American Influence Seen Shaping London Traffic
A summary notes that London’s traffic is expected to come under American management and improve. It highlights diverse topics from a Russian court awarding a woman $50,000 for dental loss in a Trans-Siberian accident to U.S. farm economics, including rose jewelry trends, the Disciple Church in Wellington, Ohio dedicated by Garfield, and 1900 census figures valuing farms at over $20 billion with machinery and livestock adding substantial value.
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London
America
United States
Wellington
Ohio
Garfield
Republic
Journey to Alaska by sea rail and river routes
A traveler reaches Skagway after three days by modern ocean steamers from Seattle. A twelve hour rail journey over mountains leads to the Yukon river headwaters. He then rides well equipped river steamers to the gold fields of Central Alaska or downstream as far as the navigable Yukon allows for over 2600 tiles.
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Seattle
Skagway
Alaska
Yukon
Central
Where lightning blooms from storm cloud condensation
The Weather Bureau notes that thunderstorm energy comes mainly from condensation. Tiny mist particles fuse into raindrops, increasing potential with mass squared, creating vast voltages. Once droplets form, small charges amplify, triggering disruptive lightning discharges.
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United States Weather Bureau
Fraud growth and employer discernment in England and Wales
A Contemporary Review writer argues frauds in England and Wales grew rapidly from 1885 to 1900 while general crime declined. Official records show fraud indictable offences rising from 1879 to 2500, with total crimes decreasing about ten percent, and note employers struggle to recognize true ability, needing better training to assess human nature.
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England
Wales
Linders
Liiself
Unenviable frame of mind of a jaded youth
A young man who left college three years ago travels and shuns effort aside from social amusements. He reveres women yet dismisses them all as “nothing.” After a summer in Clare he meets a bright briny young woman who unsettles his hardened view. VEN CONKLING is in that
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Clare
Fruit
City
Ven Conkling
Brooklyn
New York Press
Apple deal and romance in a Chicago Route tale
Owen Conkling helps Pauline Davis by buying 500 barrels of apples from Shafer's farm after overhearing her bus talk. He pays $2.00 a barrel, ships to Chicago, and profits are shared as a life partnership proposal lands amid flirtation. The tale blends a clever barter, a chase for apples, and a blossoming romance in a period newspaper voice.
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Kerchlef
Pauline
Mr. Conkling
Owen
Mrs. Krauss
Conkling
Shafer
Nlnce
Peale & Seed
Michan
Ung
Mies Pauline
Chicago
Union Station
Wiss Pauline
Clare
Mich
Prturity Building
Pauline Davis
Miss Davis
Apple
Owen Conkling
Shafer’s
John H. Raftery
Chicago Record-Herald
The Men and the Notes Moral Tale
A pair of men wander seeking fortune. One finds a ten dollar bill, contemplates a larger sum, and alters the number to tenfold. He ends up behind bars, while the other remains free, singing and cashing notes. The tale cautions about the worth of notes and character.
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New York Herald
Poor Truth versus Fiction in a Candid Race
A New York Press quote contrasts truth and fiction in a race, noting truth trails fiction and faces setbacks. The remark frames journalism as trying to keep pace with invented narratives and the danger of being misled by falsehoods.
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New York Press
Five Fingers rapids rescue and fatal jam at Yukon gorge
A dramatic encounter at Five Fingers rapids sees Capt. Jack Williams survive a perilous hour on a cliff while icy waters surge past. A key log jam is eventually broken by foreman’s ax, but he perishes. The incident caused days of danger as floodwaters rose and logs shifted.
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Yukon
Five Fingers
Jack Williams
White Pass
Williams
Lee
Williams’ Fellows
Walter Wensky
Dawson
Wensky
Consul Wensky
Ebo
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Mr. George
Iswen
George
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Poe
Victor
Sworth
Denver News
New York Tribune
William H. Smith
Kentucky
Mr. Smith
Isaac Pitwood
Needmore
Brown County
Indiana
Townsend Farm
Mablesville
Martinsville
Pitwood
Hey
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