Building a Great City Cost in Human Lives
A historical survey recounts the dangers of major public works in New York, detailing countless deaths and injuries from tunnels, caissons, and bridges. It cites the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, subway incursions, and the peril of caisson disease, with specific incidents and heroic escapes amid vast engineering effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Mast
Brooklyn
Cassion
Hugo
Poe
Eugene Sue
Manhattan
Pennsylvania ‘Ecminal
Belmont Tamzel
East River
Hudson Company
Church Ad Dey Streets
Brooklyn Bridge
Founda
Brooklyn Ridge
Col. Roebling
Brooklyn Tower
Manhattan Tower
Test
Marriage Pact in Gutsy NYC Tale of Meyer Orchard Heiress
In New York a married couple, Louis C. Meyer and wife, confront a divorce threat after an affair with Kathryn Conrad Fuller Harkness. Meyer signs a formal agreement with conditions to keep peace, while Mrs. Meyer exposes letters from Harkness. An auto crash injures all involved. Meyer sustains a broken leg, Harkness a hip, and the wife claims victory through the document.
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New York
Louis G. Meyer
Mrs. Meyer
Meyer
Louis C. Meyer
Kathryn Conrad Fuller Harkness
Meyers
Broadway
Ninety-sixth Street
Harkness
Mr. Meyer
Mrs. Harkness
William A. , Feigelstock
Feigelstock
Bronxville
Gramatan
Famous De Soto oak doomed by parasite in Florida
The famous De Soto oak in the Tampa Bay area faces death after a parasite attack that has felled forests in Florida. The 300-year-old tree, over 30 feet wide at the base and towering hundreds of feet, hosts a mossy growth that drains its sap and seals its fate. The moss is harvested in Florida and shipped north as a substitute for hair in upholstery and mattresses.
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Beauies Park
Tampa Way Hotel
de Soto
Florida
Cincinnati Enquirer
Memor y bet tests hotel clerks memory at supper tale
A bet at a New York hotel supper leads to a staged key heist as two men escort the clerk away. The manager reveals the gag rests on room numbers below 100, and the loser buys another bottle, praising the trick. Its Only Salvation. Landlady I had my strength all taken away once by hypnotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North River
East River
Morton Street
Hudson Companies
Fulton
Church Streets
New York
Boarder
Agreement Signed by Husband and Wife in Divorce Action
Ada E Meyer of Manhattan filed for absolute divorce from Louis G Meyer in New York Supreme Court. The agreement requires Louis to treat Ada kindly, abstain from other relationships, and pay Ada fifty dollars weekly during a three month probation. If unsatisfied Ada may proceed with the divorce action.
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Ada F. Meyer
Manhattan
New York City
Supreme Court
Louis G. Meyer
Meyer
New York
Piaintizf
Ada E. Meyer
Mia
William Harkness
Ada Ez. Meyer
Lou
G. Meyer
Conscience and Courage in Public Duty
A Knoxville Journal and Tribune editorial argues conscience binds officials. It questions how a public figure tainted by vice can fight crime when associates know of past sins. The piece likens such officials to a blindfolded fighter with limbs bound.
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Shakespeare
Knoxville Journal and Tribune
Wisdom of a Proud Woman in The Smart Set
A witty excerpt notes a woman’s pride and self awareness. It praises her knowledge of her faults and strengths, comparing her ear to a seashell and her brows to fine lines. The piece ends with a mirror speaking, predicting she will tell and be contradicted.
Mikado Night Rambles Admired By The Emperor
The Japanese emperor, marking his fifty fourth birthday, is famed for nightly rambles. He is described as the busiest man in his empire, often walking Tokyo streets with hands in pockets and a cigar, to ensure quiet and that subjects sleep peacefully.
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Mikado
Japan
Tokio
Capital
Fortunes of the Future From Power of Nature
A mining engineer discusses wealth from water wind and sun power not gold or diamonds. He notes 2 000 000 electrical horsepower from waterfalls and streams with quarter in the United States and coal savings estimated at 126 000 000. Water head and flow determine value, streams can power irrigation after generating electricity. Wind power for machinery and electricity grows, with early private wind plants by Dr Charles Brush in 1889 and European examples in Wittkell Hamburg Boyle Hall England running lights and a factory.
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United States
Canada
Switzerland
Agara
Victoria
South Africa
Mississippi
Colorado
Missouri
Charles F. Brush
Cleveland
Europe
Wittkell
Schleswig
Hamburg
Boyle Hall
Ardsley
England
St. Nicholas
Delicacies for table Beef Tea to Apricot Sherbet and more
A vintage kitchen column details how to make Beef Tea from steak with hot water, a hot water sponge cake, creamed macaroni with cheese, and a fruit filled cake glaze. It covers apricot sherbet from canned fruit, crabapple jelly with spice, and easy methods for serving delightful desserts.
Onions with Sardines and Curry Mayonnaise
Fry butter flavored onions then cool and quarter them on a bed of watercress. Top with sardines, garnish with hard boiled eggs and parsley. Curry enhances the mayonnaise dressing which is poured over all, curry optional. To can beets use cider vinegar, sugar, onion juice, pepper and salt.
Chopped Instructions for Chicken Gravy Variant
A recipe fragment describes adding flour to brown beer with cold water to form gravy. It mentions seasoning with salt and pepper and straining, then notes a half cup of rich cream from grease as a harmful component in chicken gravy.
Mixed Pickles and Sauce for Fruit Fritters
Mixed pickles are prepared from cabbage beans carrots cauliflower cucumbers peppers with salt water mace cinnamon allspice and vinegar then jarred. Sauce for fruit fritters mixes egg yolks sugar lemon juice and rind water then thickens over heat, finished with stiff egg white and sugar topping.
Easy Cake Mixing and Baking Tips From a Vintage Guide
A vintage baking tip set advises using an earthware dish for best texture and warming butter to Vaseline-like softness. Rinse a dish in scalding water to preheat, cream butter and sugar, then add milk and most flour. Beat eggs separately, fold in yolks then whites, and balance flour with baking powder as you fold.
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Bering
Earth
Manhattan Anchorage
Williamsburg Bridge
John A. Roebling
Gary
Col
W. A Roebling
Seidge
Channing’ Bullard
Bullard
Cambridge Latin School
Pennsylvania
Ari
Fainy Rock
Murray Hill
Fort George
Harlem
Bright
Pennsylvania Railroad
Crosstown
Simplon
Egypt
Caer
Ner
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