Darius Mills Founder of Mills Hotels and Pacific Slope Monte Cristo
The death of Darius O Mills recalls a rise from clerk to financier and philanthropist who helped develop the Comstock lode in Nevada and became famed founder of Mills hotels for poor men in New York City. His wealth and peculiar tastes were widely told yet his hotels offered affordable, respectable housing for thousands of transient workers.
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Darius O Mills
Sacramento
Cal
Comstock Lode
Virginia City
Nev
Ist
John W. Mackay
Mills
New York
Pacific Slope
Monte Cristo
Three Mills
New York City
Prison Life of C. W. Morse in Atlanta Prison
Charles W. Morse begins a fifteen year term as convict No. 2914 at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta. He is placed in the first grade, barred from speech except at designated times, and follows a rigid routine while asserting his innocence and planning future legal action. He finds solace in the poem Invictus and hopes to keep the verses, with two monthly visitors and limited mail.
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Coar
United States
Atlanta
Charles W. Morse
New York
Dais
Liberty Cor
Seo
Beocerorth
Morse
Wiliam HH. Mover
Martin Littleton
Oscar Wilde
Reading Gaol
Inu
Tombs
Wenlov
Vail
Need of More Farmers Cited by Secretary Wilson
Secretary Wilson of the Agriculture Department in Washington says the United States needs more farmers to curb the rising cost of living. He plans a thorough inquiry into price spreads between wholesale and retail food, noting too many in distribution and too few in production.
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Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Washingter
United States
backward running Mallet locomotives for Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific builds oil burning Mallet articulated engines designed to run backward with the tender attached to the pilot to improve track visibility. Fifteen units feature a stub pilot, enclosed cab with sliding windows, and ladders to access the cab, keeping the engineer on the right side facing forward.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Laymen's Great Mission Movement Gains Momentum in New York
Men from Protestant churches within fifty miles of New York gather for three week meetings aimed at world evangelization. The campaign unites denominations to recruit volunteers and secure large financial pledges with rallies planned in other cities and a Chicago convention next May to report progress.
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New York
America
United States
Chicago
Pranks by a Sophomore on Faculty Christmas Gifts
A sophomore scholarfolk crafted quirky gifts for faculty members. He sent cigars to the philosophy professor to test his ideas, an illuminated book for the architecture professor, a looking glass for the mathematics chair, a plum pudding for chemistry, an essay titled A Woman's Tongue for the dead languages, and a jar of live insects for the natural history professor.
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Jack
Fire Alarm Boxes Listed In Aberdeen Herald Advertisement
The Aberdeen Herald notes a list of fire alarm boxes with cross streets and locations across Grays Harbor including Market F streets and several mills and mills like Wishkah G streets and Harvey Shedds. The twice weekly paper advertises at $1.50 yearly in advance.
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North
Aberdeen
Cleveland
City Hall
Market
Terrace Ave
River
Burrow's Dock
Hume
Benn and Heron
Wilson's
Curtis
Evans
South
Front
Aberdeen Herald
Grays Harbor
Herald Printery
Twentieth Century
Herald
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Goodby
Southern Paci
Wisconsin
Grant
Sparta
Wis
Seagirt
N. J
Camp Perry
Ohio
Lesk
Alexander
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Sault Ste. Marie
Fire Department
A. S. Alexander
Sweeny
Farm Journal
Maine
California
the Herald
Aberdeen, Wash
Ey Ca
Nick Katurick
West Heron Street
West Coast Employment CO
Grays Harar
East Heron St
AY. PE
Lly
Lillys
Portland Creas
the Twentieth Century Magazine
B. 0. Flower
the Arena
Friends
Lincoln Steffens Hamlin Garland
David Graham Phillipsen
Robert L. Owen
William Kittle
Carl S. Vrooman
Benj
Fay Mills
Edwin Markham
Charles Zueblin
Charles E. Russell
Thomas E. Will Bolton Hall
John D. Works
William Ordway Partridge
L. F
Switzerland
George Judson King
Oklahoma
William W. Bates
Charles Edward Russell
Republican Party
Twentieth Century Magazine
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