Denver to Salt Lake City by Union Pacific train trip
A party of about fifty newspaper men traveled from Denver to Salt Lake City aboard a Union Pacific tour train on July 23. The trip showcased major improvements along the line including new track, reduced grades, a 1900 foot tunnel, and a five acre shale-filled section. Officials emphasized fuel savings and stronger engineering feats spearheaded by President Burt as a testament to western progress.
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Denver
Salt Lake City
Union Pacific
Union Depot
Union Pacific Railway
Lomax
Cheyenne
Parke
Griffin
Darlow
Professor Knight
Wyoming
Green River
Bryan
le Roy
Evanston
Rawlins
Sherman Hill
Unmfost
Laramie
Sherman
Omaha
Ogden
New York Central
New York
Chicago
Howell
Hutton’s Station
Lookout Station
Medicine Bow
Hanna and
Dana
Cooper's Lake
Lookout
Walcott
Fort Steele
Tipton
Spring Valley
Rock Springs
Fish Cut
Marsh
Yale College
Aspen Mountain
Oregon
Milwaukee Beer
Kentucky
Mountain Dew
Rockies
Burt
East
Colorado
Utah
Hunt for Kidds Treasure on Money Island
An island community near Stony Creek Connecticut has flooded Money Island with digging activity in search of treasure linked to Captain Kidd. Mike Luchia, longtime sailor and now assistant to Dr. D G Davis, exhibits doubloons and other coins unearthed after a dream revealed their location.
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Connecticut
Stony Creek
Money Island
Captain Kidd
Mike Luchia
Beyond the Span of Life in Punishment Tales
A foreign judge imposes centuries as sentences, with examples from an Italian forger facing many terms totaling 63 counts and a Vienna youth spared 1,000 years. Naples Calabrian brigandage case shows prosecutors seeking long penalties for 248 prisoners.
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Vienna
Naples
Insect Pests of Hawaii and the Ladybird Remedy
The Hawaiian islands faced severe insect plagues threatening sugar and coffee industries. Early aid included importing the vedalia cardinalis from Australia to curb scale insects, with later introductions of other aphid predators. Several ladybirds established themselves, notably reducing aphide damage and offering hope for cane recovery.
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Earth
Vedalia Cardinalis
Australia
Public Expenditures In Mexico
The Mexican army of over 25 000 men is supported by just over 1,000,000 Mexican dollars per month. The Mexican Congress costs far less, under one million dollars annually.
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Mexico
Mexican Congress
Aggregate sentences total over a millennium
The average sentence imposed was a little over five years and the aggregate of the sentences amounted to 1,300 years imprisonment.
Largest Lightning Rod Spans Bavarian Peak
The world's largest igniting conductor sits on Zugspitze in Bavaria. It towers above the meteorological station on Germany's highest land, runs down the mountain to a stream, and measures three and a half miles in length.
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Bavaria
Zugspitze
German Empire
Inventions Feature Ocean Search Vessel Rig and Curtain Device
An illustrated device aids finding wrecks by enabling thorough seabed sweeps from one or two ships with a reel and tensioned cable to detect obstructions. Also shown are adjustable curtain supports using lazy tongs, and a hull scraping apparatus by Major A and Asa L Stump that cleans barnacles without dry docking.
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Major A
Asa L. Stump
Normantown
W. Va
Electric Farming Adapts Plowing To Large Fields
In the West farmers with extensive tracts use electric powered plows to boost efficiency. A Friedrichs burg inventor describes a dual motor plow with two carriages and a single main feed, the second motor fed by a parallel cable. The system moves itself to align plowshares for each new furrow, reducing labor and time.
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Friedrichsburg
Germany
Combined Belt and Braces From New Zealand
A New Zealand illustrated device combines suspenders and belt into a single adjustable article. Pivoted back braces allow quick change from suspenders to belt for athletes cricketers sailors football players and workers who need a belt at work. The inventors claim the cost is only slightly more than either item alone.
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New Zealand
Improved Fruit Jar Sealed Easily with New Studded Ring
A woman inventor has patented a fruit jar with top edge studs and a matching ring for a tighter seal to prevent fermentation while remaining easy to open. The device includes affordable life-saving features and two small steel band wrenches.
New Long Range Gun Promises World War Edge
Opened at the Naval War College in Newport the secretary of the navy extolled a new long range rifle howitzer. The weapon hurls a 55 pound shell 24 miles at 4000 ft per second reaching 51853 feet high and capable of 18 shots before the first lands.
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Naval War College
Newport
Secretary of the Navy
United States
Ahrad
Mount
Everest
Fortune to Be Given Away Prompts Charity Plan
A noted philanthropist plans to donate his fortune to charities in a act of public benevolence. The piece then endorses Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a trusted remedy with fifty years of cures behind it. It claims the tonic promotes appetite digestion regulates the liver and bowels and prevents belching and heartburn. Caution urged to obtain only the genuine product.
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Hostetter
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Buffalo
Kidd
Hawaii
M. George Broussel
Uncle Sam
Sozopont
Hall & Ruckel
Jia
Newburgh
University OF Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Indiana
Erence Pharm
Bawasa
Catal
A Smorbissey
ST. Mary’s Academy
Sisters of the Hot Cross
Conservatory of Music
School of Art
Boston Normal School of Gymnastics
St. Mary's Academy
W. NY
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