Union Pacific to Equip Trains With Wireless Telegraphy
Union Pacific announces that within two years every trip over fifty miles will be fully wired for wireless telegraphy. New York headquarters confirmed plans to outfit transcontinental trains, starting with Chicago to San Francisco first class service. The system aims to reduce accidents, though dispatchers will rely mainly on the block system.
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Los Angeles
Mar
Union Pacific Railroad
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Union Pacific
Great Northern Road
Howeve
Trouser Skirt Sparks Riots in Paris Streets
Paris reports widespread disturbances as women wearing the new trousers skirts move through the city. In the Avenue de l Opera a crowd humiliated a wearer and eggs were tossed at her by jeering men until police intervened. Dressmakers question whether the fashion will spread.
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Paris
Avenue de l'Opera
Electricity to Replace Coal Predicted by Editor
At a Montauk Club dinner in Brooklyn Charles W Price editor of the Electrical Review predicted the day is not far distant when a compact electrical reservoir will replace the coal pile for heating and cooking. He said stored electricity will be economical and available on demand making coal wagons and ashmen relics.
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New York
Montauk Club
Brooklyn
Charles W. Price
The
Electrical Review
New Japanese treaty arouses coast states opposition
The Senate ratified a new Japanese trade and navigation treaty amid protests over the absence of an immigration clause. Western senators feared labor impacts on the Pacific coast, while officials in San Francisco and Sacramento praised ratification as a step toward friendly ties, with persistent calls to restrict immigration.
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Washington
Senate
Japan
Gresham
Baron Kurino
United States
Pacific Coast
West Coast
Friends
California
San Francisco
James D. Phelan
Native Sons
Phelan
Taft
Johnson
Panama Exposition
Nippon
Labor Council
Congress
Sacramento
Leroy Wright
San Diego
Senate Committee On Federal Relations
George R. Freeman
Riverside
Assembly Committee On Federal Relations
Chinese Boys Sold For $1 50 In Famine District
Spokane report from Alfred R. Bowman describes transporting Chinese boys south of the famine district, priced at $1.50 each. He notes refugees pouring into An Hui and Lu Chow Fu, with five year old boys valued to feed a man until the next crop. He adds that families with only girls face worse prospects since girls fetch far less.
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Spokane
Alfred R. Bowman
Orient
Lu Chow Fu
An Hui
Buildings Ordered to Guard Ground Floor After Suicides
In Chicago on March 1 the building department ordered sixteen downtown office buildings with rotundas over three stories tall to install screens across second floor openings. The aim is to shield people on the main floor from individuals in personal crisis who might leap from upper levels.
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Chicago
Building Department
Belmont disaster closes Tonopah as miners mourn
The Belmont disaster claimed seventeen miners, causing Tonopah to close all stores and mines for funeral services. A special train carried hundreds from Goldfield for the services held under the miners' union. Obstacles stood as steps to the determined man.
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Tonopah
Belmont
Goldfield
Miners’ Union
English Girls Willing to Wed Canadian Farmers
London. March 1. The Canadian railway immigration staff report a flood of responses to the call for five hundred English women to marry Canadian farmers. Letters have reached 600, and six branch offices report similar volume. Immigration agent Mr Howell notes a strict screening to ensure domestic, reliable wives for farmers.
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London
Canadian Railway
Howell
Canadian Northern Railway
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