Notable Global Facts From Acurate Measurements And Trivia
The article surveys diverse items including Mt Aconcagua height at 23080 feet, Columbia River salmon pack around 300000 full cases, Gulf of California pearls worth 350000 in Lower California, a desert beacon guiding to a water hole, and France with canals and navigable rivers. It notes US tea consumption, British and Australian per-head intake, and a Philadelphia hospital case using Finsen rays for lupus showing hair regrowth in one patient.
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Polyclinic Hospital
Philadelphia
New San Pedro Line Opens Vast Southwest Country
The opening of the San Pedro line across Southern Utah and Southwest Nevada opens a vast new country. It is large enough to support a substantial empire and hosts natural resources that remain largely untouched.
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Utah
Nevada
San Pedro
Long Island Railroad To Test Land Productivity
An agricultural experiment of great importance is to be undertaken by the Long Island railroad. It has purchased 17 acres of land along its line for extensive farming to determine how much improved island land can be made productive and yield returns to agricultural effort.
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Long Island Railroad
European Press Mirrors U S Warship Launch Details
European newspapers closely follow every aspect of a new United States warship launch, matching the detail of American journals. The text suggests old world governments keenly grasp the impact the United States may have in future global upheavals.
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United States
Europe
Old World
Land Lease Near Summerville for Russian and Polish Colonies
A lease was signed for 3000 acres near Summerville South Carolina for settlement by Russian and Polish agricultural groups. The Jewish Incorporated Azri leased 500 acres and will dispatch colonists immediately to engage in farming and poultry raising in the new settlement.
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Summerville
Azri
State Convict Inspectors of Alabama report favorable year
J. M. Carmichael president reports for the fiscal year ending August 31 that earnings rose due to new contracts. Gross receipts total $540,839.88 with disbursements $251,180.65 leaving a net $289,659.23 in the black.
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State Board of Convict Inspectors of
Alabama
J. M. Carmichael
Sounding Deep Shaft Facts At Red Jacket Mine
The Red Jacket shaft at Big Calumet and Hecla copper mine shows that anything dropped from the mouth of the deepest shaft never reaches the bottom, clinging to the east shaft wall instead. College of Mines faculty study suggests a method to estimate Earth's crust thickness, though the problem remains unsolved.
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Calumet
Hecla
College of Mines
Crisis of self destruction defies law and logic
The article notes death by self harm resists analysis and suppression through legislation. It observes that even amid general prosperity, statistics show an increase in these cases rather than a decline, challenging expectations that wealth would reduce such tragedies.
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United States
Ohio House Artesian Well Bore Yields No Water
In 1857 Ohio attempted to tap artesian water in the state house yard. Geological science was then undeveloped, and the project bored 2,775 feet over nearly a year from November 4, 1857, to October 1, 1858. No artesian water was found.
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Ohio State House
Ohio
Ohio Geological Reports
Prince Potemkine Arrives at Ellis Island Hidden Nobleman
An aristocrat from Russia, Prince Potemkine, entered the United States among steerage passengers fleeing oppression. He arrived at Ellis Island in New York harbor wearing noble attire and carrying a fortune in money, drafts, and jewels, and he claimed his title when questioned.
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Russia
America
United States
Ellis Island
New York Harbor
Prince Potemkine
Secretaries and reforms for the consular service
It is believed that as secretary of state Mr. Root will pursue needed reforms in his department, including civil service placement for the consular service and higher pay for officials. A Lodge Bill with these provisions has stalled in Congress for two sessions.
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Root
War Office
Congress
Distressing German children crisis spurs life study news
Prominent events from recent days include reports on children's crises in Germany and a rising talk on home conditions, with 11,000 suicides in 1903 noted. Also noted are deaths, disease outbreaks, arrests, diplomatic changes, and various local and international disturbances. John M. Hamilton, former Illinois governor, dies in Chicago after years of illness. Typhoid cases rise among convicts in Washington state. Knights and Ladies of Honor memorial day set. Black Hand arrests on a Staten Island ferry. Alabama tightens Jackson Miss quarantine. Russia reports Japanese actions around Sakhalin. Duluth police curb bear shooting in city. Norwegian Swedish delegates reach agreement. White furs trend in London. Greek-Romanian diplomatic rupture complete. Cardinal Cisne on coaling at Vigo. Clinton bank indictments and Nellie Nussbaum case. Butte loss estimated at 600000. Balbino Davillos appointed to Mexican embassy staff in Washington. Charlotte printers end eight hour day strike.
