold
London
Nagasaki
The
Express
War Department
Manchuria
Harbin
Tumen River
Possiet Bay
Ping-Yang
Yalu River
Tokio
Daily Mail
Japan
Ping
Kin- Chau Bay
Shan-Hai-Kwan
Ministry of War
Daily Telegraph
Shanghai
Yuan Shi Kai
China
Russia
Liao River
Deadly cyclone devastates town near Caruthersville
A tornado about 20 miles north of Caruthersville Missouri Saturday night killed six people and wrecked homes. The Shoemaker family near Portageville perished. Wesley and wife Miller near Mount Pleasant also died and their house collapsed. Mills own money worth about 1500 dollars was found scattered. Wires were down and initial reports scarce.
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Caruthersville
Here
Shoemaker
Portageville
Wesley Miller
Mount Pleasant
Miller
Fire devastates East Brady area in March blaze
The Sunday fire in East Brady starting in the post office basement destroyed thirty buildings along Broad street and nearby blocks. Loss is estimated at 100000 with insurance up to 50000. Dynamite blast helped stop the flames. several families are homeless.
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Kittanning
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Adams Express Office
Hast Brady News
Senate backs Hoar bill to punish killing the president
Washington March 28 Senate judiciary committee through Senator Hoar reports favorably on a measure to punish the willful murder of the president or other officials with death, later reducible to hard labor imprisonment for ten years by court, applying to vice president successors and foreign ambassadors on duty.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Judiciary
Hoar
McKinley
House
Pettingill & Co. in Boston Files for Creditors
Pettingill & Co advertising agency announced it has placed its affairs in the hands of creditors. Liabilities may reach $1 000 000 with assets possibly one quarter that amount. The statement cites heavy embarrassment from errors in extending credit and in general business conduct.
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Pettingill & Co
Boston
Miss Bertha Vanderkamp Green Dies in Detroit Fire
Detroit on Woodward Terrace reports the death of Bertha Vanderkamp Green daughter of a former Syracuse attorney and a noted central New York figure She reportedly set her clothing ablaze with a match in the basement before daylight and died within hours She was a grand niece of Horatio Seymour war governor of New York.
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Detroit
Bertha Vanderkamp Green
Syracuse
N. Y
New York
Woodward Terrace
Green
Horatio Seymour
Fire destroys annex at New Comb hotel kills two maids
A blaze in Quincy Illinois destroyed the New Comb hotel annex early Sunday. Rose O'Donnell of Chicago suffocated in her room and Nettie Bronski leapt from a third story window and died. Several other employees were injured while all guests escaped unharmed.
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Quincy
Newcomb Hotel
Rose O’donnell
Chicago
Nettie Bronski
Cyclone kills thirty in Reunion island disaster
A dispatch from Hamburg reports 30 dead in the Reunion cyclone of March 21 and 22, including 13 white residents, as rain swept across the island.
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Winery
Hamburg
Reunion
Death of Sir Edwin Arnold the author
London reports Sir Edwin Arnold died in London on Thursday after a relapse following years of partial paralysis. Born June 10, 1882, he remained creatively active into recent days, last writing on the Russo Japanese war. Funeral set for March 28 with cremation at Woking.
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Searcy
Henry
Walker Griffin
Kirkpatrick
St. Place
Aenes P
Roe
Ethel
Clarendon
Aaron Linton
Dewitt
Ark
Kellis Johnson
Perry Carter
Griffin Brothers
Walker
St. Charles
London
Sir Edwin Arnold
Edwin
Woking
Wilfully Misunderstood Snap Aboard A Photo Moment
In the Philadelphia Ledger a light exchange shows Miss Butté and Miss Chellus discussing picking a pretty subject and keeping the camera steady as one remarks the other will take a lovely picture.
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Miss Butté
Miss Chellus
Philadelphia Ledger
Hat Confusion Sparks Dispute in Yonkers
In Yonkers a man returns to find his hat taken by another. The rival claims he feared theft while the owner was away. A light exchange reveals moneyed bravado as a social punchline reflected in witty banter from contemporary papers.
Itching Eczema Cures Promised by Cuticura Trio
Puck salutes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills as a remedy of almost superhuman virtues for infant eczema and skin ailments. The sketch lauds relief from itching burning scaling scalp disfigurement and related conditions, pledging efficacious results.
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Puck
Salter Seed Co offers 15 trees for $1.65 postpaid
La Crosse Wisconsin seed firm promotes Spring offer sending apricots apples crabs cherries plums peaches and pears as hardy Wisconsin stock including Bismark Apple for $1.65. Order also mentions 16¢ seed offer and free catalog.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Wisconsin
K.L
Rail Tickets Offer St Louis to California Route
$30.00 St Louis to California $30.00 via The Iron Mountain Route. Tickets on idle daily during March and April with Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars between St Louis Los Angeles and San Francisco. Particulars from any Agent of the Company. H C Townsend G P T Agent St Louis. Ethel Mamma what is the society struggle Mamma Getting Clothes daughter getting the clothes. Philadelphia Inquirer.
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St. Louis
California
Iron Mountain
Pullman
Los Angeles
San Francisco
H. C. Townsend
Ethel
Philadelphia Inquirer
To Cure a Cold in One Day Ad Patent Medicine Notice
An old magazine ad touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee if they fail to cure a cold. It also includes testimonial snippets and slogans for various products and authors. The piece reads like a collage of advertisements and quotations from the era.
Happy Women Find Relief From Kidney Trouble
Mrs. Almira A. Jackson of Traverse City Michigan credits Dean's Kidney Pills with ending years of misery from kidney pain nerve numbness and irregular kidney action. After seven boxes her bloating subsided she lost weight slept better and her circulation improved. Free trial offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and sold by druggists at 50 cents a box.
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Almira A. Jackson
East Front St
Traverse City
Mich
Dean
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