Thawing Dynamite Warns of Fatal Risks
A historical note surveys methods used to thaw dynamite and warns of accidents. It cites P N Dennison and a British report detailing heating over fires, water baths, ovens, hands, stones, irons, steam pipes, and friction. It recommends thaw-houses with hot water radiators and safe layout, plus safer small-quantity techniques.
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P. N. Dennison
du Pont Powder Company
Chicago
United States
Great Britain
Dennison
England
Pennsylvania
Kansas
New York Subway
Nye County D A resigns to open Tonopah law office
Cleveland H. Baker resigns as Nye County deputy district attorney after about a year to start a private practice in Tonopah. A Reno daily to be launched named Daily American with Fred Brown at the helm. Ensign James P. Olding earns promotion in Carson squadron. A Nye County mine dumps operation on Lincoln mines near Berlin reports $2100 in gold and silver and $10 per ton copper ore recovered over three days.
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Cleveland H. Baker
Nye County
Tonopah
Daily American
Reno
Fred Brown
Nevada City Transcript
Ensign James P. Olding
Carson
Lincoln Mines
Berlin
Uren
Gilman
Goldfield
Rawhide
First Street
Ida Robbins
Fred Johnson
Bill” Wentworth
Jessie Keenrey
J. M. Hilbish
Turlock
Cal
Riverside
T Ne State Prison
E. Hardy
Esmeralda County
United States Land Office
Carson City
Department of the Interior
W. W. Booth
Ernest Bingham
Los Angeles
Booth
Illustrated Solar System Scale Demonstration
A description explains representing the sun by a two foot globe and placing planets at scaled distances using small objects: Mercury as a mustard seed at 164 feet, Earth as a pea at 284 feet, Venus on a 430 foot circle, Mars as a pinhead at 654 feet, asteroids as sand grains 1000 to 1200 feet away, Jupiter as an orange at half a mile, Saturn as a small apple at 0.8 miles, and a cherry on a 1.5 mile circle.
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Mercury
Earth
Venus
Mars
Asteroids
Jupiter
Saturn
Prohibition Party History and Platform Primer
An election primer traces the Prohibition party from its 1869 Chicago organization to later presidential candidates. It lists Black, Bidwell, Levering, Woolley, Swallow and others with vote totals, and summarizes the 1892 platform calling for total suppression of alcoholic liquor by federal and state laws.
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National Prohibition Party
Chicago
James Black
Pennsylvania
Green Clay Smith
Kentucky
Neal Dow
Maine
John P. St. John
Kansas
Clinton B. Fisk
New Jersey
John Bidwell
California
Joshua Levering
Maryland
John G. Woolley
Illinois
Silas C. Swallow
Swallow
Woolley
Prohibition Party
Postmaster General ends postal card postmarking in addresses
General News notes Leech of Illinois appointed public printer in Washington. Postmarking cards to be discontinued to curb defaced mail. John W. Mitchell visits Roosevelt. health prevents acceptance of Special Commissioner role for Panama canal labor report. Nebraska Populist delegation explains St. Louis convention boycott and alleges independence league influence aimed at Bryan and Watson.
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John 8. Leech
Illinois
Philippines
Washington, D. C
John W. Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Roosevelt
White House
Panama Canal Zone
Mitchell
Nebraska
St. Louis
Independence League
Bryan
Watson
Dreaming Derby Winners and Unusual Wines Across Germany
A World column excerpt contrasts three man wine near Gottingen Witzenhousen and the dreimanner wein tale with a colonial school for temperance. then shifts to dream interpretations of the Derby with Favonius and Favontus, noting the Zephyr colt’s naming and a dreamer’s guess. Andrew Lang cites the Dreaming Derby Winner in Independent.
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Gottingen
Witzenhousen
Germany
William
Reichstag
Tropics
New York World
Pavonius
Favonius
Andrew Lang
Independent
Feminine Egotism in spat ends with quip
A humorous dialogue in which a husband confesses folly in marriage during an argument and the wife retorts with the line that luck made him a fool. The piece reflects a witty, lighthearted exchange typical of Chicago humor.
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Chicago
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Harris
Kulligan
E. J. Nally
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Southern Nevada Telegraph and Telephone Company
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Nally
Postal Telegraph Company
Santa Fe
Western Union
Western Federation of Miners
Cox
Colorado Company
Olinghouse Canyon
Ed Uren
Edward L. Gilman
Tonopah United Water Company
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Eureka Lodges Directory
Iphigenia
C. E
Masonic Hall
Litas Gotorsa
W. M
Lacna Horou
Eureka Lodge No
St. John's
J.B. Viera
H. P
J. H. Jomz
Eureka Loige
F. Mosta
F. Hall
Vislt
F. J. Brossenxs
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C. H. Haun
V. G. Wu. Zavow
J. H. Tony
Diamond Rebekah Lodge
I. C.C.F
Slaters and Brothers
Lazne Davins
N.G
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Beatie Lodge No. 7
K. of P
Castle Hall
Smith & Rickant
G. A. Purocoes
D. H. Noarsoua
Eureka Brewery
Eureka's
Paul Yost
Main & Clark Streets
Scheeline Banking & Trust Co
Reno, Nevada
M. Scheline
1B. McCullough
Edw. Schmitt
Transacta General Banking and Trust Company
Aenderson Banking Company
Associant Casaren
Savings Department
Hleo
Johnson Mercantile Go
Hiram Johnson
A. i. Hylton
General Merchandise
Mound Valley
Elko
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