How Railroads Lose 300 Million a Year
A renowned engineer argues railroads waste 300 million annually due to minor leakages in operations. He advocates standardization to cut costs, improve car and fuel efficiency, and raise shop productivity, replacing vague aims with precise, accountable methods.
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America
Harrington Emerson
American Locomotive Works
New York Times
Emerson
Columbia University
Mr. Emerson
Camille’s first days and the Camille saga in theater history
The article traces Camille from its Paris origin in 1851 52 through censorship refusals and court backing to its first stage debut in Paris and its American rise. It highlights Matilda Heron translating and bringing the role to America and Gen Badeau's vivid 1857 Wallack’s Theatre account of the debut audience and curtain pull.
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Camille
Chestnut Street Theatre
Dumas
Theatre Historique
Paris
Duc de Morny
Louis Napoleon
Matilda Heron
America
Cincinnati
New York
Adam Badeau
Wallack’s
A Bishop in Anger and the Bishop Who Wanted Bad Language
A famous English bishop loses temper during billiards at a country house and snaps his cue. He apologizes profusely, but the host says the incident proves what a bishop is like when he wants to use bad language.
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Mr. Emerson
West
Emerson
England
A Feminine Amenity at Metternich Bazaar
An English nobleman famed for wealth attends a Princess Metternich bazaar for a hospital fund. She offers a cigarette case, penholder, bonbonniere, and cake of soap, each declined as he never smoked wrote eaten or used these items. The quip ends with her remark about the soap.
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New York
San Francisco
Omaha
Mr. Emerson
Metternich
Philadelphia Record
First Bath Shocks Young Clarence in Cold Room
A child named Clarence endures a chilly bath that leaves him pale and shivering. He calls to his mother to hurry, joking that the cold water is turning him into a chicken, a humorous moment reported in Harper's Weekly.
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Clarence
Harper’s Weekly
Suez Canal Shipping Value Rises with English Share
The annual value of shipping passing through the Suez Canal is fifty five million dollars, with the great bulk of this traffic being English.
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Suez Canal
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F. W. Taylor
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Chicago
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