Reading railroad president denies B and O absorption claim
Reading Company president McLeod denied a Pittsburg paper report that Reading had gained absolute control of the Baltimore and Ohio and its branches as part of a coal deal. Philadelphia and Harrisburg coverage note hearings and a proposed railroad commission to regulate freight rates, especially coal, in a widening investigation.
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Phinapelmia
McLeod
Reading Railroad
Uaited
Reading Road
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pittsburg
Reading Company
New York and New England Railroad Company
Philadelphia
Allston's Advice Correct Drawing for Art Students
Reminiscences of painter Washington Allston emphasize that design mastery is essential. study outline before color, using chalk and amber for contour, then paint freely. Recommends copying Flaxman to learn figure drawing, balancing outline with painting, and studying both ancient and nature references.
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Washington Allston
Scribner's
Flaxman
Vignette of Normandy Sunset by the Mill Stream
A lyric scene opens high in the blue with swallows and moth like motion. Bronze brambles creep toward the stream under the mill wheel while wounded forms move across a meadow. Red houses gaze from a green orchard as magpies call. A silvery horse bell sound fills the air over tethered oxen and grazing fields. Shadows and orange skies frame the sun sinking toward the ancient sea beyond wooded hedges near Normandy.
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Normandy
London Spectator
Kentucky Raceplot Turns Courting Knighted Tale Into Fallout
In a tangled racing scheme, Shelby an American from Lexington courts Miss Molly Mitchell in England and overturns bookmaker Old Mitchell’s plans at Doncaster and Downesborough. A hidden Master colt backs Shelby’s bid, Ahmad Khan wins, and Tom Shelby wins Molly.
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Thomas Shelpy
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William Mitchell
Leicester
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Sand Min
Nabads
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Master
Leicester Way
Panic in a Crowd Stricken by Fearful Hysteria
An excerpt likens a panicked crowd to a herd of swine driven by external fear. It contrasts the brave individual who resists with those who succumb, describing the sudden loss of presence of mind and the rapid spread of terror across the group. The London Spectator reflects on collective panic and its demonic, contagionlike influence.
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Gadava
Bronze in furniture decoration gains American use
The Decorator and Purnisher argues bronze offers durable adaptable finishes for light woods like satinwood ash and pine. Europeans have used bronze for generations while America lags due to copper and brass preferences. The piece predicts bronze will become more common as its grave tones and versatile effects suit furniture makers.
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America
Buddhist Prayer Wheels in Durga City Center Mongolia
In Durga the sacred Mongolian Buddhist center the town is filled with prayer wheels inscribed with prayers to Buddha. The more wheels turned the more religious notice is taken. Devout people turn smaller wheels with the left hand while using the right hand on the larger wheel. Prayer flags flutter above palisades. No Mongolian house misses them as each is believed to convey a prayer to Buddha.
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Durga
Buddha
Bagpipes Linked to Scotland and Ancient Rome
An 19th century note attributes bagpipes to Scotland but recalls their use by ancient Greeks and Romans. Nero allegedly played the instrument, and a Grecian sculpture shows a bagpipe player in modern Highland dress, as cited by Harper's Young People.
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Nero
Scotland
Harper's
Composition of tears described by New York Journal
The chief element in tears is water with tiny amounts of salt soda lime phosphate and mucus. Under a microscope a tear after evaporation resembles a small fish bone as the salines form lengthened cross lines.
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New York Journal
Attorney General Ready to Probe Railway Lease Controversy
Governor Pattison and Attorney General Hetw eel say state constitutional and public interest issues guide any action. They will review if the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad lease of Lehigh Valley and New Jersey Central railroads harms public welfare and if state intervention is warranted. No rush, no corner actions. remedies exist if private interests harm the commonwealth.
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Pattison
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
Lehigh Valley and
New Jersey Central
Creneral Hetweel
South Penn
Commonwealth
New Traffic Manager Named for Lehigh Valley System
Philadelphia February 18 John Taylor named general traffic manager of the enlarged Philadelphia and Reading system born Wilkes Barre January 16 12 He began as an axman in the Lehigh Valley railroad engineer corps and has served as general traffic manager of the Lehigh Valley system for ten years prior to this appointment
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Philadelphia
John Taylor
Philadelphia and Reading
Wilkesbarre
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Tas
Notable Deaths Across Europe and America
Baron Stafford dies in London at 61 and ex prime minister Sverdrup passes in Christiana at 60. Noted naturalist Henry Bates dies in London, while Sir Provo Wallis and Monsignor Dociali associated with the pope are listed. Rev Charles Whitecar dies at Camden age 70. Captain William Connor, once St James hotel proprietor, dies in St Louis. Bernard Lelnan, Northampton Republican, Belthlehem, 43. Rev Charles Miott at Easton 77. Edward Reed of rail leadership in New Haven at 70. James Grant, Bengal army veteran and explorer, dies in London at 64. Sir George Campbell, Liberal MP and Bengal ex-gov, 87. David Withers, Mamouth Park owner, dies in New York.
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London
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Henry W. Bates
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Rome
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Charles H. Whitecar
Camden
Edward M. Reed
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
New Haven
Jmes Augustus Grant
Bengal Army
Sir George Campbell
House of Commons
Bengal
A Boy's Essay on Breath From a North Side School
A boy submits a school essay titled Our Breath asserting air sustains life and noting air in rooms contains carbonic oxide, which he calls poison. he warns against girls wearing corsets squeezing diagrams and imagines running freely. The piece cites an India black hole incident.
