Missouri River abandon plan ends costly effort
The long struggle to maintain the Missouri as a great commerce highway appears doomed as engineers abandon attempts to keep it in order. The river’s erratic path will likely carry it toward the Mississippi, with millions of acres displaced. A single night shift moved 1,700 acres from Town to Nebraska as the course changed.
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Missouri
Missouri River
Mississippi
United States
Nebraska
Horse Power and Medical Ads in Early 1900s Catalog
The fragment covers horsepower calculation definitions and examples, a health cure advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure with price and distributor, notes on English shipbuilders buying guns and boilers in Germany, various medical claims and cure notices, a claim about clergymen’s salary, and testimonials including Piso’s Cure for Consumption. It reads as a miscellany of technical notes and commercial notices from the period.
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Cusxer & Co
Props
Toledo
Germany
Noted Opera Singer Bruce Endorses Ovarian Remedy
Bruce Howers and Mrs G Bruce of Lansing Mich report benefit from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for ovarian troubles after travel fatigue and illness. Testimonial promises $5000 if not genuine and invites free counsel from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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Lansing
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Bat Life And Letter Stones In A Chalk Line
A whimsical verse about bats by day and night, detailing their roosting habits and nocturnal flights. It contrasts their daytime stillness with nighttime activity and includes a playful note on how stones in relation to a line illustrate letters and a common contraction.
Imaginative Country Boy Play and Secret Message Cipher
Boys in New York State form outlaw role play such as Robin Hood pirates and Indians to avoid ridicule and to imagine themselves as fierce characters. They create a cipher of sticks and stones with a twig between words, reading messages like making arrows at the big spring to guide their camping and wood gathering.
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Kidd
Morgan
Sitting Bull
Rain-in-the
New York State
New York Sun
New England Homestead
Washington Puzzle Picture and Cat and Mouse Game
The article describes a clever signaling game among boys using a diagrammed alphabet built from stones and scratches, detailing how messages settle plans for the band. It also recounts a Cat and Mouse dance game where players form a circle and alternate arm movements, with the cat chasing the mouse as the game evolves.
Sewage Cremation Plants Now Operate in 97 U.S. Cities
The article notes that equipment for the destruction of sewage by cremation is in operation in ninety seven American cities, indicating widespread adoption of cremation-based waste treatment across the United States.
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United States
Farm Topics Lambs and Evaporated Corn Details
Harvest notes cover lamb profitability, lamb flesh and wool value, and how market supply rarely overfills lambs. Evaporated corn yields from ten ears per pound, with 106 pounds fresh corn yielding 25 pounds finished product, price eight to ten cents per pound. Lettuce growth tips, chicken feeding boxes, hog fattening efficiency, and criticism of farmers’ knowledge on sheep breeds conclude with a social critique from the Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia Record
Austrian refiners form export cartel to challenge Standard Oil
Consul F. W. Mahin reports from Reichenberg on June 16, 1902 that Austrian petroleum refiners have organized an export cartel. They plan to invade markets in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy to wrest demand from the American company and to contest certain markets with Russia.
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Standard Oil
F. W. Mahin
Reichenberg
France
Germany
Switzerland
Italy
Russia
Okapi Mystery Traced to Ancient Egypt
In Buenos Ayres reports a new line of thought connects the okapi to ancient Egyptian monuments. Prof Weideman argues depictions of a desert quadruped once labeled a fox musk rat dog or camel match the okapi, a creature early hunters wiped out in Egypt.
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Central
Africa
Sir Henry Johnstone
Weideman
Egypt
Redwood forests drive 1900 mill output near five million
In Humbolt and Mendocino counties California there are thirty six sawmills at work upon the famous redwood forests which are gradually disappearing the value of the output of the year nineteen hundred being nearly five million dollars
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Humbolt
Mendocino
California
New Honors For Distinguished Women Reported
King Edward VII plans a new order to honor distinguished women. Baroness Burdett Coutts’ title remains unmatched by subsequent peerages for philanthropic work. Sweden grants concessions to build and run 27 rail lines totaling about 250 miles, boosting need for rolling stock.
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Edward Vii.s
Burdett Coutts
Sweden
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