Blind supervisor leads New York street cleanup for kids
Reuben Simons, a 51 year old supervisor of 150000 children in the Juvenile league, is blind yet the key force behind a city street cleaning drive. He organized 72 leagues across 72 schools where children report to the department, enforce warnings to households, and help keep thoroughfares rubbish free. Simons says he sees through imagination and loves organizing clubs, continuing his work with a steadfast, cheerful spirit.
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YGRK
Rereen
Simons
Juvenile League
Reuben Simons
New York
Davidson
Chicago Chinese to Amputate Queues, 190?-news
Chicago plans a mass haircut as a viral decree in China mirrors the year’s new year. Mayor May comments it is a sensible idea and many Chinese in Chicago, about two thousand strong, are expected to line up February 14 to have their queues cut off.
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Chicago
Chinatown
John Cullman
China
Umong
Wu Tiing
United States
Mav
Amer
Heaven
Chinanen
Sand filled boot device aids Brady on icy streets
Thomas Brady, a North Side fire alarm operator, uses a sand filled water bottle strapped to his body with a gas hose to feed sand under his shoe soles. He whistles to start his route home on icy mornings and credits the device with safer travel after prior injuries. Brady built a spreading contraption to direct sand underfoot and hopes to patent the idea.
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P Viladelphia
Thomas Brady
North Side
Brady
Allegheny City Hall
Woodlawns
Vallambrosa
Indian Chief backs mixed schools amid district push
In Awton Oklahoma Chief Guscah Parker a half blood Comanche leader pushes for mixed schooling while Congressman Ferris and Oklahoma delegates seek to use a federal fund to create exclusive Indian schools for those deemed incompetent by the interior secretary. Parker helped form a public district near the Wichita mountains donating land and funds and was elected president of the board. His son attended a white school near Lawton but Parker withdrew him amid protests from other families.
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Awton
Okla
Scott Ferris
Oklahoma
Secretary of the Interior
Guscah Parker
Parker
Wichita Mountains
Lawton
Cache
Layton
Comanche County
Florida
Mexico
Tampico
Gulf Coast
Hugland
America
Republic
Americans Invest Big in Mexico Beyond 1886
An official report notes American investment in Mexico from 1886 to 1908 totaled about $1.9 billion in Mexican currency and roughly $954 million in U.S. dollars. Americans own mines, railways, mills, and fruit ventures, with mining and related industries attracting the bulk of capital. US imports into Mexico last year reached $58 million, with $57 million from the United States.
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Mexico
Nevada
Mexico City
United States
Republic
Ood
Mexican National Railways
Aliea
America
Texas
Chiapas
Rhode Island
Alomas
New York
First Ohio cattle shipment seeds railroad history
An 1854 Ohio cattle raiser, John MacArdle, as a pioneer of rail transport, arranged the first cattle shipment to western Pennsylvania. Facing unknowns, he loaded six cars with fodder and hay, braved a fire on Saddle Ridge, and routed cattle via Latrobe, paving early Middle Division routes with help from local workers including Jockey Jones of Duncannon.
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Pennsylvania
John MeaArdie
Ohio
Latrobe
MacArdle
John Jones
Duncannon
Jockey Jones
Youngest Locomotive Engineer Charles G C Stephens
Charles G C Stephens, nineteen, claimed to be the youngest railroad engineer in the world, living in Long Beach after years in Alaska. He ran away at seven to seek the Alaska gold fields, worked up the Tanana and Yukon, then Cordova with the Copper River railroad project, earning an engine on his eighteenth birthday and later owning valuable gold and copper claims.
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Charles GC. Stephens
Long Beach
Cal
Cordova
Alaska
Young Stephens
Fairbanks
Tanana River
Yukon
Guggenheims
Copper River
M. J. Heney
Stephen
Thirteen Encounters In A Georgia Train Run
A Georgia railroad tale recounts a remarkable thirteen heavy coincidences in a single run. Train No 13, engine No 23 and No 18 were to meet at Pine Crossing after a December 13 order issued at 4 13 p m. No 12 arrived thirteen minutes late and the engineer carried eighteen silver dollars.
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Georgia
Pine Crossing
Resigning to Trespass on Rail Lines Causes Deaths
Trespassing on the Pennsylvania railroad system has caused the deaths of 7,996 persons since January 1, 1900, averaging about two daily. In the same period 7,838 people have been injured, highlighting widespread dangers on rail properties.
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Pennsylvania Railroad System
Far Future 1000008-Pound Locomotive Draws Freight
Popular Mechanics notes a 600 ton engine as a forecast, detailing roadbed, bridge, and clearance challenges. Proposed features include a Mallet style three unit setup, cab relocation for curves, a 175 square foot firebox, forced draft, and reimagined exhaust and cab design for extreme weight.
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HE. E. North
Popular Mechanics
Uiper
Santa Fe
Bulwark of the Nation by James C. Fagan in Atlantic Monthly
A historical reflection asserts rail expansion, national productivity, and democratic ideals. It highlights rail miles built, global share of wheat iron copper cotton and corn, rising machinery replacing labor, and the liberty and meritocracy central to American progress and mass well being.
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James QC. Fagan
Atlantic Monthly
Telegraphing From Express Trains in Britain
A Birmingham resident demonstrated telephoning from an express train. An apparatus linked a car coil to a ground wire, then a 60 foot coll was mounted on a rail line with wires between rails and signal boxes. On July 26 the system was tested while the train ran at express speed.
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Birmingham
England
Daily Mail
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway
Gross Railroad Earnings in 1908 Reach Record Level
The gross earnings of the nations railroads in 1908 totaled 2,443,835.00 dollars, almost doubling the figure reported for 1898, signaling a major rise in railway revenue across the country.
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Aimericaiy Colony Card
Underwood & Underwood
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Sienecos
Ohio Cattle Raiser
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