Dispatcher Narrates Near-Miss On Mountain Run
A train dispatcher recounts a near collision on the Union Pacific line near Leadville involving two engines 24 and 57. The mishap arose from missing block signals and a delayed meet point, ending with safe return of the engines and a lesson to never delegate dispatching tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bome
Union Pacific Railway
Denver
East
Rockies
Leadville
Regul
Jim
McGee's
England
West
Buena Vista
Telegraph Office
Mc'Gee
Mike
Leadville Light
Charcoal Spur
Tom
Legendary sword feats across history and doubt about their plausibility
The London Globe notes tales of extraordinary sword cuts by Able Swordsmen from history and fiction. It cites Arabs, Ghoorkas, Sir Samuel Baker, Sir Walter Scott, and bushrangers, claiming severed limbs, beheadings, and halving beasts, while experts doubt such feats with the then new regulation saber.
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M. Stern
Academy of Sciences
Laurence Oliphant
Samuel Baker
Walter Scott
Earl of
Angus
Australia
Anderson
Kaseasain
Arab Pasha
London Globe
Old English Mills Preservation Plan by Chester Council
Chester Town Council votes to buy and preserve the Dee mills to control the stream flow. The mills originally granted by King Edward VI remain a historic asset in local planning.
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Dee
Chester
Ice Barriers and Tops Charm Arctic Eskimos
Dr. Frank Boas describes Baffin Land winters with enormous sea ice walls along the coast created by flood tides and a seven by three mile iceberg towering sixty feet above water. He notes Eskimos rarely skate due to severity and recalls spinning disk tops used on fresh water ice by Baquimos.
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Baffin Land
Frank Boas
Baffin’s Bay
Arctic
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Slighted Queen and the Loyal Page Damer
In Life of James Molmes a royal tale follows Damer, once a queen’s pagesman in the late eighteenth century. Pensioned for age, he still attended royal entertainments and misread a queen he could not recall. The queen’s kindness brings a sorrowful smile as Damer discovers the truth.
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James Molmes
Damer
A Cash Business and a Cynic Exchange witty lines
A boy at a crossing asks for credit from a gentleman who promises a return. The boy says he loses money by giving credit this way. Also a joke on cynics asks if a cynic is a man tired of the world, answered with a quip.
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Honeehold
Pape
Lttle WilHe
Agricultural Returns for Great Britain 1800 Reported
A parliamentary paper issues the agricultural returns for Great Britain for 1800 with details on crop acreage, arable and pasture, stock numbers, and prices. The document includes Major P. G. Craigie’s report and a new Ordnance Survey map, noting changes in wheat barley oats potatoes and livestock across Britain and Ireland, with regional contrasts and rising hay and fruit cultivation.
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Great Britain
United Kingdom
P. G. Craigie
Intelligence and Statistical Department
The
Board of Agriculture
Ordnance Survey Department
Scotland
England
Ireland
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