How to Deal with Them and Society Reform Tales
A column reflects on urban life challenges from transit congestion to noisy streets and slums. It discusses proposed alleviation through open playgrounds and sanitary regulation, urging women to lead social improvement efforts and noting patterns from Strassburg and Halberstadt about family-based salary adjustments. It also touches wedding present exchanges, a proposed wedding gift bureau, and Roy's Esperanto state proposal in Moresnet with a neutral tone on policy ideas and social experiments.
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Bartel
Phillips Brooks
Roy
Europe
Germany
Belgium
Holland
Aix-la-Chapelle
Moresnet
Maperanto
Railways in Clouds Spur South American Lines
New York reports celebrate two major rail projects in South America. Bolivia’s Titicaca to Oruro line climbs at 12,000 to 13,000 feet across a high plateau, with a 130 mile completed section and plans for 1,000 miles total. Ecuador’s Guayaquil and Quito line runs 290 miles from Duran to Quito, featuring the Pistichi Devil’s Nose switchbacks and the Alausi loop, with 72 bridges and a 163 foot rock tunnel. American equipment and finance dominate, with British and French investors also involved.
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New York
South America
Bolivia
Lake Titicaca
Oruro
Montes
Viachal
Potosi
Viacha-Oruro
Guayaquil
Quito
Ecuador
Duran
Chimborazo
Riobamba
Cotopaxi
Devil's Nose
Alausi
Cordilleras
Buvay
Palmira Pass
Cme
United States
Fireless locomotives eyed for U S use from Germany
Philadelphia investigator Carden reports on German fireless locomotives used for yard work. He notes a simple cab with only a throttle bar reversing gear and brake, requiring no fireman. The engine runs four to five hours from a boiler at a local power station, with steam pressures cited from 45 to 170 pounds.
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Philadelphia
Carden
United States Revenue Cutter Service
Berlin
Germany
United States
American Astronomer Newcomb to Receive Pour le Merite
Prof Simon Newcomb in New York is set to accept from the German emperor the Pour le Merite for science and arts. He is described as the foremost American recipient in eight years, already holding multiple honors including Legion of Honor, associateship at the Institute of France, and decorations from ten European universities and foreign academies.
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New York City
Simon Newcomb
Congress
Germany
Prof
Newcomb
Lving
Legion of Honor
Franklin
Institute of France
Imperial University of Russia
Imperial University of Japan
Imperial Observatory of Russia
Eel Swallows Sunfish Near Lancaster
A son of Hiram Denny, a poultry farmer, fishing in the Conestoga left his line momentarily unattended. On return he found an enormous eel with a sunfish in its mouth, the sunfish the first victim of the boy's hook. The eel appeared unusually broad in the middle and retained the barbed hook.
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Hiram Denny
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Epic of the Press While the Editor Dreamed
Honor L Wilhelm reads a multi canto poem to Washington and Oregon editors in Vancouver Washington in July 1908. The verses liken printing to love and labor, celebrate printers and editors, and critique newspaper power, with vivid imagery of type, presses, and the press room.
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Washington State Press Association
Honor L. Wilhelm
Washington
Oregon
Vancouver
Wash
Bonanza
Honor
Truth
Monor L. Wilhelm
Coast
Scattie
Uncle Sam seeks husky babies via infant food reform
The Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Chemistry led by Harvey H. Wiley plans a comprehensive study of infant foods to verify their nutritional value. If current products fail, mothers will receive guidance on proper foods and treatments to prevent illness and build stronger children, with physicians and manufacturers supplying data. An extended inquiry will also examine foods for invalids and hospital use.
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Ashington
Sam
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Harvey H. Wiley
Wiley
Capital to Get a Thorough Cleansing
Washington gears for a sweeping sanitation drive led by Uncle Sam’s sanitary corps to fix hotel and restaurant conditions. Bacteriologists and chemists probe health risks tied to high death rates, with warrants likely against hotel proprietors as the city undergoes a radical house cleaning transforming the capital’s cleanliness and odor.
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Old Town
Uncle Sam
Sanitary Corps
Washington
Canal Zone
Panama
Women filling rural carrier posts despite post office stance
Assistant Postmaster General De Graw notes more women join rural delivery, including Miss Lenna Sennot a substitute on a 26 mile New England route. Sennot, in three years on the job, says she fears no drive through wooded sections and believes friendly smiles from the public sustain her. She entered after a regular carrier sought a substitute and was sworn in with horses that “had life.”
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Post Office Department
de Graw
Department
Lenna Sennot
New England
Miss Sennot
Miss Senner
Ex-Envoy Sells Horse to Flee Country for Funds
Mehmed Ali Bey, a Turkish minister deposed in Washington, sold his prize Ara bdan Arabian to raise cash to leave America after a loan request to a New York cigarette magnate failed. The incident followed earlier exchanges and a gift of the horse to a New Yorker, with the minister later recalled and stranded abroad.
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Mhat Mehmed Ali Bey
Homer Davenport
America
New York
Mundji Bey
Mehmed Ali Bey
Coniiient
Ols Turera
Washington
New Yorker
Mehmed Ali
Schinagl
Mehmed
Bey
Davenport
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