Emergency currency act creates 500 million ready for banks
The Aldrich Vreeland act enabled instant emergency currency. Treasury officials prepared 500 million in new notes, with Superintendent Ralph directing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. By August 1 over 100 million was ready for delivery to banks in need.
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Aldrich- Vreeland
Treasury
Congress
United States
Coolidge
The
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Ralph
District of Columbia
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Wall Street
Congressional
House
Senate
Enate
Vreeland
House of Presentatives
Aldrich
Canton
Roosevelt
White House
Cutive
Con
Tion
Engraving Bureau
Treasury Department
Department of Printing
Treasury Office
Mythical Reason and the Filibuster Dinner Delay
A Kansas City Star item recounts a tale of a senator's long floor speeches in Parliament and a late guest missing dinner. The piece weaves a myth around the excuse of being detained at the office while the household waited, ending with the belated arrival and a note on the era's currency measures.
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Ron
Kansas City
St Paul Line Progress Over Bitter Root Amid Harsh Mountain Work
General Manager Battin of Winston Bros reports Taft work on the St Paul line advancing beyond expectations despite extreme difficulties. A mile long electric cable way haul timber 1000 feet above the tunnel, with 20 bridges and trestles 125 to 200 feet high, using 500 carloads of timber from the Pacific coast. Workmen drill on both sides. forces are expected to meet in spring near Taft.
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Battin
Winston Bros
Taft
St. Paul
Marent
Reid
Evaro
Pacific Coast
Taft Tunnel
Missoula
Mont
Missoulan
Premonitions and Railroading Faith in Heroic Endings
Rail workers dismiss sensational tales of premonitions as dramatic but unlikely. Engineers conductors and firemen are expected to save passengers, and failed prophecies rarely get shared among old railroaders.
Locomotive Axles Replaced After Second Hospital Run
After two long trips totaling 240000 miles the locomotive’s nine inch axles are removed from the drivers. On the second trip no axle remains keyed to the drivers. The strain from circling the globe ten times has crystallized the metal, making welding and forging necessary to fit new shafts to locomotive frames.
Transcontinental rails reach St Maries as freight moves
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line passes through St Maries with freight already shipping. A branch will run up the St Maries river to tap vast white pine timber. In 1838 the Rogers ran on the Northern Craig line now part of the Wabash system.
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Chicago, Milwaukee
Rogers
Nuinois
Craig
Rush building of road speeds Milwaukee St Paul line
Spokane Chronicle reports rapid progress on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway extension through Kittitas country. A rail laying machine advances 2½ miles daily from Murdock toward Clealum, with 14 miles spiked east of Murdock and bridges and a 2000 foot tunnel near Johnson Creek summit still under construction.
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St. Paul
Montana
Spokane Chronicle
Kittitas
Chicago, Milwaukee
Murdock
Ellensburg
Clealum
Johnson Creek Summit
Columbia River
Narrows
Milwaukee
Northern Pacific
Yakima River
Lind
Milwaukee Road
Beverly
Missoulian
Kaiser asks Milwaukee rail system to share car cleaning method
General Passenger Agent Miller of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway reports a German emperor request via F W Gutbrod for pictures descriptions and literature on the road's passenger car and sleeper cleaning system. The material was sent after a thorough explanation at Chicago Western avenue yards.
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Miller
Milwaukee & St. Paul
F. W. Gutbrod
Chicago
Engineers Tackle Deep Artesian Wells in France
De Dion Bouton Journal notes the Grenelle well required years, Passy reached depth in two years, and Maisons-Lafitte aims for one year to reach 550 meters. The Maisons-Lafitte project already extends 460 meters with 8 depth to go.
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Grenelle
France
Passy
Maisons-Lafitte
de Dion Bouton
Musky and musings in a pulp era humor column
A collage of humorous verse and anecdotes from a early 20th century column. It tosses wry lines on marriage foibles and daily life with playful rhymes about foods, kindness, and strange misadventures. personalities and places are lightly referenced through folk humor and regional quirks.
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