City Council Proposes Filtration Bureau and $8.5 Million Rail Crossing Loan
City measures include creating a temporary Bureau of Filtration to advance water supply work and a plan to borrow $8.5 million to abolish grade crossings along the Reading Railway. Ordinances also regulate automobile speeds, license fees, and equipment standards. The council discussed reorganization of the index department, school property condemnations, and various street and sewer projects. An all‑day session is planned to clear the calendar before the summer recess.
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E. W. Patton
Vine
South Streets
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Schuylkill
Mr. Town
George Hawkes
Reading Railway
27Th Ward
Bureau of Highways
Delaware and
Samuel P. Town
28Th Ward
Bureau of Filtration
Department of Public Works
Director of Public Works
Bureau of Water
William 8. Ware
Recorder of Deeds
Board of Education
Second and
Wolf Streets
Cherry Street
Folsom Street
Robert 8. Johnston
Boys
20Th Ward
Finance Committee
Peter E. Costello
Hawkes
Mr. Costello
Mr. Hawkes
George McCurdy
Common Council Proposes $8.5 Million Grade Crossing Leap
The Common Council introduced an ordinance to submit to voters a permanent $8.5 million plan to abolish the Reading Railroad grade crossings and elevate the railroad within city limits from Green to Broad Streets on Ninth Street.
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Broad Streets
Ninth Street
Tad Rates to Brandywine Spriega Road in Via Baltimore
Fragmentary OCR notes show rates or dates tied to Brandywine area and Baltimore era routes. The text mentions Spriega road and Sommescioe jute with a date fragment and paired numbers, but lacks complete context or identifiable events or names to form a full news item.
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Baltimore and
Ohio
Smoke is waste and soot in cities sparks reform push
A Manchester experiment estimates snow residue equals over 10 pounds per acre with 48.6 percent carbon 6.9 percent grease and 44.5 percent ash. Near city center soot reaches nearly one ton per square mile daily. Edison spends 20000 dollars to save losses. London asks about domestic grates. American clubs urged to act for health and regulation.
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England
Chicago
Edison Company
London
Italy Embraces Bible Reading Revival for Social Renewal
A Sun correspondent reports Italy forms a society to promote regular gospel reading among the people. The effort aims to reduce civil dissensions by spreading religious and moral lessons from Jesus Christ. Pope Leo XIII backs broad adoption of this ancient practice.
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Italy
the Sun
Leo XIII
The Largest Alaska Nugget Shatters All Records
The North’s biggest gold nugget record is broken as news arrives from north of the steamer. This report notes prior records surpassed and hints at the vast size of the new find.
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Alaska
Giant Nugget Found Near Dawson Claims Record Size
Advices from Dawson dated May 26 report a nugget weighing 320 ounces containing about 4800 dollars in gold. Found last week at a hillside claim near Klondike or Sauce, the find surpasses all previous northern nuggets. Visited by several parties, it dwarfs earlier finds such as the Atlantic country nugget valued around 800 dollars and a dozen other large finds in Forty Mile and nearby districts. The San Francisco Chronicle notes the extraordinary size.
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Atlan Country
Koyukuk
Forty Mile
Sanu Francisco Chronicle
Disease Exposed by Powerful X Ray
Dr. Christian Deetjen returns to Baltimore with a German 28 inch spark X ray machine allowing rapid chest pictures and detailed views of bones joints and teeth. The device aids early tuberculosis detection and reveals kidney or bladder issues, though it cannot detect gall stones.
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West
Franklin Street
America
Europe
Deetjen
Baltimore
Tims
Baltimore Sun
BOARD AND NURSE BIRDS CARE FOR CANARIES FOR FEE
Miss Mary Hildreth of Vasadina Anne Arundel county now at 619 East North avenue has begun boarding and nursing canaries for a weekly charge. She was inspired by a New York story of a young woman who built a bird care business from neighbors birds to a thriving city operation including splints for broken legs. Hildreth plans to take birds to the country for summer care with her sister at Pasadina in Anne Arundel county.
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Mary Hildreth
Vasadina
Anne Arundel County
East North Avenue
Baltimore Sun
Hildreth
New York
Gotham
Cupid in a Rush in Chicago Divorce Drama
James and Carrie Minor of Kenosha plan a second wedding in Kenosha after a Chicago visit next Sunday. They have lived apart, separated, and begun divorce proceedings but have agreed not to disagree when they reunite, with the bride returning to Irving Park.
