Amer electric firm lands big contract for eastern rail line lighting
An American electric manufacturing company has been awarded the entire contract for equipment of numerous electrical plants to be installed along the line of the Eastern Chinese railroad. The project, largely temporary lighting plants, could total about $200,000. The figure notes broad interests in anarchic explorations and a possible southbound trip, while the subject remains engaged in polar exploration research.
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American Electric Manufacturing Company
Co. O. D
Deadly rifle shows Lee Metford as perfected weapon
The article extols the Lee Metford used by British forces as a superior firearm. It details construction from stock to barrel, rifling, and proofing tests, then explains the body bolt and especially the magazine with a cut off to enable ten rounds ready for rapid fire.
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Lee- Metford
Lee-Metford
Tommy Atkins
Lehigh Valley humor in Sunday class
A Pennsylvania Sunday school teacher asks where Christ was born Willie replies Mauch Chunk. Georgie correctly says Bethlehem. Willie concedes he knew it was somewhere on the Lehigh Valley railway.
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Pennsylvania
Christ
Willie
Mauch Chunk
Georgie
Lehigh Valley Railway
Indian congressman Charles Curtis of Topeka
Kansas Republican leader Charles Curtis, nicknamed the Indian congressman for his Kansas Indian lineage, rose from bootblack to lawyer by night. A Providence plant recently produced an emery wheel 39 inches in diameter and 12 inches thick, built on a front center 31 inches in diameter on an 85-16 shaft, weighing over 1,200 pounds, designed to grind wooden balls. The text closes with a quotation on truth and faith by Silvio Pellico.
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Charles Curtis
Topeka
Kansas
New England
Louis Gonvil
Providence
Beware of dangerous catarrh cures and fake tonics
A jumbled ad copy warns against mercury based remedies for catarrh and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as mercury free and internally taken. It promotes Druggists selling at cur price and references testimonials and other products while noting cautions about unsafe compounds and quack claims. The column also mentions Laxative Bromo Quinine and Dr Kline nerve restorer, ending with a general aphorism about oil and water and love and philosophy.
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Hall
I. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & Co
Noted Zach's Grandson in British Regiment Death Claim
Letters from Southern members of the Insler family argue that Lieutenant C C Waoad of the North Lancashire British regiment, recently killed at Kimberley, South Africa, was a great grandson of President Zachary Taylor. They claim he was not a grandson of Jefferson Davis, though Jefferson Davis married General Taylor's daughter Sarah. Dr C Wood married Taylor's daughter Ann M, and the late Lieutenant C C Wood was their grandson, his father being Lieutenant Wood of the Confederate navy.
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Zach
Captain Of Our Salvation Quote From Mrs C Beltz Ad
Fragmentary historic ad style quotation praises personal leadership and self reliance. It mentions morphine Laudanum and Piso’s Cure as medicines, cites Mrs Beltz of Denver dated November 95, and tethers themes of triumph to tribulation.
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Piso
Dreamed Seven Seventeen Lucky Lottery Ticket
A French laundress who won the first prize in a big lottery claimed she chose number seventeen after dreaming of seven for three nights in a row. She said three times seven equal seventeen and bought the ticket, then won. The tale shows lingering superstition despite education.
Chicago drainage canal models at Paris exposition
A twenty foot model of the Chicago drainage canal will be shown at the Paris exposition. It will include models of excavating and conveying machinery used in the project and will operate to demonstrate the engineering feat. The exhibit is billed as among the most interesting engineering displays at the fair. The art of making work pay is a work of art.
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Ayer
Caas
E. Haagtman
Gibbstown
N. Y
Chicago Drainage Canal
Se‘anson Rheumatic Care Company
Chicago
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company
Swanson
C. A. Jackson
Heaney
Neb
Keitel
Usand
Fm New Territory
Bwanson Enheumatic Cube CO
Lake S
Ill
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