Dog Flagged Train Hero Nig of Forks Creek
Nig the switch dog of Forks Creek in Colorado saved a passenger train and Superintendent T H Sears by signaling with a flag when the switch froze. Adopted by C M Davis, Nig acts as yardmaster and flagman, learns signals, and even clears snow from rails after guiding trains safely. He also wards off trespassers, guards the station, and has saved a girl by keeping the line clear.
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Forks Creek
Colorado
T. H. Sears
Rockies
Colorado and Southern Railway
C. M. Davis
Central City
Georgetown
Black Hawk
Silver Plume
Davis
Smith
George Brown
Éve
Chicago American
Old Farmhouse Kitchen Fireside Recollection
An elderly narrator recalls a grandmother’s old fashioned farm house kitchen as the grandest room. He recalls the vast fireplace with a two foot log, iron andirons, and daily warmth. Histories of a brick oven, baked beans, Indian bread, and a flintlock musket Old Copenhagen.
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Shadrach
Meshech
Abednego
Rhode Island
Santa Claus
Inside the New York Fulton Market Hebrew Fish Auction
A vivid study of Peck Slip fish market life where Hebrew merchants from New York and New Jersey push for fish boxes auctioned before noon. Foremen, truckmen, and buyers shout prices as boxes of perch and whitefish move briskly, with colorful nicknames and lively banter shaping the bustling morning sale.
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Manhattan
Bayonne
New Brunswick
N. J
Westchester
Mulberry Bend
Great Lakes
Fulton Market
Yana
Yankel
Newark
Ida
South Street
New York Evening Post
Harvard Students Sing Cheeky Dining Hall Line
Memorial hall boarders chant about strict dining, with Bridget breaking china and Mum recalling a gold and silver feast. The lighthearted exchange highlights student life and humor in campus dining rituals.
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Harvard
Memorial Hall
Dattthett Dann
Diplomatic Judge Sulzbacher the Porto Rico jurist
Washington correspondence notes Judge Sulzbacher of the Porto Rico court, a New Mexico native who learned Spanish and befriended Senator Elkins. The piece recalls his assertion that the Constitution followed the flag, adding his quip on the speed of its following when challenged.
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United States Court
Porto Rico
Sulzbacher
New Mexico
Elkins
Congress
Sulzhacher
Washington
Chicago
Buffalo Slaughter of Rare Herd in Helena Attracts Crowd
A dozen bison from the Flathead Valley herd near Missoula were driven to Helena for slaughter to satisfy curios and high end city orders. The spectacle drew 1500 spectators as workers used blocks, tackles, and a lance to kill the last of the plains giants. The event marks a rare, historic end to a vanishing species with the last 400 remaining in the world noted in the piece.
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Helena
Mont
Chicago Herald
Flathead Valley
Missoula County
Montana
Plains
Otto Zeigenfuss
Missouri River
Fort Benton
Jack Johnson
Benton
Jack
St.Louiis
New Orleans
Buffalo
N. Y
New York City
San Francisco
Allard
Flathead Basin
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
Texas
Flooded Forum and Tiber Rise Drench Rome Sightseers
Rome brims with floodwater as the Tiber swells after heavy November rains. The Forum becomes a lake, ancient ruins emerge as islets, and St. George in Velabro church sits eight feet under flooded levels. Photographers capture water colored views as daily life shifts to boat access.
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Rome
Tiber
Roman Forum
Forum
Horace
Caesar
Numba
Vesta
Numa
Regia
Palatine
Romulus
Maxentius
Septimius Severus
Julia
Kodak
St. George
Velabro
the Palatine
Janus
Cardinal Newman
Hercules
Waters Flood Rome as Tiber Rises in Vast Inundation
The Tiber floods Rome with water filling streets and parts of the Campagna. Pantheon and Pons Milvius are surrounded, wine cellars under Monte Testaccio inundated, and a majestic yet sad view unfolds as debris and trees drift with rapid currents.
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Tiber
Rome
Assistace
Monte Testaccio
Pons Milgius
Florence
Nomentau Bridge
Tuscany
Baltimore Sun
Where is Josiah said by wary couple on ice
Mrs Corntessel asks for Josiah. Her husband, lighting a pipe, warns he cannot say for certain. If the ice holds, Josiah is skating. if not, he may have fallen in. The remark captures cautious understatement about a missing person scenario.
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William K. Scott
Justin
Quartermaster’s Department
United States Army
Manila
Philippine Islands
Ladrone Islands
Pacific Ocean
Guam
San Luis de Apra
Capt
Scott
Yosemite
Seaton Schroeder
Cocoa Island
Union
United States
Philadelphia
Chicago
Smithy
Engineer
Evanston Way
Germany
Evanston
Josiah
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Old Copenhagen
New York
Ital
Poe
Zybert L. Bangs
Bridget
Rae
Santa Maria
Cosmedin
St. Paul's
Lane Ciani
Tibet
Pantheon
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