Million Dollar Rail Improvement Planned by Union Pacific
Union Pacific officers approve about 1 million dollars forKansas City to Denver line upgrades. Ballasting with Sherman granite from Oakley to Ellis will cover 74 miles, completing ballast from Kansas City to Colorado terminals. System-wide 9 pound steel rails and new steel bridges to cost around 200,000 plus electrified block signals Kansas City to Ellis about 175,000. The project aims to finish quickly as one of the season’s largest western railway expenditures.
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Union Pacific System
Kansas City
Denver
Union
Sherman
Oakley
Ellis
Kansas
Uncle Sam to Start Volcano Prediction Service at Mauna Loa
Washington gossip item reports Harvard scientists forecasting Mauna Loa eruption next January or June 1917 based on a ten year cycle of volcanic activity. It notes endangered Hilo residents, possible government relocation, and a broader plan for a national volcano prediction service within the weather bureau. It also mentions free Marine Band concerts and the Washington Monument’s night visibility.
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Uncle Sam
Volcano Service
Washington, D. C
House
National Park
Mauna’ Loa
Hawaii
Sam
Bam
Mauna Loa
Harvard
Hilo
Taele Sam
Cal
Alaskan
PI Islands
Panama Canal
Weather Bureau
Fort Terry Plum Island Boys Training Camp bediening
The latest development of the training camp idea is a boys camp at Fort Terry Plum Island New York. It will run from July 6 to August 10 and be open to all boys over fifteen. The camp follows Plattsburg style and will be supervised militarily and medically by experienced regular army officers assigned from Washington.
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Fort Terry
Plum Island
N. Y
Plattsburg
Wasl
Australia Faces Apple Glut From Export Shortage
Melbourne reports a bumper Australian apple crop, but export ships are scarce. In Tasmania and Victoria about 5,000,000 cases harvested, yet only around 1,000,000 can be exported. Nearly 4,000,000 cases will remain for domestic use, forcing a national apple-a-day for five months to consume the surplus.
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Melbourne
Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Commonwealth
Public Advertisement for Chamberlain's Tablets Indigestion Remedy
A reader testimonial from Mia C. Riley of Mion New York credits Chamberlain's Tablets with relief from indigestion after months of use. The notice claims the remedy is widely available and effective.
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Chamberlain
Mia
C. Riley
Mion
N.Y
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Rose the Wonderful
Bath
New Post Toasties
New Post
Santox
Blackfoot Farmers Milling Co., Ltd
Graham
D. W. Standrod & Co
The
Blackfoot Optimist
Pearson & CO
F. C. Christ
Neil F. Boyle & Co
Brown-Hart Co
Hendrie Implement CO
E. & G. Bills Auto Co
Ford and Overland
Isis Theatre
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