Coal at 125 a ton in Alaska stirs Big Timber view
Big Timber notes coal worth 125 per ton in Alaska and imagines a finder striking a mine of black diamonds, a contrast to gold miners efforts for wealth.
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Alaska
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1900
Page
2
St Louis Faces Shortage of Lawyers Amid City Disadvantages
The article notes St Louis has fewer lawyers than any other large city in the nation and discusses the city’s numerous drawbacks affecting its appeal and function.
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St. Louis
Value seekers urged to rent rooms in Johannesburg
Those who measure value by cost should travel to Johannesburg where a one night shock for a group of six costs 15 dollars. A private room with a bed appears to be a privilege for the wealthy, left to millionaires.
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Johannesburg
Struck-Jury Law Upheld In Brown V New Jersey
A struck juror system allowing 96 names to be chosen by the court with 24 strikes each by the prosecution and defense and the rest to form the jury is upheld against due process challenges in Brown v New Jersey Advance Sheets U S p 77.
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Brown Va
New Jersey
U. S
Gold Beach Prospects and Historic Battles Across Regions
The article surveys gold prospecting at Nome beaches with claims of vast untapped wealth, detailing claims, digging methods, and the mix of geology and labor costs. It also notes Stony Point battlefield preservation plans, and a brief piece on military farriers in wartime, including a South Africa illustration.
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Society For the Preservation of Science and Historic Places
Stonypoint Battleground
New York
Stony Point Peninsula
Nome Emerges as New Klondike Gold Frontier
A Seattle correspondent notes Nome as the rising El Dorado for Klondike era gold seekers. With rivers Snake and Nome forming a wash area, the claim value can be judged quickly. Transportation officials expect about 25 000 prospectors to head to the new fields in coming months.
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Nome
Klondike
Noma
Seattle
el Dorado
Inventions Behind Ink Rollers and Early Printing
The piece recounts 1041 era earth and paste movable type by Pi-Ching and describes brush inking with absorbent paper, followed by pelt balls around 1474, then 1830 wooden cylinder coatings marking the first true printing press rollers. It ends with a moral on judging by actions over words.
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Maxwell
Philadelphia
Fanshaw
New York
Staffordshire
England
D. Foster
Weybridge
Pi-Ching
China
Naming of Nails and Their Curious Weights
The article discusses why nails are named tens eights sixes and so on and presents explanations offered by scholars. One claim notes that when nails were handmade the penny's weight set a standard and six nails equaled the weight of a copper penny though the nails described are very small.
A False Beard and the Banker in New Orleans
A New Orleans bachelor describes his false beard and mustache relics from Europe kept in his den. He recalls using them in banking abroad, noting his inexperience and a near burglary during that early trip.
Expedition Backs Fossil Hunt in Wyoming Bad Lands
A party of geologists paleontologists and botanists invited by Union Pacific spent forty days in Wyoming exploring fossil fields. Their group dropped from sixty six to fourteen men en route. About six tons of fossil bones were collected and shipped eastward. no complete dinosaur skeleton was found. Bones were found shattered and required plastering before removal in rough terrain similar to the Bad Lands of Dakota.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company
Wyoming
Rocky
Tands
Dakota
The Brotherhood Of Man And Ancestry Proved
A gray-headed speaker cites a genealogy calculation doubling ancestors each generation to show kinship across centuries. He notes 1 000 years ago all living people in the civilized world shared common ancestors and asserts a universal brotherhood.
A Beard, A Letter of Credit, And A Bank Trick
A New Orleans Times Democrat excerpt recounts a traveler who used a fake portrait to cash a letter of credit. In Paris a teller refused payment unless his appearance matched the photo, prompting a disguise with a wall-curtain beard. The ruse spreads across Europe as banks view it as American eccentricity.
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New York
London
Paris
Europe
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Big Things in Providence Jewelry Industry Highlight
The Providence area hosts the world’s largest silver ware factory and the largest screw factory plus a vast jewelry sector. It claims more jewelry production than any U S city and nearly matches the national total. About 250 jewelry factories and 75 supporting shops employ varying sizes from ten workers to 1,400 in one plant.
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Providence
United States
Nashville American
English Postal Employes Telegraphic Duties Rise
The English post office employs nearly 80 thousand women with many in telegraph work. In London the count tops 1,500, including about 1,000 at the central telegraph office at St Martin's le Grand Scottish American.
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London
St. Martin’s-le-Grand
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