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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1912
Page
7
The Reed Newfoundland company operates about 800 miles of narrow gauge line on Newfoundland Island. Trains run from Port au Basque to St Johns with water supplied by mountain stream flumes and onboard pumps. If a flume fails, water is drawn directly from lakes or streams via a hose to fill locomotive tanks.
The waybill links shipment and delivery and itemizes each consignment. It is a durable printed form four and a half by sixteen inches with back‑printed instructions, numbered by the issuing agent, and used on every car to record weight, destination, and charges. Some lines use multiple forms including livestock and perishable freight, with negotiable bills of lading allowing ownership transfers and lending functions. Railroad Man's Magazine
An editorial urges immediate action to abolish dangerous grade crossings across New Jersey and neighboring states. Citing 68 deaths and 67 serious injuries in seven months, the piece compares the U S danger to Britain where grade crossings do not exist and calls for shared rail and state funding to remove crossings without delay.
The reported Bavarian rail line between Munich and Nuremberg operates at about 64.8 miles per hour with no stops, covering roughly 223 miles in 135 minutes. Nuremberg lies about 920 miles lower than Munich in the text's context.
Grand Harbor and Devils Lake area schools resume after a two week vacation. Miss Jean McKay of Sauk Center visits Miss McKay's friends as vacation ends. Teachers and students share holiday memories while others travel for education and family visits.
Local notes report Arthur Tomlinson leaving for Fargo to attend Agricultural College. Devils Lake visits include Chase, Iverson marriage in Devils Lake, and various town gossip. A masquerade dance is planned, and many reach out to welcome the Ballard/Dean wedding with Rev Smith officiating.
Major Shunk of the National War Department will hear complaints about Red River blocking at a Grand Forks gathering January 18. The event aims to push a survey for navigation possible to the Atlantic via Hudson Bay, backed by the Grand Forks commercial club.
A Railway Age Gazette estimate puts the replacement cost at about 630 million dollars for substituting steel cars for wooden ones. At year start about 3 000 passenger cars were steel built, with total passenger coaches around 54 600. By year end, 9.8 percent of all passenger cars will be steel and 35 percent will have steel underframes, while wooden cars fall from 98.2 to 87.2 percent in service over three years.
An engine driver and a stoker saved hundreds traveling from Rouen to Le Havre when a boiler tube burst. The driver, badly scalded, stopped the train after an explosion of steam and smoke. The stoker, severely burned, uncoupled the engine and guided it to safety.
The message presents a long list of suggested farm names for an Inter Ocean print stationery order. It includes many place style names such as Cloverdale Sunnyside Or Fairview Lakeside Highland Woodend and River attle plus numerous misspellings and variations.
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