Siberian Railway Expansion and Safety Inventions Highlighted Abroad
An article reviews the Great Siberian Railway project from Moscow to Vindivastovk with progress, costs, and planned upgrades including iron bridges, widened stations, and immigrant housing. It covers rail safety advances by Mr. Nikolaieff, the Vershbolovo tests, and a braking tube system reducing accidents. It also notes international trade implications with Swiss and German rail exports and forthcoming travel implications for Russia’s rail network.
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Russia
Siberian
Vershbolovo Station
St. Petersburg
Warsaw Road
Nikolaieff
Department of Railways
She Sculpted His Rise From Humble Roots to Nobler Heights
A Chicago Times-Herald verse recounts a wife who guides and endures with quiet strength. She teaches him, polishes his manners, bears his children, and consoles him through bleak days. As he gains stature, others pity her for the burden of a life spent in his shadow.
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Chicago
Tines-Herald
Stereopticon Man Tells a Drowning Fish Tale on River
A humor tale unfolds as a stereopticon man describes a failed fishing attempt on the Maumee River in Toledo Ohio. He recalls slipping into the water and clinging to a scow, while a gas man and onlookers debate the truth of his claim and later confront him in a comical fight.
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Coney Island
Ohio
Twoywreek
Loledo
Stereopticon
Summit Street
Gimuie
Maiaimee
North River
Stere- Opticon
ePhen
Barry
Timothy
Bowlin
eTha
Jim
N. Y. Sun
Rare Plants Gifts to Congressmen Decline as Customs Change
The article notes that each member of Congress receives a hundred rare plants from the botanical gardens annually. Packing rooms fill with boxes labeled for the United States as representatives pick their quotas. Costs, shipping, and a shift away from sending palms or flowering plants to members’ homes reflect changing customs and concerns about waste and hardship in transporting plants.
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Botanical Gardens
United States
Bow Legs Straightened for 24 Year Old Man
Lewis Hoen aged 24 will leave St Joseph hospital in Logansport Indiana in about ten days nearly recovered from an operation to straighten bow legs. He traveled from Indianapolis and paid surgeons to perform the tibia breaks and casting to allow new bone growth. He will be about an inch taller on discharge and denies royal romantic rumors about his bowed limbs.
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Lewis Hoen
St. Joseph Hospital
Logansport
Ind
Indianapolis
Hoen
Modjeska Plans Poland Visit Despite Czar Edict
Mme Modjeska returns to southern California after a 31 week east season. She will not act next season and will defy the czar by visiting Poland, despite Russian exile orders and a ban that could not be raised.
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Mme
Modjeska
California
East
Poland
Chicago
Nicholas
St. Petersburg
Washington
Polarid
Costs of Paris Exposition Commission Detailed
A senate report outlines the Paris Exposition Commission’s expenditures through 1899. Salaries totaled 167 768 dollars and travel 53 397 dollars, with items for furniture, office incidentals, press work, messenger and freight charges, and draftsman services. Commissioner Ferdinand Wieck earned 11 031 dollars in salary and 3 724 in travel, totaling 14 755 dollars.
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Senate
Ferdinand Wieck
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Ean
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Pomst
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Versiy
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Stretingk
Lake
Kal
England
Neers
den Mel
Mon
Baikal
Ies
Peking
Nikola
Mukeley
Khabarofsk
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Urals
Pomsk
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Switzerland
Soudan
Germany
Max Owen
Singer
Gabby
Oerersourg
Rans
Caine
MFP
Guicide
Ant
Usimedia
St. Paul's
Anany
X. diMeuti
Firralys
Dotanlecal Gardena
Czar
United States Paris Exposition Commission
Hapte
Ocean Greyhound
Chicago‘Tribune
Steard’s Department
J. Kabat
Main Street
Dubuque
Hn Methop SC Company
Grocers
Second and
Iowa Streets
Dubuque, Iowa
Ohn Mewlhop, SR
Prealdept
Mehlsop
W. L. Orrick
John Mehlhop
Agst
Nod Treas
Wallis Co
Seventh and Locust Streets
Iowa
A. Tredway & Sons Hardware Co
Iowa Street
Linehan & ‘Molo
Arehouse Corner
White and Third Sts
J. F.mccarthy
John V. Keogh
C. A. Lorenzo & Co
Sattinas
Sixth Street
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