New York City Aqueducts and Municipal Water Legacy
The piece traces New York and Brooklyn water systems from private to public, noting the Croton and new aqueducts, the Hudson crossings, and a state commission overseeing water rights. It highlights Burr’s pipes, the High Bridge, and labor from Europe as the city expands its supply while debt is managed through rates. It also recalls Henry Hudson’s arrival era and references historic Van Rensselaer lineage and Gardiner's Island within New England heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Harlem
Aqueduct
Halians
Croton River
Brooklyn
New York
Europe
Europe For Labor On the Threshold of A $200 000,0Uc
Preparation for the Messiah
A lesson outlining Malachi chapters 3 and 1 2 linking the forerunner John the Baptist to prepare the way for Christ. It discusses purification by divine judgment and refining fire, proper offerings, tithes and storehouses, return to God, and the promise that all nations will be blessed if Israel obeys.
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Jerusal Em
Isa
Christ
Matt
Psa
Tsa
Dan
Joel
Mic
Kay
Mat
Rev
Lev
Kings
Hron TM
Lea
Jer
Ezek
Iizek
John
Rom
Eph
Tim
John the Baptist
God
Jesus
Messiah
Israel
Levi
Jehovah
Tobiah
New York Water Works Proposals and Continental Comparisons
The piece surveys vast waterworks plans for New York City costing about 161 million dollars over ten years, potentially rising to 200 million, and compares them to grand schemes like the Erie Canal, the Panama Canal, and continental water strategies. It argues the new system could last ten years without reinforcement and suggests sourcing water from Lake George or Lake Ontario, noting similar supply ambitions in Massachusetts and London’s broader usage.
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New York
Albany
Congressional Library
Washington
Biiday
Prussia
Panama Canal
United States
Lake George
Lake Ontario
Adirondacks
Golid
Hudson Valley
Massachusetts
Clinton
New
Hudson Bridge Plan Aims to Honor Explorer Name
Article notes Henry Hudson’s 1509 New York arrival and Champlain’s lake sighting. It discusses a proposed $1,000,000 Hudson bridge across Spuyten Duyvil Creek, designed by artists to dignify his name. Some debate a World’s Fair for the four hundredth anniversary, but fear of failure stalls such efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Hudson
Hudson
New York
Cham- Plain
reatHudson
Ross
Spuyten Bayvil
American Manors and enduring colonial lineages
A compact survey of prominent American families whose estates and influence echo European nobility. It names the Bonapartists at Trenton and the Adirondacks, the Wadsworths in Genesee valley, Delaware’s Basards and Salisburys, Wentworths of Newburyport, and others like the Van Reneselaets, Schuylers, Philipses, Coopers, Morrises, Livingstons, Pierponts, and Rutherfords. It notes links to Washington and titles such as Fairfax, with Vanderbilts, Twomblys, Webbs, and Larrimans among those likely to endure in memory.
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America
Trenton
Adirondacks
Genesee Valley
Wadsworths
Basards
Salisburys
Delaware
Benning
Bennington
Vermont
van Reneselaets
Schuylers
Philipses
Coopers
Morrises
Livingstons
Pierponts
Rutherfords Evers
Gardiners
Lords Fairfax
Virginia
Washington
Fairfax
Greenway Court
Baron Fairfax
Lamndon
Wall Street
Byrds
Westover
Vanderbilts
Twomblys
Florham
Webbs
Shelburne
Larrimans
Arden Woods
Standing Rock selects Next Friend for Mary Collins
The Standing Rock agency tribe elects The Next Friend, Mrs Mary Collins, a missionary among the Indians for 30 years, to act for the tribe in political and legal relations. She represents multiple indigenous communities at Standing Rock ND.
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Mary Collins
Standing Rock ND
Standing Rock Agency
Comeback Trend Brings Artificial Flower Adornments
The piece notes a return to wearing artificial flowers as a fashion detail. Stella and Ella discuss roses on the cheeks as a fashionable look, referencing a Tong Topics segment.
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Ella
Stella
Tong
That thief got a remarkably light sentence says Tribune
A Chicago Tribune remark notes the jury found a thief guilty of plain direct stealing but cites the sentence as unusually light. The exchange highlights public reaction to a perceived lenient punishment in a graft era context.
