Global Christmas customs and gift contrasts
An exploration of how Christmas is celebrated across nations from Germany to Mexico, detailing long lasting trees in Germany, pinata rituals in Mexico, and European traditions. It notes differences in gift giving, the mix of sacred and secular practices, and historical debates about the holiday date, alongside warnings of treasonable gifts and home manufactured presents.
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Germany
Teutons
Mexico
Paris
Rue de Boulevarde
Paina
Hoboken
N. J
Alnee
Italy
Christ
Judea
United States
England
France
Jesus Christ
America
Long a Temperance Worker Mother Stewart Dies at 92
Mother Stewart, a leading temperance advocate who died aged 92, founded Ohio’s first W C T U in Osborn in 1873 and organized the first in England in 1876. She lectured across the south after the Civil War and later spent time with Alexander Dowie in Zion City before living with friends in Hicksville. Her long career earned wide praise from pulpit and press.
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Stewart
Ohio
Osborn
England
Alexander Dowle
Zion City
Hickeville
Springfield
America
Great emigration fuels Siberia expansion prospects
More than 500000 Europeans left Russia for Siberia in 1907 per Vice-Consul Chan ter of Dalny. Most did not return home. Each arriving colonist gets 87 acres of land free and tax relief for six years. Siberia imports about 10 million dollars in goods from China yearly, mainly tea, while exports to China are about 750000 dollars, with many exports originating in European Russia.
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Russia
Siberia
Chanter of Dalny
China
First Railroad Built in America in Quincy Massachusetts
The granite road in Quincy, constructed beginning April 2 1826 and opening October 7 1826, is described as America’s first railroad. Gridley Bryant designed and led the project from a stone quarry to the Neponset river. Stone sleepers, wooden rails, iron plates, and a 5 foot gauge supported by an early inclined plane with an endless chain. The road carried six ton loads, with early cars using high and low wheel configurations. Initial cost was $50 000 and the first car $600, later upgrading as stone rails replaced wood due to decay.
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Bryant
Neponset River
Boston
Railroad Takes Old Ticket From 1869 Relic Day
A passenger on train No 4 tendered a 1869 railroad ticket printed Good for one first class passage between Cincinnati and Washington. The worn document impressed the conductor who consulted Philadelphia and was told to honor it. The ticket likely becomes a relic of post bellum days.
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Pittsburg
East
Loulaville & Lexington
Mexican Railroad Company
Cincinnati
Washington, D. C
Philadelphia
Hawaiian Railroad Ties Sawmill Aims for World Scale
A new large sawmill on the Island of Hawaii near Kilauea will become one of the world’s biggest producers of railroad ties. It has a contract to furnish 1,000,000 ties annually to an American railroad and is expected to produce 160,000 feet of ties daily. Four ties are sawed at once with extra saws converting surplus timber into lumber.
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Island of
Hawaii
Kilauea
Porfirio Diaz
Harriman
United States
New York
Puget
Chihuahua
Sonora
Durango
Dominie
Wall Street Finance
Alexanders
Alexander
Illinois Central
Union Pacific
Italy
Columbus
Harper's Weekly
Nine-Year-Old Killed Crossing Tracks at Nanticoke
Adam Miscovitz aged nine met a tragic death at Nanticoke Pennsylvania while crossing New Jersey Central railroad tracks. His foot caught in a frog and he did not hear an approaching engine. The empty locomotive could not stop in time and the boy was fatally struck.
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Lad
Adam Miscovitz
Nanticoke
New Jersey Central Railroad
Railroads plan data driven flood control and savings
United States Geological Survey Director George Otis Smith invites top rail executives to a conference on a cooperative plan to collect river water flow data. The aim is to help railways reduce flood losses and support government needs with authentic flood figures, anticipated to be considered by the national conservation commission in December. The feature discusses Harriman’s vast rail expansion influence and railroading’s evolving methods, plus anecdotes on signal communication and safety. President Hawks cites Detroit and Mackinac railway intent to run a continuous farm beside tracks and establish a 40 acre model farm at Humrey Junction.
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George Otis Smith
United States Geological Survey
National Conservation Commission
Commission
Washington
Hawks
The
Detroit & Mackinac Railway
Hmery Jusction
Unclear fragmentary lead about Tendling Jones and a Thanksgiving event
Fragmentary text notes Tendling Jones and a company planned for Friday evening, with intent to escort a wife to a Thanksgiving Eve ball. No complete details or clear outcome available in the readable excerpt.
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Tendling the Jones
Theo
Ries
Thanksgiving turkey fiasco and a writer in hot water
A husband, Henry Jones, ignores a burning turkey while finishing two newspaper stories on Thanksgiving morning. Mrs. Jones returns to find the turkey stuck to the pan and, after a comic chase, the bird trips him, prompting guest laughter as he hides in the bathroom. The scene is punctuated by brief jokes and stray lines about automobiles and band practice.
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Jones
Henry
Mrs. Jones
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Cures
Pinata
Pioneer
Quincy
Mass
Granite
Gridley Bryant
Oo. K
Chicago
Quick
Atar Beton
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