Proposed Lakerie to Pillsbovs Ship Canal Plans Filed
Ohio Pennsylvania and national government submit charters for the Lakerie & Ohio Ship Canal Company project. Construction could start next year with completion targeted for 1914 at an estimated cost of 55 million dollars. The route begins at Niles and runs north to Lake Erie with multiple divisions, locks, and an auxiliary lake planned at the southern summit.
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Epa
Lakerie
Pillsbovs
Lakerie & Ohio Ship Canal Company
Ohio
Pennsylvania
National Poveriorent
Indian Creek
Ashtabolt
Beaver River
Mac
Lake Erie
Next Thing to Turbine Rotary Steam Engine All Purpose
A direct coupled rotary steam engine with a 5 horsepower dynamo is reversible and starts at any point in either direction with no back pressure. It operates from one pound pressure up to boiler pressure and can drive steering gear windlasses hoists dynamos fans and pumps on ships.
Home Made Washing Machine Guidance
A Pathinder article describes making a simple washing machine from a water light cask. Cleanse the cask, cut a hole, mount on two rockers, attach a handle, add warm washing solution, load laundry, seal lid, and rock to cleanse the laundry by the impact of water against the ends as it tilts.
Buffalo herd gifted to government aims at wild preserve
The New York Zoological Park presented 15 buffalo to the national government and released them on a 7,680 acre range in the Wichita Game Reserve of southwestern Oklahoma. The director argues that long term preservation requires large state or national owned herds to ensure a wild life and avoid inbreeding from confinement.
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New York Zoological Park
Wichita
Oklahoma
The
Zoological Park
New York Zoological Society
New Survey Regrades Vesuvius Height After 1906 Eruption
The Italian Military Geographical Institute reports changes to Vesuvius since 1906. Extreme height now 1,223 meters down from 1,325. Crater rim irregular. diameters 725 meters NNE to SSW and 645 meters NW to SE. Lower contours enlarged. depression between Atria del Cavallo and Valle dell Inferno filled 6 to 50 meters.
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Italian Military Geographical Institute
Atria del Cavallo
Valle Dell’ Inferno
Palm Move By Rail From Redwood City to Santa Cruz
A massive palm, 40 tons, 20 feet around at base, and about 0 feet high, was moved from W. J. Dingee estate in Redwood City California to Santa Cruz. It was extracted carefully, placed in a large frame, then rolled onto railroad flatcars using derricks for the lift. The operation showcased ingenuity in transporting a living relic.
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W. J. Dingee
Redwood City
Cal
Santa Cruz
Morehan
Widow Demands Trading Stamps From Chicago Undertakers
A Chicago widow refused a funeral order at H M Rolston's after not receiving trading stamps. She reports neighbors were given stamps by other funeral directors, prompting discussion at the Chicago Undertakers' Association. President M M Goodale calls it a new, unethical marketing tactic in the trade.
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Chicago
H. M. Rolston
Chicago Undertakers’ Association
M. M. Goodale
Mr. Goodale
Trading stamps scandal shocks small-town mortuary trade
A widow visits Rolston's undertaking establishment seeking a plain, affordable coffin around $50 and trades stamps. She reveals a scheme where two women supposedly received trading stamps from undertakers for funerals, prompting the manager to promise to raise the issue at the next association meeting. The widow pressures for stamps as she tours caskets and decor.
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Rolston
John Morris
Morris
Mr. Morris
Elephant Suffering Stomachache Disturbs City Neighborhood
An elephant with a stomachache caused a four hour uproar around Race and Darien streets. Authorities and an animal dealer with help from the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and a veterinary surgeon subdued the animal after it received whisky morphine Jamaica ginger and alcohol.
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Philadelphia
Race
Darien
Pennsylvania, Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Jamaica
Talks With Tongue Cut Out Maguire Talks After Operation
Thomas Maguire, famed theater manager, four years after his tongue was removed to curb cancer, can talk sing and eat solid food. Once given a year to live, he smoked heavily before surgery on March 12, 1904, and surprised doctors by regaining speech within weeks. His case drew wide medical and theatrical interest.
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New York
Thomas Maguire
Fourteenth Street
Maguire
Open Air Longevity: Two Centenarian Gypsies in Buckinghamshire
In Buckinghamshire between Great Marlow and Medmenham two aging gypsy settlers live in an open caravan for 3650 and cultivate a three acre plot. Gypsy Cooper is 93 and his wife 101, both hale and sharp minded. They own three caravans and travel to fairs, with Cooper’s long service in the Oxfordshire regiment and a knack for vivid stories. They demonstrate vigor with a horn pipe dance and point to other long lived kin among their people.
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London
Great Marlow
Medmenham
Buckinghamshire
Gypsy Cooper
Naied
Dogs as Terror Prompt Odd Montana Letter to City Engineer
A Great Falls Montana city letter complains of Dog overpopulation with mock serious tone. It notes Philadelphia based ordinances and jokes of dog licensing while likening dogs to Cree Indians. Also mentions St Botolphs well in Hadstock England as historic water source.
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Philadelphia
Montana
Great Falls
James W. Fletcher
Mont
United States
Damascus
California
C. W. Swearingen
Fletcher
Hadstock
Essex
Eagland
Professional Card for Chas A Grubb Special Work
Chas A Grubb offers professional opinions on titles estate and probate law. Affiliated with Gite Iowa Trust and Savings Banke, providing specialized legal guidance and top level archival work for property transfers and trust administration.
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Gitelowa Trust and Savings Banke
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