Handling and Tracing Railway Rolling Stock
A detailed look at how the Northern Pacific tracks and locates its vast rolling stock. It explains the car service department, record systems, and number of locomotives and cars, plus how shipments are traced from division to destination and how misplacements are prevented.
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Northern Pacific
Car Service Department
Ira B. Richards
Tacoma
Richards
Northern Pacific Car Service Department
Northern Pacific Railway
Ballion
St. Paul
Portland
Consignees
McCauley
Pnge
Airship mishap thanks to inventor's wife coolness
Mrs. George E. Heaton saved herself from disaster when a runnaway airship rose over Berkeley and Oakland. She punctured the gas bag and, after failed attempts with a hatpin, pulled the escape rope to descend safely. She landed unharmed and refused further air voyages unless her husband accompanies her.
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Oakland
Cal
George E. Heaton
Berkeley
Idora Park
Mrs. Heaton
Grace
Heaton
West Berkeley
Brave nurse calms maniac brother with revolver present
Miss Mamie F Wedler a three year nurse at St Louis city insane asylum faced her brother William Wedler, a former patient, who brandished a loaded revolver and threatened to kill. She remained calm, soothed him, and he was taken to the emergency hospital for observation. Wedler had been an inmate about six years ago and disappeared January 22 before being found at his mother’s home.
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St. Louis
Mamie F. Wed Jer
City Insane Asylum
William Wedler
Miss Wedler
Wedler
George Wedler
Mamie F. Wedler
Insane Asylum
Wrangler
Ellensburg
Walla Walla
Snake River
Moqui Pueblo Customs Amid Ancient Aztec Ties
A historical sketch describes Moqui Pueblo Indians of Arizona preserving medieval customs. An army officer observed annuity goods and a domestic scene as Neeta, a young girl, ground corn and a mother baked dough into rolls using a metate, with water added from the baker's mouth.
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Arizona
Mexico
America
Japan
Neeta
Women kiss dogs for 30 days sparked illness in bet
In St Paul Minnesota a wager by John Angelhardt sparked six aid society women to kiss their dogs daily for 30 days at Mountain Lake. After ten days two women fell seriously ill and others suffered symptoms while three dogs died, prompting medical care.
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St. Paul
Minn
Mountain Lake
John Angelhardt
Aid Society
Angelhardt
Moqui marriage tale and telephone to wed
A Moqui girl Neeta loves No-ko-mo and grinds meal to signal betrothal. Her mother approves after a ceremonial relay of ground meal to the groom’s family. The pair wed soon after as a fortress home grows atop their pueblo, with a laddered aerie rising toward the sun. In Nebraska, phones help a 16 year old wed with parental consent via telephone.
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Neeta
No-ko-mo
Nebraska
Nebraska State Journal
Oconto
Custer County
Broken Bow
Cupid
No-ke-mo
Traveling post office sorts mail on route in Milan
A novel system in Milan collects letters from street pillar boxes via an electric traveling post office that covers a 15 mile circuit. Sorting and stamping occur during the run between boxes and, at the end of each circuit, the letters are handed over for immediate delivery.
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Milan
About Time Father and Daughter Comic Exchange
A humorous exchange from a New York Weekly piece where a father questions when the daughter will marry, and she replies she has thought of nothing else for years, capturing a domestic light moment.
Ardup Marries Landlady to Stay Afloat in Debt
In a Cincinnati Enquirer item the character Ardup weds the landlady to avoid debt and cover board bills. Pruneleig notes the match was forced by financial need, suggesting he owed her money and chose marriage to secure housing.
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Hashkins
Pruneleig
Cincinnati Enquirer
Fish as Hospital Patients Vienna and University Fish Pathology
At the newly established hospital for diseased fishes in Vienna, connected to the new chair of fish pathology and biology at the university, patients include a carp treated for an inflammation resembling appendicitis, ten others with smallpox, a porpoise from the Adriatic with lung inflammation, a trout with cataract in both eyes, and another fish with dropsy.
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Vienna
Adriatic
Can Conduct Funeral Alone in Wabash
Rev. Clark Shawley of Wabash Indiana serves as minister undertaker and local singing talent. He has often led funeral services preached the sermon and provided music soloist. His triple role makes him in demand for funeral duties in the community.
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Wabash
Ind
Clark Shawley
Friends’ Church
Visiting Friend-What do you give the dog-faced boy per week
A brief item from the Louisville Courier Journal notes a manager at a Freak Museum asks for ten bones weekly as compensation. The oddity sketch references a dog-faced performer and a barter style payment, reflecting sensational era humor.
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Louisville Courier Journal
She-Women Clean Minds and Street Fakir Quip
In a sharp Town Topics quip, a humorous contrast lands with a line about women’s minds being cleaner than men and then the man of severe ideals questions a street fakir who admits feeling foolish selling toys while pondering public perception.
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Washington Star
Need of Reform Satirized in Town Topics Byte
In a Town Topics snippet Mrs. Gramercy and Miss Lowcutte are said to sew clothes for the heathen in spare moments while Mrs. Park-Oh jokes she hoped she would reform and wear them herself.
Foot racing perfection notes and skating style debate
The article covers sports opinions from Fred Stone on sprinting and endurance form, cites Dr Arthur Keane as top figure skater in the U.S. and the emergence of the American style, notes a Middlesbrough transfer record and Frank Kramer's Paris racing tour, and ends with a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reminiscence on rugged early travel speeds across Washington territory.
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New York City
Arthur G. Keane
Keane
New York
John Sandbloom
Chicago
Dr. Sandbroom
Trees for wireless masts in military telegraphy
Maj George A Squier of the signal corps reports a method substituting growing trees for traditional masts to transmit messages over moderate distances. By driving a nail into a tree and a pin in earth the receiver is established, while the sending unit connects up the trunk to an aerial near the tree, enabling several miles of transmission with fewer masts and wires.
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George A. Squier
Signal Corps
Maj
Squier
Chicago Tribune
Blues Fever Grips Detroit After Big Season Tight Ends
In Detroit excitement grows as fans discuss a strong run with many fans claiming they have the blues about the team’s prospects. Analysts note rising interest and varied opinions as the season unfolds.
Glass Molecule Class Joke From The Royal
A humorous classroom exchange quotes Mrs. Jones asking what her son studies and a pupil replying about molecules. The son notes constant practice, while a joke about his father wearing a molecule in his eye is told, attributed to The Royal.
The Real Sufferer Town Topic Gossip
A playful Town Topics exchange centers on dyspepsia with Mrs Gramercy noting her husband suffers, while Mrs Park quips she suffers from it too highlighting social humor and light anecdote.
Navigating Ice Fields and Breaker Vessels T
The Boston Herald explains ice fields exert huge pressure on trapped ships. Even powerful steamers struggle without weight to bear down. Ice breakers ride ice, using weight to crush it, sometimes with a bow propeller to draw water from beneath. Such ships cut through fields that stall modern liners.
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Boston Herald
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Bill Heads
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