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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1901
Page
3
An old Pullman conductor describes railroad dining cars with formal manuals for cooks and exact portioning. Purchasers stock at key points, inspections tally coal use, and petty pilfering is minimized. The system favors predictable profits and adapts to travel patterns, with routes nicknamed for popular meals.
Mrs Rice Willard rose from poverty to wealth through shrewd self management. She bought houses, remodeled, hired, leased to wealthy tenants, and personally handles agents, rentals, repairs, and floor scrubbing. She lives modestly, keeps honesty, and stays focused on tenants’ needs.
A collage of light quips from Chicago Daily News London Answers Oblongo Daily News Boston Transcript and other papers captures playful misreadings and social jabs. Jokes touch on grammar tests moon sightings and quirky collectors, reflecting early 20th century humor and newspaper style.
Readable excerpts reveal private department store detectives in Chicago watching for light fingered thieves. A wealthy woman, dressed in silk and jewelry, is exposed stealing scarves then defends herself as a victim. Her husband, a senior law firm partner, arrives to bar further action, illustrating daily shoplifting dynamics and the firm’s concerns.
The article details the Wachusett reservoir project including stripping 4,196 acres to an average depth of one foot at a cost over 3 million dollars. It covers the dam’s masonry construction, overflow design, and the Waehusett aqueduct built 1896–1898 with a two mile tunnel and seven mile aqueduct, plus an open channel to Sudbury reservoir and two pipelines to Arlington and Chestnut Hill. It also notes German farming electricity experiments and a French coal mine depth achievement in a separate item.
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