Refunding Bill Aims to Settle Pacific Railroads Debt
Senate report endorses branch lines as beneficial and backs extending time and reducing interest to pay Union Pacific and Central Pacific debts. It outlines securities, liens, and penalties, proposing mortgage extensions and possible receivership if payments fail, with ongoing government oversight.
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Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Senate Special Committee On Pacific Railroads
Oregon Short Line
Oregon Railway and Naviation Company
Utah Northern Railway Company
Missouri River
Ogden
Kansas City
Prairie
United States
Oeden
San Jose
Ogilen
Sierra Nevada
Nevada
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Kansas Pacific Railway Company
Central Branch
Union Pacific Railway Company
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Central Pacific Railroai Company
California
Weera Pacific Railroad
Thurman
Pacic Railroad Company
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Secretary of the Treasury
Boy seeks missing father on Detroit street car
A Detroit Free Press account describes a woman and boy on a Grand River avenue streetcar who insist the man at the far end is the father. The boy proclaims Pa is away for three months and wants to see him, while the man slips out the front door and falls to the street, prompting the woman to pinch the boy as he cries out for his father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand River Avenue
Detroit Free Press
Why Do Marriages End In Tragedy For Widows And Widowers
A reflective quip questions why marriage fails sometimes and suggests widows and widowers may face recurring distress after each disaster. The text observes that marriage endings can occur even when prior lives seemed bleak.
Do Married Couples Look Alike Study Finds Patterns
The New York Commercial Advertiser reports a Geneva Photographic Society study of seventy eight couples. Results show twenty four pairs resemble more than siblings, thirty show equal resemblance, and twenty four show no resemblance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Photographic Society
Geneva
Switzerland
Fall of the Poet Ends Editor Poet Clash
The Terre Haute Express reports the editor severing ties with Mr. Penny for overstepping limits on rhymes. The editor notes allowances for rhyming pain with again and door with moor but rejects peaches and heaches, promising Penny will find his check in the counting room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penny
Terre Haute Express
Protest of the Near Guard Amid War Surges
A poem laments war's grim reality and mockery of fear, arguing that once cover from smoke is gone soldiers must face danger and stand firm despite jokes about the change. It portrays grim inevitability and calls for resolve.
Monty’s Jonah and the Whale Tale of Theater Luck
A Chicago Times reader reports a backstage tale about Montmorency the actor and Billings dramatic manager. Their failed Jonah play with a live whale leads to Monty’s eventual hit at a dime museum after a dramatic escape from the tank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jingo
Billings
Jonahs
Riggs’ Agency
Monty
Riggs
Jonah
Old Montmorency
Jonatl
Dime Museum
Jove
Jess
Chicago Times
The Life of a Shooting Star
A small body moves around the sun in an ellipse with the sun at focus. Meteors are tiny and inconceivable to sight except under extraordinary conditions. As they dive into Earth's atmosphere friction heats them until they vaporize in a brilliant streak. People on Earth exclaim at a shooting star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tina
See the Wind Observing with a Metal Surface and Saw
A writer explains a wind sighting method using a polished metal plate two feet or more wide and a handsaw. Hold the surface at a 42 degree angle to the wind, aligned with compass directions, and observe the wind flowing over the edge as if a dam. Clear or cloudy skies aid accuracy, sunny conditions may not be necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Rupublie
Mexico to Build Confessional Palace by Rome Architect
Mexico plans a grand confessional palace designed by the architect who built the Palace of Fine Arts in Rome. The project follows a trend of monumental religious architecture and signals a cultural landmark for the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Bacoee
Palace of Fine Arts
Rome
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Pacific Railroads
Frye
Sena
Tor Davis
Montmorency
Plu
Australia
Santlers
Lit
Tropics
Jonan
Bulrogs
Blings
Cheyenne
Metropolitan Museum
Bowery
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