London’s grand telephone battle reshapes City of London
London braces for a vast conflict as thirty miles of streets are torn up for a government led telecom upgrade. The post office challenges the National Telephone Company with a £10,000,000 start and Western Electric built gear spread across Chicago, North Woolwich, and Antwerp. The plan promises cheaper service, new tolls, and a modernized network within five years, altering London’s phone landscape.
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Soeme
House of Commons
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Western Electric Company
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Antwerp
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Possullice
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Western Vlectrie Company
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Heiress of $5,000,050 found among Asa Wilber's kin
Windyall reveals Asa Packer Wilber, buried fifteen days in Potter's Field, was nephew and heir to $5,000,050 of Asa Packer of Pennsylvania. Only relative found is a niece, Vila Sayne, a San Francisco stage actress, now wife of Arche Ellis of Brooklyn.
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Arche Ellis
Brooklyn
Telegrams and telephone lines spark cheap London service
Receipts rise as telegrams cost twelve words for twelve cents. If London runs its new telephone business as well as telegraphs, it could offer cheap service tempting American cities. The postmaster general is the Marquis of Londonderry, a coal mine owner placed at the war’s start.
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No Sweat Boxes Warned By Internal Revenue Bureau
The Internal Revenue Service cautions against coercive tactics to obtain confessions or induce offers in compromise. A recent circular bans soliciting offers and pressuring delinquents, asserting such practices are unwarranted by law or regulations and must stop immediately.
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Treasury
The Shopper Detective: Women in Store Bargain Rings
A description of women employed as shoppers in big cities who pose as buyers to study stock, prices, and sales. They tour rival stores daily, risk exposure by clerks, and may be frozen out if discovered. One elite shopper travels in a brougham and helps her firm undercut rivals by preemptive discounts.
Ferris Wheel Proposed as Locomotive Round House
An enterprising railroad proposal considers laying the Ferris wheel on its side and roofing it in like a round house. The plan would allow the wheel to turn while housing seventy two locomotives on a single track. No frogs or turntables would be needed.
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Chicago Tribune
An Uninhabited London Parish of St Christopher le Stock
A London parish, St Christopher le Stock, has an electoral list that must be signed but contains no inhabitants. The ancient parish spans the open space before the Mansion House and Royal Exchange, reaching the Bank of England corner. Generations have passed without it being more than a shadow of a name.
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St. Christopher-le-Stock
Mansion House
Royal Exchange
Bank of England
Exploiting Water Power Becomes European Focus
The technical press in Europe highlights the rise of water power uses in France Italy and Switzerland. It contrasts renewable alpine snow and glacier energy with coal, noting white coal as a cheap substitute and sun driven energy that renews itself versus exhaustible black coal stored underground.
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Europe
France
Italy
Switzerland
Alps
Prediction by Charles Warner on club balcony ends in death
The late Dudley Charles Warner, while on a New York club balcony three years earlier, predicted something ten years ahead and then declared he would be dead, remarking he could not endure the wait.
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Charles
Dudley Warner
New York
A Cantonese Belle and Chinese Traditions
A Cantonese girl is shown with a sober but richly textured dress and elaborate headdress. The text notes dialect diversity, Manchu ruling, and social customs such as pawnbrokers, jewelry, long nails as status symbols, and the absence of hats or bonnets.
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China
Canton
Middle Kingdom
Widow Leaves Estate For White Girls Institute
By the will of Mrs. Indiana Williams who died recently in Amherst county Virginia, the bulk of a $500000 estate is left to establish an institute at Sweet Briar for the education of white girls.
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Indiana Williams
Amherst County
Sweet Brier
Fold Your Coat Device Aims to Save Heat and Tips
A novel wall mounted device uses heavy spring wire arms to hold a coat in place while the wearer inserts arms, exposing armholes and easing the coat into position. The arms pivot on a wall support and fold flat when not in use, doubling as a coat and hat rack.
Dickens aide George Dolby dies in London infirmary
George Dolby, private secretary to Charles Dickens, died recently in a London infirmary. He was penniless, dirty, emaciated, and unkempt, living nearly as a tramp, with later years supported by charity.
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Charles Dickens
London
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