Great Salt Lake Sinks Sparking Utah Concern
The Great Salt Lake continues to decline in surface area raising anxiety among Utah residents. Causes are uncertain with theories of natural cycles, diversions of water to agriculture and grazing, and heavy logging of Amber Mountain foothills reducing forest protection and stream flow feeding the lake. Property values near the lake and related businesses feel the impact as water levels drop.
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Great Salt Lake
Utah
Crowded Wall Street and War Era Notes
A crowded Wall Street comparison imagines occupants filling the street four times over. Letter from BS Payne, once of Portland Weather Bureau, now in Charleston, discusses war years and the Negro question, noting 22,000 whites and 3,3000 colored locals, with colored residents living among whites. Berlin dispatches touch on Prince Henry and Monroe doctrine status amid German emigration talk and U.S. unity on enforcement.
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BS Payne
Weather Bureau
Portland
Charleston
South Carolina
Geer
Pague
Mr Pague
Berlin
New York Herald
Prince Henry
United States
Germany
Caribbean
Catfish on Sidewalk Highlights Local Business Corner
A damaged OCR fragment notes a five hundred thousand dollar plant by a Chi- C849 company to manufacture di est (denufacture) amid industry consolidation. It mentions public excitement over a pair of catfish found in a pool on a sidewalk at a busy business corner and suggests keeping driftwood and boats away from that corner.
Peor Worker Attacks Foreign Women in Language Study
A prof at Columbian College accuses foreign women of inability to master Chinese, calling the language a mark of their inferiority and branding women as symbols of treachery in a heated exchange about Chinese studies.
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Herbert A Gile
Peor
Columbian Collegee
Trusts justify high prices while shipping cheaper abroad
The speaker argues that trusts push high domestic tariffs and price hikes, selling abroad at half to two thirds the U.S. price. While Americans cry prosperity, trusts and profiteers grab most of the wares, leaving citizens poorer and misled by inflated figures.
Notable rise of Herbert Nicholson in condensed milk business
Herbert Nicholson of St Charles Illinois built wealth rapidly after starting a condensed milk venture five years ago with five thousand dollars. The plant was valued at six hundred sixty thousand dollars by the condensed milk trust, signaling a remarkable local to national rise in wealth from a small town enterprise.
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Herbert Nicholson
St Charles
Illinois
United States
Nicholson
Condensed Milk Trust
Satos Dumont in Airship Racing Tale
A fragment notes Satos Dumont, the Frenchman, as a rising figure in airship racing. It recalls a dying gambler reassured by a minister of his impending conversion and asserts the gambler’s wish to outfly the preacher upon arrival.
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Satos Dumont
Albany Folks Catch Catfish in Willamette Race
Albany residents report numerous catfish caught in Dead River about five miles upstream from town. A local expert confirms the catch resembles a catfish and notes the race’s aptly named title.
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Albany
Dead River
Willamette
Colored man solves cheap living plan after metal theft
A Vorsland Telegraph report says a local colored man claims to have solved cheap living by living nine months for a dollar. He received this sentence after stealing metal valued at one dollar.
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T! Vorsland Telegram
Odious merchant exposes clerk theft with camera proof
A merchant obtained unimpeachable testimony about a trusted clerk’s dishonesty. He set up a camera to capture the act of pilfering money from the till, securing clear evidence and his newspaper notoriety.
Marital melee erupts after editor slaps groom in town
In a small town a wedding announcement sparks a public row. Charles Henry Didd wed the day before yesterday and, after a jokey newspaper note, the editor of the Weekly Visindealer was slapped at the post office. Charles Henry retaliated with a punch, ending in a street fight. Charles Henry has seven children from prior marriages while the bride reportedly has five.
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Daummer
Pettville Tavern
Charles Henry Didd
Wvisindealer
Charles Henry
An Excuse for Home
A quirky exchange features a man named Creak asking to leave work early while his wife urges him to take on odd jobs around the house. The manager declines, saying it is not possible. The scene ends with Creak thanking the manager, appreciating the courtesy.
Giant folding bed fiasco in six story flat ends in pieces
Cora Bentley buys a half price giant folding bed against her husband Mr Bentley’s advice. The bed wrecks hallways, doors and walls as it travels up the stairwell. Neighbors Mrs Cochran and the Bentleys raze the bed and salvage their peace, paying for delivery and damage.
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Mr. Bentley
Cora
Mrs. Bentley
Mrs. Cochran
Fle
Expressmen
Mrs
Mra. Cochran
Besser
Mr. Cochran
Mr Cochran
Bentley
Cochran
George
Anny Dare
Expressman
Carpenter
A Hoidens Victory In Nazareth A tale of Nellie Deane and a Deacon
In the western town of Nazareth Nellie Deane a free spirited girl returns from schooling to shock the town. Deacons confront her asking for moral reform. Nellie charms Deacon Bradford and marries Deacon Brown, ending with a new life in a neighboring city where she reforms her husband.
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Nacareth
Nellie Deane
Nellie
Nazareth
Deacon Brown
Perry
Bradford
Samson
Delilah
Bolden
A Hint to a Booster and a Clever Pickerel Contest
Dick Spier, famed for tall tales, challenges Phil Wentworth in a Amber lake pickerel bet. Wentworth lands every fish using a hidden galvanic reel trick, fooling the boastful Spier. The party votes to cover the supper, and Spier learns humility.
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New Jersey
Adirondacks
Stephen Burd
Phil Wentworth
Cornell
Wentworth
Amber Lake
Burd
Spler
Epler
Spier
Phil
Red and Gun Club
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Nis
Eugene Guard
Wall Street
Wall Strest
New York
Oe Street
C. B. Loomis
Hoiden
Brother Bradford
Deacon Jones
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