Niagara at Work The Cataract Construction Company Power Transmission
The Niagara power company advances the electrical transmission project with Tesla two phase generators of 5 000 horsepower and 2 000 volt output. Engineers Dr Coleman Sellers and Clemens Herschel contribute expertise while Professor George Forbes devises a mushroom shaped dynamo design. Massive tunneling and construction used 600 000 tons of material 16 000 000 bricks and 60 000 cubic yards of cement. Current intended for transmission to the public grid.
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John Jacob Astor
Coleman Sellers
Philadelphia
Clemens Herschel
Holyoke
George Forbes
London
Forbes
Niagara power carries energy by wire to distant sites
The article explains early Niagara Falls electricity use from harnessing water power to transmitting via copper wires. It notes the 1889 Cataract Construction Company and lists key investors and figures, describing transformer steps and long distance circuits to boost Buffalo Niagara Falls industry and residential power in the coming century.
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Niagara
Buffalo
Emerson
Niagara Falls
Niagara Power
Cassier
Cataract Construction Company
William B. Rankine
Francis Lynde Stetson
J. Pierpont Morgan
Hamilton McK. Twombly
Edward A. Wickes
Morris K. Jesup
Darius Ogden Mills
Charles F. Clark
Edward D. Adams
Charles Lanier
A. J. Forbes-Leith
Walter Howe
John Crosby Brown
Frederick W. Whitridge
William K. Vanderbilt
George S. Bowdoin
Joseph Larocque
Charles A. Sweet
Buffalo-Niagara Falls
Colored Men at Atlanta Exposition Appeal
The negro commissioners to the Cotton States and International Exposition urge all African Americans to intensify efforts for a strong exhibit at Atlanta. Led by I Garland Penn the colored department asks those who can contribute to send items of credit directly for display.
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Atlanta
Colored Department
Garland Penn
United States
Exposition Company
Princess of Wales Sports Small Sleeves in Public Move
The Princess of Wales appears to spur a fashion shift by choosing small sleeves at a public reception, challenging the prevailing balloon sleeve trend. The remark suggests a counter movement among royal style observers and fashion writers.
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Our Fair Sisters
Princess of Wales
The White Hen and Her Guineas
A farm anecdote describes an old hen who cared deeply for three guinea fowl. After the hen’s death the guineas cling to another white hen, pursuing and plaintively calling for care, forming a persistent attachment that the surviving hen reluctantly bears.
Judge Vandibert Fined In Western Kansas Poker Case
In a Kansas tale, Judge Sam Vandibert of the western district presided over a poker night where he and five friends pled guilty. The court fined the five defendants $16 plus costs, then Vandibert himself pled guilty and was fined $25 and costs, with admonitions on public duty.
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Kansas
Sam Vandibert
Vandibert
State of Kansas
State of
Chicago
Unhappy Combination in a Woman
The quote argues Sonya Kovalevsky was mentally dependent on a man and that her genius only aided by teachers' ideas. It attributes her lack of original contribution to a masculine head and a feminine heart, concluding this pairing is an unhappy one for a woman.
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Ram
Sonya Kovalevsky
Mittag-Leffer
Isabel F. Hapgood
Wheels In Their Heads Stranger Is the place up
A fragmented OCR note describes a large building used as a summer retreat with over two hundred people present. It hints at a special for bicyclists and mentions a native reference to a climatic asylum.
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Niagara AT
Niagara Power Company
Rick
Hestia
Hood
Ste Thane
Walter Baker & Co. Limited
Trean Chegeret
America
Walter Baker & CO. Ltd
Goldmester, Was
DR. Gunns
Lone
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