Large construction contract set on new Moffat railroad
Denver August 2. Colorado Utah Construction Co awarded contract to Streeter Lusk of Chicago for the temporary track over the continental divide to Fraser canyon. Estimated roadbed cost 275000. About 1500 men to work, dirt to fly by August 15, with completion by May 1 next year. Switchback loop over twenty miles long, tunnel through divide later.
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Denver
Moffat Road
Colorado- Utah Construction Company
Continental Divide
Streeter & Lusk
Chicago
Fraser Canon
Rollinsville
Ridgway
Salt Lake City
Grand County
Middle Park District
Impressive Scenes At Rome During Cardinals Conclave
In Rome on August 2 crowds gathered at St Peter's as the conclave neared a result. After a morning ballot failed, 50 000 people filled the piazza with troops posted nearby, awaiting the Sistine chapel smoke and the announcement of a new pope.
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Rome
St. Peter's
Vatican
Holy See
St. Peter's Piazza
Sistine Chapel
Denver charter completed before people vote
Denver August 2. The proposed Greater Denver charter was delivered to the clerk at midnight and now awaits voter approval. Amendments were completed earlier in the afternoon and the document was printed and bound. It grants mayoral control with civil service rules for a sheriff and includes an electoral and civil service commission. The charter reflects equal representation by three women and aims to end years of provisional government.
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Denver
Greater
Close of the Royal Visit to Ireland
The King and Queen returned to Queenstown on August 2, received further addresses and heard the farewell reply. The sovereigns expressed will to aid Ireland, provoking cheers and flag waving as the royal tour concluded. The voyage back featured the chant Come Back to Erin and a royal salute.
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Queenstown
Ireland
Erin
Druggist's Fatal Error Shocks Colorado Springs Family
In Colorado Springs on August 2 a pharmacist substituted strychnine for calomel in a prescription, leading to the death of Flora Chisholm, three, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Chisholm. Dr. Gardiner treated bilious illness. Gutmann store pharmacist accidentally used wrong jar.
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Colorado Springs
Flora
Duncan Chisholm
C.F. Gardiner
F. L. Gutmann
Bijou
North Tejon Streets
Balloting for Pope Still Deadlocked in Rome
Rome August 2 No successor to Pope Pius XII has yet been chosen. Smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney signaled a vast crowd around St Peter's as the second day of the conclave ended without result. Observers say the leading candidate’s strength is fractured and no compromise candidate has emerged, with no clear indication of when a decision will come.
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Rome
Pope
Xiii
Sistine Chapel
T. Peter's
Confession Reported in Sun and Moon Mine Plot
A Denver dispatch says confessions incriminating union leaders in the Sun and Moon mine dynamite plot have been secured from jailed men in Idaho Springs. The district attorney cites incriminating evidence against leaders and a plot that included possible assassination of Sun and Moon mine manager Sims. William Bates withholds interview. William Broad is also said to have confessed. The Citizens Protective League warns expelled men would face arrest on arson charges if they return.
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Denver
Idaho Springs
Sun and Moon
Sims
William Bates
Miners’ Union
P. F. Carney
Patterson
Bates
William Broad
Citizens’ Protective League
Minnesota Anti-Merger Case Dismisses State Suit
Judge Lochern of the United States Circuit Court dismissed the Minnesota suit against the Northern Securities Company Great Northern Railway Northern Pacific Railway and James J Hill. The state alleged violation of Minnesota merger laws but the court refused the injunctions and upheld the defendants. The ruling mirrors no federal victory and rests on different legal grounds.
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St. Paul, Minn
Lochern
United States Circuit
State of Minnesota
Northern Securities Company
Great Northern Railway Company
Northern Pacific Railway Company
James J. Hill
Circuit Court
Securities
Securities Company
Minnesota
Calamity Jane Dies Near Deadwood at Terry South Dakota
Death notice from Deadwood South Dakota reports the passing of Mrs. Jane Burke known as Calamity Jane a frontier figure since 1870. She died yesterday at Terry eight miles from Deadwood of inflammation of the bowels and wished burial beside Wild Bill Hickock in Mount Morris cemetery Deadwood. Her last husband is in Denver a married daughter lives in North Dakota and she referred to an estrangement before saying she was going to cash in.
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Deadwood
S. D
Jane
Terry
Mount Morris Cemetery
Wild Bill” Hickock
Jane Burke
Denver
North Dakota
Coinage Statement From U S Mints July Output
Washington reports monthly coinage for government account in July totaling 370637 dollars with 337527 in silver and 33310 in minor coins. no gold was coined. Mints produced 12069152 Philippine pieces including 1434124 pesos 3025000 five centavos 2980000 one centavo and 4450000 one half centavos.
