A Railroad Wonder From Denver to Salt Lake City
The New York Sun notes David Moffat plans an underground air line across the continental divide between Denver and Salt Lake City. Preliminary surveys cost 230000 dollars, with graded road costs of 60000 dollars per mile for the first fifty miles and 100000 dollars per mile to the foothills. The line includes 29 tunnels through granite, a 3000 tie mile, eighty pound rails, and a three mile Main Range tunnel at James Peak costing 750000 dollars.
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David M. Moffat
Colorado Railroad
Denver
Salt Lake City
Continental Divide
Union Pacific
Rio Grande
New York Sun
Burlington
Moffat
Main Range
James Peak
William Crook
Handy Freight Carrier Cuts Loading Time in Half
A design from Minnesota engineers introduces a gravity powered freight carrier for box cars. Parallel rails with curved ends guide bundles from the loading platform to the car, reducing labor as carts roll along powered by wheels.
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Minnesota
Knockdown Barrel Aims to Cut Shipping Costs for Fresh Produce
A New York inventor patents a two section knoc kdown barrel for fruits and vegetables. The interlocking tongues and grooved heads form a tight seal, while a levered wire band contracts to shrink the ends for easy assembly and disassembly.
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New York
Air pressure method splits hillside granite for quarrying
A North Carolina granite company uses compressed air to fracture a slope of bedless granite. A 3 inch bore sunk eight feet is widened by dynamite and powder to start a horizontal crack. Air at 80 to 100 pounds expands the cleavage outward until surface exposure, freeing a several acre section.
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North Carolinia Granite Company
High Creed Improves Licht in Eye Treatments
Dr. Robert Dolnoy of Paris notes astonishing potential in treating eye diseases at high altitudes. Balloon experiments at 900 feet observed pupil dilation and optic nerve sensitivity under rarefied air, promising benefits for glaucoma and choroiditis as enhanced by this method.
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Robert Dolnoy
Paris
Indian Review
New Telegraphone to Trace Train Wreck Responsibility
A new telegraphone device records all train dispatch orders via telegraph or telephone, storing voice-like records on a steel wire. It lets investigators locate fault points, erase data magnetically, and may be adopted on major rail lines to reduce errors and preserve exact dispatch records.
Bombs to Bayonets in Modern Warfare Tactics
A Port Arthur battle analysis predicts a shift from bayonets to grenades and bombs. London made grenades seven inches long weigh about one pound six ounces with detonator carried separately. Grenades throw thirty to forty yards with an eighteen inch rope, and use a timed charge for greater effect.
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Port Arthur
Pneumatic poultry plucking machine described
A scientific paper notes a Bu-Prope method where chickens are plucked wholesale by pneumatic machinery. After killing, fowl enter a receptacle where air blasts from fans at about 5 000 RPM strip feathers quickly, preparing the bird for processing.
Auction notices list multiple houses and lots for sale
Ahern Open Evenings advertises properties on Thorndike Traymore Tremont Vine Stearns Sixth Smith Avenue in Somerville. Listings show houses and two family homes with rooms, land area, rents, and sale prices including combinations like four thousand to five thousand dollars and various down payments.
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Traymore Street
Tremont Street
Vine Street
Stearns Street
Third Street
Thorndike Street
Sixth Street
Smith Avenue
Somerville
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Riverside Furniture CO
Austin Street
Cambridge
P" O'Brien
MASS
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Shea Bros
Pearl Street
James J. Shea
Esidence
Sth St
G. F. Whiting & Go, Union Stables
Green Street
Fine Carriage Service
Carstein
Cambridge- Mass
Lackawannia
Edwin Dresser
Frank L. Earl
THE
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Dormer
Massachusetts Avenue
Inman Street
Whooley’s den Lynch
Massachusetts Ave
Brookline St. Station
Irpert
BAY State Vulcanizing CO
Prospect Street
Central St
Peter Fowell
Nat Somer
Brookline Street Station
Somers
Kew Air Line
Handy Package Carrier
TRE Telegraphone
Herbert L. Rose
Western Avenue
River Street
Martin A. Freley
Cambridgeport
Western Ave
Howard F. Peak
Harvard Square
Electric and Gas
T. J. Daly
Brattle Street
J. Leo McDonald
J. B. Byrne
General
Sidney Street
Telephone Conmaction
Cambridgeport, Mass
John J. Blevins
Mass. Ave
Putnam Ave
Chas. Atkins & Co
Prospect &J
Central Square
Dewolf
Soden St
Cambridge, Mass
Cambridge Laundry
W. J. Edwards
É&C
Boylston ST
Harvard Se
J. B. James Lumber CO
Central Street
Boster
Fai. Main
Austin A. O'Toole
Pleasant St
Prospect St
Sue Hoome
Edward T. P. Graham
School St
Boston, Mass
Joseph Rosenberger
Weester Ave
Sear Cambridge BT
J. A.cummings
Oliver Street
Boston
J. Fpf. Rooney
Brattle Square Bicycle
Tel
Walter C. Wardwell
Frige
Oxford
Oxford and Eustis Sts
North
T. W. Hillier & CO
Prope
Ahern
Fifth St
E. Lovell
L. Soden ST
A. Richard
Cambridge Street
Ing
E. Francis
J.E. Pabyan
I. Stables
Rok Olana Ambunlance
Teelephone
ASG 2
G. P. O’brien
Bay St
Empire State Surety
BarceLys
Charles F. Manning
Hyman Pill
Cambridge St
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