City of Winnipeg Owns Its Utilities
Winnipeg has built a large urban public utility system with municipal control of water, power, gas, street rail, and telephone services. The city owns quarries, incinerators, a municipal cemetery, and operates waste collection. With $30,000,000 invested and an $18,000,000 street railway purchase, Winnipeg is among the continent's leading publicly owned utilities and a top wheat market.
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Winipeg
Winnipeg Water Works Company
Winnipeg Electric Company
Ity
Winnipeg River
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Seeking Wives for Titled Austrian Nobles Abroad
American heiresses are urged to seek alliances with Austrian princes and a count. Miss Yrma Bleyer of Vienna claims two Bohemian or Tyrolean princes, aged 23 and 25, with military ranks and two castles in Bohemia, seek wealthy brides. Count Hugo Cristalrigg also travels, seeking a suitable American bride with fortune.
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York
Austria
Yrma Bleyer
Vienna
Atail
United States
Bohemia
Hach
Thi
St. Louis
Chicago
Cleveland
Hugo Christalrigg
Ysterein
Christalurgg
America
Whistle Replaces Curfew Bell In Kansas City
In Kansas City, nine o clock whistle from packing houses becomes the curfew signal. The W C T U urged enforcement of curfew laws as workers and families aligned clocks to the sound. The habit grew until men carry watches that react to the whistle, guiding late hours.
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Ansas City
Kan
Kansas
Kansas City
New England
State Egg Laying Contest Planned at Missouri Poultry Station
A national egg laying contest will start September 1 at the Missouri Agricultural College state poultry experiment station in Mountain Grove. Fifty breeders may enter up to six hens each, with identical pens and uniform care. Prizes will be awarded monthly and for breed representation, with final prizes and widespread publication of results to boost poultry business.
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Oquntain Grove
Missouri Agricultural College
State
America
Australia
New Zealand
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Missouri
Premium rewards for Rock Island line roadmasters foremen
The Rock Island lines announce a new system of annual premiums starting this year to reward road masters and section foremen on mainline districts. top prize is 100 dollars for the sub-division with greatest improvement, 50 dollars for the foreman of the best improving section. assessments by three regional committees.
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Rock Island
Railway Age
Track
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Queen and Crescent
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Accidents Delays and Odd Causes for Late Trains
A survey of train delays cites wrecks and weather but notes many amusing and unusual reasons. Fainting women, funerals, balky horses, injuries to crews, dying children, helpers aiding passengers, wedding parties, and large groups boarding at small stations slow departures, repeated in recent reports.
Replacing the Wooden Tie on Bessemer & Lake Erie Lines
The Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad near Greenville Pennsylvania tests T rails as substitutes for wooden ties. T rails are cut to tie length, anchored in the roadbed with rock ballast and clamped to the T-rail ties using iron fastenings.
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Eastern Railroad
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad
Semaphore origins and 1795 Lord George Murray system
The article traces beacon fires and smoke signals to warn of danger, notes early flag signaling, and details Lord George Murray’s 1795 semaphore system. Admiralty stations were placed on high points from London to Deal Portsmouth, enabling near seven minute London Deal messages with three operators and six shutters forming 63 signals.
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London Strand Magazine
George Murray
Admiralty
London
Dover
Deal
Portsmouth
No Chance at All. A Scots Exchange at the Station
Donald parts from a prosperous cousin at the railway, the exchanged lines revealing a sharp family quip. Wullie feigns regret and questions his own generosity as the dialogue turns on duty to his mother and the humor of obligation. Punch records a comic street banter style exchange.
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Donald
Wullie
New Bridge in 49 Seconds Over Westfield River
A three span steel bridge 294 feet long weighing over 1000 tons replaced the old iron span on the Boston and Albany line near Huntington Massachusetts. The entire swap took 49 seconds with rails connected shortly after. Officials and guests witnessed the rolling replacement and the old bridge was moved downstream as the new one aligned with the tracks.
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Westfield River
Boston & Albany
Huntington
Mass
New Year's Eve in an Outlying Police Station
A sleepy deskman at an outlying police station nods off as the era ends. The telephone jolts him awake and a gruff voice asks for May 19 117, prompting a sleepy correction that it is only New Year’s Eve.
