Mayor predicts electric toboggan slide to Gotham in two hours
Cleveland Mayor Tom L. Johnson told the Cleveland Civil Engineers club that rapid transit could shrink Chicago to New York travel to about two hours using an electric toboggan slide rail system. He said future travel would outpace ships and rival cannonball speeds, with magnetic slides moving passengers across the continent in seconds.
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Cleveland
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland Civil Engineers’ Club
Chicago
New York
Tulsa Press Explore Nation by Special Resource Train
A Tulsa organizational effort plans a special passenger train to promote the city’s vast natural resources. A baggage car will serve as a mobile newspaper office printing Daily Record editions in each visited town. A brass band will accompany the train as it travels through Nichois Indiana Ohio Iowa and Missouri.
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Tulsa
I. T
Aod
Specia
United States
Nichois
Indiana
Ohiio
Iowa
Missouri
Daily Record
Lulsa
Jail a House of Plenty in Woodbury Jail
Sioux City readers protest jail conditions alleging the sheriff profits from food supplies. Citizens complain of lavish jail luxuries and overcrowding while the grand jury calls for productive labor and curbs on inmate luxuries. Prisoners plan a petition to oppose the regime.
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Heriff
Sioux City
Woodbury County
Military reforms push for longer bayonets and bigger guns
The secretary of war notes a need to replace rifles with longer bayonets and redesigned bayonets to match a longer rifle length. He highlights American reach as excessive and argues for a lighter infantry scope while navy priorities bend toward large eleven inch guns and fewer small calibers to counter threats like torpedo boats.
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Ali
Ine &S
Manchuria
Port Arthur
Far East
Love Story of Mr. Steyn Arrives in Cape Town Fortress
Ex-President Steyn, back in Cape Town with his wife and daughters, recalls a long romance from his youth. A boy abroad to study law met a 12 year old girl on a ship, and six years later in Bloemfontein they reunited as an 18 year old Miss Fraser. He proposed but poverty delayed marriage. Letters to a mutual friend carried messages while he travelled. Townsfolk whispered of a growing bond beneath the surface rumor.
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Cape Town
Steyn
South Africa
Europe
Bloemfontein
Miss Fraser
Sweden Consul Alerts U S on Amundsen Arctic Expedition
San Francisco officials receive a letter from Henry Lund, Sweden and Norway consul, noting eight Norwegians aboard the sloop Gjoa under Capt Ronald Amundsen. They aim to observe magnetic north near Boothia Felix and seek the Northwest Passage, asking revenue cutters to assist if needed during their voyage.
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San Francisco
Stratton
Henry Lund
Sweden
Norway
United States
Ronald Amundsen
James Roas
Boothier Felix
Amundsen
North Pacific
Arctic
Ajea
Tts
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William Randolph Hearst
Great Southwest
Ng Man
Rand
Fashio
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Ouhaa
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W.R Brown
el Paso
Texas
Osis
BA. C. Nud
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Sedgwick Co
Kansas
Ballard
Ballard Snow Liniment CO
U. S A
Geo. T. Miller
J. M. Ruiz
J. W. Orchard
Hillsboro
New Mexico
Chas. H, Meyers, Propr
A. B. Elliott
H. A. Wolford
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Frank I. Given, Jf. D
Post Office
Aloys Preisser
Laidlaw Building
West
Court House
Tom Murphy
Alianza Sierra
Saloon
Jose Villass
Gotham
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MR. Steyn
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