Immigrant Relocation Office Sends Russians Westward
An New York relocation office has moved over 29 thousand Russian Jews since its start five years ago, placing recent arrivals in towns like Toledo Columbus Nashville Minneapolis Rochester and Omaha. Immigrants are placed where they can earn wages, with earnings cited from $15 to $70 weekly and annual averages around $500. Some sav ings and real estate holdings are noted, despite many arriving jobless and destitute.
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New York
Russia
Toledo
Ohio
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Pope Motor Car Works
American Can Company
Gendron Wheel Company
United States
Omaha
Neb
New York City
Union Pacific Railroad
Columbus
Nashville
Tenn
Minneapolis
Pittsburg
Rochester
Head Gate And Measuring Boxes For Irrigating Systems
Farmers with irrigation need reliable head gates and measuring weir boxes. The article describes a wooden box head gate 20 by 17 inches with a two-board gate and a cast iron band wheel mechanism, plus a 12 foot long weir box for flow measurement using a gauge, allowing calculation of water flow from depth readings.
Auld Brig of Ayr a race to save Burns era bridge
Lord Rosebery urges Scotland to buy and guard the Auld Brig of Ayr lest an American millionaire whisk it to Chicago. He warns the loss would stain Scotland and the Burns name, urging funds to keep the historic link to Burns and national memory intact.
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Europe
British Isles
Lord Rosebery
Manchester Guardian
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Chuckie Reekie
Burns
Chuckie
Chicago
Scotland
England
Ayr
Dwarf Apple Tree Trial at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Professor F A Waugh of Massachusetts Agricultural College reports a one fourth acre dwarf fruit orchard yielded heavy fruiting last season. Apples pears plums peaches and nectarines grow on trees not as tall as a man with some fruit within two to three inches of the ground. He believes dwarf fruits offer commercial potential especially for small households and village dwellers.
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F. A. Waugh
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Waugh
Tyrolean Alps at St Louis Fair to Be Torn Down
The Tyrolean Alps exhibit at the St Louis fair, a centerpiece with a castle and festival hall, is being demolished. Paintings by Berlin artist Rummelspacher, valued around 200000, will be sold to summer gardens as wreckers remove the alpine scenery and storage is arranged for buyers. The workers, including Tyrolean natives George Snitzer and Frank Schiebe, lament the loss of the landmark in this dismantling of a once fashionable resort.
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St. Louis
Berlin
Rummelspacher
Innsbruck
Rummelsepacher
Germany
George Snitzer
Frank Schiebe
Tyrol
Alps
Snitzer
Airship Station Planned in New York to Link Fort George and Coney Island
Promoters Fred Thompson and Joseph Weber announce the Aerial Navigation Company of America to build a Broadway Twenty-ninth street station and a fleet of passenger airships. The plan envisions a 20 mile route from Vanity Fair at Fort George to Luna Park at Coney Island with stops at major terminals, elevators, and a restaurant. The project aims to start next summer with a 90 foot airship and boasts backing from famed pilots Baldwn Knabenshue and Stevens.
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New York City
Broadway
Twenty-ninth Street
Fort George
Coney Island
Fred Thompson
Joseph Weber
Aerial Navigation Company of America
New York
Baldwin
Knabenshue
Stevens
America
Vanity Fair
Mr. Weber
Mr. Thompson
Weber and Thompson Company
California
Capt. Baldwin
Weber's Theater
Luna Park
Moon
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Canal Company
Rssplap
Rue
Eno Weww
Auld Brig OF
Prof
Airship Navigation Company
Roland
Oliver
Charlemagne
Ludwig Fulda
New World
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