St Clair tunnel under the river St Clair near Lake Huron
A lengthy feature details the Grand Trunk railway under river St Clair construction. It explains air pressure shields, cutting depths, plant arrays in Ontario and Michigan, shield mechanics, progress by both Canadian and American crews, key engineers, costs, and the plan to complete with blast shielded iron walls and drainage measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River St Clair
Lake Huron
United States
Canada
Chicago
Milwaukee
Grand Maven
Muskegon
Bay City
Detroit
Buffalo
Toronto
Suseusion Bridge
Wiarton
North Dayingston
Montreal
Quebec
White Mountains
Portland
Ontario
Michigan
Ward
Alfred E. Beach
Broadway
New York City
Hudson River
London
Walla
St.Clair Duin l- Bach
Gorth
Sande
Ido
Wobson
Water's Edge
International tunnel project advances amid grand plans
The article describes a joint Canada United States effort with a long tunnel completed by 1891 except plastering delays delaying traffic. An ice house for meat cars on the Canadian side stands 19810 feet long and 30 feet high with 27 bins. Officials expect a big international celebration and possible future tunnels under the Detroit River and at Port Huron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Detroit
Michigan Central Railway
Grand Trenk
Port Huron
Parisian Aids Propose Street Kiosks in New York
A New York Board of Aldermen meeting heard a petition from a company seeking to erect glass and iron kiosks on public thoroughfares. The plan includes annual $25 per booth, rentable space for newspaper sales at $4 per year, and obligations to keep booths clean and well lit. President Arnold referred the proposal to the Law Committee amid questions about board authority.
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Stmission
New York
Newadeslers
Paris
Vienna
Berlin
Arnold
Law Committee
Pet for the Queen Lion cub arrives in England from Africa
A lion cub sent from Central Africa arrived in Liverpool aboard the steamer Mandigo last month. The cub, requested by the Sultan of Sokoto to the Royal Niger Company, was kept aboard with liberty and petted by passengers and crew. Mr Bartlett collected it in Liverpool for the Zoological Gardens, where it is now lodged.
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Metarlain
Central Africa
England
Liverpool
Central
Africa
Sultan of
Sokoto
Royal Niger Company
Bartlett
Zoological Gardens
The Woodcock Wing Whistle Theory Discussed
An amateur naturalist with fifty years of woodcock shooting argues the wing motion creates the whistle rather than a mouth note. He cites observations of live birds, plumage states, and echoes from Audubon, comparing to other birds that produce wing sounds in flight or at rest.
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Audubon
Sunday School Exposition on Elisha and Courage in Faith
An old Sunday school lesson commentary on 2 Kings 6 8 18 explores fear versus faith, God guiding and protecting Israel through Elisha. It connects scripture to historical plots against the church, urges trust in divine aid, and sketches moral reflections on courage and heavenly perspective amid peril.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome
Next Lesson Quarterly Review or Temperance Lesson
Isa 5: 11, 12. 20-23. Lerznx punishment is to be indected upon Ernest Sempl, secretary of the Friedrichsburg Carpenters Union. Conviction for causing a strike cost master carpenters 15,000 marks. six months imprisonment. Alexander the Great twist on his neck noted as fashion at court. De Vassar girls adjuration is By Gum.
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Ernest Sempel
Friedrichsburg Carpenters’ Union
Alexander the Great
Dadway
Prominent Patent Medicine Ad Claims Money Back Guarantee
An ad for Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription extols a firm as a leading national seller of patent medicines. It touts aggressive newspaper advertising and asserts a bold money back guarantee if the medicines fail to help, pricing each bottle at one dollar.
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Pierce
Shilohs Cure Promoted as Great Cough Remedy
The advertisement touts Shilohs Cure as a peerless cough treatment with a positive guarantee. Proprietaors offer free sample bottles across the United States and Canada to every home to combat coughs sore throats bronchitis and even croup and whooping cough. Also promotes Shilohs Porous Plaster at 20 cents and Shilohs Cure priced 50 cents to 1 dollar.
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United States
Canada
Shiloh
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ST. Clair
St. Clair Dou
Fourteenth Street
Clair Tunnel
Fine
Syria
Benhadad
Damascus
Naaman
Israel
Coansel
Adar
Joel
Church of Christ
Letus
Sin
Betinies
Christ
Satan
St. Bartholomew
Church of
Israal
Elsha
Elisha
Alin
God
Natan
Alan
Jericho
Uku
Europe
Luananuel
Elijah
Thariots
Ghout Elisha
Zion
Dusnos Ayres
Buenos Ayres
Tur
de Vassar
Piteburg Chronicls-Telegraph
Radway's
Park Place
Lenox
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