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Chicago Tribune
English girls join active politics as new power
English women engage more in public life with young society women taking leading roles. Daughters of nobility such as Lady Dorothy Howard and others train under their mothers and mentors to speak publicly and join Liberal and Primrose League causes.
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Marjorie Sinclair
Countess of Aberdeen
Helen
Stavordale
Stavordale Helped the Marchioness of Lnondonderry
Primrose League
Countess of Crewe
Earl
Carlisle
Dorothy Howard
Girton
Order of Women's Fighters
Artificial diamonds and ship identification schemes reported
Article describes Dre Burton of Cambridge creating artificial diamonds from a lead calcium alloy with carbon, using steam at high heat to form graphite and microcrystals with properties like natural diamonds. It also notes the German admiralty planning color coded identification bands on ships to prevent misreading enemy vs friend during maneuvers.
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Dre Burton
Cambridge
England
Mars Canals Stir Wartime Theory Says Night Class Pupils
A night school discussion reports that Martian canals are military in nature. An amused pupil repeats the claim that everything on Mars is run by the war department.
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Mars
War Department
Chicago Tribune
Oldest Iron Grille Door Pieces Guard Winchester Cathedral
In Winchester cathedral a door made of four iron grille-work pieces stands as Britain's oldest surviving example of its kind, distinguished for its age and craftsmanship within the historic church.
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Winchester Cathedral
Britain
Markets Report From New York and Other Cities
The market notes list prices for flour wheat corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes hay cattle sheep hogs and lambs across New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo Pittsburg and other centers with varied quotes for pat ent and cash items including Minne sota spring patent flour No 2 red wheat and oats values and several livestock price ranges.
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New York
Minnesota
Cleveland
York State
East Buffalo
Pittsburg
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Poughkeepsie
Highlands
Jersey
Newark
Yonkers
Jersey Oranges
Ilsaen van Rensselalk
Stephen van Rensselaer
Canada Line
Sutherlands
van Rensselaer
Williams College
New England
van Rensselaers
Astor
Lion Gardiner
Gardiners Island
Long Island
Gardiner’s Island
Maryland
Kilaen
Roosevelts
Schuyler van Rensselaer
Mary King van Rensselaers
Familly
Cruger
Malachi
Nehemiah
Persia
Kensal Green
Ameca
Owen Langdon
NEW Power
Hubbs
Bubbs
Detroit Free Press
Toledo
L. C. Daveson’s
Wayne County
L. C. Davison
Dalton
Ohio
C. B. Feasel
TECH
Buckskin & Ball Brand
Peter Kurzen
Fst National Bank
Alton, Chio
Arlington Lodge
Halil
Wito Us
A.J Rehm
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Bec
Lorena
Rts Hall
On- Ale Street
San CP Dalton
Vee IL
C. Davison
CUP
F.E.G
Montrose Council
Wertz' Hall
Main Street
Sean
HORN
Ernest F. Scott
Knights OF Pythias
Alton Lodge
P. Minets
la Werta
Brothers Cornyally
I B. Douglass
C. QO
H H. Wertz
Reas
Akron
Barberton
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Mt. Vernon
Columbus
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Warsaw
Tranway
Zanesville
Dresden
J B. Modisette
W Ab I. Railroad
Liam
Akron Hudson
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Oak Barber
Fremont
Clyde
Bellevue
Monroeville
Norwal
Wellington
Sween
Spencer
Lodi
Creston
Smithville
Orrville
Unionvale Adena
Sy Mt Lesswant
Dillonvale
Brilliant
Mingo Junction
Steubenville
Martins Kerry
Ar Wheeling
Westround
Wheeling
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Peejonce
Navarre
Cone Masailion
J . Orrville
Tod
Ellington
Norwalk
Oak Harbor
Betty
Sherrodsville
Carrollton
Ville
Canton
Sherrods
Trafic Mar
Ron Ir
THE
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company
Buffalo
T Service
City OF Buffalo
City OF Erie
Detroit
Southwest
Cn Thin Company
Niagara Falls
C.&b
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G. P.A
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