Novel rail car ideas and new safety devices in rail line orders
A New Haven timetable introduces a skiddoo express later nicknamed hoodoo after a shaky maiden run and a baggage car replacement. Union Pacific lines plan side door coaches with strong doors and smaller round windows, plus a patent ventilator, in a bold shift from end doors. New Haven adds a rail locking device to a four track drawbridge to prevent bridge accidents. Pennsylvania plants Lundy shrubs for snow fences in the Alleghenies, while New York Central tests a hot journal warning device. Babui, a new religious group, gains Chicago adherents as a 2000 turnout joins embraces random kissing as a ritual.
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New Haven railroad
Mellen
New Haven
New York Times
New York express
New York
Union Pacific
Omaha
Kansas City Star
America
McKeen
McKeen, superintendent of motive power
MHev
Housatonic river
Naugatuck Junction
Atlantic City
Yale Seniors Qualities Vote Names Laziest and Handsomest
Yale seniors in a recently published class annual name Calvin Truesdale of Greenwich as laziest and Stephen Lesher Tandon of New York as handsomest. Ed ward H. Hart of Brooklyn is deemed most likely to succeed. Samuel Morse’s captaincy noted as popular. The class favors Princeton after Yale with 178 votes to 57 Harvard. Professor William Lyon Phelps is favorite professor. theatergoing cited as favorite amusement.
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Truesdale
Landon
Yale
Calvin Truesdale
Greenwich
Samuel Morse
Stephen Lesher Tandon
New York city
George Harold Wiess
Schuylkill Haven
L. A. Doherty
Murray,Ida
William I. Knox
Harold Sherman Wells
Scranton
Theodore Ives Driggs
Waterbury
Jeremiah H. Jones
Braverhill
Princeton
Harvard
Wiliams
Corwell
William Lyon Phelps
Charlton M. Lewis
Breider
Song for Cortelyou and Westfield Alumni Rally
Westfield Normal School alumni praise George B. Cortelyou as a future president in an alumni song to be sung at meetings. The verse notes Westfield sent one shining day future president. current male graduates scarce since 1897. Local merchants buy space for promotional talk.
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Westfield
Mass
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