Railways in Japan show growth and rising costs in 1899
The Japanese railway bureau reports 472 miles opened in 1899, total state and private lines at 3,421 miles, and 58 formal chartered companies with 238,775,000 yen capital. Of 42 active formal-charter lines, Nippon leads with 57 miles and Kyushu 315 miles. Total rolling stock rises to 1,103 locomotives and 14,088 freight cars. total freight capacity 94,350 tons. Revenue reaches 31,700,676 yen with expenses at 17,760,544 yen, up over the previous year.
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Nippon
Kyushu
San-Yo
Hoko Tanko
Kansai
Tate
Railway and Engineering Review
Falconry Hobby of Consuelo Duchess of Marlborough
The Duchess of Marlborough has taken up falconry with notable enthusiasm and spends time on riding lessons. She is often followed by Blenheim spaniels Dorothy and Ossie during rides. Consuelo shares the breed’s growing popularity at Woodstock, with a historical note on Blenheim spaniel origins and breeding by Ainslee’s kennels.
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Consuelo
Duchess of Marlborough
Blenheim Kennels
Ainslee’s
Prehistoric Mummies Discovered Near Texas New Mexico Border
George Wold of Waco finds a cave on the Texas New Mexico boundary in El Paso County that likely served as an ancient burial site. The cave shows possible hieroglyphlike markings and contains seven dried mummies, including a female, with one hand and arm carried by Wold. The site suggests centuries have passed since the corpses were laid in grass cloth within the grotto.
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George Wold
Waco
el Paso
Texas
New Mexico
Guadalupe Hills
Mr. Wold
Dallas News
Manga Beira Rubber Price Rise Noted in Bulletin
The Rew Bulletin reports Manga Beira rubber prices have recently advanced partly due to improved rubber purity. The article stresses market response and potential effects on stakeholders in the rubber trade.
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Rew
Library Without a Home St Louis Drives Public Library Building
Citizens in St Louis debate a free standing library on the exposition site amid a deadlock where abstentions count against the measure. Supporters urge a block long building to house millions of books and serve present and future needs as the city contemplates rebuilding the exposition blocks.
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St. Louis
Exposition Site
Nature Notes on Animal Groups and Hunting Terms
The article chronicles various animal group terms and hunting lore. It explains bevy of partridges covey of quail a bunch of prairie chickens and other collective nouns and outlines trophies like brush pad chief pad minor and pegs. It also covers the bell mare in mule herds and old market days involving drovers and horse racing lore.
Odds and ends from the world and science
A collection of curiosities notes global topics from Australia’s hospital density to Cairo’s fast road trip, Naples art sales, French champagne stocks, Cape Town’s Table Mountain, a Pan American railway cost, China road woes, and Hindu beliefs about the ruby as talisman.
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Vienna
Naples
Rome
Florence
Venice
Milan
France
Table Mountain
Cape Town
South Africa
New York
Buenos Ayres
Charles Beresford
China
Courtship Polices in Marriage Era
A brief item from the Washington Democrat discusses the social view on courtship and marriage during the courting era, noting public reaction to articles about wedding practices and propriety.
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Washington
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el Paso County
Para
Bahia
Pernambuco
Sao Paulo
Africa
Usambara
Togoland
Misahobe
Ceara
Mangabeira Rubber
Nature Notes
Neddy
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Australia
Cairo
The
Pyramids
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Home Office
Newark, N. J
John F. Dryden
Tojtuly
Prudential
WAM
H. McKleroy
James O. Wynn
Southern Department
Anniston
Ala
Prudential Building
Atlanta
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