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G'Gil
Lippincott’s
Monster locomotive built at Atchison shops Topeka Kansas
A new locomotive turned out by the Atchison shops in Topeka weighs 360 tons and is so long it must run tender foremost to give the engineer an unobstructed view. It is about 40 times as heavy as the De Witt Clinton, the famed historic locomotive.
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Atchison
Topeka
Kan
Coronation Leviathan Locomotive Built for Royal Visit
The London and Northwestern Crewe works completes engine number five thousand, a colossal 1300 horsepower locomotive named Coronation. Estimated cost exceeds £5000, with readiness set for June for use on the West Coast Royal Wales tour.
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London & Northwestern Crewe Works
Wales
Engineer Dives From Engine to Save Boy at East Boston
Frank A. Kennedy, an engineer on the Boston Revere Keach and Lynn railroad, sprang from his cab into the water at East Boston and rescued seven year old Joseph Magrath after he was hurled from the Hayre Street bridge by the train.
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Frank A. Kennedy
Boston
Revere Keach and Lynn
East Boston
Joseph Magrath
Hayre Street
German and American Lines Rail Investment Compare
The article notes capital invested in German railroads equals about $60 per inhabitant, compared with about $156 per person in the United States, highlighting a larger American rail capital base.
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United States
English Railways Show Record Passenger Receipts
English railroad passenger receipts last year set records and are likely to surpass them this year due to features aimed at attracting travelers.
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England
Earnings of Japanese Lines
Japanese railroads earned eight thousand eight hundred twenty dollars per mile in gross receipts for the last year with net earnings of three thousand eight hundred sixty dollars per mile.
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Japan
Stimson Named War Secretary in Roosevelt Era
Biographical sketch of Henry L. Stimson, a progressive Republican and Roosevelt ally, detailing his New York birth on September 21, 1867, Yale and Harvard education, legal career with HH Root, service as U.S. district attorney for the Southern District of New York, prosecutions of the sugar trust and Morse, Roosevelt nomination for New York governor, and his tall, precise oratory.
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Henry Lewis Stimson
Roosevelt
Stimson
Knickerbocker
New York
Yale
Pal Upsilon and
Bull of Bones
Harvard
Hhhu Root
United States
Sugar Trust
Charles W. Morse
Ater
Dickinson
Portrolio
Minois
First Wisconsin insurgent Henry Cooper’s long Congress run
The Racine representative Henry A. Cooper is noted as the first insurgent in Congress, serving 16 years on the Pacific railroads committee where he opposed railroad funding and faced removal, later siding with Democrats in rule reforms led by DeArmond in 1907.
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Henry Allen Cooper
Racine
Wis
Congress
Cooper
Wisconsin
Robert Marion la Follette
Henry A. Cooper
Committee On Pacific Railroads
Pacific Railroad
DeArmond
Missouri
Lincoln resigns as Pullman president amid health issues
Robert Todd Lincoln resigns as president of the Pullman Sleeping Car Company after long service since 1897. John Sumner Runnells elected president. Runnells has led duties as acting head and has served as general counsel since 1887 and vp since 1905. Born Effingham New Hampshire July 30 1844. Amherst College graduate 1865.
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Robert Todd Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Pullman Sleeping Car Company
John Sumner Runnells
Lincoln
George M. Pullman
Runnells
Pullman Company
Effingham
N. H
Amherst College
Dover
N. FL
Iowa
United States
Carnegie Receives Gold Medal From Pan American Republics
Andrew Carnegie is honored with a gold medal inscribed Benefactor of Humanity, presented in Washington by Senor de Zamacona as Secretary Knox and President Taft laud his peace efforts. The Pan-American ceremony at the Union building marked the first time 21 nations bestowed such a tribute. Carnegie noted the Buenos Aires Pan-American conference vote by 160,000,000 people.
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Andrew Carnegie
Washington
Senor de Zamacona
Knox
Taft
Mr. Carnegie
Diplomatic Corps
Pan-American Union
Carnegie
Buenos Ayres
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City of Winnipeg
Greenville, Pa
Retin
Boston & Albany Railroad
Pullman President
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