Iren past priest Canon Moynihan refuses exact age
Very Rey Canon Jeremiah Moynihan born in Ireland refuses to reveal his exact birthday though he is about a century old. He has served the church for 100 years, 70 as an ordained priest, and remains active reading without glasses in his room altar life. He keeps a strict health routine and jokes that age would not stop him from becoming a bishop if not for his advancing years.
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Ireland
Very Rey
Jeremiah Moynihan
Thirty-ninth Street
Tal
Jerry
Canon Moynihan of Kanturk Seventy-Year Lifelong Adventurer
An interview with Canon Moynihan recalls a life steeped in Irish rebellion and religious service. Born in Kanturk during the era of Emmet and the wearin of the green, he remembers red coats and a hawk like memory of wars. Now in Chicago at around 100 years old he remains vigorous, speaks six languages, celebrated Mass recently, and once led a Bradford parish before decades in New Orleans.
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Kanturk
County Cork
Ireland
Robert Emmet
Canon Moynihan
New York
County Croker
County Murphy
Dublin
Sisters of Charity
America
Church of the Holy Angels
Chicago
Bradford
New Orleans
Russia plans vast Siberian waterway across five rivers
Russia weighs a giant Siberian waterway to parallel the transsiberian railway linking the Tobol Ishim Kust Ob and Yemessei rivers by canals or rail routes. Surveys have been ordered by the government to study feasibility and routes for the ambitious project.
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Russia
Siberia
Siberian
Tobol
Ishim
Ktsh
Yemessei
Wrights prepare new machine for August return
Wright brothers, unshaken by the recent aeroplane accident at Manteo, are using an older craft and have a sturdier machine built in Dayton. Officials say the planned endurance test would have lasted about thirty one hours and twenty minutes, flying roughly 60 miles, with Europe trips possible before the August demonstration.
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Manteo, N. C
Wright Brothers
Dayton
Wright
Europe
Wilson to quit cabinet after 11 years in service
Washington James Wilson secretary of agriculture told friends he has decided to resign. He has served since March 5 1897 and through four administrations, building up a department of growing national importance. If he leaves Gifford Pinchot may become his replacement. Pinchot is United States forester.
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Washington
James Wilson
Wilson
McKinley
Gifford Pinchot
Mr. Pinchot
United States Forester
Names Behind the Names of Famous Steamers
The article details how major steamship lines name vessels after American cities and figures. It notes the United States as a Scandinavian-American ship and lists decks named for Roosevelt and other presidents aboard Amerika, Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, President Grant, and President Lincoln. It also mentions the Anchor line naming its latest steamer the California and references the forestry service reporting over 164 million acres of land.
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American Line
Atlantic Transport Line
United States
Pennsylvania
New York
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Washington
President Grant
President Lincoln
California
First Rail Trip in England Recalls Huddersfield Run
Mrs Farrar of Macon Missouri recalls riding on the first railway train ever operated in England. Engineer Edward Entwistle hauled three small flat cars from Huddersfield to Liverpool with passengers standing. The journey, begun at ten in the morning, ended after midnight with cheers from onlookers and no lights on the train.
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Salina Farrar
Macon
Charles Farrar
Jingland
Kansas City Star
Edward Entwistle
Des Moines
Huddersfield
Yorkshire
Liverpool
Ghostly Hand Guides a Veteran Engineer Heroic Save
Horace L. Seaver, veteran engineer for the Illinois Central, reports guidance from a ghostly presence while commanding No. 15 and later No. 16. In 1890 a whispered warning to brake saved 1,060 old soldiers from a burned bridge near Champaign, with Seaver crediting an unseen rider in the cab.
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Horace L. Seaver
Chisago
Kankakee
Illinois Central
Mr. Seaver
Ilinois Central
Champaign
Ill
Seaver
Chicago Journal
Railroad makes him a hobo from farm life tale
Buffalo Scotty recalls being raised on a farm in Illinois and choosing the rails at fifteen. He details life as a hobo, the grip of the habit, repeated scraps for pay, and his disdain for returning home or being saved. He claims the railroad is the true circus for runaway farm kids.
