Baltimore and Ohio saga shows rise and fall of a great line
The Baltimore and Ohio emerges as a landmark in American railroading through John W. Garrett’s leadership and daring expansion to Philadelphia and beyond. After Garrett’s death, Robert Garrett’s bold moves, rivalries with Thomas A. Scott, and later financial mismanagement lead to insolvency, court receivership, and a dramatic overhaul under Samuel Spencer and Charles Mayer as the system buckles under debt and doctored books.
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Bof
Peter Cooper
New York
Baltia
Horse Express
Baltimore and Ohio
Alleghany Mountains
Great West
John W. Garrett
Garrett
Commodore Vanderbilt
New York Central
Thomas A. Scott
Pennsylvania
Garret
J. K. Cowen
Baltimore
Ohio
Robert Garrett
B. and O
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wilmington
Boston
Corporation
Rittenhouse Square
Eighteenth Street
Mr. Scott
Scott
John P. Green
Drexel, Morgan & Co
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Samuel Spencer
Spencer
Maryland
Mary Garrett
John W
Charles F. Mayer
Stephen Little
New York World
New Dry Dock Planned at Erie Basin Brooklyn
Work will soon start on a large dry dock at Erie basin Brooklyn built by the Internal Drydock and Construction company of New York. The project costs about 300000 dollars and should be finished within nine months, capable of admitting the largest vessel entering New York harbor.
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New York Harbor
Erie Basin
Brooklyn
Internal Drydock and Construction Company of
New York
Seven New Women In Oklahoma Form Cattle Company
Robert Smartwood of Beaver City Oklahoma reports in Topeka that seven young women teachers in district schools have organized a cattle company. Each has filed a claim on a quarter section of bottom land and they plan to consolidate their interests to raise cattle. Beaver county was once a rendezvous for outlaws of the worst class.
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Oklahoma
Robert Smartwood
Beaver City
Q O. T
No Man’s Land
Topeka
Haa
Beaver County
Our Foreign Trade and Market Expansion
The article argues that U S exports of manufactured goods require bold, sustained effort to overcome foreign prejudices and to tailor products to diverse markets. It urges capitalists and manufacturers to shift focus from inflated schemes to legitimate manufacturing and seeking foreign customers to boost employment and national prosperity.
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Fenton T. Newberry
Novel Headache Cure From Haircut Fad
A London physician claims headaches ease after a haircut, asserting that severing each hair tube causes brain relief by opening a safety valve. A London society commentator taunts the cure, saying if it fails the head is too wooden to act.
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London
London Society
Fete Prompts Women to Saw 250 Cords for Church Fund
In Equinunk and Little Equinunk Wayne county Pa the Methodist church aims to raise funds to build a new church by having local women cut and pile 250 cords of wood for Equinunk Chemical company at one dollar per cord. Minnie Sherwood June Southwell and May Butterfield organize the effort inviting women to bring axes saws wedges and mauls for a workman like job.
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Equinunk
Little Equinunk
Wayne County
Methodist Church
Equinunk Chemical Company
Minnie Sherwood
June Southwell
May Butterfield
New York World
Fans Show Frost Prevention In Store Windows
Storekeepers doubted a year ago when told an electrical fan in a display window would stop frost formation. A single trial proved effective and during the recent cold weather small fans buzzed in clear windows of stores on Sixth Avenue Twenty third Street and Broadway, New York.
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Sixth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Broadway
New York Journal
All the up to date girls study the Nethersole kiss
A New York paper notes the urban fad as women seek instruction in the Nethersole kiss while a New Haven Palladium query asks if there is a vacancy in the corps of instructors.
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New York
Corps of
New Haven Palladium
The Romping Child Grows into City Stately Woman
A speaker recalls a girl once playful with a dimpled smile who later passes them in the press as a stately figure. He notes altered eyes and a transformed world around her as life seems to blaze with new energy.
Pianos Show Clever Use of Unusual Materials
A New York Sun excerpt describes experiments with nontraditional piano materials. Paper pianos from England fetch high sums, with the Duke of Devonshire paying 500 guineas for a decorated French model. Ivory, silver, bronze, aluminum, glass, porcelain, and mother of pearl cases are noted, including lavish pieces for Indian princes and Spanish American elites.
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Duke of Devonshire
Dudley
London
Haidarabad
Exchange
Cross Examination Shifts From Questions To Reflections
Magistrate questions Anna Lang in a courtroom scene revealing age and family details. The dialogue contrasts memory with uncertainty as the witness hesitates over ages and personal data while a narrator muses on character and its social value. An aside mentions a mythic tear of Venus and Adonis.
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Hudson
A. Lampman
New York ‘City
New York Sun
Anna Lang
J. Hawes
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Venus
Adonis
Chicago
Iowa
Stockbridge
Essex
W. A. Haynes & Co
Maynard, Mass
GEO
Keith
Boynton
S. R. Burroughs
J. S. Hoar
West Acton
C. Keith
Concord Junction
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C.d.holmes
H.p.n.dahl
Riverside Block
Maynard
H.P. N. Dahl
Riverside
Blook
Maynard Mass
James Mullin
BUX
Manayrd
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
Hudson National Bank
Caleb L. Brigham, As
Hier
James T. Foote
Charles KE. Watson
Summner St
Emily Robinson
Emerson College of Oratory
Emerson
Ani
Iol
Sohate
Nied Foestein
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