Mistake in Train Numbers Triggers Fatal Quebec Express Crash
A head-on collision four miles north of Canaan Vermont on the Boston and Maine line killed 25 and injured 27 after a dispatch error misnumbered trains 30 and 33. The southbound Quebec express and a northbound freight collided in dawn mist as the freight conductor attempted a siding. Names of the dead and injured include residents of Quebec, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine, with several sent to Margaret Hitchcock hospital in Hanover New Hampshire.
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White River Junction
Concord
Boston & Maine Railroad
Canaan
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Timothy Shaughnessy
Castle Bar
Shaughnessy
Annie St. Pierre
Islevette
Fred M. Phelps
Ochiltree
Tex
A. E. Warren
Harverhill
Mass
F. C. Blake
South Corinth
Margaret Largy
Manchester
N. H
Barrell
Philip Gagnon
Alvina Giron
Nashua
Webster
Massachussetts
J. L. Congret
Somerville
Irving Gilford
KE Ll. Briggs
West Canaan
N. Jr
John G. Duncan
Bethel
Abby Jansen
THROWN BY HORSE AND KILLED IN Rock Creek PARK
Washington dispatch reports C Berry Winship 21 of a prominent local family killed after a horse threw him in Rock Creek park. One foot remained in the stirrup dragging him. Dr Glennon arrived but Winship died moments later after a sudden inheritance had recently come into his possession.
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Washington
Berry Winship
Rock Creek Park
Glennon
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Winship
Nerves of the World Cable Networks Span Global Distances
The article celebrates the vast reach of electrical and submarine cables linking continents. It notes thousands of miles of land wires and hundreds of thousands of nautical miles of cable, connecting places from Land's End to Lisbon and Suez to Aden, with lines across the China sea and Pacific routes. It highlights the global trade in messages and the reach of modern communications.
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Haute Congo
Titicaca
Peru
New York
Chicago
Sahara
Australia
Malayan
Gobi Desert
Central Asia
Old World
Land’s End
England
Lisbon
Spain
Brazil
Gibraltar
Alexandria
Egypt
Red Sea
Suez
Aden
Indian Ocean
Bombay
Madras
Bay of Bengal
Penang
Straits of Malacca
Sumatra
Java
New Zealand
China Sea
Foremosa Strait
Yellow Sea
Gulf of Mexico
National Magazine
Train Faces Narrow Ludgate Hill Rails Question
During a London metropolitan board hearing on Ludgate hill tramway plans George Francis Train is pressed by a noble lord about railway safety. Train responds that he would only pay if the horse would have fallen anyway without the rails, proving his willingness to defend his proposal.
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George Francis Train
Metropolitan Board of Aldermen of London
Ludgate Hill
Harper's Weekly
Moonlight and the Honeymoon Ends in town
After ten weeks of marriage the couple argues about romance as the husband dismisses moonlight magic. She calls him the meanest man in town and visits neighbors, while he pipes in with a practical joke about tides and tieds ending the moon nonsense.
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George
Parvenu's Wife-O Seeks Company and Castle Portraits
A Fliegende Blätter piece quotes a wife lamenting knighted status and endless duties. She wants visits, support for artists, and a grand castle with portraits for a gallery. She jokes about becoming a ghost if the burden endures.
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Parvenu
Emil
Hazing By Any Other Name Hurts Just as Bad
A feature on hazing practices and their harms argues the name change does not reduce the pain inflicted on students. It cites campus cases and emphasizes accountability, prevention programs, and cultural shift needed to stop hazing across organizations.
Change in Homestead Rules Lets Families Enter for Kin
In Battleford Saskatchewan a letter from Chas Gerts describes a 1907 change in Canadian land regulations allowing entry for a homestead by any family member head of household or dependent relative. He cites low fees, travel savings, and argues the Northwest offers rich soil, ready markets, growing railways, and a thriving settler community. The letter illustrates practical farming life, income potential, and the appeal of joining the homestead wave with family support and grit.
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Canada
Gerts
Chicago
Battleford, Sas
Cat Knife
Saskatchewan River
Battleford
Calgary
Harry
Saskatoon
Chas
M. Gerts
Saskatchewan
Alberta
United States
Manitoba
North West Provinces
Sinver
Leading Lady Requests Iron in Ohio Road Show
The star of a touring company in a small Ohio town ordered a hot iron to press lace collars. The hall boy failed to fetch one, and the bartender confessed he did not know how to mix it.
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Ohio
Deafness Cure Claim Stated for Constitutional Remedies
An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It explains inflammation of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube causes muffled hearing and warns permanent damage if untreated. The ad offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh-related case not cured and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Lydia E. Pinkham
Emma Runtzler
State St
Schenectady
N. Y
Child’s Grace Joke From Harper’s Magazine
Four year old Anna visits a friend for luncheon and chatters through grace. The hostess asks if they have grace at home, and the child responds that they have Bessie, a line from Harper’s Magazine.
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Anna
Bessie
Harper's Magazine
Tramp Declines Coat, Speaks Polite Yet Impatient
The farmer's wife offers a fine coat to Hilary Wearinesse, a tramp. He thanks her but insists he cannot wear a sack coat with the crowd around and implies social distance. The exchange reveals class tension and a humorous tone.
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Hilary
A Faithful Friend in a Hot Day
A man notes Johnny cannot work due to heat exhaustion. The supervisor asks if the illness is chronic, and the boy admits the pain is forgotten when he plays ball in the vacant lot. The scene portrays a child using play to cope with illness amid workplace pressures.
Automobilists Trade Tales On The Road
Two drivers discuss the journey to the next town noting eleven hills three bad bridges a long sandy stretch and two arrests as they meet at a road turn.
Appian Way, Rome to Brundisium, Built in 70 Years
The Appian Way, Rome to Brundisium, a major ancient road, was only 16 feet wide and took 70 years from start to finish to complete, highlighting the long endurance of early Roman engineering.
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Rome
Brundisium
Dutch Population Figures and Emigration Pattern
The article notes Holland's population of 5,000,600 versus 40,000,000 in the Dutch East and West Indies. It states Dutch emigration is not heavy, with 105,000 persons of Dutch birth in the United States per the last census and about 12,000 Netherlanders in the Dutch East Indies.
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Holland
Dutch East and West Indies
United States
Dutch East Indies
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