Great Britain plans transcontinental railway to China
The World's Work notes Britain may build a 2500 mile route from Alexandria or Port Said through Sinai and northern Arabia to Kurrachee then Kunlong to Su Chow and Shanghai. The line would link Europe India and China, boost trade with Australia, and rival the Trans-Siberian while enhancing Britain’s power in the east. Construction could occur in the next decade.
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Britain
Egypt
Alexandria
Port Said
Sinai
Arabia
Persian Gulf
Baluchistan
Kurrachee
India
Mandalay
Kunlong
Kuniong
Yangtse
Su Chow
Shanghai
Australia
Europe
China
Mediterranean
Pacific
England
Great Britain
Advertisement Signboard Lights Up Night and Day
A company installs hundreds of incandescent lights along tracks and its edge and wires them to a dynamo in the plant. The signboard becomes visible from hundreds of feet in fog or darkness, attracting favorable attention and prompting manufacturers to consider 24 hour advertising.
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Mioy
New Jersey
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
MIT students test locomotive efficiency on Albany to Springfield run
Massachusetts Institute of Technology students conducted extensive measurements on locomotive 221 during four Albany to Springfield trips. They weighed coal, tracked water use, and logged power with indicator cards, aiming for a full calculation of efficiency and performance under yard wait and long-haul conditions. A Morenci Southern narrow gauge line in Arizona also features dramatic grade, tunnels, loops, and high masonry walls as part of western railroad expansion.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
New York Sun
Albany
Springfield
Boston and Albany Railroad
Soundboond
Morenci
Gila
Wheat Experiments Across Western States Begin
Fireproof wheat research is underway in several western agricultural states as scientists test new grain varieties. Researchers aim to improve crop resistance and yield amid evolving environmental pressures and pest challenges.
That Kiss and the Italian Custom
A Boston couple abroad visits a Rome sculptor known years earlier. The sculptor kisses both wife and husband, provoking the husband to protest while the wife explains cultural norms. The tale, cited from the New York Tribune, explores male pride and cross cultural kissing etiquette.
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Boston
Wah Ip
Rome
New York Tribune
Not the Bass Viol Man's Fault
A Fen district tale recalls a summer Sunday when a bull escapes a pasture during a parish service. The deaf parson mistakes the bull’s bellows for poor choir tuning and scolds the singers, provoking shock and amusement in Cassell's Magazine recounting.
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Cassell
Mountain wagon accident ends with rescue in Oregon
A man and his wife in Oregon were badly shaken when their wagon overturned on a mountain road. The wife became entangled in a tree 50 feet below while the man slid 300 feet down a ravine. He survived with few injuries and freed his wife after an hour, hanging by her skirts.
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Oregon
A Philadelphia Story on three wise men origins
Sunday School Teacher asks about the Magi origins and the pupil answers they came from the east and why they are called wise men. The exchange is noted in the Philadelphia Press.
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Philadelphia
Phil Adelphy
Chicago
East
Philadelphia Press
Gossip as reflection in neighbors minds
Social philosopher notes that those who gossip about others reveal fear of being talked about themselves. The remark appears in the Omaha World-Herald.
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Omaha World-Herald
The Fate Of An Old Overcoat
A Chicago Tribune piece ponders where old overcoats go as a worn garment passes from owner to janitor to tramp. It warms briefly then frays, fades, and vanishes, leaving no clear end or explanation.
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Hioe
Chicago Tribune
Dying Man Struggles With Heaven Question
A dying patient near death evasively answers a pastor’s probes about the afterlife. In a final twist he whispers that heaven is the very place he has fought to keep out for two years. The scene unfolds as Rev. Paul Weyand visits the ailing man at Morningside.
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Paul’ Weyand
Morningside
Mr. Weyand
Mr. Blank
Heaven
Pittsburg
Moving pictures reveal long separated officer amid crowd
A London Music Hall audience watched a South African scene when a man recognized an officer friend in the film. The officer’s wife, traveling from Glasgow after a year apart, asked the manager to show the picture on a special evening so she could see him in the crowd on the screen.
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London
Glasgow
Georgia county estate administration notice
Notice of application for letters of administration on an estate filed in the ordinary’s court. The judge will pass upon the application on the first Monday in February. Witness the official signature this 10th day of January 1901 by J. H. Ham Ordinary.
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Georgia
BoutTtTs County
J.H. Ham
February Sheriff Sale in Butts County Georgia
Wilhkbes sold before the courthouse door in Jackson Butts County on the first Tuesday in February 1901 to the highest bidder for cash. One hundred acres of land described by bounds near CaR Garter and R Aiken. Levied to satisfy two final judgments from Butts County Court in 1887 and 1689. Tenant in possession given notice. January 8 1901. J M Crawford Sheriff.
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Georgia
Butts
Jackson
R. Aiken
Aikeh
Hammond
W.R. Weaver
John T. Thaxton
Butts County Court
Joseph Hale
John &. Thaxton
Susie Slaughter
J. T. Thaxton
Henry
Advertised Sale in Butts County Georgia
Sheriff sale notice for R F Flynt lot of land of sixty acres in Butts County to be sold at Jackson courthouse on the first Tuesday in February 1901 to satisfy a Superior Court judgment. Property described with boundaries to Lucy Smith John Gunn Joan Moore and John H. Easton. Also a probate discharge petition for Mary G Collins appears with Court of Ordinary in March 1901.
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Jackson
Safe
John H. Tsaston
R. F. Flynt
Superior Court
Said
W.J. Shields
Col
Charles L Redman
J. M. Crawford
Georgia
Butts County
James M. Collins
Mary G. Collins
Said County
Jas. F
Carmichael
James M.collins
James A. Collins
Jas. F. Carmichael
No-To-Bac Tobacco Cure Advertisement
Vintage ad promoting No-To-Bac as a wonder-worker to quit tobacco easily and forever. Claims to make weak men strong with cures guaranteed and booklet plus sample free from Sterling Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York.
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Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
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