One Ideal City Tells of a Self Sufficient Telephone System
Rev Herbert Bigelow extols Grand Rapids Wisconsin as the Union’s best city citing its cooperative telephone company and civic independence. He contrasts it with corporate franchises in Cincinnati and notes examples from Stevens Point Wausau and Duluth on municipal control and home rule.
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Herbert Bigelow
Herbert S. Bigelow
Vine Street
Cincinnati
Grand Rapids
Wis
Northwest
Mr. Bigelow
Lincoln Steffens
Rhode Island
Union
Hell Telephone Company
Ita
Rhode Thland
Bell Company
Bell
Grand Rapide
Osige
Hitchcock
Btevens Point
Wausau
Wir
Duluth
Minn
Polich
Minnesota
Great
Burns Cottage to Come to Lewis and Clark Fair
A meeting at the Y M C A tonight will discuss moving Robert Burns cottage from St. Louis to the Lewis and Clark exposition. The event, led by T L Johnson, aims to advance the plan with signed calls from Robert Livingstone Alexander H Birrell and Alexander G Brown. Also noted is Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell exhibit request and a possible Tukon Territory governor appointment for W W B MacIanes.
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Robert Burns
St. Louis
Lewin and Clark Fair
Saga
Oregon Daily Journal
T. L. Johnson
Great Britain and Ireland
Lewin and Clark Exposition
Robert Livingstone
Alexander H. Birrell
Alexander G. Brown
Philadelphia
Reed
Grand Ronde lumber line to tap rich timber belt
Scarcity of water and logs near the Grand Ronde river push Grand Ronde Lumber Co of Perry to build a narrow gauge railroad from Hilgard toward the Blue mountains. The project aims to reach the timber belt feeding Perry mills and transform regional mining farming and stock ranching. The Prospect ranch owned by the Vey brothers stands to gain from improved transportation. Missouri Senate ballot shows Neidringhaus leading Cockrell with 62 to 60 votes. Kerena 16, McKinley 5, Kirkham 1.
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Hilgarnd
Grand Ronde
Blue Mountains
Grand Ronde Lumber Co
Perry
Hilgard
Perry Mills
Starkey Prairie
Grand ‘Ronde
Oregon
Prospect
Grand Ronde River
Vey Brothers
Snowslides Fearful Rapid, Spectacle of Snow Power
A Harper's Weekly sketch recounts snowslides and their immense speed and force on steep, snowbound mountains. It notes miners riding sleds to stay atop slides, references Enos A Mills and John Muir experiences, and describes the overwhelming surge of snow and dust engulfing terrain.
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John Muir
Lie
Enos A. Mills
Harper’s Weekly
Virchow challenges Bismarck with deadly sausage duel
The scientist Virchow offers a duel weapon test against Chancellor Bismarck by presenting two sausages one filled with deadly trichinae and the other safe He proposes that Bismarck choose first and eat his sausage while Virchow eats the other Bismarck’s aides refuse the challenge and no duel occurs
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Virchow
Bismarck
Prince Bismarck
Germany
Bramarck
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Wisconsin
Main Street
F. S. Younger & Son
Marta Vita
Burns
W. W. B. MacIanes
Nanaimo, B. C
Tukon Territory
United States
Missouri
Neidringhaus
Cockerell
Kerena
McKinley
Kirkham
Pendleton
Donaldson
Red Cross Pharmacy
F. W. Schmidt
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