Bagdad Railway as World Communications Factor
At a Royal Geographical Society meeting Charles Woods outlined the Bagdad line and its tributaries. He described railroad reach from Haidar Pasha near Constantinople to Samara and Tekit towns on the Tigris, with potential 1100 miles train travel between Constantinople and Bagdad.
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Royal Geographical Society
Charles Woods
Bagdad
Woods
Haidar
Pasha
Constantinople
Taurus
Anatolia
Tigris
Res-el-Ain
Tekit
Turkey
Asia Minor
Angora
Mr. Woods
Aleppo
Damascus
Deraia
Hedjaz
Medina
Haifa
Nazareth
el Auja
Beersheba
Rayek
Egypt
Persian Gulf
Basra
London
Bombay
Bagdad Railway
Brindis
Suez Canal
Curse Blighted Czarevitch The Russian Heir
A long, faulting narrative details Alexis Nicolaievitch, heir to the Russian throne, nicknamed the Czarevitch, born 1904. It chronicles alleged afflictions, a mysterious injury aboard the Standart, and rumors of illness and peril surrounding the boy and his royal family.
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Alexis Nicolaievitch
Czarevitch
Peteroff
Russia
Czareivtch
Chagin
Poetic depiction of a cow and a nurse at eventide
A poetic fragment describes a wet-nurse cow, calm and comfortable, offering milk at dusk. The scene follows a rural, pastoral mood as the woman in simple attire moves homeward across fields, the twilight framing her fading form and the cow in the darkness.
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Fiells
Fastest Motion-Picture Camera Captures 2000 Frames per Second
A new high speed camera records at 2000 frames per second enabling extreme motion analysis. The device promises detailed capture of rapid action for scientific and industrial applications.
The Man With A Future And The Woman With A Past
A pithy saying contrasts future prospects and past histories, noting that a man with a future cannot have a past while a woman with a past cannot have a future. The line expresses a gendered view on time and destiny.
Fragment from a churchwarden exchange over a false coin
The dialogue shows churchwarden Brown confronting Mr. Smith about a false half crown found in the contribution plate this morning. Smith responds with a grievance tied to a missionary uncle.
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Mr. Smith
State Treasurer sworn to account in Dauphin County 1917
S C Stecher, treasurer, swears to the truth of a financial statement listing trust funds totals and overdrafts. Notary Edwin M Hershey administers oath on March 27, 1917 with commission expiring March 8, 1919. Signed Creeant Attants.
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Hershey
Dauphin County
State of
Pennsylvania
Dauphin
Oc. I
S. C. Stecher
S. C.stecher
Edwin M. Hershey
Creeant
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Hershey Trust Company
Caramercial
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Total
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Winlell
WM. H. Lebricher
John E. Snyder
A. W. Stauffer
New York Life Insurance Co
Harry M. Hartz
Main Street
General Insurance
Palmyra Iron and Metal Co
College St
Rell Ruone
Palmyra, PA
Model Homes
East Hershey
Cocoa Avenue
Philadelphia
New York
Harrisburg
Fershey
Hershey Improvement Company
Hershey, Pennsylvania
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