Revolutionary air oil electric locomotive touted for faster rail
The Southern Pacific receives a fireless smokeless waterless locomotive using compressed air fuel oil and electricity. It can haul a 2000 ton train from New York to San Francisco without stops. A new two mile per day track layer with a sixty foot crane and forty man crew lays rails and ties ahead of the train, forming track as it moves.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
New York
San Francisco
Indianapolis News
Good Roads Train To Go Far
A Burlington Northern Pacific Lewis and Clark good roads special will tour from Chicago on May 3 teaching highway building in 30 cities from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Coast. The two railroads and the National Good Roads association lead the lectures on highway needs and securing improvements with final meetings at the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland in June.
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Lake Michigan
Pacific Coast
Burlington-Northern _Pacific- Lewis & Clark
Chicago
National Good Roads Association
Burlington Railroad
Northern Pacific
Billings
Mont
Portland
Ore
Chicago Tribune
Mutual insurer bill shocks Kasparek in bankruptcy era
Odell Wave notes Henry Kasparek faced a $200-plus assessment bill from a Mutual Insurance receiver years after policy lapse and company bankruptcy. The piece recalls a prior small mutual misadventure and warns to steer clear of such firms.
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Henry Kasparek
Kasparek
Mutual Company
Odell Wave
Lawson on Business Power and Honest Motives
Boston millionaire Thomas W. Lawson shares rules for success, urging work ethic and understanding human motives. He contends wealth relies on honest self-management, effort, and improving tasks, while urging investment in land and local towns to build community prosperity.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Copper
Standard Oil
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