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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
1
Cleveland Mayor Tom L. Johnson told the Cleveland Civil Engineers' club that rapid transit could shorten Chicago to New York travel to two hours via a magnet driven toboggan like electric rail, with electric control enabling straight line motion and mass transit future.
Tulsa press aims to showcase natural gas coal lands and other resources by sending a dedicated train through Illinois Indiana Ohio Iowa Missouri. A daily Daily Record will be published aboard a baggage car newspaper office while a 50 member brass band tours eastern towns.
In Sioux City Iowa tax payers mobilize against Woodbury County jail conditions. They accuse the sheriff of a percentage on food bills and note lavish jail luxuries including elaborate menus cigars hair mattresses and no labor. The grand jury calls for penal labor and ending luxuries while prisoners plan a petition.
Mrs Corntousel laments boarders dislike of country vegetables. The farmer jokes they should appreciate produce bought from the same town. Wishington Star report with rural humor and dialect.
British naval volunteers were instructed that beards must be clipped in a torpedo style. The Vandyke trim is described as the official naval beard, with flowing beards deemed unfashionable and tied to older, unshaven appearance.
The record price for an orchid was set in March at a London auction for a heavily blotched Odontoglossum form, selling for 6035 dollars. A small plant exhibited large chocolate brown markings covering about half the flower.
Yucatan's 1905 exports include 597,289 bales of sisal fiber valued at 29,625,430 Mexican dollars and 117,500 for skins plus 18,200 for vehicles. Over ten years sisal alone has yielded 297,000,000 Mexican silver.
A daily paper states the county in Nevada spanning 16 000 square miles has no mission hall or Gospel preaching within its borders despite a population of several thousand people.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes a troublesome neighbor refusing to loan a lawn mower, while British naval manoeuvres recount a midshipman ram not under control under fenders. A separate transit note says Atlantic travel now shifts westward with 119,000 passengers arriving in New York after eastward travel this year.
An elderly witness in Bellinzona Switzerland announced she was 102, but cross examination established she was 106. She said she was ashamed of being so old while testifying on the stand.
Scientists in the Philippine Islands have identified the sinarapan as the smallest creature with a backbone. This tiny fish reaches about half an inch in length and showcases remarkable miniature anatomy.
The oldest building on Wall Street is the government assay office just east of the sub-treasury. It is 83 years old, having been erected in its time.
Lantern slides are issued by the British Admiralty for use in lectures to crew aboard warships. Officers will use the slides to illustrate lessons and raise troop familiarity with naval topics.
The Balkan in Turkish usage refers to a range of wooded hills with pasturage and meadow land on their slopes. It denotes a mountainous or hilly landscape region described as a mass of wood ed hills.
The French government reportedly spent 50 million dollars during the late crisis over Morocco to prepare for potential conflict with Germany. This figure highlights the financial strain of escalating tensions and military preparations abroad.
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