Railways in Japan and Crawford'sAmerican project
Col J S X Crawford, an American civil engineer, has returned after two years in Japan promoting American railway methods on Yezo Island. He helped plan a 54 mile line to a northern sea port, with twenty three miles completed by 1880. English and American costs differ greatly, with Japanese interest rising as American efficiency proves profitable.
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Odd Tales From a Courtroom Jam Session
In Carson City a court waited on a petty larceny verdict when a man recounted bizarre stories of pigeons devastating wheat, alligators dragging children, and prices for birds sold in New Orleans. Judge Curry listened with interest as the teller claimed to keep soul and body together in a Washington bureaucracy while spinning curious yarns about Lincoln and a talking dog.
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New Orleans
Lincoln
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An African Pompeii Rediscovered in Sahara Ruins
The New York World reports a dramatic find in the Algerian Sahara by MM Tarry linked to a planned Urums-Sahara Railway. Excavations reveal a sand mound opening to a dome, a square platform, a mosque, and substructure remains suggesting a buried, once populous Sahara city before Islam.
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New York World
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Tarry
Urums-Sahara
Larry
Sweet Potato Culture Tips From Wick's Monthly
The article explains hot bed preparation with rich soil for early spring sweet potatoes. It covers laying seed tubers, spacing, and covering, producing slips, and transplant timing after frosts. It recommends warm mellow soil, row or hill planting, and good summer cultivation for a fair crop.
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Wick
Mexico's Yankee Population in a Slowing Nation
A critical look at U S settlers in Mexico describing Yankees as engineers, capitalists, tourists and speculators while condemning vices and calling the country undeveloped. It highlights agricultural labor and primitive industry but notes potential vast trade with the United States.
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Mexico
United States
Advena
Odd Encounter at Detroit Store Sparks Curious Exchange
Shoppers at 4 Woodward Avenue yesterday witnessed an old man with a cane and a bundle question customers about sleigh travel and a white boss. The dialogue grew disjointed as a woman in a cutter and others reacted, and the scene ended with confusion over cranberries' price.
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Detroit
Woodward Avenue
Cranverries
Death of a Hero: Engineer Harry Freeburn
Washington report confirms engineer Harry Freeburn, who piloted the south bound train in Saturday’s collision with the presidential party train, died at his sister's home on four and a half street South Washington early yesterday. He was widely known for his long railroading career and numerous unfortunate incidents.
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Washington
Harry Freeburn
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Hero Engineer Harry Freeburn Remembered for Courage on Rails
The article recalls the long service of engineer Harry Freeburn praised for unwavering duty and nerve. It notes past heroics at Benning Station and a tunnel collision. In a crisis near Severn he saved his fireman by ordering a jump then died in the aftermath while others labored to bring in ceremonial visitors.
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Ete
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George
Jurop
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Ireeburn
Freeburn
Washington
Parlor Lectures and City Radio of Oddities Across Papers
A collage of tidbits notes a Philadelphia lecture by Susan Dickinson on English literature, New York street roller scenes, a looming reception for Wheeler in Malone New York, and spring antics. Other items include a San Francisco delinquent tax list, a Virginian Territorial Enterprise notice, divorce settlements and fortunes, a Boston wit on self denial, Miss Simmons Tilden’s racque galop fame, and a milvert ear project mention.
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Putnam County
Anna Dickinson
Susan
Philadelphia
New York
Wheeler
Malone
N.Y
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Pacific Coast
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Detroit Free Press
Boston Transcript
Miss Simmons
Samuel J. Tilden
United States
Europe
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Issa
New Haven Register
Shakess Mlays
Paris Wit and Gossip from a Paris Journal
Translation and adaptation of fragments from a Paris journal. The text mix includes racial slurs, social satire, and short anecdotes about manners, money, and a Kansas refugees report noting 60,000 colored refugees since February 1879 and 55,000 settled in Kansas with 30,000 in the country and 25,000 in towns.
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Kansas
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