Icebox on Wheels pioneered chilled freight transport
The article recounts the 1851 origin of the refrigerator car. Wilder, a New England railroad man, proposed an icebox on wheels to ship butter from Ogdensburg to Boston. The early car carried eight tons, sold at 17 cents a pound after costs, and its success led to regular service and rapid adoption, with Wilder not patenting the idea.
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New England
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Boston
Wilder
Brouch
St. Louis Republic
Odd Volumes Dining Club in London Details
A London club named Odd Volumes, founded in 1878, meets monthly October through June. It includes twenty one active members drawn from Volume Shakespeare editions and twenty one supplementary members who advance to full membership as vacancies appear. The club enforces strict rules on temper, topics, and unsolicited advice.
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London
Odd Volume's three minute speech and Major Banks tale
The excerpt describes a rule about Odd Volume speeches, a Major Banks episode where a trusted tipster ruins a man who loses his money and contemplates suicide, and a note on Kongyo tattooing in Belgium with status marked by designs. It mentions tattoo methods and materials, including acacia thorns and black clay.
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Major Banks
Cincinnati
Middle West
Banks
Major
Belgium
Condemned Unheard Notice From a Cornish Church
A church notice from Cornwall announces next Sunday’s preacher will be found in the church porch on Saturday. The fragment reflects local ceremonial bluntness in a Punch quotation style.
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London Punch
Miss Annie Russell Returns in The Impostor at Jackson's
Miss Annie Russell, famed for Lyceum nights and works like A Royal Family, appears at Jackson's theatre for a single performance on Thursday evening December 15 in the three act play The Imposter by Leonard Merrick and Michael Morton. The piece contrasts the struggles of the paupered with England's middle class gentility. Also promotes holiday shopping at local merchants including BE. H. Dillon Co. and S. B. Thing & Co.
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New York Lyceum
Annie Russell
Sue
Charles Richman
Miss Russell
Charles Frohman
Jackson’s
Leonard Merrick
Michael Morton
England
BE. H. Dillon & Co
Main Street
Hayes
Water St
Misses McCarthy
Stratfield
Fountain of Youth
Crawford Laundry Co
Fairfield Avenue
P. O. News Store
G. W. Fairchild & Son
Bridgeport Public Market
Public Market
State and Bank Streets
East Main Street
Thing
S. B. Thing & Co
New Haven Road Losses Ride on commuter traffic
New York testimony at Public Service Commission hearing reports rising losses for the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad as commuter numbers grow. Officials cite higher labor construction and terminal costs at Grand Central as key factors behind increased fares and service changes.
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New York
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Public Service Commission
Second District
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Division
Grand Central Station
Rye
Mount Vernon
Port Chester
New Rochelle
E. H. McHenry
Railroad Company
Josephs. Wood
Edwin W. Fiske
McHenry
Wood
Frank W. Stevens
New York Central
New Haven Road
Battery
New Haven
Campbell
Boston
George L. Carlislie
E D. Robbins
Railroad
New Haven Company
New Central Railroad
Commission
Connecticut Patents Issued December 6 1910
A list of patent grantees from A M Wooster Bridgeport Conn includes Edward F Kelley Bridgeport brake Clarence Dee Bridgeport fixed polarity attachment plug Samuel B Donchian Hartford carpet and rug fastener Wm P La Rose Hartford water pipe Chas C Taylor Hartford quail fetching spring Harry B Arnold New Britain tool bed Ernest N Humphrey New Britain garment supporter clasp Noel G Voight New Britain Joel Jos R Smith Waterbury stock fi supporter grip ward 8 Sanderson Waterbury socket shell globe holder for electric lights John H Goss Waterbury staple for attaching bar buttons Irvin H Abell East Hampton buckle Chas A Bailey Cromwell manufacturing cartridge shells Jas L Burton Plainville electrical cut-out Elbert Clinton Hamden cranking device for internal combustion engines Geo H Reynolds Mansfield Depot ice making machine Benj Shopp Washington dental Sakae
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A. M. Wooster
Patents
Bridgeport
Conn
Edward F. Kelley
Clarence Dee Bridgeport
Samuel B. Donchian
Hartford
Wm. P. la Rose
Chas
C. Taylor
Harry B. Arnold
New Britain
E Ornest N. Humphrey
Noel G. Voight
Jos
R. Smith
Waterbury
Sanderson
John H. Goss
Irvin H. Abell
East Hampton
Buckle
A. Bailey
Cromwell
Jas. L
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Thing & Co
Everett
Main
Argonaut
Meigs & Co
Annie Russell In “‘the Imposter
Bres
M’henry
Connecticut
Vincent
Kossuth Street
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