When the West Was Born Again in Rail History
Salt Lake City May 1 The piece reflects on the 39th anniversary of the Pacific railroad’s completion and contrasts the Western Pacific line from Salt Lake City to San Francisco with the earlier Union Pacific. It highlights engineering feats, cost savings from minimal grades, and the shift in regional growth from past myths to modern industrial expansion driven by rail infrastructure and significant figures like E T Jeffery.
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Salt Lake City
Great West
United States
Tremontory
Utah
Sacramento
Oxeta
Necun
Pacific Railroad
Lr. Todd
Pittefield
Dillon
Crevit Modelier
Union Pacific
America
Pacific
Boulder
Sven Buve
Harriman
Itas
Western Pacific
Mo San
Francisco
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Salt Lake
San Francisco
Vera Pacific
ET. Jeffery
General Palmer
Denver and
Rio Grande
Jeffery
Paciflc
Artont
Karl Bologne Trains On Yearlong Continuous Travel Stunt
Vienna May 9 Karl Bologne a sales clerk for a major tobacco firm began a year long journey living on a train with Vienna to Salzburg via Innbruck and back. He wagers $5400 in New York on completing continuous travel and plans to repeat the route twice if successful earning money and a hoped for wealth after 12 months aboard the train.
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Vienna
Karl Bologne
Ha Hay
New York City
Wrile
New York
Cologne
Kalzburg
Plagna
Vienna-Sing
Salzburg-Innabruck
Neesles
Via
Mess Prulters
Grin
Railroads Then And Now Shapes Of Growth And Subsidies
The piece contrasts early railroad aims with modern profits driven building. It notes a 1008 view of rail lines serving military transport and investment security, highlighting Union Pacific subsidies including land grants and cash bonds. It cites subsidies reaching $42,000 per mile, never below $16,000.
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Wéile
Union Pacific
Man Plunges Carbolic Acid In Despondent Suicide
John H Crago a 418 St Martins street laborer with four children sank into poverty and despair. He bought an ounce of carbolic acid Friday evening and drank it yesterday in his bedroom as his teenage daughter watched thinking it medicine. A physician arrived too late and Crago died in agony. He had been widowed for years with a son at a farm and a blind daughter in Lansing Michigan. He had applied to place his children in care and his second wife lived with her parents on Murray street.
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John H. Crago
St. Martin's Street
Dows
Drago
Balth Crago
Humane Offices
Schlaudrer
Olds Coat Company
Michigan
Lansing
Mich
Edith
Frank Ditlin
Allen County
Schiardeof
Miller Drug Store
Craga
Murray Street
Supreme Chief Ranger Proposes Three Plans for Foresters
Supreme Chief Ranger Elliott Stevenson outlines three plans to reshape the order amid rising death claims. The Independent Order of Foresters debates reserve funding, enforcement, and policy changes as a next step, with figures suggesting costs ranging from 2.00 to 2959 in unsettled terms.
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Supreme Chief Ranger
Foresters
Eiliott G. Stevenson
Te Camaan
Uisalien
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Saperatenient Stile
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Anise Ao Educations
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