A Fruitless Infatuation and a Duchess of Effinghurst
In 1906 Lord Clarrickston pursued Miss Sadie Pettifer across London and Parisian nightlife hoping for an earldom and a wife. A bracelet, a forged romance, and a backstage tryst led to a dramatic confrontation with Pettifer’s nurse and a lasting marriage into the Duchess of Effinghurst era in 1997.
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Miss Sadie Pettifer
Oll
Lord Clarrickston
London
Miss Sadie
Miss Pettifer
Sade
Clarrickston
Coney Island
Bond Street
Coney
Hippodrome
la Papillion
Mag
Jimmy
Cincinnati
Petey
Duchess of
Efficient oil burner construction from engineers' guide
Instructions describe assembling a home oil burner in a oneinch tee with elbows and babbitt to seal, a central small pipe inside a larger pipe, and pipes to the oil tank and steam or air main. It advises limiting air flow, opening the bridge wall, and using compressed air to start steam, then steam pressure to push oil.
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Babbitt
Clever engineer repairs submerged pipe leak near Lake Ontario
In a system where a brick linear well E received clean water through 1D to Lake Ontario, a leak in the submerged pipe caused muddy water to enter after a windstorm. Divers failed to locate the issue, but an air pipe connected to valve C and a surface air release led the engineer to the leak about 200 feet offshore in 20 feet of water, where a diver fixed it.
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Lake Ontario
Paris Underground Metro Tunnels Built Above Ground
Public street in Paris hosts construction of two underground depots and a long tunnel for the Metropolitan railway. Sections cross the Seine islands and are floated, sunk, and bolted to form a 78 by 56 foot inner tunnel, with depots rising to the third story of nearby buildings.
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Paris
Metropolitan Railway
Seine
Isle of Cite
Bridge of St. Michel
Oil Burning Engines For Mexican Central Railroad
An American firm builds oil burning freight engines for the Mexican Central railroad. The eight coupled engines include a leading pony truck with a 2168 square foot heating surface boiler. Adhesive weight near 110 tons yields a tractive effort to weight ratio of about 1 to 4.75. Boiler pressure is 200 psi. Fuel is crude petroleum vaporized by a steam jet and directed at a soapstone arch in the fire box.
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Mexican Central Railroad
Pocket Telephones in Vienna Police Use
Vienna police are said to be equipped with pocket telephones that can be connected in a second to the wire via call boxes located on major streets.
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Vienna
Massive 82 Ton Granite Block Shipped to Montreal Memorial
The largest single block of granite ever sent to Canada moved from Barre Vermont to Cote des Neiges Quebec for sculptor J Bru net. The 32 foot long three and a quarter feet square stone weighs 82 tons and will become a memorial for the late Raymond Prefontaine former Canadian minister of marine and fisheries.
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Canada
United States
Barre
Vermont
Quarty
Cote de Neiges
P. Q
Montreal
J. Brunet
Raymond Prefontaine
German Iron and Steel Exports Rise in 1906
Germany exported 3,666,278 tons of iron and steel last year, up from 3,358,420 in 1905. The export surplus over imports fell to 2,976,198 tons from 2,981,425, a decline of 6,227 tons or 0.2 percent.
The Child Slave and Labor Struggles Worldwide
A poem condemns child labor and greed while a string of labor issuances follows. Union actions address wages eight-hour workday goals and charter votes in textile, carpenters and hairdressing trades. Cities report municipal employment offices and ongoing strike activity in Chicago and other locales.
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Boston
Wells
New York
Rochester
N. Y
International Association of Car Workers
Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Berlin
Sydney
Philadelphia
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Roofers
Paris
General Federation of Labor of France
Pottsville
Carpenters’ Union
Builders’ Association
Eastern Steel Company
Taft
Butte
Mont
Portland
Ore
Federation of Labor
Associated Building Trades
Illinois state convention date moved to May 27
The Illinois state convention of letter carriers was rescheduled from May 31 to May 27 with the meeting set to take place in Quincy. The report lists unions and membership changes across Maine and other states.
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Chicago
Quincy
Augusta
Maine
Maine Commissioner of Labor
Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan United Railways
Paris
Federated Union of
Auckland
N. Z
Erie
National Association of Letter Carriers
Eben Brewer
Cuba
Jersey City
N. J
Philadelphia
Hazelton
Denver
Col
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company
Seattle
Wash
Master Builders Association
Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of America
Sons of Vulcan
Amalgamated Association
Cook County
W. J. Jenkins
Houston
Tex
Joint Legislative Board of Labor Organizations
Texas
Bay City
American Shipbuilding Company
Board of Trade
McIntosh
Baer
Reading Railway Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
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Joseph B. Bowles
Pettifers
Tommy
Thomas Cat
Tiffany's
LABOR
Christ
S. E. Kiser
New Bedford Weavers’ Union
United Textile Workers
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