New York City Builds Twin Tunnels Under Rivers
An era of grand underground transit advances surges in Manhattan, with multiple tunnel projects under the East and Hudson rivers. Twin tunnels from Jersey City to a Church Street terminal advance, linking Pennsylvania, Erie, and DL&W rails to a city front station.
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Manhattan
New York City
New Jersey
Loos Island
New York
Manhattan Island
America
Brooklyn
Bronx
East River
North River
Hudson
Mother Shipton
City
Hast
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
Great Terminal
Church Street
River Front
Pennsylvania
Erie
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Giant underground terminal rises beneath New York city
The McAdoo tunnel system will extend into Jersey City and Newark with an immense underground terminal at Dey Street. The 22 story complex will host 4000 offices above ground and 600,000 daily travelers pass through, featuring a vast glass arcade and numerous services, aiming to centralize Lower Manhattan transit and connect surface and elevated lines.
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New York
Jersey City
Pennsylvania
Newark
Sixth Avenue
Thirty-third Street
Hudson River
Terminal
New Jersey
Dey Street
Manhattan
Broad Exchange
Brooklyn
Wall Street Banker
Fifth Avenue Society
Manhattan Island
Remarkable Oroyo Railway Reaches Extreme Altitude in Peru
The uphill Oroyo railway from Callao to Cerro de Pasco climbs 5,000 feet in 56 miles and tunnels the Andes at 15,646 feet, the highest point where steam power moves a piston rod. The ascent reaches this elevation in 78 miles, showcasing a world famed engineering feat.
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Peru
Callao
Cerrolé de Pasco
Rimac
Sierras
Andes
Edgewood Park Resumes Sunday Church Services After Health Board Concession
Indignant Edgewood Park residents reach a compromise with Health Commissioner J. E. Myers of Hook Island. Churches reopen in all departments except Sunday schools, as a peace offering, after a conference with local citizens amid scarlet fever concerns. Swed ish ward involvement and Rock Island’s Second ward emerge in epidemic analysis.
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Edgewood Park
J. E. Myers
Hook Island
Eifisens
Hdgewood
Seventh Ward
Rock Island
Jax
Moline
Health Board
Mogline
Vast Outlay on Concrete Bridges and Canal Work
The article details large concrete usage for bridges along a canal and feeder system from here to Washington. It notes 100 Medway bridges, 21 feeder bridges, 10 aqueducts, with the canal plus feeder dam near Sterling nearing completion by September. Water levels on Rock River at Colona will allow a five to seven foot canal depth, limiting Mississippi depth at low water.
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Hennepin Canal
Sterling
S. Riche
U S
Offce
Rock Island
Rock River
Riche
Washington
Medway
Canal
Coloua
Colona
Mississippi
Deere Considers Pekin Wagon Plant Purchase
It is reported that Charles H. Deere of Moline is eyeing the Smith Wagon works at Pekin, plow makers, with plans to buy and possibly add it to his large farm implement factories. The Pekin plant goes up for sale February 1, expected to fetch around eighty thousand dollars with several bidders. A Pekin capital merger is being pushed to acquire the plant.
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Implement Trade Paper
Moline
Smith Wagon Works
Pekin Capital Active
Farm Machinery of
St. Louis
Charles H. Deere
Pekin
Smith
Atkadwitdgéa
Middle West
Pekin Capital
Ithe
Bogus Check Mer Caught in Rock Island Fraud
Leveret Wilson alias Leveret Wilkins was captured in Rock Island on January 24 after trying to pass a bogus check at the Weckel grocery. He confessed to the fraud and is held on $1900 bond for the grand jury. He may be the same man who passed a bogus $20 check on Ed Nelson earlier that week.
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Leveret Wilson
Leveret Wilkins
Rock Island
Weckel
Wilson
Ed. Nelson
Wright
Page
Samuel Dellitt
Davenport
Dellitt
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William G. McAdoo
Georgia
Charles M. Jacobs
Mc-Adoo
Robert Donnell
Feinhartan
Remarkable Railway
Board of Health and Churches
WIIL
Houssa
Ibis
Dr. Myers
Rock, Island
Moline Goming-In
Conlraves
Bauikre
Solorado
Coral Materi
NaSareal
Hennepin
Here
C. H. Deere
John Deere
Geo. B
Buck
Wath Urtece
WASH
Spain
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