Progress and Conditions of the Simplon Tunnel Project
Reports describe rapid progress toward opening in 1904 as single-tunnel work proceeds with a parallel passage. The mass of details covers tunnel length, ascent limits, cost, and the planned second bore with low incremental expense. Workers shift every eight hours, use heated lodgings and baths, dine in a restaurant, and Italian laborers prefer not to rest Sundays to remit wages home.
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Simplon
Mont Cents
Arlberg
St. Gothard
Nta
Lfe
Short Name Got Him a Place
N L Chew of Indiana assistant auditor of the treasury for the post office department earned the job due to his short name. He spends 40 to 60 days each quarter signing warrants at a rate of 5 000 to 6 000 a day. Chew can earn more by signing than congressman Edgar Crumpacher could. His predecessor A L Lawshe signed faster but Chew saves three or four days monthly.
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N. L. Chew
Indiana
The
Treasury
Postoffice Department
Treasury Department
A. L. Lawshe
Mr. Lawshe
Samoa's Official Chaperon in Village Life
The chaperon in Samoa, essential yet shrinking, guides visitors with the toupou. Each village elects a chief's daughter to this role, housed by the village and protected by a court of native girls. Men are barred from sacred precincts, and the taupou travels with an elder woman. If she resigns, a new damsel of high rank is appointed.
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Samoa
Toupou
Lydia Pinkham Breast Cancer Cure? Testimonial Claims
A Mrs Pavling Jupgon of Brooklyn testifies two years after marriage she suffered womb pain and inflammation until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her. she urges others to use the remedy and seek Mrs Pinkham's advice in Lynon Mass, noting a forfeit if the testimonial isn’t genuine.
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Mrs. Prxxwam
Pauline Judson
Bocrstory
Schermerhborn Golf Club
Brooklyn
New York
Lydia Hinkham
Pavling Jupgon
Hoyt Street
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Agricultural gains from good butter and pig feed
A collection of farming notes highlights profits from quality butter and feeding skimmed milk to pigs, plus a London Times item on one potato producing 9236 tubers in two years. Ontario Beekeepers reveal a formalin vapor method to destroy foul brood, and practical cheap water gate construction is explained. The text also discusses soil management, manure use, and broad claims about American manufacturing leadership and economic progress.
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London Times
Vacher
Heckford Farm
Poole
Ontario Beekeepers’ Association
Woodstock
Ont
Harrison
Ontario ‘Agriculéuen! College
Guelph
Indiana
Drinking Water on Farms and Well Purity
Farmers often overlook drinking water quality when sourcing from springs or open wells. Wells draw solubles from surface soils and spreading contaminants as water percolates downward through sand. Clear appearance does not guarantee purity, as impurities can be present despite odor or clarity.
Conditions for well water and horse breeding in the rural press
The article stresses keeping wells covered with good drainage to prevent contamination and favoring driven wells. It discusses horse breeding in limestone soils and blue grass pastures, noting New York and Kentucky as natural homes for specific breeds. It also argues sunlight for cows and improving barns with clear glass for better milking conditions. An alfalfa feeding setup minimizes leaf loss during handling.
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Searca
Morgan
Vermont
New York
Kentucky
Tennessee
Prairie States
Michigan
Hay Rack and Chute System Improves Feeding
A described movable shaped rack made from one inch beards sits just from the barn wall, enabling a wagon to pass. An alfalfa bay is fed into the barn and hay is conveyed to the rack by a wide chute running from the door to the rack. The chute can be removed when filling the barn. Feeding stock becomes easier as hay slides down the chute into the rack.
Improved conditions amid labor calm and steady trade gains
R G Dun and Co weekly review notes signs of progress across sectors. Labor disputes ease with settlements and wage increases. Retail demand strong, foreign trade rising at principal ports, and iron and steel pressure remains. Domestic hides dull, leather prices down, cotton mills raise costs, and grain markets show speculative fluctuations with weather cues. Wheat and corn shipments compare unfavorably to prior year. Atlantic corn exports rise but lag year ago totals. Futures totals dip in US and Canada.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Atlantic
United States
Canada
French Fear Frozen Food Impact on Paris Ice Cream Trade
The piece notes France’s limited ice use during summer, with few Paris outlets serving cream. American firms try to educate locals to accept frozen desserts, aiming to make a market viable in large cities.
