Food of snakes and railroad plans in 19th century reports
Articles note a 20 foot python at Paris Jardin des Plantes feeding fifty times by 1398, mostly goats with rare rabbits and a goose, and a cobra swallowing a brother. Also, W A Kimball guides financiers toward a Globe railway linked to San Diego and Phoenix, with U S Geological Survey chief Newell visiting Florence to inspect a dam site at the Buttes.
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Museum of Natural History
Paris
Museum
Leon Valiant
Jardin Des Plantes
William
Here
Globe
Irrigation Congress
W. A. Kimball
Mesa
San Diego
Gila River
Phoenix & Globe
Phoenix Republican
Florence
F. H. Newell
U. S. Geological Survey
The
Buttes
Washington
D B Robinson Visit Spurs Arizona Rail Plan
D B Robinson, pivotal in the Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix railroad, visits Arizona. The trip signals potential southward extension linking Phoenix Florence Tucson and Calabasas to the Sonora branch, a route seen as a top paying and essential corridor after an earlier survey.
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Los Angeles Times
D B.robinson
Arizona
D. B. Robinson
Prescott
Phoenix
Florence
Tucson
Calabasas
Sonora
Santa Fe
Question on Maximum Ocean Wave Heights Cited
Marine engineer M. Dibos notes North Atlantic waves reaching at least four feet in height. He records waves driven by strong winds moving 35 to 40 miles per hour and traveling more than 500 miles without atmospheric disturbance.
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M. Dibos
Institute of France
North Atlantic
Railroad News Favors Mesa to Globe Route
Ex-Superintendent Gabel of the Atlantic & Pacific surveys the Mesa to Globe line and reportedly endorses its construction. He represents large eastern capital likely to invest based on his report. The line would follow Queen Creek and cross the Pinal range into Globe, signaling growing railroad optimism.
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Gabel
Atlantic & Pacific
Mesa
Globe
Queen Creek
Pinal Range
Tribune
Prize Winners Spark Debate On The New Woman Phrase
An English newspaper recently held a competition on the concept of the new woman. The prize went to the saying A fresh darn on the original blue stocking. Other entries included Six of one and half a dozen of the other One who has not yet attained to be a gentleman Manishness minus manliness.
Arizona mining law bars claim relocation to dodge work
The San Francisco Mining and Scientific Press notes Arizona law requires claim locators to perform development work and prohibits relocating claims for avoidance. It argues California should adopt a similar statute and hopes for passage in the next Legislature. The piece also mentions Parsee funeral custom in Bombay, exposing the dead on the Tower of Silence to avoid earth or water contamination.
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San Francisco
India
Tower of Silence
Bombay
Wealth and Power Do Not Define True Worth
The remark suggests virtue lies in achievement beyond wealth strength or talent, proving success through effort and character rather than inherited advantages. It emphasizes merit over status.
World's Biggest Mine Plans Major Yearly Upgrades
The United Verde Copper Co at Jerome Terrme plans extensive improvements for the coming year including a new power house boiler rooms larger converter and furnace areas a new reverberatory building a new foundry shops and a larger shaft house with engine room. New machinery includes hoisting engines blowing engines boilers and a 60 kW generator. The company built 22 cottages and paid about 480000 in wages last year while concerns about acid in river water reach local reports.
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United Verde Copper Co
Terome
Jerome’ Mining News
United Verde Company
Arizona and New Mexico Road Plans New Trains
Freight demand on the Arizona and New Mexico road grows, likely prompting new rolling stock and extra trains. A revised timetable may send trains from Clifton and Lordsburg in the morning, returning in the evening, aiding travelers and speeding Clifton mail delivery by six hours.
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Arizona and
New Mexico
Clifton
Lordsburg
Tramps Swap Whisky For Debased Dollar Then Loot Demijohn
Two men enter a East Oakland saloon and exchange a debased dollar for whisky. The proprietor refuses the payment and empties the whiskey back into the cask. The tramps later break the demijohn and recover soaked bath sponge from the fragments.
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East Oakland
Cal
Electric headlights on locomotives touted as safer and cheaper
Electricity is used for locomotive headlights with claims that cost is similar to oil and light is brighter and farther reaching. Proponents say the intense light allows trains to be stopped earlier, reducing collision risk, and question why this method was not adopted sooner.
Gold Cliff Mining Company Forms in Pearce District
A syndicate of wealthy mining men has formed the Gold Cliff Mining Company with capital of $1,000,000 to acquire the Johnson Fitts claims in Pearce district. Backed by cash and unlimited resources, the venture is expected to become a major factor in the mining world and of great importance to Pearce and Cochise County.
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Johnson- Fitts
Pearce
Gold Cliff Mining Company
Cochise
Mining expert in Prescott reports shallow mine depths
Mining experts described in the Prescott Courier wear tan boots and corduroy outfits and are seen in outlying districts. One man, after visiting a mine, returns to his Prescott hotel and says no workings deeper than eight feet were found.
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Prescott
Phoenix
Mary Learns to Speak with Confidence in Dress Pattern Mixup
A young girl habitually says guess and is reproved by a teacher who tells her to say presume. A playmate mentions asking for the cloak pattern, but Mary notes her mother has no pattern and she cut ityky presume.
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Mary
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