New Railroad Connects South American Countries
Washington reports the completion of a 124 mile line linking Bolivia and Argentina, praised by the National Geographic Society as drawing North and South America closer by rail. The route enables Bolivia access to sea ports via Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, with further links toward Peru. About half of the 10,211 miles between Washington and Buenos Aires are already steel paved.
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Bolivia
Argentina
National Geographic Society
Repubics
North
South America
Uruguay
Brazil
Atocha
Cuzco
Peru
Buenos Aires
Gatling Gun Inventor Richard Gatling Biography
The piece recounts Richard Gatling born in 1818 North Carolina a wealthy planter son. It notes early farming innovations and a screw propeller for steamboats. It highlights his Civil War era invention of a machine gun later perfected to nearly a thousand shots per minute and adopted worldwide before becoming obsolete.
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Gatling
North Carolina
Mehard
St. Louis
Erleswon
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Ordnance Department
Tutler
Congress
Geers Tithew Asame
Early New England settlers Colfax and Treat lineages
Genealogical notes recount William Colfax of Weathersfield Conn ancestor of Colfax family in America. He linked to Washington era figure Captain Colfax, with ties to First Lady and Schuyler Colfax. Also mentions founder Robert Treat of Connecticut and Falkenberg lineage from Henry Jacob Falkenburg in New Jersey, tracing German Anglo mix.
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Illiam Colfax
Weathersfield
Conn
New England
John Colfax
New London
Anne Latimer
William Colwho
Washington
Colfax
Faws
Schuyler
Grant
Treat
Robert Treat
Taunton
Somerset County
England
Connecticut
Richard
Alice Gaylord Treat
Watertown
Mass
Falkenberg
Henry Jacob Falkenburg
Holstein
Denmark
New Jersey
McClare
Arctic expedition hunter Koelz preserves whitefish legacy
Dr Walter N Koelz a leading Arctic specialist with the MacMillan expedition studies whitefish for the National Geographic Society. He collected 20 000 fish and described several new species, building a major American whitefish collection at the University of Michigan Museum. He ships 15 gallons of formaldehyde and other gear aboard the Bowdoin and Peary for Arctic work and plans to preserve specimens in alcohol with copper tanks and later glass jars.
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Walter N. Koets
MacMillan Arctic
National Geographic Society
Great Lakes
Kuelz
Waterloo
Mich
Chelsea
University of Michgan
United States
Canada
Doctor Koelz
University of Allegan
Ann Arbor
J. Lakes Nipignon
Winnipeg
Lake Agassiz
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Arctic
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Koelz
Topeka
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Kansas
Nah-Ne-Muck- Skok
Pottawatomie Reservation
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