Mighty Colorado Dammed to Restore Imperial Valley
Engineers battled a new Colorado River breach to redirect flows back into the original channel. They laid 1,100 piles and 70,000 tons of rock, built a rock and gravel dam across the western channel, and completed the closure by November 4, saving vast tracts of land, salt beds, and Mexicali from inundation while repairing rail lines and irrigation works.
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Salton Sea
Imperial Valley
Colorado
Alamo River
Irrigation Company
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Salton
Cific
Gulf of California
Mexicali
Southern Pacific Railway
Death of Charles S Jefferies Remains in Springfield Ohio
Charles S Jefferies of New York died in that city after a short pneumonia illness. He once managed a hotel in this city and made many friends here. Survived by wife Elizabeth Hebert, two sisters and a brother. Interment in Springfield Ohio on Saturday.
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Charles S. Jefferies
New York
Jefferies
Elizabeth Hebert
Springfield
Ohio
Carnegie Donates 750000 For Americas Bureau Building
Washington January 5 Andrew Carnegie has given 750000 for the construction of a building to be used by the bureau of American republics. Provision for the site has already been made by the United States and South American republics.
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Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Bureau of American Republics
United States
South American
Baby Kidnapped From a New York Hotel
Four men forced entry at the Gilsey House in New York city at four o'clock Friday morning. They kidnapped four year old son of Isabelle Ww Van Alstyne, tearing her night clothes and wounding her as she resisted. The child was taken in a closed carriage down four flights to the lobby. Mrs Van Alstyne identified Guy Chase Alstyne, her former husband, among the assailants. The child remains with the mother per a divorce decree from November.
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New York
Isabelle Ww. van Alstyne
Gilsey
Guy Chase An Alstyne
Wall Street
Arrives at Stanford in Dated Note From Dr Hemiph
A fragment notes arrival at Stanford California in January by Dr George L Hemiph. The piece references an individual known as a high figure in the university. Further context is unclear due to incomplete text.
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George L. Hemiph
Merger Terms Made Public
In San Francisco on January 5 the terms of the merger between Pacific States Telegraph and Telephone Co and the Sunger Telephone and Telegraph Co were released by the banking firm handling the 35 million dollar bond issue for the new Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. The disclosure outlines the structure and financing planned to support the combined entity.
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San Francisco
Pacific States Tele‘grap and Telephone Company
Sunger- ‘Telephone and Telegraph
Com ‘Pany
Pacific Telephone and , Tel‘graph Company
Toulon Dockyard Workers Set Pay Fight in Chamber Debate
Dockyard employees in Toulon threaten a pay raise campaign if the French chamber can fund higher wages. The dispute centers on budget approval and job conditions as workers demand parity with other sectors.
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Toulon
Mrs. Eddy Defends Her Good Name in Signed Statement
Mary Baker G. Eddy, head of the Christian Science church, issues a signed statement detailing her life, including early education, the death of her first husband Major George W. Glover, and her divorce from Dr. Patterson. She disputes McClure's Magazine claims, asserts she was never a medium, and explains motives and circumstances around her divorce and family.
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N. H
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Christian Science Church
McClure
Albert
Haltete
McClure’s
Mary Baker
Eddy
Maj
George W. Glover
Charleston
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Wilming
Indoor Winter Rowing Practice In England And America
Winter conditioning differs across nations as English crews use gymnasium sessions while American programs lean toward tank training. Thames Rowing Club in Putney once set up a tank to cope with frozen Thames though not yet used extensively. Some colleges prefer tanks again, others favor machine-based coaching for rowers.
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England
America
Thames Rowing Club
Putney
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