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Chicago
James
Carrie Minor
Kenosha
Minor
Irving Park
Carrie Hansen
New York
Twice Divorced in Three Months From New Husband
Mrs. Moble Leathern obtained a divorce from William Leathers yesterday after marrying him less than a month ago. This marks her second divorce in under three months. Her former husband was Jack Willis, a Southern Pacific passenger brakeman, and the couple faces ongoing legal action. The grounds cited for Leathers divorce were extreme cruelty manifested through language threats intimidation and egregious conduct.
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Moble Leathern
William Leathers
Queer Chinese Trees and Their Grafted Growths
Scientific American reports on Chinese horticultural techniques such as splitting and grafting trees for living braids and ornamental forms. It describes imperial grounds in Beijing with braided locusts and apricot trees, and notes the Chinese practice of grafting chrysanthemums onto weeds to yield larger flowers and winter-blooming displays.
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Forbidden City
Winter Palace
Count von Waldersee
Scientific American
Will Return King's Locks From Washington Barber Tale
Louis Butler a colored barber of Washington D C sailed for Liverpool with claimed locks of King Edward s hair he intends to present to the king The 1860 incident on a steamer to Aquia Creek involved Butler trimming the future king s hair and saving the cuttings He is about 75 years old and long sought another meeting with the king Baltimore Sun
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Washington, D. C
Liverpool
Edward
Prince of Wales
Washington
Richmond
Aquia Creek
Louis
England
Baltimore Sun
Butterfly as a Girl's Pet in Syracuse NY
A Syracuse woman famous for pets tames a butterfly named Scamp kept in a pink sugar bowl. After months of dormancy, Scamp revived when honey water was offered, his antennae twitched, wings trembled, and he began to recover in the sun.
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Syracuse
N Y
President May Still Go Abroad if Navy Moves West Indies
A Baltimore Sun analysis argues President Roosevelt could leave U S shores during naval evolutions in January with Admiral George Dewey in command, noting constitutional provision for temporary succession and that the sea remains American territory. It contrasts precedents, while discussing Queen Natalia’s exile and fortune.
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United States
Roosevelt
George Dewey
West Indies
H. Platt
Connecticut
Judiciary Committee
Boston
New London
Supreme Court of the United States
Baltimore
Sen
Origin of Fahrenheit thermometer traced to Newton and Fahrenheit
Sir Samuel Wilks explains in Knowledge the creation of Fahrenheit’s scale, noting Newton’s 1701 paper and his 12 point body heat start. Fahrenheit adjusted to 24 degrees per body, redefining freezing at 32 and boiling at 212, aligning with later standard measures.
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Isaac Newton
Newton
Philosophical Transactions
Fahhrenheit
Malere
New Orleans
The Oldest Science Debate At A German Beer Table
A quarrel among university men in Germany over the oldest science ends with varied claims. A lawyer cites evidence from Paradise, a physician cites Adam’s rib, an electrotechnician points to creation’s light, and a theologian argues theology predates light and darkness.
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Germany
New York Tribune
Ex Queen Na Talia Disinherits Son For Wealth To Nuns
Rome reports Queen Na Talia ex Queen of Servia has will to leave nearly 800000 dollars in francs to convent French nuns, bequeathing all her wealth and possessions to the nuns with no share for her son.
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Sition
Natalia
Servia
Europe
Baltimore Sun
Rome
Na Talia
France
History on Rock Face at Beirut Timeline of World Visitors
W. EF Curtis reports on a rock-carved visitor’s book in Beirut dating back before written history with tablets commemorating emperors and explorers from Sesostris to Marcus Antonius. The piece notes Jonah’s coastal legends, Ptolemaic maps, and a mosque burial site at Neby Yunus, drawing a curious cross section of antiquity.
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Kaiser
Rameses II
Israel
Moses
Sennacharib
Syria
Christ
Marcus Antonius
Rome
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Queen Alexandra Taught By Danish Roots In Home Life
A portrait of Queen Alexandra as the peer of English ladies in domestic skill. The future queen learned frugality from her mother Queen Louise of Denmark, doing chores herself. An anecdote recalls Alexandra fetching butter and frying fish during a royal visit, revealing practical household talents.
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England
Queen Louise
Denmark
Gole Palace
Alexandra
Louise
Vielt
Princess of Wales
Roosevelt Compared to Tennessee Horse in Senate Remark
Senator Carmack likened President Roosevelt to a Tennessee horse whose natural gait was turning away, a comparison that drew national ridicule per The Nashville Banner. The Congressional Record stenography records his exact speech, but the garbled text obscures full meaning and names.
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President Roosevelt
Tennessee
Nashville
Joe Ballanfant
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