Electric Switching for Trolley Lines Advances Revealed
A historical article explains modern electric switching for trolley systems. It describes automatic mechanisms using two insulated trolley contacts, electro magnetic boxes, and two magnets that move switches as cars approach. A central green lamp warns the motorman, while red lamps signal the switch action.
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Messrs. Tierney and Malone
Paris
Georges Dary
England
Dixon
Leeds
Bradford
Sheffield
St. Louis
Bristol
Messrs. Tierney and
Malone
Line Work Above Canyon and Mauretania Electrical Gear
Line work near Ouray Colorado shows telephone poles on a trestle 800 feet above the canyon. Mauretania’s electrical gear ranks with land equipment for cities of 100000 population, with 100 tons of cables across 250 miles and 6000 lamps.
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Ouray
Col
Colorado Telephone Company
Mauretania
Electrifying the 196 mile Sierra route to ease traffic
The Southern Pacific plans to boost capacity on a 196 mile Sierra Nevada line by electric motive power. The single track stretch carries Union Pacific traffic to central California with many tunnels snow sheds and tight curves. Freight trains often exceed 1 000 tons as grades reach 14 to 24 percent, posing major congestion challenges.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Union Pacific
Central
California
Electric light bath cabinet gains medical notice
Doctors worldwide prescribe baths of many kinds including mud and alcohol. Electric rays are gaining recognition in medicine. An illustration from Popular Mechanics shows a light bath cabinet with incandescent lamps for electric light therapy.
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Sicians
Root grafting for tree propagation in winter
Roots from nursery trees about one year old are best for grafting. Scions should be five to six inches long with a strong bud at the top. Grafting can be done in winter in a farm workshop or basement, provided roots are obtained before ground freezes.
Grafting Instructions for Root and Scion Alignment
Detailed directions for preparing root and scion grafts with sloping cuts and tongue fittings. Describes aligning edges, binding with waxed thread, storing grafts in sawdust, and planting time care. Emphasizes careful fitting, simple tying, and storing conditions to ensure good first season growth.
Pruning Fruit Trees In Orchard For Horse Access
Guidance on pruning apple trees to allow horse drawn carts to pass beneath. Maintain five foot trunk height, an open top, and straight branches. Prune carefully to minimize later saw work and seal large cut stubs with paint.
Horticultural Notes on Orchard Care and Planting
Advice to limit fruit trees to manageable numbers and nurture them through attentive care. Recommend steps instead of ladders, keep orchard like a garden, and emphasize early potatoes with early soil planting and variety. Urges farmer involvement in forestry and careful transplants marked for ground reacquisition. Hen manure boosts onion crops. apply 1500 pounds per acre potash if unavailable. plow onion land in fall, shallow harrow before planting, and plant onions in drills 14 to 18 inches apart.
Beautify Your Grounds for Home and Farm Value
A compact guide urges low cost beautification of home and schoolyard spaces with labor. It recommends a smooth sod lawn, and planting trees shrubs vines and flowers to boost property value and create curb appeal for occupants.
Fertilizing with Charcoal A Botanist Advocates Charcoal Use
A Washington horticulturist from the botanical gardens asserts charcoal as a potent plant fertilizer. Experiments show plants thrive in nearly pure charcoal or a mix of two thirds coal and one third vegetable mold, with thicker stems, richer leaf color, and better blossoms. Charcoal dust can replace sand in mold for stronger, faster growth and can cure unhealthy plants by top-dressing pots. Charcoal preserves plants and supplies carbonic gas during slow decomposition, forming coal earth over years. large charcoal use increases water needs as roots dry quickly.
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Botanical Gardens
Washington
Starting Horse Radish From Roots and Beds
Start horseradish by setting out waste roots in spring. Cut small radiating roots for starting new beds and use large roots for vrating. Plant 4 to 6 inch pieces with thick end up, 2 to 3 inches deep, in rich soil. Harvest two to five plants per root, with sets costing 2.50 to 3 per 1000. Rows 8 feet apart, plants 14 inches within the row.
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Orange Judd
Planted for Next Year Strawberry Ground Preparation
Ground for strawberries should be well manured the year before planting and have grown a crop of potatoes that were well cultivated with clean weed control. Plow late in fall, with spring plowing or disk and drag as needed.
Clean Out Barn Before Spring Work Begins
Farmers urged to tidy barns and manure pens now to cart waste to fields for fertilizer before spring operations start and hauling time becomes scarce. Local readers advised to plan ahead for fields awaiting nutrients.
Get It on the Land Manure Value Guide
Manures are most valuable immediately after being made and should be hauled to fields whenever possible. Avoid building large spring piles to prevent delaying field work. timely application improves soil and crop outcomes.
Put It Back with Interest Fertility in the Soil
The note urges returning fertility borrowed from last year's soil after removing seeps. It warns that the nutrients are used in the manure heap and must be carted back to the soil to which they are due.
Growing Potatoes Abundance of Plant Food Needed
Readers learn that potatoes require a plentiful supply of available plant nutrients. The guide emphasizes soil fertility, balanced fertilization, and timing to maximize tuber yield and quality.
The Violin's Answer and a Heart to Heal
In a December drawing room Beaumont recalls former loves and jealousy as he attends a concert by Mlle Mdners. The violinist's performance awakens a charged memory of Edna and a heartbreak, culminating in a revelation during the encore that suggests love's triumph over past sorrow.
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Mle. Mdnert
Molna
Boaumont
Beaumont
Mile
Mademoiselle
Mr. Beaumont
Paganini
Hig Longi
Waltinge
Of Two Evils, to One Afternoon Visit
Mrs Murphy arrives at the settlement foase in best dress with facial injury and a grim remark about luck. A teacher asks her what the matter is and she replies that she could be worse off and perhaps not even married.
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Mrs. Murphy
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