Government Civil Service Examinations July 23
Job openings include farming instructors for Indians, carpenters, and mechanial draftsmen. Examinations set for July 23 in multiple locations. salaries range from 13 to 4 per day for workers and up to 900 yearly after service. Positions require experience with local conditions. vacancies listed across several western and midwestern sites.
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Indian Bureau Service
Lapointe
Wic
Port Belknap
Mont
Lebmt
Tadao
Yankton
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Ouray
Utah
Carson
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Colville
Wash
Yamax
Ore
Crow Agency
Port Peck
Blackfeet
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Florre
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Standing Rock
N. C
Fort Trotten
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Yongue River
Port Bidwell
Cal
Government
Watertown
Mass
Niagara Power Plant Described Amid Niagara River ‘‘canal and turbines’’
A historical account details the Niagara River power canal and the massive turbine-driven station. It describes a 709-foot long canal 200 feet wide feeding a limestone building housing ten electric machines, with a 100000 horsepower capacity, 800 feet long wheelpit, and vertical turbine shafts linking dynamos.
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Niagasa Falls
Min
Wills
Toalu
Wil
Niagara River
Passage describes a wheel pit and river escape scene
A fragment from William Andrews in American Monthly Review of Reviews mentions a wheel pit guiding a curved package toward an exit tunnel and its descent to the river below at about 20 miles per hour.
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William €. Andrews
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Pure Air as a Cure for Consumption in Adequate Ventilation
A 19th century treatment advocates pure air and open windows for consumption patients. It describes sleeping outdoors or with windows wide open, ventilating rooms, and disinfection as essential. Case notes from Massachusetts report weight gain and recovery after outdoor sleeping arrangements under a doctor’s guidance.
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Bir
Massachusetts
New England
Charles S. Miller
Brockton
Floctoy
de Gira
Au Sunutoriuim
Sylvester Baxter
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Remarkable feats of mental arithmetic at the London Hippodrome
Eyewitnesses questioned whether the acts by Inaudi were genuine but found the performances compelling. From age seven he reportedly multiplied five figures and recited long number sequences without error. The piece notes a Derbyshire farm laborer Jedediah Buxton, observed by the Royal Society in 1764, who demonstrated similar intuitive number sense despite little formal schooling.
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Fnaudi
London Hippodrome
Inaudi
Derbyshire
Jedediah Buxton
Royal Society
Yicac
Jedediah
Bia
London
Gentleman's Magazine
St. John's Gate
York of Siety
Garrick
Tune
Birch
Zerah Colburn
Francis Bally
Whitty
Remarkable Arithmetic Geniuses Jedediah and Colburn
The article recounts Jedediah, a peasant boy with extraordinary mental calculation skills who could compute complex products by unconventional methods, and Zerah Colburn, a boy prodigy who mental arithmetic surpassed peers though lacking general schooling. It notes their lives, experiments by scholars, and how their talents persisted or faded over time.
Marsh Colburn’s feats hint at undiscovered numbers
The Liveton Globe notes Colburn’s feats suggest properties of numbers yet to be found and may also imply human capacities not yet dreamed of, inviting further inquiry into mathematics and human potential.
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Marsh Colburn
Luby
Liveton Globe
Thirty Five Die As Relief Trains Reach Stricken Area
A violent flood event causes widespread railroad damage in Bluefield and neighboring towns. Relief trains arrive to supply the needy as officials fear many more bodies remain in debris. Reports note three feet of floodwater in Dry Fork and further calamities across Virginia counties.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Vivean
Arelletrain
Eikborn
Pycahartas
Vile
Che Stom
Tazewell
Dry Fork
On the Rail and the Train Order Debate
A Western dispatch notes Burlington railroad officials defend operating double track lines without train orders, relying on block signals and time cards. It cites cost pressures, upcoming rate changes, and industry moves toward a universal freight classification system amid shippers seeking new interstates law protections.