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Washington
United States
Philippine Islands
Work and Live Long: 97-Year-Old John Clemens Endures
John Clemens, aged 97, credits simple rules and constant work for his long, contented life. Born at sea and a Corsican parentage, he spent youth on Mississippi steamboats and survived shipwrecks and injuries. He lives in south St. Louis, near his old home, and hopes to keep working for years.
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John Clemens
St. Louis
Clemens
France
United States
Mississippi
New Ideas in Demand in Modern Business
Modern business leaders must stay alert and up to date to defend assets and seize every improvement in machinery and methods. Leaders must keep moving and adapt to economic change or fall behind. Stagnation risks death for industrial and commercial captains who rest on past methods.
Proposer’s Nervous Plea to Euphorbia
A tentative lover battles nerves while asking Miss Euphorbia to marry him. The damsel urges directness as the suitor stumbles over phrasing, confessing his single aim amid shared social dilemma.
Pie and Puritanism and the Breakfast Pie
A Life magazine quote argues Puritan decadence stems from eating saw dust before breakfast across New England. It claims cold pie at breakfast fuels aggressive Puritanism, while cold pie at other meals dulls effort. The piece notes Baxter's Saints Rest as ironic counterpoint.
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New England
Baxter
The Name on Earth is Love by Florence Earle Coates
A poetic reflection on unity, eternity, and spirit. The speaker links past and future through love and nature, suggesting failure and aspiration pave the path to contentment. The verse revisits universal themes of connection, time, and the soul. Read in the Reader for June.
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Florence Earle Coates
Youngest Royal Cyclist The Princess Victoria bikes tiny Europe
The article describes Princess Victoria of Wales as perhaps the youngest royal cyclist in Europe. The bicycle measures 16 inches from bracket to seat pillar with 20 inch aluminum rims and 1% inch tires. The machine weighs 15 pounds and features a gold M on its black enamel frame. In After Years joke follows.
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Princess Victoria of
Wales
Europe
Sponges to Be Cultivated Off Florida Coast
The government backs sponge culture with planting off Florida under Captain James A. Smith. Using sheeps head sponges, small fragments are attached to coral or bricks with aluminum wire, which aids attachment and allows growth. Planting islands include Biscayne Bay Anciote W Keys and Key West with aim to attract private capital and raise national sponge supply.
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Florida
James A. Smith
Fishhawk
Sheeps Head
H. F. Moore
Biscayne Bay
Anciote W Keys
Key West
United States
New York Press
Antiseptic Toothpicks In London Hotels And Restaurants
London hotels and restaurants supply antiseptic toothpicks warranted germ free. A plan to serve sterilized food in chemically cleansed dishes is expected to be introduced soon.
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London
Old Timey Classified Fragments and Notices
A mixed page of ads and short items including land sale pitch from the Colorado Bureau of Immigration, family notices about Maine triplets born 1823, a National Encampment travel deal via Union Pacific with date specifics, and jokey comic lines. Also a sales pitch for Defiance Starch, medical ad for Hall’s Catarrh Cure, and light humor lines about gambling and tobacco.
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NEW Moffat Railroad
Euphorbia
Billmore
San Luis Valley
Colorado
Colorado Bureau of Immigration
Majestic Bldg
Colo
Maine
Sarah A. Fossett
George M. Fossett
Union
Mary A. Fossett
Samuel Fossett
Martha Hayes
Thomas Hayes
Massachusetts
Isaac Townsend
California
Union Pacific
G R
San Jaro
Los Ans
San Francisco
Union Peific
Ogden
Portland
Oregon
Shasta R. R
E.R. Grinein
Gen
St., Denver
Johnnie
Billy
Halls
Poe
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mns
Pinnham
Evizanerit Daley
Loomis St
St. Ruth's Court
Order of Worresters
America
Lydia KE
Pinkham
Ture
Healitz
Women
THE
Defiance Starch CO
Omaha, Neb
Aluminum
Woodworth-Wallace
Betcher Life
der Littleton Creamery Co
Efeirtieton Creanery Co
Denver, Colo
Denver Directory
Rou Luowwel Harness
Sai Ontalo
RED Murller Leoney Dent
Financial Contract Security Co
Fidelity Savings
Ak Fullen
Lawrence St
Oxford Hotel
Union Depot
C. TL Morbe
J.F. Bowers
Earth Book
Uslomado
EMS Association
A.J. Nothwell
Union Stock Yards
L. A. Watkins Mose. CO
Wazee Street
Kreliamle
Gold and Suver
E. E. Burlingame & CO
Casonatory
Etienne Esata Bald & Sliver
Lawrence St. Seee
Libby
McNeill & Libby
University OF Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Indiana
She St. Edward’s Hall
P.O. Box
A. Morrissey
C. S.C
ST. Mary’s Academy
Notre Dame University
Kinterly
Conservatory of Music
Sargent
Normal School of
Osle
Modern Sc
Modern Sea of Business Bierce
TV Coorava
Cpimenal
Feoa
Ovio
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