Panama Canal progress nears completion amid massive locks
The canal project reports show large locks at Gatun and Pedro Miguel nearing readiness with duplicate sets to ensure operation during accidents. Excavation in Culebra Cut totals about 16.6 million cubic yards this year, while slides threaten gradual progress.
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Washington
Imth
Pacific
Canales
Gsante
Armerican
Meee Serra
Oregon
Goethnis
Canal Commission
Jurt
Tion
Great
Lar Monthly
Culebra
Avalon
Perea
Exciuvanm Wolave
Bridge of
Col
Gatun
Miraflores
Pedro Miguel
Washington Special: Parcels Post Aims at Low Cost Deliveries
The parcels post system set to start January 1 will include insurance and a central delivery option almost eliminating shipper risk. It aims to cut prices on staples by letting housewives order from farmers at producer prices with the postman handling payment. Regulators plan new handling rules and equipment, including fragile item transport and indemnification, to prevent delays as the system expands.
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Washington
C. D
Post Office Department
Postoffee Department
What a debt we owe to medical science said he
A Chicago Post line quotes a man lamenting unsettled medical bills and a woman's exclamation overheard in a scene about paying a doctors bill. The dialogue highlights financial strain in healthcare and the public concern over medical costs.
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Chicago Post
Mixed Metaphors in Classic Verse Critique
The Indianapolis News cites Andrew Lang noting Longfellow, though highly metrical, used mixed metaphors. Lang’s remark from History of English Literature highlights confusing images like a shipwrecked brother on a reef, sailing time's dreary main, while noticing footprints on the sands.
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Indianapalls News
Andrew Lang
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lang
Fragmentary 19th Century News Fragments
Disjointed notes reference a fight with a man named Slogger Williams who died in England at age 45. Another item reports the New York Bible Society’s July distributions surpassing 60 000 scripture volumes, up over 100 percent from prior months. Cleveland charter experts work on a new charter while New York contemplates vacant acres valued at about six thousand dollars.
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Williams
England
The
New York Bible Society
Undefined.
The text notes an older man becoming less noticed by women as he ages.
Will of Chelmsford Woman Gives Strange Gift
The will of Alice Johns Hodges was probated in England and left $500 to Mrs Walker wife of a bank cashier for simply smiling at the testatrix as they left church together. Mrs Walker recalled Mia’s cheerful greeting and friendly chat at the church door.
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The
Christian Herald
Alice Johns Hodges
Chelmsford
England
Deer Hunters In Red Coats for Open Massachusetts Season
Boston Telegram reports hunters in five counties began the open deer season wearing red coats and caps to avoid errors. Thousands of licenses issued. each licensed hunter may take one deer during the week. Records for license numbers reportedly broken in some areas.
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Boston Telegram
New York
of Ohm
Massachusetts
Twilight Poem Fragment by G Brooks
A poetic fragment describes evening twilight as sweet yet sad. The speaker laments how quickly sunset hues fade and hushes over landscapes, waves, sky, flowers, and palms. Night approaches causing vague apprehension and longing for light and love.
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Ure
G. Brooks
Popped Corn Water Test and Ancient Fireworks Note
The note suggests holding popcorn under water to soften the shell for easier popping. It claims this method removes the hard portion typically found in popcorn. Also mentions that fireworks were originally made and used by the ancient Chinese.
Dear Mrs Thompson Advice Dearborn Notes on Love and Age
A collage of reader questions to Mrs. Thompson on courtship ages relationships and marriage. Answers cover age gaps trust eloping prudence and how to handle suitors and social rules in a late 19th or early 20th century tone.
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Mra. Thompson
Entor
Parente
Mrs. Thompson
Samuel
Ramuel
Afie
Mra
Thompson
Mre. Thompson
Jayera
Manuel
Acrobats from India Fascinate Royal Guests
The Wanderers of Inala recruit from the Dombaranos caste and train children from an early age. They travel from village to town performing open air displays that amaze crowds. Performers balance on a high pyramid and one climbs it with a weight in his teeth. Rajahs and wealthy Indians hire the best acrobats for entertainment.
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Rajahe
Inala
Babba
Keeping Eyes Ahead
An editorial emphasizes discontent as a virtue and protests orthodoxy to advance human endeavor. It invokes Adam, fire, and the sun as symbols while urging reflection on progress and love as Dante described, urging readers to greet the sun with eyes bent westwards and our backs on yesterday.
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The
Washington Times
Adam
Earth
Jumping a Thousand Hurdles from Strand Magazine
Ached with curious feats and old records, the piece recalls Priestly the London omnibus driver in Hull in 1863 who hurled 1 000 hurdles three feet high in 61% minutes. It notes Priestly served 46 years with London General Omnibus and drove about 60 000 miles.
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Strand
London
Priestly
Hull
London General Omnibus Company
Hedgehog bounty bill eyed by Vermont legislature
A Montpelier report says the income tax legislature may consider restoring the hedgehog bounty. Hedgehog bounties total about $20 000 yearly, with roughly 100 000 hedgehogs killed. Farmers see hedgehog crops as profitable at 30 cents per head.
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Montpelier
New York World
Connecticut
Pure anchorin a sweetening of water measured in 70 000 purta
A fragment notes a claim that anchorin is 650 times sweeter than sugar and could impart a sweet taste to seventy thousand purta of water. The text presents an old measure and a comparative sweetness claim with no clear sourcing.
French Feminists Still Far Behind in France
From The Century. Ethel Dean Rock argues French women lag American and northern standards. She cites three main barriers: social norms of gallantry and dowry bargaining, Napoleon's civil code restricting property and legal rights, and limited political status. Frenchwomen, though her notes, are seen as capable managers in daily life despite legal subordination.
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France
Potocan
Pierre de Meureap
Leogu
Hulzaca Eugenie Grandet
Human Machine Marvels Under Extreme Tests
From Harper's Weekly, a discussion of Fakirs buried alive and recovered, with Dr Konighergar and Sir Henry Lawrence cited. The piece notes resilience of the human body, citing heart injuries and recoveries including a boy stabbed in the chest and a man with a hot pin in his heart who eventually recovered.
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Harper's Weekly
Konighergar
Punjaab
T ‘Hindoo
Henry Lawrence
Iman
Youngster’s Pinable Dream Foretold Woolworth Building
In a reminiscence from a New York Telegraph piece, W Woolworth recalls his childhood project a six foot high pinable three story frame built from boards and timber. He says the idea of building larger than farm homes persisted and matured into the Woolworth building on lower Broadway opposite the General Post Office.
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New York Telegraph
W. Woolworth
Bois
Lower Broadway
General — Pontoffice
Woolworth
New York
Chatriet
Equitable
Broadway
Vlie
Nassau
Cedar Streets
Prominent New York theatre manager meets Buffalo figures
A well known New York City theatrical manager in a leading Metropolis hotel introduces Jim Thornton to Colonel William F Cody. Cody responds with a greeting as Thornton, described as an eccentric, acknowledges him and asks where in Buffalo he hails from.
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Norman Kd
Muckhy
National Monthly
New York City
Itn
Wiliam F. Cody
Jim Thornton
Monulugent
Mr. Thornton
Cody
Str. Thornton
Ieol Williams
Buffalo
Thornton
Farmers Save Your Assets From the Market Warning
A damaged rural note describes farmers facing asset risk as a neighbor observes stolen or damaged plows and equipment during a walk. The piece warns of economic loss and urges caution amid hardships in the farming community.
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Manchester
Wosollem
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Aia
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