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France
Paris
Largest gold coin in Annam alien value noted in Haastern Asia
The largest gold coin in circulation in Annam, a French colony in Eastern Asia, is a flat rounded ingot with an Indian ink inscription stating a value around $326. The next coins are the Japanese obang worth about $50 and the Ashantee benda about $46.
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Annam
Asia
Japan
Ashantee
Cascanera and Mother Gray's Powders Ad Offer Remedies
Antique ad text promotes Cascanera Candy Cathartic for bowel relief with a 10 cent start, notes metal boxes and imitations. Also touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children from New York for headaches and stomach issues with a 26 cent price and free sample offer. A dubious claim about Aneal remaining twenty five minutes underwater appears.
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Mother Gray
Mother Grey
New York
Allen
la Roy
Ear Deafness Cure and Irrigation Land Sale Note
An old medical ad outlines deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube and promises a cure through constitutional remedies, offering a reward for undented cases and mentioning Hall's Catarrh Cure. The piece also notes reclaimed irrigation land totaling 6,500,000 acres across California, Colorado and other Western States.
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Hall
I,j.county & Co
Toledo
California
Colorado
Earliest Russian Millet Hay Seed Ad Prospect
An advertising collage notes Earliest Russian Millet promising 6 to 5 tons of rich hay per acre with prices listed for weights and freight, featuring John A. Salter Bead Co. of La Crosse, Wisconsin, plus several patent medicine pitches and a Civil War height statistic claim.
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John A. Salter Bead Co
la Crosas
Wis
Ventriloquy via Telephone Demonstrated on Stage
A new contrivance uses a telephone linked ventriloquism to project the voice from behind the scenes. Dummies mouth the lines while a recaller device sits in the mouth, enabling voices to reach audiences from offstage. Performers add animal props to heighten the illusion. Princeton will receive from Professor D Wilson a Syriac manuscript collection said to be the largest private acquisition, dating to Constantine era.
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Princeton University
D. Wilson
Constantine
Peculiar to Itself St Jacobs Oil Claims Strong Cure Record
The advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as mysterious in composition known only to manufacturers and trusted staff. It boasts marvellous pain killing properties and claims thousands cured, with sales surpassing all other proprietary medicines and ten times those of competing oils and liniments.
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St. Jacobs Oil
Vogeler's Curative Compound Promises Health Boost for Children
A Victorian era ad touts Vogeler's Curative Compound as a remedy for weak and sickly children with digestive issues. It claims to purify blood, restore color, and add flesh, recommending two to five drops twice daily, with a free sample bottle offered via St. Jacobson Ltd, Baltimore, Md.
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Vogeler
Proprieta St. Tacobson, Ltd
Baltimore
Prpe
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Lydia Binkham
Pauline Udson
Charles
Keen
Massachusetts
Manets
Pittsburg
Elgin Creamary
Ursainery
Bebetepedee
Sbekede
Cheezo
Ohio
Ow York
New
Sheereee Bay
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
State
Pennsylvanis
Central Stock Yards
East Liberty
Iit
St. Lawsrence River
Kling
BH. King, Ltd
Arch Bt
Phila., Pa
Southern
N. W. Samozl
Ocean Grove
N.J
Ayer
R. N. Mann
Fasr Mills
Tenn
Ayer CO
Lowail
IGEN
Woda Dougla
Prieg
Douglas
Wy Eller
Aide
W. L. Douglas
Mall
Doug Mrookton
Cyeoruse Thompson’s
Persson
Waterdrooe c
Mark “Gower
TOWER
Boston
Massi
Capsicum
Publi
Cheesebrough Manufacturing CO
State Street
New York City
Salter
America
A. Balzer Seed CO
la Crosse
POLY
Quick Valiaf
Corey Wor
Cason
Wreo
KK. Green Boons
Box L
Atlante
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