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Ike Pie Ie Pi Balle
Phe
Phe Weely
Burlington Road
W. ©. Brown
The
Road
Lake Shore
oMeer
Burhington
Samuel Gompers Hurt In Washington Car Incident
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was badly injured in Washington at dusk when a car he was alighting from struck him. He suffered a concussion and possible skull fracture as he took his two children on an outing. His condition is critical, but a physician stated recovery is possible.
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Washington, D.C
Sam Hol Cmpers
American Federation of Labor
Langerously
Howe
Bankruptcy Ruling Clears Bank's Preferred Creditor Claim
Referee 11. ML Lewis of the United States bankruptcy court ruled on the Madison State against Hinrichs & Thompson filing Dec 20. The bank had a claimed $7,275.91 secured debt before insolvency. Lewis found the firm insolvent when the bank secured judgment and dismissed the bank's preferred creditor status, noting the case conflicts with bankruptcy aims.
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Lewis
Insolvent Debtor Sale and Creditor Repayment Clause
The text describes a sale of the debtor's property intended to render the debtor insolvent and to obtain payment of this debt in full, while other creditors would receive only a small percentage of their indebtedness.
Big Crops and Tramps in Nebraska Harvest
June 26 Omaha reports new wheat moving fast in Nebraska with firm large grain and high demand for box car transport. Farmers impel tramps into labor, rounding up about thirty at Orisons Nebraska after a local watch meeting and promising $2 a day plus food or confinement if they refuse work.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Kansas
St Orisons
Neb
Death of H L Preston, noted rail man, found dead
Hudson Wis June 29 H L Preston master car builder of the St Paul Minneapolis Omaha Railway was found dead in his room yesterday morning half dressed He was a well known railway man and for many years oversaw 200 workers at the Stops in Hudson He formerly lived at Winona
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Hudson, Wis
H. L. Preston
St. Paul
Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company
Winona
Unwritten Law Trial Mirrors Kentucky Case
Somerset Ky June 24 The trial of Mrs Susan Hunley for the murder of Nelle Stamper last month opens in the elvenly court Defense argues justifiable murder under unwritten law First Kentucky case to test the unwritten law Harris Merritt judgment in Lexington is cited as precedent with differences The defendant is charged with fatally shooting Stamper with a shotgun after Stamper kept company with Hunley’s husband.
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Somerset
Susan Hunley
Nelle Stamper
Elvenly
Kentucky
Lexinton
Harris
Morritt
Sittig
Mari Hitt
Falconer
Harris-Merritt
Hunley
Storms Cause Wide Devastation Across Pennsylvania and North Carolina
A severe lingering storm struck Connellsville Pennsylvania and Jamestown North Carolina on June 28, washing out rail lines and destroying cattle herds. The Wallimore and Ohio line between Lessenring and O'Hara Crossing was washed out and a railroad bridge at Mile Run near West Newton failed. Telecommunication was disrupted over a wide area. In Jamestown Stutsman county reports estimate around 315,000 dollars in property damage and an equal amount to crops, with no lives reported.
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Connellsville
Wallimere & Ohio
Lessenring
O'Hara
Mile Run
West Newton
Baltimore & Ohio
Jamestown
N. C
Stutsman County
Destructive fire hits Hope area causing 20 homes lost
A telephone message from Chester Point, Howard County seat, reports a fire yesterday that destroyed more than 20 houses in Hope area. Estimated losses exceed 106000 dollars.
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Chester Point
Hope
Ark
Howard County
Professor Breakship Injury at Beloit College
Beloit Wis June 7 Fran C A Bacon faculty member fell and fractured a chip in an accident. The injury is serious as Bacon is in delicate health at age 43.
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Beloit
Wis
Fran C. A Bacon
College Facult
Bacon
Milwaukee & St Paul releases summer booklet
One of the prettiest booklets of the summer aéagon has been issued by the Milwaukee and St Paul road. It ta de scriptive of the belle of the Wisconsin river and is liberally sustrated with fine half tone picctures.
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Milwaukee & St Paul Road
Wisconsin River
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