Loco Giants on Exhibition At Reading Tracks
The Baldwin Locomotive Works built two Mallet articulated locomotives now on display on the Reading tracks near Broad Street. Capable of pulling about 95,000 pounds with a 430000 pound engine and 600000 pound train, they are designed for steep grades and sharp curves. The two-section boiler and separable design ease repairs and shipment west to the Southern Pacific.
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Badwin Locomotive Works
Reading Railroad
Broad Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Southern Pacific Railroad
Philadelphia Record
Anatole Mallet
Southern Pacific
Montreux Giron Light Rail Line Opens After 20 Months
The Montreux Giron line, a brief 19 minute ride, has been formally opened. Construction involved crossing a suspension bridge and passing through five tunnels, one beneath part of the old Montreux. The project took 20 months to complete.
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Switzerland
Montreux-Giron
Montreux
Great Railroad Stations Budget Figures Revealed
The report lists station costs: Leipsic Germany 21 million dollars Hamburg 22.25 million Chicago 20 million with 23 stories New Grand Central New York 20 million Washington DC 20 million St Louis 11.5 million.
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Leipsic
Germany
Hamburg
Chicago
New Grand Central
New York
Washington, D. C
St. Louis
Atlantic City Bans Beach Photographers Under New Law
Atlantic City approves Bolte measure to curb on beach photography by banning cameras without consent. Council members cite privacy, harassment, and husbands photographed at sea side. law targets professional and amateur shooters alike with penalties including fines and jail.
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Atlantic City
Bolte
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Washington
Bolte Law
Chicago
South Sea Islands
New Jersey Room at Memorial Hall Uses Augusta Wood
Feature of Memorial Continental Hall presents the New Jersey room furnished with wood from the British frigate Augusta which ran aground in 1777. Daughters of the American Revolution raised funds to craft Jacobian period furniture including chain back chairs, wainscoting, a desk, bench, and more, with an illustrated parchment detailing the wood’s history.
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Memorial Continental Hall
George
New Jersey
Augusta
Delaware
England
New Jersey Society
Ellen Matlock
Ann Whitall
Miss Ellen Mecum
York
Paying the President and the Formally Paid Office
The Boston Transcript recalls a past treasury episode where an official tried to make the president's monthly salary a formal ceremony. The treasurer, with his 11 year old son, sought an audience at the White House to present the stipend, then learned the mail system sufficed for future payments. The remark notes how hopefuls exploit access to the president.
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Taft
United States
White House
Treasury
Boston Transcript
Secretary Meyer Promotes Formal Address in Government Letters
Secretary Meyer favors form and ceremony in government dealings. He issued an order to naval service staff directing that letters to the war department use The Honorable in addressing the Secretary of War. Navy personnel see this as guidance to similarly address the Secretary of the Navy.
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Meyer
Naval Service
War Department
Secretary of War
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
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