Timber raft towed from Nova Scotia to New York ambitious experiment
A 560 foot long timber raft from Chignect Bay Nova Scotia, built to minimize wind resistance and bound by heavy chains, is launched this week. Eng land steamer Miranda will tow it toward New York, promising six days at sea and potential reshaping of global lumber transport.
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Neptune
Chignect Bay
Nova Scotia
New York
Miranda
Cumberland
Port Goggins
Martin Hawkins
New York City
Sandy Hook Bar
J. W. Parker & Co
Scammell Brothers
Boyd & Hencker
J. T. Whitney & Co
Morning Journal
Inside the Nichi Nichi Shinbun Office and Dairy Industry Figures
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent tours the Nichi Nichi Shinbun office and its vast two section type Case filled with countless letter boxes and bustling compositors. Data on United States dairy interests reveal immense farm and milk production coverage, while a note on Stone Age diet fragments describes teeth tartar findings including corn husks and fish tooth points.
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Nichi Nichi Shinbun
Pall Mall Gazette
Shinbun
Charters White
Odontological Society of
Great Britain
First flowing artesian well opens in San Luis Valley
Alamosa Colorado December 7 Mr P Haine superintendent of the Empire Canal struck a flow of artesian water on the T C Henry farm six miles southwest of the city at seventy two feet depth. No rock was penetrated only clay and shale. This is the valley's first flowing well and will add thousands to farm values. The water is free from alkaline salts and pure as crystal. It is believed artesian water can be had anywhere in the valley.
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Alamosa
Colo
P. Haine
Empire Canal
T. C. Henry
San Luis Valley
Denver Republican
Jersey City Depot Opens After Lengthy Construction
The New York Lake Erie and Western Railroad terminus at Pavonia avenue in Jersey City opens to the public. The 600 foot train shed adjoins a bright waiting room with two towers 110 and 87 feet tall. The second floor houses offices while the first floor holds ticketing, a restaurant, and staff rooms. A 3 pm collation featured railroad officials and guests followed by speeches. Separately, a Bankers' Monthly note discusses wheat and flour markets, supply, and price stability amid varied overseas production.
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Jersey City
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Pavonia Avenue
Two Bottles Do Catarrh Cure For Army Officers
Johnston Holloway & Co. report a man paid a dollar to send Ely's Cream Balm to two army officers in Arizona. The same man later claimed both officers and the wife of a U S General were cured of catarrh by the two bottles.
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Messrs
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Catillon
Virginia
United States
Banker's Monthly
Erie
America
India
Russia
EK. C. Dawsons Jewelry Store
E. C. Dawson
Jurgensen
Chatelaine Silver
Waterbury Watch
Far Superior
Waltham
Waltham, Howard, Elgin
Hampden
Springfield
Pharl
Towle Manufacturing Co
Rogers, Simpson, Hall & Miller’s Hollowware
Greeley
North Side Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
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