Thursday, August 10, 1905

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WITTE'S POWERS ARE ABSOLUTE; Even the Usual Reservations Are Omitted. ENVOYS MEET; DO LITTLE Decide That Any Language Can Be Employed. PEACE HOPES VANISHING It Is Not Believed the Conference Will Last Longer Than a Week -- Both Sides Equally Pessimistic.

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In My Merry Oldsmobile

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On This Day

• Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Herbert Hoover (1874)
• Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810)
• Norma Shearer (1902)
• Arne Tiselius (1902)
• V. V. Giri (1894)

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Jukebox, Silencers & Novocain.

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