Runaway London and Northwestern Train Averted by Guard Bates
John Bates a goods train guard on the London and Northwestern line between Bletchley and Banbury acted with nerve when a shunting engine started without crew. He crawled along the moving freight to apply brakes on each car, halting the train before reaching Buckingham and Westbury, preventing disaster. Bates, 45, 27 years with L N W, Based at Bletchley, praised for his courage.
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John Bates
London & Northwestern
Bletchley
Banbury
Padbury
Bates
Buckingham
Westbury
Buckingham Station
London & Northwestern Company
St. Martin's Road
Brackley
Winslow
Londop Daily Mail
Made Good Telegraphic Whispers Shape Rail Dispatch
In 1850 a Erie railroad official used telegraph messages to delay and move trains to gain time. after proving the saved minutes, the system of dispatching trains evolved and endured. The episode highlighted telegraph efficiency and influenced railroad operations.
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Erie Railroad
Ofcial
Express Messenger Saves Child At Bloomfield Rail Crossing
In Bloomfield New Jersey four year old Harry Wendel wandered onto railway tracks as a train approached. Express messenger Morris Wyker leapt from the platform and hurled the child clear then saved himself from the wheels with a perilous jump. He suffered a painful heel injury but stood up smiling amid cheering witnesses.
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Bloomfield
N. J
Harry Wendel
Morris Wyker
Harry
Large Pension Totals at Pennsylvania Railroad
The pension department shows 2176 employees receiving pensions as of January 1 1909 with 544245.08 paid in 1908. Since 1900 total pensions paid reach 3445793.77. Pension equals one percent of ten year average salary per year of service. In 1908 367 employees retired and 211 pensioners died.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pension Department
Boxing Now Part of Life in Our Navy
Sailors train in boxing as a core part of Navy life with rings on ships and bouts shaping rivalries. Prominent figures include Tom Sharkey and Sailor Brown, who helped elevate American naval boxing to professional ranks. The article notes disciplined ringside rules and the value of boxing for coolness, courage, and resourcefulness in combat.
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Navy
Uncle Sam
Great Britain
Johnny Bull
Gunner Moir
Tom Sharkey
Tom
Navy Department
Jackie
Sailor Brown
United States Navy
Brown
Sharkey
Corbett
Jeffries
Fitzsimmons
Rublin
McCoy
Choynski
Jefe
Grand Opera House
Rockland
Sailor Burke
Monitor
Florida
Sailor Byrnes
Atlantic
A. J. Pauline
Texas
Ed. Cunningham
Burke
Sional Ranks
Tighe
Erin's Isle
Jack
Bob Evans
A Two Sided Honeymoon Fires Up Jamaica Farce
A narrator recounts a bungled honeymoon aboard a ship and in Jamaica as the Girl’s playful plan drags him into comic and painful misadventures. The Boy, a dying patient, loves the Girl, and the pair’s ruse ends in tragedy and reflection with a final, foreboding calm.
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Jamaica
Blue Mountains
Sirius
Lulu
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Rey
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Paradise
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Orion
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