Wealthy New Yorker fights river whistle nuisance
Mrs Isaac K Rice of Riverside Drive campaigns against excessive boat whistles in New York harbor claiming they disturb 14 000 ill residents and nervous women. She principals appeal to Washington after local authorities said they lacked jurisdiction seeking restraint on nonessential signals to prevent risk of collisions.
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Isaac K. Rice
Isaac L. Rice
New York
Mrs. Rice
New York Harbor
Mia Rice
Riverside Drive
Nals
Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
State of
Congress
English Woman Politician and the Late Lady Grey
The London Mail lauds Lady Grey wife of Sir Edward Grey for her political influence and devoted work for New York’s poor. It notes her liberal zeal in diplomacy and domestic relief and recounts her tireless support of Sir Edward from 1885 onward until her death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Mail
Lady Grey
Edward Grey
F. Widdrington
Sir Edward
Falloden
Noted Speaker Aims to Aid New York Informants
The passage describes Mrs Ree teaching resilience to New York informants whose roles do not invite protest yet value rest and comfort, and her efforts to instill similar attributes in their lives.
Scarlet fever cure offered as free scientific contribution
Dr J F C Luhan of New York offers a long proven scarlet fever treatment as a free scientific contribution. The regimen aims to prevent anaemia and kidney complications by boosting blood iron and aiding elimination of destroyed red blood cells. Patients should bathe, rest in ventilated rooms, and buy pure medicine from reliable druggists kept in amber bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. C. Luhan
East Seventy-second Street
N. Y
Bright
Peru to Tap Lake Titicaca for Rail and Industry Power
Lake Titicaca in Peru, the world’s highest navigable lake, is earmarked to supply electric power for the Peruvian railway and local manufacturing plants. The project aims to harness hydroelectric potential to boost regional industry and transport, with authorities outlining plans for generation facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Titicaca
Peru
Favors Four Year Term in House to Shift Power
Bourke Cochran of New York promotes a constitutional amendment to extend House terms to four years from two. He argues longer terms would reduce re election pressure and strengthen the House against the Senate, noting that current two year terms force members into campaigns even as they try to legislate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bourke Cochran
New York
House
Senate
Cochran
Congress
The Carpenter's Square Invention By Siler Howes
The article recounts how Siler Howes, a Vermont blacksmith from South Shaftsbury, created the first carpenter’s steel square after welding two worn saws at right angles. He marketed it through peddlers, sold each square for five to six dollars, and secured a patent. Post War of 1812, Howes expanded into a factory, expanding production and fame as the square spread nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siler Howes
Vermont
South Shaftsbury
Howes
United States
Aryone
Cazine
New York
Citi
M. M. Hannah
Fernwoot
Mias
H. A. Parmele
Millford
Kate EF. Daniap
N. Hill Street
Los Angeles
Mra. Pretter
Richmond
Tex
M. G. Christenson
G . Minn
Strest
New York City
Oy Gai
Abyssinian Zebra Gift Enables Breeding Experiments
The Department of Agriculture will expand research on breeding by using an Abyssinian zebra donated to the Government. The gift allows continued experimental work along breeding lines and supports preservation of cross zebra and horse genetics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Ras Makonen
Europe
Gen. Alberton
Abyssinia
Skinner
Bureau of Animal Industry
Baron Parana
Burchell
Chicago of the South a Northern man reshaping Georgia
The article profiles Benjamin W. Hunt, a New York native who moved to Georgia in 1876 to spur Southern progress. It highlights his empire-building mindset, cattle and cattle fever research, pasture improvements, and the creation of mills, a bank, and railroads that boosted regional wealth and development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
William E. Smythe
Atlanta
Chicago
Middle West
South
New York
United States
Benjamin W. Hunt
West
Hunt
Middle
Cuba
North
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Seyrasug
Woartrof Csolumbu
Toelod
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