History of the Siberian Railway and Its Expansion
The Trans-Siberian Railway arose to develop Siberia with political aims also. Initial plans dated to 1867, imperial order in 1891, and the line reached 3,862 miles in Russia, 1,604 in China. Early speed and cost challenges prompted engineering tweaks and eventual standardization, with freight and passenger speeds improving as lines extended toward Khabarovsk and around Lake Balka. Royal support spurred settlement, cereals dominated exports, and migration rose sharply, aided by committees and wood from imperial forests. Trade with Japan surged 1896 to 1900, with exports and imports expanding markedly.
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Paria
Siberia
O)ling Firat
Amur
Tebita
Moscow
Vinedivo
Jake Balke
Khabarovsk
Siberian
Russia
Toure
Tioumen
Witeria
Bees Find Honey Nests in Senator Ankeny Home Cupola
Bees built a wild honey nest in the cupola of Senator Ankeny’s Walla Walla Nevada home. Workmen reported the hive weeks earlier and removed about thirty to forty pounds of honey stored by the bees believed to have made the home their hive for years. The honey tasted earthy and was removed after the intruders were subdued.
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Senator Ankeny
Walla Wallan
Nev
Jain Ankeny
Anneny
Gilliam
Remarkable Penner Case Cured by One Minute Cough Cure
Mrs. Gertrude EB Penner of Marion Indiana suffered deep lung pneumonia and coughing that weakened her severely reducing her weight from 148 to 92 pounds. After trying many remedies she used One Minute Cough Cure and four bottles restored her health, lungs, and normal weight. Tallman & Co. sold it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude EB. Penner
Marion
Ind
Tallman & Co
Better Plana
California Fig Syrup Co
Com California Fig Syrup Co
Clas
Lewiston Library Court Contract Awarded to Madgwick & Peteraton
The supreme court library commission awarded the contract for the court room and library building to Madgwick & Peteraton for 12500 dollars. Work to start immediately on a 40 by 70 foot building at the southwest corner of the city park on Fifth street and Third avenue housing a court room and library room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kowluton
Supreme Court Library Commission
Madgwick & Peteraton
City Park
Fifth Street
Third Avenue
Courtroom Planned With Elegant Interior Finish
The basement will house the toilet room and heating plant. The court room is designed to be handsome with quarter sawed white oak furnishings and game material for the furniture.
DeWitt’s Life Early Risers Liver Pills Endorsement
Personal testimony from W. T. Baeston of Boerne Texas praises DeWitt’s Life Early Risers as unequaled. Claims include relief from biliousness torpid liver jaundice headaches and constipation. Pills said to cleanse without purging and are sold by Taliman & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
T Baeston
Boerne
Tex
Taliman & Co
Payette River Placer Ground To Be Mined By Tunnel
Lee Bunch plans to shift the Payette River by tunneling 14216 feet through a mountain to create two miles of bed for mining placer ground above Garden Valley. The Bolen Capital News notes the tunnel could cost 40000 with a 290 foot high mountain and a fall of 48 feet for power to run mining machinery.
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Payette
Lee Bunch
Noring
Garden Valley
Bolen Capital News
Mr. Bunch
Inland Empire Music Co Offers Mandolin Deals For Club
The Inland Empire Music Company announces special inducements on mandolins and militaros for ten days as it plans a large mandolin club this winter. Prospective lesson students are asked to visit the music store near the Main street bridge. proprietors are Owenhouss Beott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inland Empire Music Company
Main Street Bridge
Mesers
Owenhouss « Beott
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Areca
Selvetia Milk Condensing CO
Highland, Illinois
Internationa
C. F. Galesworthy
Alta St
Lee
Dutton’s
Candy Kitchen
J. A Harron
C. R. Dutton
Oregon
Iesche
Court Street
AmeLs Mariford Fire Insurance
Cottetee Ane Alliance Assurance Vo
Lendw & Lancashire Rim Insurance Go
Pose British & Mercantile Co
Cease Royal Insurance Co
Frank
Clopton
East
Ourt ST
Pendio
THE
Lota
Alberta
Japan
Lewiston Library
Hic Cass Druccisy
Crescent
Crescent Man'try
Seattle
Cole
Pendleton
Umatilla
PTA
Theats
Toni
Big
Compan
Melnot
Brock & Boy Drug Store
Tesa Day
Wwe
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