Toll Bridge That Profited on the Corinne Trail
An Idaho eastern river toll bridge owned by J C and Robert Anderson, Confederate veterans, served the Corinne freight trail after the Civil War. Freighters paid tolls up to $3 a wagon and 25 cents per sheep, with tales of $1200 earned before breakfast and frequent toll disputes. The rise of Northern Pacific and Utah Northern rail lines ended the bridge era, and the state later replaced it with a free iron structure.
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Chicago Chronicle
United States
Anderson Brothers
Idaho
Price
Snake River
Taylor
Idaho Walls
Snake
California
Utah
Montana
J. C
Robert Anderson
Union Pacific Railroad
Mtn
Union Pacific
Corinne
Malad Valley
Gcmas Patrie
Bitter Root Mountains
Butte
Anaconda
Hielena
Andersons
J. C. Anderson
Anderson
Northern Pacific
Brigham Young
Utah Northern Railroad
Salt Lake City
Saving the Indian Names
An editorial argues for preserving and using Indian place names in New England and beyond. It notes Algonquin and other language dictionaries exist, cites Quinsigamond and Chippapuock as examples, and insists that keeping these names preserves a fading native vocabulary and history.
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Boston Transcript
Indian Office
Interior Department
Maine
Massachusetts
Montasnais
Pottawattomis
North America
Labrador
Rocky Mountains
Churchill River
Hudson Bay
Pamlico Sound
North Carolina
Indiana
Quinsigamond
Pleiades
Great Fleet on Way to Frisco
Surveyor of the Port Woodward seeks permission to add fifteen assistant weighers fifteen inspectors and ten laborers as port traffic grows. The Chronicle lists sixty vessels and seventeen steamers sailing or berthing from Antwerp Bremen Hull Liverpool London Newcastle Rotterdam with 213000 tons of cargo mainly structural steel and 300000 barrels of cement. Duties on cement total about 100000 dollars with 65409 barrels already arrived carrying 23832.88 in duty.
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Frisco
San Francisco Chronicle
Port
Woodward
Secretary of the Treasury
Port Stratton
Antwerp
Bremen
Calcutta
Genoa
Isamburg
Hull
Liverpool
London
Newcastle
Rotterdam
Oriental
San Francisco
The Baptists Suited Him
An old colored man explains his church journey from the Episcopal and Methodist to the Baptist. He says the Baptists suit him because they "jes' dip and are tone wid hit" while he disliked the Methodists inquiry meetings.
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Episcopal Church
Methodist
Neptune Crossing the Line Aboard Byron on Atlantic Voyage
On the Byron as part of the Pan American conference voyage from New York to Rio de Janeiro the Neptune crossing ceremony unfolds. Passengers including Mr Buchanan and delegation staff join in, with costumes, mock trials, and aquatic pranks marking the equatorial initiation aboard the ship.
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South America
Rio de Janeiro
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Atlantic
Byron
New York Bay
Cape St. Roque
Midocean
Bermuda
North Atantic Passage
Buchanan
New York
Rio
Europe
North Atlantic
orf-Astoria
Byrdv
Dele-Gation
Mr. Buchanan
Donald
Professor Reinsch
Mr. Larrinaga
Oughly
Philip H. Patehin
New York Sun
Washington
Ben Bennett
New York Herald
Polk
United States
France
Germany
England
Brazil
Cornell
Harvard
Neptune
The
Seven Seas
Amfibio
High Chamberlin
Old Sea Dog
C. Shellback
U. Shellback
Cadogan
Riga
Leard
Cst
Bath
Ocean Police
O. P
Don Tulio
Sun
Herald
Jack Hunt
States
Finneran
Cinder mountains promise to turn iron waste into wealth
The Lehigh Valley cinder tips, long considered worthless, are eyed as future gold by iron companies. Pittsburg chemists test processes to convert cinders into cement and other products, while current uses include railroad ballast. experts note limited iron content and potential immense value if chemistry yields profitable refinement.
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Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley
Lehigh
Pittsburg
Germany
Managing a Boy in New York Weekly
A brief domestic vignette shows a husband, a literary man, asking his wife to supervise their boy Dick so she can write. She argues that without watching him he will be mischievous, noting that when he is settled he stays quiet.
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The
New York Weekly
Little Dick
Houseboats Built on Canoes on Luzon Rivers
The New York World describes a 100 kis three story houseboat on nineteen linked canoes built by JHilipines on the Bicol river near Nueva Carceres Luzon. It serves as a floating hotel during festivals with running water push buttons and a barber shop though lacking electric lights and telephones.
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New York World
Imiposity
Jhilipines
Bicol
Neuvm Carceres
Luzon
Neuva Carceres
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Nanza
Monkitin
Nephre
Mnem Gavi Limestone
Cutcuee
Baker
Atacanda Eee Eae
Varber
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