Span the Desert Contract Let for Grade Between Oroville and Salt Lake City
San Francisco November 17 reports the Western Pacific stockholders authorized the board to issue second mortgage bonds totaling 26 million dollars to complete the main line from San Francisco to Salt Lake. The Utah Construction Company handles grading and pipe work over about 47 miles, with 20,000 workers planned next spring. The project includes three pumping stations and new locomotives and steam shovels, with the line following a direct route toward the Great Salt Lake desert. Governor John Sparks of Nevada secured a 1.509 million dollar contract to feed the 20,000 workers for the next three years.
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Oroville
Cal
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Western Pacific
Paraxias
Salt Lake
EB. T. Jeffery
Uuh Construction Company
Levitur & Pipeline
Great Salt Lake
Great American Desert
Utah Construction Company
West Mountains
John Sparks
Nevada
Tinh Construction Company
Sheep War Threatens In Teton Basin Dispute
In St Anthony dated November 17 a local struggle over Echo land looms between cattlemen and sheepmen. The state leased several thousand acres to a sheepman but the deal is held up while county residents decide whether to accept it. If cattlemen reject the offer the sheepmen may move in prompting potential clashes feared by locals. The bitter sentiment follows past killings and a recent camp fire loss, with state backing seen as pivotal to any grazing plan.
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St. Anthony
Teton Basin
Irte
Peter Hanson
Lacquer for Drums from Early Recipe
An old instructions detail making lacquer for brass drums using turmeric, dragon's blood, alcohol, and gum shellac. Mix turmeric one dram per pint alcohol, heat and shake for days, strain through linen, add shellac three ounces, warm and shake, strain again, bottle corked. Clean metal, heat it, dip or brush lacquer, avoid repeats on same spot, air dry in seconds.
The Shining Face of Moses in Bible Translations
An historical note traces the Hebrew word dren meaning emitted rays to Moses face after meeting the Lord. It explains translation shifts from the Septuagint to Vulgate and English Bibles, noting the King James Version correctly describes Moses’ shining skin and veil thereafter.
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Moses
Michael Angelo
Artista
Angelo
Coaling the Sun Expression in Physics
The article explains coaling the sun as renewing motive power, likening solar energy to a vessel refueling from meteor showers and celestial rain. It describes continuous matter collisions transforming atoms into vapor to feed the sun’s energy, a concept attributed to vonla the sun.
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Vonla
Climbing Parnassus and the Sacred Greek Peak
The mythic Parnassus in central Greece rises with twin summits on which Delphi and Apollo's sanctuary stood. Castalia fountain sprang between peaks, famed for inspiring poetry. the highest summit housed Bacchus, while other slopes honored Apollo and the muses.
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Parnassus
Greece
Delphiio
Apollo
Castalia
Bacchus
Mulnomah Falls Water Power Fight Draws State Aid
Arthur Spencer of Portland advocates preserving Multnomah Falls as a natural wonder and seeks title to land above the falls with state and federal involvement. Weatherby contests the claim, while the Oregon context centers on stopping private diversions and securing water power for the falls and surrounding region.
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Arthur €. Spencer
Weatherly
Mulujomah
Oregon
State Land Board
George Weatherby
Irthur
Spencer
Portland
Weatherby
Nnd
Federal
Mulinomoh
Rage
Arthur Spencer
Lo Acward
Co. KR. & N. Company
Multnomah
Pir
Subtle Scheme in a piano recital clash
A Chicago Tribune quip recalls a caller asking about Wagner and a young pianist replying she hates it. She plays because the piano is out of tune and any other music would reveal it, revealing a humorous clash over performance and instrument.
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Chiego Tribune
Boots with thick soleselicit a humorous cure
A shoemaker fits a customer with boots and the sole objection is thickness. Crispin jokes that the issue will wear away as the boots are worn, suggesting an easy remedy.
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Crispin
Two Bad Moments in After Dinner Speech Nerve
The line notes that worse than being asked to deliver an after dinner speech is being prepared to speak and not asked to deliver it. It casts humor on anxiety over speaking in public and the sting of unspoken expectations.
Ida-Way Exchange Sparks Candid Moment
In a playful exchange, Ida-Way remarks that someone wanted to kiss her, while Atay jokes about tense usage. They agree the best time to act is when escape is impossible, highlighting a lighthearted domestic moment.
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Spheral
Ida
Atay
Canadian Electric Smelting Visit Prompts Experimental Work
Dr P Le T Hercult, technics director of the French Electro-Metallurgical Society, visits Canada to conduct electrical smelting experiments for the government after a $15,000 appropriation. Dominion trials will be at Ste Marie with ambitions to produce 0 to 100 tons daily of tool steel billets and high grade steel billets.
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Hercult
Montreal
Qué
P. le T. Hercult
Technics
French Electro-Metallurgical Society
la Prax
France
Canmin
Dominion
D. Haanel
Oult Ste Marie
Vielt
Syracuse
Fieewsde
Cannium Iron and Steel Seen Fueled by Water Power
For plane and other special purposes pood will ie the feat of ite kind on the Anerican continent Dro Hercult predicte a brilliant future for Cann dium Iron and steel, having regard to its close yracation with immense Water power.
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Hercult
Canndium Iron and Steel
WANTS SHORE LAND FOR RAILWAY PROJECT
Olympia, Navy, M-Application in the fame of Louis Gerlinger of Portland, was made yesterday to the way as a commissioner for the purchases for shore laid on the north bank of the Columbia river in front of Talbot. They say the company contemplates surveying and securing 40 miles of right of way and more along the river. The Wallula Pacific Railway Company is linked to Harriman interests and may involve Milwaukee and St. Paul connections.
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Olympia
Navy
Louis Gerlinger
Portland
Cofaan
Seo
Cerlinger
Wallul
Walhilit
Harriman
Fiat Tive Cilearo
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Return of Borrowed Books Sparks Uneasy Recollections
A stray line questions why discussions about returning borrowed books make people uneasy as it notes a setting near the Schmidt Building in Oregon and mentions the Fire Relief association and Pacific Livestock association offices.
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Troom
Schmidt
Oregon Fire Relief Association
Pacific Livestock Association
Nom
Sohmidt
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