Waterways vs Railroads Courting National Prosperity Debate
A long-form argument presses for improving U S waterways at $15 000 per mile rather than purchasing railroads at $60 000 per mile The piece insists waterways would foster competition and individualism while avoiding massive government expansion It links water transport to cheaper ore and fuel flows and to a broader Pan American plan stressing interregional unity and arid-region irrigation.
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United States
Democracy and waterways to tame railroads and wealth
The piece argues for expanding waterways and connecting canals to rival railroads, claiming water transport would reduce prices, unify regions, and curb financial power of railroad nabobs. It cites economic shifts from New England to the Ohio Valley, coal, copper, and cotton trades, urging readers to compute sailing distances and value of navigable rivers versus rail tariffs.
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New England
East
Ohio Valley
Pittsburg
Hudson River
Bangor
Soston
Fall River
Providence
Bridgeport
Hartford
New York
Syracuse
Rochester
Kansas
Missouri Valley
Montana
Lake Superior
Connecticut
Anaconda
Calumet & Hecla
Lower
Mississippi
Upper Valley
St Louis
United States
County Commissioners Issue Circular on Property Valuation
The county seeks better fairness in assessments by urging election of qualified assistant assessors in various districts. The Board of Revision plans to adjust under valued and over valued districts and improve accuracy for the next triennial assessment. Also notes forthcoming Dispatch article on women wage workers.
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Board of Revision
Braddock
Homestead
Millvale
Tarentum
Wilkinsburg Borouch
Board of Assessors
Era
Boards of Assessors
Sochi
Divorce Paper Forgers Buttner and Hughes Sentenced
New York January 30. William H Buttner and William D Hughes were convicted of forging divorce papers in the Court of General Sessions. Hughes received five years imprisonment and Buttner seven years at hard labor.
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Buttner
Hughes
New York
William H. Buttner
William D. Hughes
General Sessions
Smith
Winona Paper Co. Suspends Payments in Holyoke
The Winona Paper Company of Holyoke has suspended payment with liabilities near $600,000. The firm states its assets exceed its liabilities and cites its balance sheet as justification. Read Rudyard Kipling's third Letter on America in To Tomorrow's Dispatch.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
South Sea Island
Big Dispatch
The
Winona Paper Company
Holyoke
Springfield
Mass
Rudyard Kipling
America
To-Morrow
Iron Trade Slump Persists Amid Steel Rail Overproduction
The January outlook shows iron and steel prices near record lows with no near rebound. Pittsburg area furnaces run 23 active units, four idle, while mills shift from gas to coal amid broad layoffs and a surge in rail and coal strikes. Local firms report large orders abroad and new plants, yet domestic demand remains weak in a climate of output regulation debates and union actions.
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New York
Allegheny Mountains
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
New York City
Missouri
Standard Oil Monopoly
W. P. Shinn
Meebingababe
Pi and Erie Ship Canal
American Society of Civil Engineers
Buffaln
Steelton
Crow’s Point
East Iast
Carnegie
Illinois Steel Company
Edgar
Edgar Thomson
Braddock
Monongahela Furnace Company
McKeesport
Isabella
Mahoning
Shenango Valley
Monongahela River
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Kanawha
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
General Defense Fund
Lindsay & McCutcheon
J. Painter Sons & Co
Weat End
Union
Samak, Phipps & Co
Twenty-ninth Street
Thirty-third Street
Painter's Mill
Park Bros. & Camill
Pennsylvania Tube Company
Latrobe Steel Works
Youngstown
Braddock Wire Company
Amalgamated Association
Baker’s Chain Works
Millvale Iron Company
Carrie Furnace
Mussock Cooke
Homestead Steel Works
Budford Crane and Iron Company
Virginia
Riter & Conley
Crescent Works
Baltimore and Ohio
Wilson, Snyder & Co
Cincinnati Water Works
Richard Heckscher & Sons
Swedeland
H. EK. Porter & Co
United States
Mussle Shoals Canal
Dixie
J. R. Witherow & Co
Westinghouse Machine Company
St. Louis
Newark
N. J
Detroit
Gifford
Ark
Galveston
Media
Bryn Mawr
Australia
Michigan City
Ind
West Croton
Mass
Germany
New Cumberland
W. Va
Walls Station
National Tube Works
Hussey, Binns & Co
Washington County
Charleroi
Clinton Furnace
Shoenberger & Co
Pike Street
Neshannock
New Castle
Crawford Iron and Steel Company
Bessemer Iron
Allegheny Bessemer Steel Works
Duquesne
A Night Ride with Perdita in Ireland’s Shadows
An unnamed narrator recalls a July ball in Ireland interrupted by a perilous carriage journey led by Tom Coventry. The horse Perdita bolts through a dark country road as danger, memory of a groom’s death, and the specter of war color the tense escape. Eva Maersac and family figures anchor a tale of youth, devotion, and social constraint amid perilous travel.
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Ireland
Cork
Coventry
Miss Marino
Coxcomb
Eva Maersac
Eva
Lady Marsac
Tom Coventry
Misa Marsac
Tom
Darling
Mr. Robinson
Perdita
Jack
Mickey Flanagan
Mick
Moe
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Aenrepar
Henry George
Atlantic
Balti
Sparrow's Point
Standard Oil
Nebraska
Pittsby
Muassissippi Valley
Pacific States
Mississippi Valley
West
Red
Arkansas
Webster
France
French
Prisces
Shaneeble Lesteran
Agraim
Sailinc
Oliver
Itsburgh Disbatch
Bessie Bramble
Carnegie, Phipps & Co
Robert Wetherne & Co
Chester
Edgar Thomson Works
Carnegie Bros. & Co
Bessemer
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