Notable Events Across 1900s Headlines From US and Europe
Interment planned for John W Gates in West Chicago. Vatican doctors report pope improving. Taft designates November 30 as Thanksgiving. Frost hits Calgary and Edmonton. 36 degrees. Jameson Finney died in London Carlton Hotel fire. Oklahoma local option to be put to voters. James Nugent ousted as New Jersey party head. Krupp mine disaster in Prussia, 45 workers fell 300 feet. 18 injured. Chickasha sewers flooded with beer after beer barrels broken. Western rail labor dispute grows. Chicago rail station plan valued at 320 million dollars. General Alfred B Nettleton dies in Chicago at 73. Senator Lorimer sued for 6000 by Chicago firm. Bremerton postal savings bank hits capacity. Justice Dept pays Standard Oil 42395 for dissolution suit costs. Judge Bordwell warned of threats in McNamara case. American managers drowned on Congo river. bodies unrecovered. Senate highway bill could make capital a wheel hub for seven highways. Gates will probate will in Port Arthur with Charley Gates heir. fortune 40 to 50 million. Labor victory as eight-hour day cited in naval act. Julep dispute framed as jury task for James Kentucky, Wiley, and Watterson.
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Calgary
Edmonton
Canada
Jameson Fee Finney
Carlton Hotel
London
Oklahoma
James Nugent
Wilson
New Jersey
Krupp
Prussia
Chickasha
Okla
Lewis
Union Railway
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Burlington
Milwaukee Roads
Alfred Bayard Nettleton
the Treasury
William Lorimer
Henry Ericcson
Department of Justice
Standard Oil Company
Walter Bordwell
Los Angeles
McNamara Brothers
Congoree
Messrs. Deiforg
Black
American
Boma Company
Boch
Lisp
Senate
Senator Cullom
Illinois
Union
John W. Gates
Port Arthur
Tex
Charley Gates
Organized Labor
Comptroller of the Treasury
Tracewell
Ollie James
Kentucky
Harvey W. Wiley
Col
Henry Watterson
Albert Small
S. H. Jewett
Use of Public Playground Socializing Influence on Citizenship
A civic essay extols public playgrounds as equal grounds for all youths. It argues play teaches self reliance, fair play, and civic virtue, shaping future citizens through supervised activities under public auspices.
Control of transportation monopolies and corporate capital
Frank B. Kellogg argues that nearly forty years of legislation created a national policy to regulate transportation trusts and large corporate capital. He calls the policy wise, necessary, and lasting, saying it reflects deliberate national judgment and should endure, not driven by demagogues.
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Frank B. Kellogg
Happiest Girl in Lincoln Credits Stomach Tablets
A Lincoln Nebraska girl describes illness, then recovery after using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. She reports improvement in three days and praises the medicine as a great find. For sale by all dealers.
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Lincoln, Neb
Chamberlain
Lincoln
Doan's Kidney Pills End Back Pain Claims
A Doan's Kidney Pills testimonial from Mrs. E. T. Lehman of Sidney Nebraska describes relief from backache and kidney discomfort after cold-induced pain spread to the kidneys. The ad asserts the medicine as a universal remedy, noting price, sales by Foster Milburn Co. and availability from dealers nationwide.
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Io Dean
Sidney
Mre
E. T. Lehman
Sidney, Nebr
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Remarkable bridge unites two CHMs at Ireland coast
A reinforced concrete bridge spans an arm of the sea at Ireland’s extreme southwest, linking two CHMs. The single 172 foot long span rests on two parallel arches against cliff ends. Footway width is four and a half feet, with the structure extending 150 feet.
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Ireland
Bridge construction replaces traveling cage for fog signal access
Concrete used instead of steel due to exposure and spray. Bridge serves as access to the island cliff fog signal station, replacing the former traveling cage.
Electrically Cut Wooden Bridge Falls Into Water
An English wooden bridge scheduled for replacement was demolished using electrically heated wires. Each span contained twenty seven planks and dropped consecutively into the water after the wires reached a cherry red. The demolition began at 5 AM and completed around 2 AM without damaging the masonry piers or abutments.
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England
Scientile American
Compass method shows heat for steel hardening
A French Cosmos article says a compass can gauge heat for hardening steel. As steel heats its magnetic properties fade at a specific temperature unique to each steel type. Hold the compass near the forge until the needle stops deviating, then dip the tool in the bath after reaching that point.
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Cosmos
Oklahoma City Rejects Electrolytic Sewage Purification
Oklahoma City now uses no electrolytic apparatus for sewage purification. The system uses flumes with iron plates in sets of ten by twenty four by three eighths of an inch. Three flumes contain ten batteries of twenty seven plates each, purifying up to 250000 gallons daily. Current about one ampere per plate. The process bubbles hydrogen and oxygen to attack organic compounds and bacteria. Operating cost at four cents per kilowatt hour is 2.16 dollars per day.
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Oklahoma City
Santa Monica
Cal
Geologic Work of Ants Highlighted by Branner
Professor J C Branner, in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, argues ants are major tropical geologic agents. Ant burrows reach 3.5 meters deep and spread over vast areas, with ants and tropical termites possibly moving more earth than temperate earthworms.
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J. C. Branner
Bulletin of
The
Geological Society of America
Branner
Tropics
Washing Coal For Coke In Colorado And Utah 1910
In 1910 Colorado and Utah used 2 069 266 short tons of coal for coke. Washed coal totaled 1 387 070 tons before charging ovens, including 836 007 tons mine run and 551 003 tons stack. An additional 420 728 tons of washed stack plus 252 468 tons of unwashed run of mine coal were used unwashed.
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Colorado
Utah
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Bell Telephone Service
Ted
Nebraska Telephone CO
Paul R. Lamborn
J Fremont
Ferdinand Schulz
Fremont Brewing Company
Guckenheim
Yellowstone
Sidney, Neb
Yellowstone Park
Pacific
California
Denver
Scenic Colorado
Salt Lake City
Southern Pacific
Western Pacific
Feather River Canyon
Salt Lake
Northwest
Billings
Hue Hunt
M. A. Shipman
L. W. Wakeley
Omaha
North Side
Blacksmith
D State Fair
LINCOLN THE_STATES
Patterson
Giuseppe Petacg
Hysician
West Chicago
Vatican
Taft
Spring Garden
David Gordon
Toc
W. M. Pulver
First National Bank
Nebraska
D. J. Scanlon
Kruse & Kleia
E. Harper
E. J. Sweet
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