New York Hotels Grow To Match Population Boom
The Social Register notes 9,000 wealthy New York families now stay in hotels. Experts say Manhattan hosts over 400 hotels and the city could see 286 hotels of 400 rooms each within twenty years. With daily floating population 75,000 to 185,800, New York is described as a vast hotel metropolis, its palace imagery evolving into a vast, singular hostelry culture.
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Paris
New York
Maeblonuier
Leimlay Shores
Manhattan
Manhattan Island
New York City
Fallroart
Civti Nest
Late Shah of Persia Dies in Fifty-Fourth Year
The Shah Muzaffer-ed-Din dies aged 54 after eleven years on the throne. A scholar and patron of the arts, he embraced Western ideas, boosted Persia’s first parliament, and traveled to European capitals. He left six sons and twelve daughters. his heir is Mohamed Ali Mirza, a well educated liberal successor at 35.
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Persia
Muzaffer-ed-Din
Muzilfered-Diy
Nozred-Din
Shah
Mohamed Ali Miraa
Shah- Toshab
Zi Atlan
Gol
Saturn
Huge Coal Bill of Railroads in 1900s
The article notes locomotives burn vast coal volumes, with annual rail fuel costs reaching as railroads report. It cites the Rock Island system's 1906 coal expense of $5,000,000 for 1,257 locomotives and the Chicago and Northwestern's $5,902,000 for 1,942 engines. The Interstate Commerce Commission itemizes national locomotive fuel at $100,000,000 in 1904, implying about 196 million tons of coal at $1.50 per ton.
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Hhe
Chicago and Northwestern
Interstate Commerce Concnle Sion
Sabows Tlal
Coal Use and Coal Costs on Railroads Compared Across Lines
The article analyzes locomotive coal consumption in 19th century railroads, noting Union Pacific in 1900 burned about 1,928,920 tons for 825 engines, about 2,515 tons per engine per year after 8 percent inactive. It cites Chicago and Alton and Lehigh Valley figures, estimating modern equipment average around 2,500 tons per engine yearly. It also includes a travel excerpt describing third class Spanish rail travel and shared meals aboard trains, highlighting social behavior and hospitality.
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Railrounds
Union Pacific
Chicago and Alton
Lehigh Valley
Alton
Rotary snow plows reshape western rail travel in Colorado
Walden Fawcett notes the rotary snow plow on the Moffat line in Colorado revolutionizes high altitude railroad work. The 100 ton machine propels a giant three blade wheel to tunnel through snow up to 100 feet from tracks, reducing need for costly snowsheds and saving lives by keeping lines open in the Rocky Mountain winter.
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West
Rocky Mountains
Moffat
Colorado
Mississippi River
American Alps
Walden Fawcett
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Old Boots and Shoes Made Into Useful Products
A historical note explains how discarded leather footwear are processed. Boots are chopped, treated with chlorine sulfide to harden, then ground and mixed with resin or glue to mold into combs buttons and other objects. Prosalate and Prussian blue production are also described from leather scraps.
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Boot and Shoe Trades Journal
Recollections Of An Old Museum Lecture Evening
In early Lyceum days the lecture bureau thrived and many towns hosted winter courses. Miss Andrews arrives in a Wisconsin town to a jovial youth society, is helped by a sleigh ride, then seated on an old settee with a large clergyman at the other end causing the settee to tip as the sermonizer’s debut drags on.
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Mendelssohn Quintet Club
Thomas Ryan
Quintet
Wisconsin
Miss Andrews
Ming Andrews
Sabin Abirt
Giant Rage
Jet
Harry K Thaw Trial Sees Question of Insanity
Millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw faces murder trial amid debate over his mental condition and legal responsibility for the Stanford White killing. The sensational case, unfolding in New York, centers on whether jealousy, anger, or insanity drove the act at the roof garden.
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Harry Kendall Thaw
Stanford White
New York
Fragmentary Theater Banter From an Annotated Ledger Text
A fragment from a Philadelphia Ledger item shows a crowd scene with an impatient call to give the young gal a chance. Dialogue references a daughter buying a new music piece and a wretched fit, reflecting social chatter and local tone.
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Mrs. Nexdore
Mrs. Knox
Philadelphia Ledger
Afghan ruler Habbullah Khan leans on Britain for support
A damaged snippet notes Afghanistan's Amir Habbullah Khan, thirty five, successor to Abdurman Khan since 1901, facing intrigues from a queen mother and fraternal jealousy. He seeks British backing amid frontier tensions between Russia and Herat, aiming to ease constant anxiety.
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British India
Nertieest
Habbullah Khan
Afghanistan
Russia
Abdurman Khan
Fin
T Queen Mother
Be B
Trappers and Fire-Killed Timber in the Northwest
The article recalls ten years of trapping life of Jo Macdougall son of Rev John Macdou gall and L Ward with Hudson Bay Company work and trade with Indigenous peoples. It notes yearly earnings around 500 to 600 dollars, travel by dogsled across vast distances, and the harsh northern wilderness as a hunter’s paradise. It also reports forest service findings on fire-killed timber, its usable state, and its processing into boards and boxes for mining and timber industries.
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Jo! Macdougall
John Macdogall
Canadian Northwest
Ward
Macdougall
Hudson Bay Company
Far Ner
Poneher Purdy
Forest Service
Phrase Carried To Newcastle Metaphor In Court Room Talk
The dialogue explains carrying coals to Newcastle as a metaphor for doing something unnecessary. A wife and husband illustrate with a hypothetical gift of a book titled Talk. A judge’s library and a furniture shop exchange show common usage of the phrase in everyday speech.
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Newcant
Bushand
Newcastle
Judge’s Library
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