The Old Lock Step at Sing Sing
A gossip column notes Saratoga politics and hotels, then shifts to John Jacob Astor and Mrs. Astor, and ends with critique of prison discipline. It discusses gambling reform, social habits, and a lecture on the lock step used by prisoners, citing Sing Sing’s abolition of the practice and reforms in women’s reformatory attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saramen
Richard Croker
Ifor
Adirondacks
Saratoga
Sen
Odas
Piavvas
Walterie Astorio
Nou
Adega Eck Dogothetes
Newport Tas
Croket
Tammany Princiws
Lot
Vfsice
Matform
Sing Sing
Massachusetts Reformatory
Notables Deliberate on Hall of Fame Choices in 5000 Names
The New York University senate has sent 254 volumes of nominees to judges to pick 160 Hall of Fame honorees. About 5,000 names have been received from across the country, with lists divided into 15 categories including authors, educators, scientists, engineers, physicians, and diplomats. Judging continues through September with a vote anticipated in early October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pantheon
Hall of Fame
Senate
New York University
John S. Hillings
The Shirt-Woiat Man: Heat, Society, and a New York Tale
A quirky lettered sketch laments extreme heat in New York as a new dining fashion prompts guards to discuss shirts and attire. It notes record heat, sea humidity, and health concerns, citing the health board and street paving improvements. The piece pivots to the Astor family and a wealth dispute, hinting at tensions between Col. John Jacob Astor and William Astor amid a grand, shared ballroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laust Sumier Wei
Winist
New York
Georgia
New Messea
New York Aan Simmer Resort
Health Board
Coler for Governor Backed by Brooklyn Boss McLaughlin
Coler a Brooklyn man vies for governor with support from long-time boss McLaughlin and the Brooklyn machine. Despite age, McLaughlin remains influential, while factional tensions loom over the state and national elections. Owen Langdon reports on the political maneuvering and the clerkly, old-fashioned candidate nicknamed a Sunday-school politician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coler
Bird
Colter
Richard Croker
Brooklyn
Tammacy
McLaughlin
Tie
David B. Thy
Democrata
Lamimany
Owen Langdon
Olive crop in France faces disappointing year says consul
Consul Skinner at Marseilles notes that French olive groves are being abandoned as oil prices stay low. Prices peaked last year at about 36 cents per kilogram, far below historic 50 cent levels, prompting uprooting of about 40 000 trees in six months. Competition from Tunis Algeria and cheaper lands in Spain and Italy pressures southern France.
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France
Skinner
Marseilles
Spain
Italy
Tunis
Algeria
Tesla patent claims ice insulating coat for wire
A Tesla patent proposes an insulation method that drapes a wire in a low temperature air to form an ice coat. The inventor asserts this ice layer would resist strong currents and greatly reduce power loss in transmission, enabling underground wires to carry electricity over long distances.
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Nikola Tesla
Tesla
Vanderbilts in New York Directory Not Commodore Line
The first city directory over a century ago lists Vanderbilts not from the Commodore clan but Dutch spellers Vanderbilte. The leading name is a truck man, while ancestors were Staten Island farmers whose names lack New York directory entries. Germans Pushing Trade in Turkey notes a sample room of German wares to open in Constantinople.
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New York
Commodore
Vanderbilte
Staten Island
Turkey
Constantinople
Football Coaching Cheer Grows Across Colleges This Fall
E G Westlake reports growing interest in next season with coaches lined up at Michigan Wisconsin Chicago Minnesota Northwestern Iowa and Purdue as schools form plans and study star players and tactics. Old guard Stagg Yale Pennsy clashes noted with Princeton leadership shaping western and eastern strategies.
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Michigan
Lea
Wisconsin
Phil” King
Buck" Richards
Chicago
A. A. Stage
Kennedy
Hersehheimer
West
Henry Gale
Maroon
Finois
Fred Smith
George
Wiliams
Dr. Knipe
Towa
Purdue
A. Jamieson
Notre Dame
Pat O'Dea
Badgers
Chicago Athletic Association
Pat
Yale
Harvard
Blue
Crimson
Princeton
Old Nassau
Phil King
Old Smith and
Holt
Ilinois
Nassau
Tigers
Pennsylvania
Knipe
Hollister
Pennsy
Woodfull
Capt. Hare
Iowa
Hawkeyes
Lana
Paul Dashiel
Wrenn Brothers
Stagg
Conch Stagg
Herschberger
Clark
McAvey
Ward
Wolverines
Ann Arbor
King
Madison
Cardinal
Phil
Buel Richards
Lackle Holt
Illini
Smith
Champaign
Illinois
Northwestern
Williams
Minnesota
E. G. Westlake
Illinois Central R R of Interest to Stockholders
Board of Directors revises free travel policy for stockholders to attend annual meetings. Eligible holders may obtain tickets valid for travel to Chicago and return during the four days before and after the meeting, countersigned in Chicago, with limits per stock. Further details by request to the president. Next stockholders meeting set for September 26 1900 in Chicago. Transfer books close September 11 to September 27.
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Ilinois Central Railroad Company
Chicago
Alnols Central Railroad Company
Illinois Central Railroad
W. G. Bruen
A. G. Hackstafp
Hiiness Central Railroad Company
New Lines of the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Ry
The Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway promotes regional growth praising its towns and courting new settlers. It reports completed Worthington to Hardwick segment and ambitious Laing of Faribault and Germania corridors with dairy counties Freeborn and Steele, urging readers to relocate and invest along the expanding line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern RY
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway
Worthington
Nobles County
Hardwick
Rock County
Minnesota
Lismore
Ienneth
Reading
Whl
Rake
Winnebago
Iowa
Walters
Faribault County
THOS
Illinois Central Homeseekers Excursions expand South routes
The Illinois Central will run Home seekers Excursions to southern points via IC and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley lines from west of Tara and from Lyle Cedar Rapids Ona wa and Sioux Falls branches on the first and third Monday each month in 1900. Tickets cost one take plus 2 00 round trip, valid 21 days, with overstops allowed within 15 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illnois Central
Homeseeker
Illinois Central
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Tara
Lyle
Cedar Rapids
Onawa
Sioux Falls
Fort Dodge
New
Southern Homeseeker
Ohio River
Yazoo Valley
Mississippi
E. P. Skene
Chicago
Iowa
Cedar Fails
Lyle and
Ilinois Central
South Dakota
Minnesota
Ackley
le Mars
Homeseekers
J. F. Merry
M. Cent. R. R
Dubuque
Illinois Central Excursion to Colorado August 1900
Illinois Central will conduct a low rate escorted excursion from Dubuque to Denver August 21 1900 with a round trip fare 28 85 and return by October 31. Sleeper rate 250 per double berth. reservations due by August 16. Train stops at smaller stations. Farmers Congress in session August 22 23 24 at Colorado Springs.
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Young People's Convention
Iowa Evangelical Association
Waterloo
Iowa
Chicago Great Western Railway
F. B. Ross
Main Street
Dubuque
Illinois Central
Colorado
Denver
Colorado Springs
J. A. Wheeler
Farmers’ National Congress
J. F. Merry
Towa
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Gotham
Vicinity
John Jacob Astor
Fifth Avenue
Col. Astor
Newport
Sing-Sing
Astor Quaerels
John Jacob Aster
William Astor
Sol
Oo. B. Herschberger
R. R
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
Washington
State Department
Secretary of State
Earl Li Hung Chang
China
Herald
Llinois Central Railroad
St. Paul
Minneapolis
City Ticket Agt
Main St
Duwuque
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