James R Keene a Man of Boundless Energy and Speculation
James R Keene rose from Horsetown California to wealth through mining stocks and turf betting. He survived a dramatic wheat corner loss and later rebuilt fortunes on Wall Street, tobacco deals, and racing ventures while maintaining a lifelong love for horses and a sharp sense of humor about risk.
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Robertus Love
James H. Keene
Mr. Keene
Keene
London
Inumand
Keen
Dim
Albedvised
Felton
California
San Francisco Stock Exchange
United States
Exchange
James R. Keene
Americax
James
Horsetown
Charles A. Dana
Charles Lamb
Horsetown Sheet
Jearuin Miller
Toruia
Shasta County
America
Virginian
Nev
Sarah Daingerfield
Virginia
Daingerfield
San Francisco
Love
Tock
Europe
Wall Street
Tay Gould
Jim Keene
New York
Gould
Jay Gonkl
Jay Gould
Toga Bonheur
Jay Coulis
Fifth Avenue
Moe
James RR. Keene
Rosa Ronheur
Gavin
Fesson
Raine
Hevemeyers
Ife
Nene
St. Keene
Calhernia
Talbot J. Tayhap & Co
Desert
Fushall
Davis
Dan Galliani
Foxhall
Dan
Grane County
Ore
Tom Merry
California Keene
Phwat Jin Keene
Dain
Jim
Peter Tan
Domino
Cap
Atkins
Seulilp
Mr. Utne
Rockefeller
John TD
Indiana
Dames I. Keene
Drawings for Farms Near Billings Montana Irrigation Project
The first government irrigation land drawing near Billings Montana selected parcels of forty seven and a half acres in a 35 mile canal system. Applicants paid building and maintenance charges plus an Indian purchase price. The Huntley reclamation project aims to irrigate about 32000 acres south of the Yellowstone with concrete lined canals tunnels and a multi mile main canal feeding farms with alkali prevention measures and diverse crops including alfalfa sugar beets and potatoes.
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Billings
Mont
Kansas City Star
Yellowstone
OSL
Billings Law Office
Secretary of the Interior
Tme
Huntley
Yellowstone River
Hinntley
Bull Mountain Station
Northern Pacific Railway
Chicnaga
Burlington and Quincey
Northern Pacific
Truntley
Hinds
Reclamation Service
Tuntle
Warifie
St. O'Donnell
Billiunes
untitled note on pioneer farming aid and a Kansas City porter
Government offers no charge for water to irrigate until the Tok season to help farmers begin spring plowing at no cost. Mention of Jo Sep G Little a Pullman porter at Seventh Street, described as a negro, with unclear fortune.
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Kansas City
Josep G. Little
Little
Architect Predicts Skyscrapers One Thousand Feet High
Architect Henry Klornbontel envisions a forty story tower for Albany county Eni courthouse to rise to about 1000 feet within twenty years. He spoke before the Dist Basin board of trade arguing modern offices symbolize American enterprise and that site costs will shape tower design and numbers. He warned of structural wind loads and suggested massive piles to support such heights amid rapid urban growth.
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Henry Klornbontel
Albey County
Eni
Ditisbure Board of Trade
Tittsburg Visputel
Ume
Jeuse & Thunsand
Scully
Sou
Giea
Ocourt
Steel ties fail. Pennsylvania Railroad ends steel tie use
In the Pittsburg district last week steel railroad ties were deemed a failure. Railroads including Pennsylvania Railroad canceled orders for steel ties and replaced them with Georgia pine wooden ties. Investigations from Carnegie Steel and others found no curve on which steel ties would properly grid track, prompting the PCC to remove steel ties on curves and revert to wood.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Pisteburg
Hava Baeq
Carnegie Stace
Halsted
Dean's Kidney Pills Backed by Frederick Testimony
Frederick residents attest to durable relief from backache kidney and urinary disorders after using Dean's Kidney Pills. A 1907 testimonial cites four years without recurrence in a child and urges parents to follow directions for permanent results. For sale by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents Remember the name Dean's.
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Frederick
Dean
Frederick Ansferer
Charles B
West South Street
Wrederick
Ealy
Antdran
Buffalo
New York
United States
Princeton Plans Quad System to Eliminate Clubs
President Woodrow Wilson proposes abolishing campus clubs at Princeton University and replacing them with quad blocks to balance student representation. Trustees back reform to reduce factionalism, increase shared life, and tie undergraduates to a common university culture, though alumni fear disruption of tradition and backlash.
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Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Hig Ulin
Dechkires
Unite
Princeton
Chisses
Lis
Anid
Creulty
America
Atnone
New York
Tee Wandrow Wason
University
Tie
Siet Oy
William W. Phillips
Club
Bbard of Trustees
Ueap and Gowat Club
Wilson
Hr. Wilson
Alunius
Opinion
Sligans
Man
Ilson Vucond
William Edwards
Manhattan
Hin Bo
Tas Wit and Faithful Hopes in Moral Trial
A fragmented London Velograph report describes a figure named Tobin in a perilous moral trial. The text hints at religious duties and village duties, with themes of vigilance, feeding the young, and danger nearing the vulnerable. It uses archaic phrasing and opaque imagery, preserving the tone of a moral cleave.
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Tobin
London
Frederick Market Prices From Frederick County Exchange
Quotations furnished by Frederick County Mercantile Exchange list prices for grains, hay, and feeds. Includes yellow corn at 83.00 per barrel, shelled corn 5c per bushel, oats 52lga to 60 per bushel, timothy hay 18.00 to 30.00, clover and alfalfa ranges, bran 25.00 per ton, cotton seed meal 32 per ton, potatoes 6.50 to 7.59 per bushel, and various milled products.
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Gia
Timothy
Miller
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Ccerisgic
Ames Keene
Keene Aga
Reclamation
Ing
Frederick Merchant
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Frederick County Marinera' Exchange
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