Alaskan Cable From Seattle to Sitka and Juneau Planned
Washington reports the war department will lay a US manufactured submarine cable from Seattle to Sitka and Juneau. The project costs about 485 000 dollars with 1100 miles of cable. It will serve military needs and carry commercial messages when not in use.
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Washington
Seattle
Sitka
Juneau
War Department
Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Company of
New York
General Greeley
Signal Corps
United States Army
Rock
United States
Congress
Root
Alaska
Frat Lawton
Canadian
United Sates
Yukon plans vast water works for Klondike
The Yukon government orders a survey for a four million dollar water system to serve Klondike gold streams. Mains would cover 61 miles of ditch and flumes with 120 miles of steel laterals, distributing from Nome. Contending groups press Ottawa as parliament meets.
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Dawson
Y. T
Yukon
Klondike
Wood
Hungry Creek
Nome
New Zealad
Seattle Council Orders Work Begun on Municipal Electric Plant
Seattle council approves rapid progress on the Cedar River municipal electric plant. The board of public works is authorized to seek bids for line lumber dam and buildings, with construction contracts delayed until bond sales occur. The same session directs a five member committee to plan Transmississippi Congress entertainment and boost attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Cedar River
Board of Public Works
Transmississippi Congress Senate
James
Transmississippi Congress
Oil train explosion kills many near Olean New York
A Erie freight train carrying oil derailed and exploded near Olean New York. The blast killed at least eighteen people and injured many more as flames swept along the tracks. Rescue and recovery efforts continued into the night with identification nearly impossible.
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Olean
N. Y
Erie
Sydney Fish
Homer Bird Hanged After Stay of Execution Aborted
Skagway reports Homer Bird hanged at Sitka at 1 40 pm after a delay to await a potential presidential stay. Bird condemned as murderer declared innocence and bade farewell to wife and daughter. Separate item from London notes 1903 04 navy estimates with vast expenditures and new ships planned.
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Skagway
Sitka
Homer Bird
Bird
Bonita
London
Coast Guard
Admiralty
Wade Named Counsel for Canadian Alaska Boundary Case
F C Wade of Winnipeg has been appointed to help prepare Canada’s case for the Alaska boundary commission. He will travel to Ottawa London and Washington and brings years as crown prosecutor and Canadian representative at Dawson. He knows the Alaska and Yukon disputed area.
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Winnipeg
F. C. Wade
Canada
Alaskan Boundary Commission
Lady Abbott Sentenced in Poison Trial at Old Woman's Asylum
A Munich dispatch reports Lady Abbott of the Old Woman's asylum was found guilty of attempted poisoning a servant girl and sentenced to six years in prison.
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Berlin
Munich
Abbott
Snowstorms in Samara Region Cause Hundreds of Deaths
London despatch reports severe snowstorms sweeping the government of Samara over the past week. The telegram states hundreds have perished as freezing conditions cripple daily life and transport.
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London
St. Petersburg
Daily Mail
Samara
Snow Shoe Family Brings News From Winter Drift
Grandma Fay and Grandpa Fay receive grandchildren Percy Annie Ted and Aunt May bearing a basket of food and good news from a snowbound tale. The youngsters laugh cry and describe drifts reaching kitchen windows and a colt with no white hair while promising a chicken pie visit tomorrow.
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Grandma Fay
Grandpa Fay
Grandma
John
Percy
Annie
Mamma
Papa
Ted
Aunt May
Grandpa
Monongahela River Leads U S Traffic in 1902 Canal Tons
A treasury bulletin shows Monongahela River lock No 3 through 1902 handled 9 109 002 tons plus coal from pools totaling 9 626 686 tons on the river. Ohio trades at Davis Island Louisville and Kanawha coal flows figure prominently with large totals across several canals and locks.
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Ronple
United States
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Monongahela River
Great Lakes
Ohio River
Pittsburghs
Davis Island Dam
Louisville
Great Kanawha
Little Kanawha
Mississippi
Des Moines Rapids Canal
Green River
Kentucky
Big Sandy River
Cascades Canal
Columbia
Barren River
Kentucky River
New York State
Etiquette in paying wages illustrated by a society agency
A female supervisor from a noted employment agency explains how not to hire secretaries or companions for society women who are suddenly rich. She recalls a case where a girl educated in the city returned after a month, describing a problematic appointment near St Patrick's Cathedral.
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
Foolish Women and Wages Refuse Siren Beneath The Surface
A narrator recalls a day at a normal school when a kitchen maid delivered wages from the missus. A conflict follows as the narrator returns the money, claiming no apology is due, while the wife admits misbehavior and offers an apology that is declined.
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Idaho
New York Times
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Alaskan Cable
Helena
Freight House
Burns
Mont
Northern Pacific
Tain Young Readers
Johnny
Chris
St. Nicholas
Annie Louise
Tommy
Grandpa's
C. Vammen
G St
Heron
Aberdeen
Fred Hewitt
Propr
Heron and
F Ste. Aberdeen, Wash
K. Bowes
Pleasant Club
Heron Street
W. W. Wren
Heron ST
Thomas R. Hayes
Bellefonte
Penn
Harry A. Hayes
Hayes & Hayes, Bankers
Aberdeen, Wash
J. G. Lewis
C. W. Miller
State Bank
George L. Hilton
San Francisco Examiner
Heron ST. Aberdeen
R.P. Porter
Choice Brands
VIA
St. Paul
Duluth
Minneapolis
Chicago
A. B. ©. Denniston
First Avenue
Aberdeen Hotel
New Management
Money. Co
P. Whitney
Gee
A. Woodward
F Street
Wishkah Hotel
Charley Matteus
Wishkah Street
Herald Office
Montesano
W. E. Crist
Palace Restaurant
Baretich & Fitzgerald, Proprietess
Tadejevich
Royal Restaurant
M. Francescovich
Wash
M. Antich
Walters
Heren
Wiehkah
Telephone
Fred Redinger
Michael Finn
Pamily
Wishkah St
Absedese
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