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North Side
India
Minneapolis Journal
Bride Chase in Singapore Marriage Custom
A London Standard account describes Singapore wedding rites where the groom pursues the bride in a circular race. The bride may be chased on foot or in water by canoe, with both ceremonies short as the quarry is soon caught.
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Boeing
Singapore
Asia
Man's Third Eye and the pineal gland
The piece discusses vestigial brain structures, noting the pineal gland as a remnant of a former light-sensing organ. It recalls Descartes linking the soul to the gland and cites the eye vestige in ancient ancestors, with reference to a London News illustration.
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Descartes
London News
Bay Rum Quality From West Indian Myrtle Outlined
An interview in the St Louis Globe Democrat notes bay rum from the West Indian myrtle leaves yields superior essential oil, while English bay from Taurel produces inferior diluted product. The West Indian plant cannot grow in this climate and only appears in hothouses, yet its fragrance is strong enough to be detected from hundreds of feet away.
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Bay of Taurel
St. Louis
Globe-Demcrat
American Whaler Eamerlane Wrecked Near Hawaii
Reports from Honolulu announce the total wreck of the American whaling bark Eamerlane from San Francisco on February 1 at Puna Hawaii. The captain and twelve crew members were drowned in the disaster.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
Bat Puna
Hawaii
Free Wool and Textiles Bill Advances in Ways and Means
Washington date February 16. The committee on ways and means agreed to free list bills for wool, binding twine and cotton ties and bagging, while cutting duties on manufactured woolen goods.
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Washington
Money Orders and Postal Notes Across the Nation
New York City sits at the heart of the money order system with the central postoffice as depository. Regions east of the Rockies draw on New York while the Pacific coast gets support from San Francisco and Portland. Postal notes decline in popularity though still handy for small sums, especially where odd cents persist, but they lack security and are often not trusted as cash.
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New York City
Rocky Mountains
New York
Pacific
San Francisco
Portland
Washington Star
Real Inventor of Telegraphy Weber Establishes First Line
Weber pioneered a permanent workable telegraph line showing practical value. His city house linked to observatories by a 3.5 km line. signals used gelvanometer needle deviations interpreted by a code. Interruption or reversal limited to one or two words, but induced currents raised speed to seven or eight words per minute.
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Weber
Popular Science Monthly
Miniature gardens rely on starving plants for effect
The Japanese art of mini landscape making rests on starving plants to slow sap flow. Ferguson, early English traveler, noted at Canton a box about the size of a lady's snuff box containing sixteen tiny trees, four in full bloom, so small a man could fit them in his mouth.
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Ferguson
China
Japan
Canton
Ua Boxe
St. Louis Republic
The Thunb as a Danger Signal in Folklore
A reflective note cites Fingal and a magical thumb signal as danger signals in mythic frames. The passage invokes Shakespearean imagery with Macbeth and the Weird Sisters to suggest forewarning through ominous signs.
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Fingal
Macbeth
Chambers
Helping the Doctor Saves Baby Lives
A mother should keep a small notebook to record a child’s hourly symptoms. The physician can use this record, shown to him, as effectively as an examination. Such careful parental notes may often save a baby’s life, per the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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St. Louis Globe Democrat
Poisonous Woods Mentioned in Farm Notes
A Home and Farm snippet notes mountain laurel wood used for combs, and that the leaves of some plants are poisonous to animals. Black wild cherry timber is valued in cabinet works and its bark is medicinal. Wilted leaves can be poisonous to cattle, while dogwood yields spools and tool handles.
German trout introduction yields large specimens in country
A New York Times report notes that German trout prove highly successful here. The fish grow rapidly, reach great size, and a recent catch weighed 4 pounds with a length of 274 inches. The spawn was planted in 1881.
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New York Times
Why They Count in After School Efforts
A New York World item argues that small details matter because they are kept after school if they fail to count. The piece stresses cumulative impact of minor actions on outcomes and discipline.
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New York World
Five Injured in Collapse at Columbia Theatre
In Brookys on February 19 a bridge over the stage at the new Columbia theatre collapsed, injuring five men who were painting scenes. Two believed fatally hurt are Hi Heietman, 23, and Michael Manning, 26. The cause and responsibility remain undetermined.
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New Colmbia
Adais and
Tillary Streets
Hi. Heietman
Michael Manning
A TROUGH And Hog Hanger For Small Farms
A manure of old farming advice describes a trough to prevent crowding during slaughter and a hog hanger to ease killing. It explains making a crossbeam frame with seven 12 foot poles, using hot scalding water with bricks for proper scald, and suggests two to twenty sows with two litters yearly to profit from skimmed milk and whey while feeding cows.
Gas lime application advised by English agriculturist
An English agriculturist recommends applying gas lime at four to six cartloads per acre before plowing roots and cabbages to grow clean roots and reduce wireworm. He notes that four carts per acre before plowing wheat and oats harms corn, while earlier practice benefits subsequent crops.
Grubling ends life in home tragedy at Nisnven
George Grubling, a Nisnven businessman, sick with grip, rose from bed and broke a window pane. He placed his neck through the hole and sawed his throat on rough glass until exhausted on the floor. A physician dressed the wounds, but Grubling tore out stitches and died.
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Nisnven
George Grubling
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