Quicksand Tales And Home Front Woes In London
The piece contrasts luck and misfortune with a note on the Billingers who lost money and servants. It reports about 40,000 Londoners homeless nightly in common lodging houses. It recounts a New Zealand quicksand accident where two prospectors fell in and gold was later recovered from the sand. It notes Belgium's parliament age rules for deputies and senators.
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London
New Zealand
North Island
Pearson
The World's Largest Locomotive Completed at Topeka Shops
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway completes a Mallet compound locomotive in Topeka to handle Arizona grades. It is 121 feet long, 721 feet overall, oil fueled, tender foremost, with 225 pounds of steam pressure and a sectional nonexplosive boiler.
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Topeka
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Arizona
Locomotive No 3000 Marks Milestone in Eighty Years Progress
Ganta FE unveils locomotive No 3000 a giant 750000 pound articulated engine with duplicate air pumps two electric headlights and a ten pair driving wheel arrangement. It features a long rigid boiler two engines connected and a massive slide for curve navigation showcasing progress since Stephenson's Rocket.
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Stephenson
Saint Patrick’s Grave Marked with Memorial Stone
After ages of neglect the traditional resting place of Ireland’s patron saint in the Downpatrick cathedral graveyard was covered with a memorial stone in 1901.
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St. Patrick
Ireland
Downpatrick
Irish Cross Stone Unearthed From Slieve-na-Largie Height
A seven ton rough granite bowlder from Slieve na Largie bears an incised Irish cross on its upper surface and the name Patric in early Celtic script. The cross copies a cut from Inisciothran on Lough Ree where St Diarmid founded a sixth century settlement. This monument aims to resemble a 469 date saint’s death era.
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Slieve-na-Largie
Inisciothran
Lough Ree
Fanny Crosby Sainted Hymnist Turns 91
The blind poetess and hymnist Fanny Crosby is celebrated on her ninety-fifth birth anniversary. She has written more than 5 000 hymns translated into many languages. Her best known hymn "Safe In the Arms of Jesus" was written in fifteen minutes. Her blindness traces to a physician’s poultice at six months old that damaged the optic nerve.
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Fanny Crosby
Jesus
ABE RUEF IN PRISON PICTURE WITHOUT MUSTACHE
San Francisco political grafter Abe Ruef serves a fourteen year term for bribery of supervisors during Mayor Eugene Schmitz era. The photo shows Ruef at San Quentin prison on his way to the penitentiary with a deputy sheriff beside him.
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San Francisco
Iuterniil
Sas Quentin
Eugene F. Schmitz
Strike Early to Exterminate Houseflies Now
On mild sunny afternoons flies buzz near ears as they multiply. Use last year’s screen wire and stop their spread. The fly breeds in filth and carries bacteria, so act before a single becomes many.
Hobble Concepts In Africa And Ostrich Restraints
A note on crude hopples used in Africa to hobble ostriches in the Sudan to prevent escape and a comparison to the hobble skirt design for women meant to limit stride and protect the garment.
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Sudan
Africa
Freak Shadows in California Oil Ponds Explained
Scientific American reports a peculiar phenomenon in California crude oil ponds where shadows cast on the surface do not move with the shifting of the observer. Sun warmed gas bubbles rising through the oil create faint shadows that linger briefly, fading as temperatures rise again.
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California
Scientific
Nutley Sealed Proposals Sought for Water Main Extension
Nutley New Jersey town officials advertise sealed proposals for a six inch water main extension on Bloomfield avenue from Harrison street to Milton avenue. Bids due by 9 pm April 12 1911 at Council Chambers Nutley Town Hall. Plans available at Town Hall on Tuesdays 8 to 9 pm or Abijah C Fox New York City. Includes permit rule for street work and replacement under Road Committee supervision.
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Bloomfield Avenue
Harrison Street
Milton Avenue
Nutley
N.J
Council
Abijah C. Fox
West Thirty-eighth Street
New York City
John PF. Lux
Nutley, N. Jr
John -Mutch
Chains of the Road Committee
Nutley, N. J
Frank L. Russy
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19Th St
Richmond
Keyser & Core
Franklin Avenue
Chivenne Record
S Herald
MN and
Brook & Seaman
Ganta FE
Datnic
BT. Patrioe
FaRuy Crosby
Abe Ruef
Abe Euef
Depwey
Giyle
Bell
Bell System
NEW York Telephone Company
R. Bedell
Franklin and Vreeland Aves
Nutley, N. Y
Mandeville
Broad St
Newark
Tasand
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