Crow Reservation Opened for White Settlement in Montana
The United States plans to open part of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana to homesteaders. About 1,009,000 acres of the 4,000,000-acre reserve will be offered, irrigated by a government ditch system to prevent crop failure. Water facilities will be government controlled, with 80-acre homesteads and a lottery for first choices. The article notes Crow progress, irrigation, and past Fort Custer history.
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Wehough
United States
Montana
Lofty Plateau
Noble Valley
Yellowstone
Big Horn
Dossidy
Crow Reservation
Olf
Fort Custer Military Reserve
Big Horn River
Fellowstone
Land Department
Corps of Engineers
Bis Horn
Robert S. Stockton
United States Geological Survey
Old Fort Custer
Crow Village
White-Harth
Custer
Sitting Bull
Custera
Northwest
Spain
Fort Custer
Cuba
5. G. Reynolds
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Lima
Britein
Columbus
San Salvador
William J. Harris
The Shyest People of Sumpetra Race
A fragment notes a delicate, timid Kuvoa group on Sumpetra island. They are kept apart by the Malayl and viewed as inferior, living in forested recessts and avoiding strangers. Trade with Malayans occurs through a distinctive, wary means.
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Sumpetra
Kuvoa
Railway Mania Telegraph Report From Portsmouth Meeting
A London Morning Chronicle telegraph report from May 1844 notes Portsmouth meeting on proposed London lines during the 1845 railway boom. The telegraph relayed last train timing and a follow up report described the electric telegraph as vital for rapid public communication and the spread of new railway plans.
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London Morning Chronicle
Portsmouth
London
Portamouth
Lonedon
Portemouth
Alectric
Alexander Cassatt The Pennsylvanian Railroad King’s Possible Resignation
James R. Bentley portrays Alexander Johnston Cassatt, a towering railroad figure or the Pennsylvania system, noting persistent rumors he may resign amid interstate commerce commission disclosures about freight rebates and coal stock dealings. It covers Cassatt’s career ascent, seven decades, magnetic leadership, and seventeen-year European sojourn before returning to steer the road.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad System
Alexander Johnston Cassatt
Framce
Logk
Tanihads
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Cassatt
America
Pennsylvania
Rodman
Thomas A. Beott
Pennsylvania Railroad
Do Inia
Cook & Fancy
Scott
Road
Vica
Chester Brook
Xarly
Cagsatt
Hig
Pennsylvania Syatem
Ume
Ho Ty
Roberts
Hia
Una Neea
Jamey Buchanan
Permanent Symphony Orchestra
Philadelphia
Mr. Casanti
James R. Bentley
Weight of the World Experiment Planned in Egypt
Scientists plan an expedition to Egypt to weigh the great pyramid and from its influence on pendulums estimate Earth's weight. The approach uses the pyramid's gravitational pull to gauge mass, aiming to resolve doubts about prior measurements and determine exact weights.
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Egypt
Great Pyramid
USA Earth
Identification for Warships Use of rings to ID ships at distance
The German admiralty planned to mark warships with distinct rings or bands on the chimney stacks to signal identity at long range. Colors would include black white red and yellow. German journals report opposing squadrons often misread targets in maneuvers due to lack of reliable identifiers.
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Ber
Humber
Intriguing Global Notes From An 19th Century Dispatch
A garbled 19th century snippet records diverse items. It mentions ostrich prices in Natal, education funding for Prince Yamashima, a year round meteorological station on Mount Tsukaba near Tokyo, a tunnel train through the Simplon, and Italy Switzerland boundary rails. It also notes German ocean liners and ships like Mikasa, with figures on tonnage and horsepower, reflecting early industrial marvels and travel feats.
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Terested
Scientife Research
Tsukaba
Tokyo
Tupean
Simplon
Stagecoach
Fragmentary note on a strange relic from Abyssinia
A partial OCR fragment mentions an explosion and a new route found. It describes a 22 inch object in roet Hine and a 28 inch measure for the lourve, noting the tenth of an extinct African quadruped brought from Abyssinia by Baron Maurice de Rothschild.
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Abyssinia
Maurice de Rothschild
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