Giant River Tunnels Connect Jersey and Manhattan
After decades of speculation, two parallel tunnel tubes under the Hudson River near completion allow dry‑foot passage from New Jersey to New York. The tubes, 5700 feet long and 15½ feet in diameter, will carry one track each with a sidewalk for workers, and cars will run within eighteen months.
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Hudson River
New Jersey
Island of
Manhattan
Jersey
New York
W. G. Oakman
Hudson Companies
Manhattan- Jersey
New York City
Hudson
Old Hudson Company
New York and New Jersey Railroad Company
New Jersey Shore
Cortlandt
Church Streets
Pennsylvania
Lackawanna
Fourth Avenue
Astor Place
Sixth Avenue
Thirty Third Street
Hoboken
Tunnels to Link Cities Under Hudson and East Rivers
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans rapid tunneling beneath the Hudson and East rivers. Trunk lines entering Jersey City will gain their own tunnels. Within five years water crossings may end for Philadelphia to Boston services, and within ten years electric trains could cut Philadelphia to New York travel to one hour.
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Hudson River
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
East River
Philadelphia
Boston
New York
Noted Turkey Stuffing Plea Sparks Holiday Debate
A lively essay defends turkey stuffing against critics who call for serving the bird plain. The piece lauds stuffing as essential to tradition and civilization, praising its aroma and role in family memories, and rejects the idea of turkey without stuffing.
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Epicure
Turkey
Queen Beatrice rose could fetch large profits for florists
A Washington gardener develops the Queen Beatrice a pink crimson tea rose said to rival the American Beauty in fragrance and resilience. Florist F H Kramer plans spring 1907 distribution with estimates of profits up to 150000 dollars, while industry leaders note rising offers and notable pedigree linked to Mrs Gardiner Hubbard and Twin Oaks estate.
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Washington
Beatrice
Kramer
Robert E. Lee
F. H. Kramer
JH. Kramer
Beatrice’ Rose
Peter Bissett
Bissett
Gardiner Hubbard
National Geographic Society
Alexander Graham Bell
Twin Oaks
National Capital
Thomas Lawson
Lawson
Lawson Pink
Carnation
Thomas Fields
Ready
Fields
Beatrice” Rose
Washington Florist
Golden Gate
Washington Florists’ Club
Sarah Bernhardt’s Paris Boudoir Sparkles With Odd Decor
The famed actress is described in a Paris chateau boudoir full of royal purple hangings, peacock plumes, a silk canopy, crimson shield motif, old tapestries, and monkey skulls with illuminated eye sockets. She reportedly travels with a baboon and a golden ringed tiger and appears as lively as twenty years prior.
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Thomas Carlyle
Sarah Bernhardt
Chateau
Paris
Mme. Bernhardt
Sarah
Beinhardt
Cupid as Recruiting Magnet for Uncle Sam’s Forces
The piece notes Cupid, as a recruiting officer, draws men to service through romance and vanity, with women behind many enlistments. It highlights how love losses push youths toward army or navy and mentions Zeigler’s fortune and Edwin Booth’s cigar habit as additional anecdotes.
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Cupid
Sam
Love
Uncle Sam
Public Land Frauds and Three Western Land Kings
Richard Hamilton Byrd details how three men in the desert west, near the Middle West, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest, exploited desert land, homestead, and timber acts to seize government land. They proved up and sold soon after. The piece argues the nation’s public land was robbed, with vast acreages owned by individuals and corporations, and calls for action by Congress as Roosevelt’s era reforms begin.
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Middle West
United States
Oregon
Lewis and Clarke
Congress
Far Northwest
Sam
Republic
West
Roosevelt
Senate
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Retres
Liberty
Madam Chatenay
Beatrice Rose
Zeigler
Edwin Booth
Public Land
President
Public Land Commission
Richard Hamilton Byrd
W. A. Richards
Public Lands Commission
General Land Office
Gifford Pinchot
Bureau of Forestry
Frederick H. Newell
National Irrigation Or Reclamation Service
Easte
Great West
John J. Murphy
Truman
Cook
House of Representatives
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