Longest steel viaduct planned by Pennsylvania Railroad
The largest steel viaduct world will connect Long Island with the Bronx via the Harlem River, spanning about 1000 feet in an arch built from both abutments without falsework. It will carry four tracks and heavy freight loads with only three inches deflection, cost about 17 million dollars, and take two and a half years to complete.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Long Island
Bronx
Enet River
New Miracle plum bred by Luther Burbank in California
California horticulturist Luther Burbank unveils a promising new plum variety named Miracle. It is a seedling hybrid with prune as one parent and is nearly seedless with a small stone. The fruit shows dark blue bloom, yellow flesh, and a sweet juicy flavor, though testing beyond California is limited.
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Luther Burbank
California
Dameon
Burbank
Grandfather and Birdie Girl Reunite in Old Farm Tale
In a rural family saga a penniless David Chadwick clings to an old homestead while his daughter Phebe wed a city boarder, leaving him to wander the rye cathedral and wheat fields. Years later Phebe’s son Bennie helps reveal a long-lost reunion as Mary’s church circle aids healing and reuniting father and daughter.
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Birdie-girl
Gaddy
Birdie Wirl
David Chadwick
David
Dale
Phebe Chadwick
Sania
Brie
Phebe
John Putnam
John
Rye
Sexton
David Lved
Mary
Bennie
Jesus
Birdle-girl
Birdi
Land of Dreams
Mamma
Story Man
Churci
Bennile
Felde
Howse
Eaggest
Beanie
Gread
Adda
Benale
Waverley Magasina
Earth floors boost egg output and warmer hens prove advantage
A West Virginia Experiment Station trial compared earth and board floors for hens over five months. Earth floors yielded roughly 30 percent more eggs, with warmer conditions in cold weather. Health remained good aside from a single roup case. A bird census in Illinois by A O Groes and H A Ray counted 4 800 birds across 98 species, two thirds English sparrows.
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West Virginia
A. O. Groes
H. A. Ray
Ilinois
Indiana Line
Mississippi River
Hartford Courant
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East River
Anid
Abe
Jing
Mim Sompriur
Mr. Burbank
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