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Buffalo Scotty
Illinois
Dad
Railroad
Piles Ravaged by Marine Borers Across Pacific Coast
The article discusses how teredos and other borers devastate wooden piles in San Francisco Oakland and Seattle. It notes creosote offers limited protection with lifespans from eight months to fifteen years depending on treatment and conditions. Concrete and reinforced concrete are urged for foundations.
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San Francisco
Oakland
Seattle
Puget Sound
Teredos
Linthoria
Frank FB. Gilbreth
Gage Mole
Oakland Bay
Union Station
Pacific Coast
Train Goes Off Route Near Creil Delays Amiens Run
An express train from Paris to Amiens diverged due to a pointsman error near Creil and raced toward Compiegne. After passengers spotted the mistake, the engine driver sought the nearest siding, and the train waited as the following express passed. It later reached Amiens over two hours late.
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Rudyard Kipling
Senlis
Paris
Amiens
Creil
Compiegne
Pont Sainte Maxenca
London Express
How Mines Are Salted and Subverted in Reports
The article explains how mines are salted to fool buyers and engineers. It notes salting can occur in the mine or more often in engineer samples and even the engineer himself through financial inducements. It warns that mine books may show inflated returns while operations run at a loss and that both precious metal and iron mines have been salted.
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Howard W. Dubois
Woman Station Master Leads Whippingham Rail Stop
A Woman's Life profile highlights Mrs Merwood, a trusted station master at Whippingham on the Isle of Wight, where she has run the station for two decades amid a nation-wide rise of women's industrial roles.
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Whippingham
Isle of Wight
Merwood
Freight Cars In Wild Dash On Highland Line
A 24-wagon coal mineral train on the Highland railway toward the Perthshire border split its engine coupling and two wagons rolled downhill at high speed. The guard leapt from the van and escaped injury as the wagons were diverted by catch-points into a hillside, piling in wreckage. No lives were lost.
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Highland Rrailroad
Perthshire
Tnverness-shire
Londen Mail
Canadian Pacific Distributes Flower Seed Packets to Workers
The Canadian Pacific railroad has distributed fifty thousand packets of flower seeds to trainmen and section men across the company. This gesture aims to beautify rights of way and worker surroundings as part of a company morale initiative.
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Canadian Pacific Railroad
Brazil Railways: Federal and Private Ownership Split
The Brazilian federal government owns and operates 1,287 miles of rail lines and 734 miles of tour lines, leasing them to private operators. State governments hold 110 miles, while private ownership and operation total about 8,000 miles.
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Brazil
Ruby Lighted Beetle Larva From British Guiana
A curious phosphorescent larva called Mueadeub by natives of British Guiana near Brazil is believed to be a beetle larva. A specimen was taken to England by G. W. Anderson and shown dead at a Linnean Society meeting. When alive the creature glows with a ruby light in the head and two continuous rows of spots along its body.
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British Guiana
England
G. W. Anderson
Linnean Society
Field Mice Poison Paste Prepared For Use
A household pest remedy describes making poison paste for mice using 800 parts burleyangal dough 200 parts precipitated carbonate of barium 450 parts poison mixed with 1000 parts parley meat. The paste is formed into hazelnut sized pellets placed into mouse holes in a half soft, inexpensive preparation.
Mechanical money sorter patented by Norwegian inventor
The device by Hjarne Cramer sorts large coin lots automatically and is in use in Paris mercantile houses. An inclined conduit guides coins to openings of varying height, sending each size to separate receptacles, with a spiral path, central column, and pins creating a vibratory motion. The apparatus, demonstrated on Rue de Grammont, promises efficiency for businesses handling much coinage.
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Hjarne Cramer
France
Paris
la Nature
V. Forbin
Finnelly
Rue de Grammont
Novel churn uses rocking arm to whip cream in a closed curve
A novel churn design features a cream receptacle mounted on a rocking spring arm. The can sits in a frame with dual brackets and offsets. By moving the spring arm the can oscillates and cream dashes up and down in a figure eight, increasing friction on butter corpuscles.
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Scientific American
Ancient Wasp Specimen Described By Prof Gockerell
Prof T D A Gockerell of the University of Colorado details a well preserved Miocene Paratiphia wasp from shale rocks at Morissant Gol. The fossil shows wing venation matching the modern genus and a distinctive imperfect vein that remains in present day insects.
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T. D. A. Gockerell
University of Colorado
Mlorissant, Gol
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