Railway spans great desert conquering hostile wastes
The Prince of Wales journeyed Perth to Adelaide by Australia’s first transcontinental railway, praised for Australian engineers who tackled the Kalahari like desert. Lord Kitchener urged linking western Australia by iron road, a five-year battle through the barren, waterless interior with extreme heat and insects. Survey cost £20,000. line completed just before the armistice.
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Melbourne
Prince of Wales
Perth
Adelaide
Australia
Lord Kitchener
Western Australia
Commonwealth
Desert Railroad Survey Rewrites Water Scarcity Tale
The survey of a vast desert railway faced extreme heat and bare terrain as tracks were laid from both ends. A borehole at 850 miles from Kalgoorlie found water at 1 300 feet, transforming the outlook and turning the desert into a potential grazing region for millions of sheep. A railway captain’s secret wartime marriage ties to a murdered acquaintance in Kentucky are noted amid broader notes on Argentinian coal use.
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Kalgoorlie
Dives of West Being Closed
The Owl club at Mexicali, a famed frontier dance hall, was shut by order of the new Mexican government under Provisional President de la Suerta. Managers and police evicted patrons and dealers in a dramatic closure, with the venue to remain permanently closed along the international border. The event highlights a crackdown on gambling and related vice by authorities in Lower California.
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Mexicali
Lower California
Hew
Mexico City
Coburn
de la Suerta
Old Chancery Inn for Sale in Historic Clifford's Inn
London reports the historic Clifford's Inn, oldest of the nine Inns of Chancery, to be auctioned after six centuries. Records trace its 1410 grant to Baron Clifford of Edward II, and its use by law students since Edward VII's era. The 1666 Great Fire commission and ensuing decisions are documented in the British Museum's forty volumes.
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London
Clifford's Inn
Inns of Chancery
Clifford's
Baron Clifford
Edward II
Edward VII
Mathew Flare
British Museum
Woman Refuses Jury Duty in Indiana Court
A Connersville Indiana resident in Inomoginiote's court refused jury service citing household duties and dishwashing responsibilities. She warned she would not return the jury verdict if forced to serve.
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Connersville
Ind
Travel hurdles and passport chaos across early 20th century borders
A chaotic description of travel by rail and sea between Constantinople and Paris with multiple stamps and consular requirements. It notes complex visa chains via the United States consulate, Swedish legation, Bulgarian visa, Serbian stamp, Greek stamps, and Italian French military control. It mentions overfilled passports, a man whose embassy refused blank sheets, and tightening surveillance after the Polish disaster. A Russian colonel with five passports is arrested and sent to Crimea.
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Constantinople
Nise
Paris
Marseilles
Venice
Balkans
L'Arla
Turkey
Botum
Fie
Wrangel
Crimea
Sermon Outline on the Beatitudes and Kingdom Law
Anold lesson summary outlines the Sermon on the Mount as the king's laws for his subjects. It details the characteristics of the kingdom’s people, from spiritual poverty to peacemaking, and the responsibilities of believers as salt and light. It covers the law’s deeper demands on deeds, sanctity, family life, speech, and treatment of others, ending with loving enemies.
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God
Jesus Christ
Christ
Mike
Tim
Mann
Ife
Rash Giger
Moses
Fragmentary note on medical care and local firm names
A poor readable fragment mentions healing a sore, a person named Gilbrath in Pa, and references to a Buffalo business Co Inc. It reads as a stray OCR line with scattered words about measles and various odd terms, not forming a clear event or tale.
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Peternon
Freckles and Grouchy Comment About a Baby Nose
A frothy exchange on a baby's appearance features one speaker teasing that the infant shares the mother’s nose while another insists the newborn’s nose is currently poking into the speaker’s personal affairs.
Diamond Dyes Promise Easy Color Transformations
An advertisement promotes Diamond Dyes with simple directions for dyeing wool silk linen cotton and blends to achieve rich fade resistant colors. It claims guaranteed perfect results and markets a color card with 16 hues. Also includes a quip about women and marriage.
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Drugeist
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