Genius, Labor, and Notable Railroad Personalities
A column blends reflections on genius and industry with railroad notes. It praises relentless energy behind Edison, Wagner, Curie, and Wrights while detailing Santa Fe and Denver division updates, safety meetings, staff moves, new clubs, and local births, deaths, and appointments in Amarillo, Childress, Sterley, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Wagner
Milton
Thomas Edison
Luther Burbank
John Wannamaker
Wright Brothers
Madam Curie
Marconi
Denver and Rock Island train ops and travelers details
No. 5 of yesterday morning reports ad ditional sleepers from Houston Dallas and Fort Worth. Mrs Newman Parker and children visited Tulsa recently while Mr Parker outfit himself with clothes and odd items. Denver will run six special trains November 20 serving various groups ahead of full service November 23. The football special train from Vernon carried 350 passengers to Amarillo. Southern Pacific ferries on San Francisco Bay carry 39 560 life preservers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newman Parker
Rock Island
Tulsa
Okla
Parker
Denver
South Plains
Fort Worth
Amarillo
B. B. Burton
Vernon
Southern Pacific
San Francisco Bay
Texas & Pacific loses land grant over unbuilt line in Texas
The Texas & Pacific Company forfeits its land grant in Texas for failing to build a line from Fort Worth to Weatherford. State plans to designate the land among 5,000,000 acres for a new Austin capitol, per the 1877 Railroad Gazette report. A Tyler Tap celebration near Big Sandy marked an excursion to Tyler on September 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas & Pacific Company
Texas
Fort Worth
Weatherford
Austin
Tyler
St. Louis Southwestern
Texas & Pacific
Big Sandy
Track laying machine joins Brainerd cut off line progress
The Railway Gazette notes a track laying machine now operating on the Brainerd cut off of the Northern Pacific. It features a series of rollers in movable frames attached to the sides, aiding construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brainerd
Northern Pacific
Lord Dewar’s Witty Epigrams Delighting London Society
United Press reports Lord Dewar heirless bachelor and Savoy Hotel resident, director of the Dewar distilling company, remains a popular figure in London. At the Poultry Club annual dinner he delivered sharp epigrams, with friends noting his especially good form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
London
Lord Dewar
Savoy Hotel
Poultry Club
Railway graders lay new track on inclined flat cars
A historical note describes flat cars elevated to form an inclined plane for laying ties and rails. Workers deliver ties on one side and rails on the other, using the newly finished grade in a methodical track-laying process.
Humorous Lessons on Wives and Wardrobe
A column of satirical quips on marriage gender roles and fashion. The speaker pokes at pretensions about husbands wives and social attire with lines about permanent wives frock business and flattering the pocketbook. The tone mocks domestic norms and material expectations.
Slays Prison Mate After Four Year Term
James T. Nevins murdered his cell mate with an iron pipe at the county jail in Cleveland. Nevins confessed he planned to strike Federal Judge Paul Jones who sentenced him, and cited a four year federal sentence as motive. Prisoner Donald Prentiss, described as a Detroit area manager for a large auto company, died from the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Smith
New York
American Association For the Advancement of Atheism
Little Rock
Ark
Smith
Arkansas
Associated Press
Cleveland
James T. Nevins
Donald Prentiss
Detroit
Nevins
Paul Jones
Prentiss
Atlanta
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Joan Moore
J. D. Scott
Pierce Street
St. Anthony Hospital
J. W. Redfern
Denver Yard Service
Fifteenth
Buchanan Streets
C. S. Cravens
Santa Fe
Isaiah Hale
Topeka
Kan
A. R. Tilman
Albuquerque
N. M
Santa Fe Safety Service
Bill Murphy
Childress
W. J. Bunch
Texline
New South Plains
Denver Railroad
Sterley
A. C. Blank
Gibbons
Lpeckney
Emory Jones
Tom J. Buntin
Mr. Jones
South Plains Division
Jim Moran
al Dain
Denison
Trinidad
Colorado
R. W. Prentice
J. W. Vaught
F. Steinweinder
J. E. Riley
A. C. R. Division
Charles C. Crumb
B. F. Clutter
L. M. Draper
Borger
T. S. Leachman
Woodward
A. A. Bush
Parent- Teacher Association
Houston
Dallas
T. S. Barnes
J. C. Hammack
T. M. Gavin
Chester Floyd
Denver Freight Activities
North
Ong Street
L. A. McDoneld
R. H. Spicer
Co. L. Bowman
Rex Walling
J. W. Mode
Squibb’s
Squibb
E. R. Squibb & Sons
Conoco
General Motors
Continental Oil Company
Arizona
Idaho
Kansas
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Utah
Ashington
Wyoming
Ethyl
Gilmer
Railway Gazette
EE. Finkles
the Panhandle
Polk ST
Amundsen
North Pole
U.S
Cam
Florsheim
Polk Street
Ade
Mar
Atc
Ainsworth Drug Co
Armour and Company
McDonald Auto Supply
Thompson Drug Co. Swift and Company
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