Checkerboard War of Eastern Trunk Lines Continues
New York March 18 AP reports a prolonged clash among eastern trunk line carriers amid plans by Interstate Commerce Commission and industry leaders to reshape routes. The fight centers on four versus five trunk line systems linking New York to the Mississippi Valley, with key figures including Leonor F Loree Samuel Rea and Daniel Villare.
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New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Mississippi River
United States
Rival trunk-line plans spark rail congestion battles
Rail executives clash as multiple plans compete for a five trunk-line system in the northeast. The Lackawanna and Nickel Plate routes, Lehigh Valley ties, and proposed consolidations involve the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, Delaware and Hudson, and Van Sweringen interests. Rival schemes face opposition and market moves surge in stock for Wheeling and Lake Erie and related feeders.
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Lackawanna
Nickel Plate
Buffalo
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Maryland
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Bessemer
Lake Erie and
Western
Ripley
Pennsylvania
Norfolk and Western
Chesapeake and Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lehigh Valey
Erie
New York Central
Baltimore and Ohio
New Haven
Jersey Central
van Sweringens
Lehigh
Pere Marquette
Hocking Valley
Eastern Railroads
Samuel Rea
Leonor F. Loree
van Sweringen
Loree
Delaware
Hadson
Delaware and Hudson
Lehigh Valley
West Shore
Reading
Easton
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Dubois
Wheeling and
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Germany Builds Dam in Sorpe Valley
Germany announces construction of a massive Sorpe Valley dam in Europe. It will reach 225 feet in height and extend 2400 feet, storing 19 million gallons for a 4 million person district. Completion is planned in two years with about three more years to fill.
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Germany
Berlin
Europe
Sorpe
North Carolina dairymen spoil butter with onion taint
Raleigh March 18 North Carolina dairymen are ruining their butter by turning cows out on pastures infested with onion, according to John A Arey dairy extension expert.
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Raleigh
Mar
North Carolina
John A. Arey
Onion flavor in milk cuts dairy prices says expert
A state college specialist notes that onion flavor in milk and butter lowers prices by ten to fifteen cents per pound. He advises taking cows off pasture for six hours before milking and feeding dry roughage to prevent onion taint, saving dairy farmers money annually.
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State College
Arey
Hidden caves reveal stone bronze and iron age relics
March 17. In the forests of Felsburg archaeologists uncovered caves containing relics from stone bronze and iron ages. Finds include pottery quartz implements bronze jewelry and bone weapons. A fireplace was noted in one cave.
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Zurich
Felsburg
Germany Embraces Golf As New Links Rise
BERLIN March 17 Germany, known for strict sports conservatism, now sees golf enthusiastically received with about a dozen new links under construction across the country.
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Germany
Berlin
Shortest Railroad Sold in Sheriff Sale to Union Ore
The ten mile line in Kalama Washington reports the shortest railroad in the world now belongs to Union Ore after a sheriff's sale for delinquent taxes. The system includes one locomotive one passenger car and three freight cars and brought $1100.
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Kalama, Wash
Mar
Union
Ore
Women in England Bet More Drink Less Study Finds
A National Assembly of the Church of England commission reports middle class English women gamble to escape monotony, noting increased betting and reduced alcohol consumption in the survey conducted in London.
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London
England
Social and Industrial Commission of the
National Assembly of the Church of England
Man Eats 57 Eggs In A Mass Dinner
Southbridge Massachusetts March 17 George Dixon 29 year old truck driver ate fifty seven fried eggs a pound of cheese and a loaf of bread for dinner and washed it down with something unknown.
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Southbridge
Mass
George Dixon
Coffees Overwhelm Storekeeper Counts Cups
A shopkeeper struggles to tally a surge of coffee cups as customers miss the final count. The spike in orders creates confusion and delays at the counter.
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High Point
N. C
N.C
Gulfport
Miss
Florida
Pullman
Cuba
Mississippi
Aps
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Ontario and Western
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Grand Trunk Western
Chicago and Alton
Chicago
St. Louis
George F. Baker
Daniel Villare
Cleveland
Harvard
Prof. Ripley
Harry Horsley
Indianapolis
Ind
C. B. Bogart
Sherrod Park
A. Sherrod
A. G. Kinney
Larolina
Askins
F. O. B. Cars
High Point, North Carolina
Cunningham Brick Company Shale Brick
Thomasville, N
Southern Railway System TO
Havana
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Jacksonville
Fla
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Tampa
St. Petersburg
West Palm Beach
Miami
Biloxi, Miss
R. H. Graham
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