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John M. Hamilton
Ilinois
Chicago
Hamilton
Richwood
Union County
Walla Walla
Wash
Supreme Lodge
Knights and Ladies of Honor
Louisville
Staten Island
Black Hand Society
New York
Alabama
Jackson
Miss
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Siberian
Sakhalin
Duluth
Minn
Troyer
Mane
Karstad
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Greece
Roumania
Athens
Italy
Bucharest
Cardinal Cisnerense
Rio Janeiro
Vgio
Spain
Morocco
Salmon & Salmon Bank
Clinton
Thomas M. Casey
Nellie Nussbaum
Butte, Mont
Sire
Symons Dry Goods Co
Balbino Davillos
Mexico
Washington
Charlotte
N. C
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Cuba
Rufus Binyon
Ardmore
I. T
Kason
Taggart
Eli Jordan
Pike County
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N. Y
Merteza Khai
United States
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Louis Napoleon
Caucasus
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Swango Hill
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Ill
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International Peace Congress
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Sweden
Norway
Prince Yi
Emperor
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Seoul
Korea
Alice Roosevelt
Note
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Komura
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Tacoma
Anita Evans
H. Clay Evans
David Foote Sellers
Cited States Navy
Chattanooga
Jose Donahue
Minneapolis
Henry Ripson
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Sevastopol
Godfrey Cavaignac
Dreyfus
Saint Calais
The
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Chambers Memorial Presbyterian Church
Rutledge
Francis H. Palmer
Peconic Bank
Sag Harbor
Buffalo
Gen. Booth
Salvation Army
Canada
England
Audubon Boy
Star Pointer
Readville
Lula Wise
Jacksonville
Fla
Calabria
Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge
Commissioner of Pensions
Collision Destroys Private Car Amid Express Train Crash
A rear-end collision near Paoli station as the New York Limited Express struck a local train, killing five and wounding more than twenty. The private car carrying General Manager Attenbury was wrecked, and the day coach ahead was crushed. The engine ploughed ten feet into the private car, only forward cars on the local train avoiding damage. The engineer and fireman aboard the Limited were uninjured.
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St. Louis
Paoli
Pennsylvania Railroad
D. E. Bolt
Dayton
Attenbury
New York Limited
Limited
Fever Cases Rise in Pensacola and Mississippi Cities
In Pensacola Florida twenty five new yellow fever cases were reported to the state health office for the 24 hours ending Monday night, bringing Sunday and Monday totals to 34 with one death. The spread is across scattered city areas, hindering early control before frost. In Jackson Mississippi reports indicate rapid spread at Hamburg with nine new cases four suspicious and one death on Monday, plus scattered notes of cases and deaths in surrounding locales.
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Hamburg
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John Walworth
Natchez
Ormerly
Pearl River District
Douglas Walworth
Natchez Democrat
Conway
Ark
Frank Brown
Lawrence
Pensacola
Fla
State Health Office
Jackson
Galton
Mississippi City
Zemstvo Congress Proposes General Bureau In Russia
In Moscow on September 26 the congress of zemstvo and municipal representatives met at Prince Tcherbatoff's residence under Count Heydon. They presented a petition from the last all Russian zemstvo congress and debated a resolution to form a general zemstvo bureau and to have city zemstva participate in the gosudartvennaia douma to unite for protecting their interests and expanding their work.
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Moscow
Zemstvos
Russia
Prince Ticherbatoff
Heydon
Gosudartvennaia Douma
National Assembly
Powder Explosion Destroys Speizo Fireworks Plant
A large powder blast at Joseph Speizo's Green Point fireworks factory killed 16 year old Antonio Speizo and seriously injured his mother and two younger brothers along with a worker. The explosion leveled the plant and damaged nearby buildings within a mile while officials investigated the cause. The Speizo family operated a small frame shop adjoining the works where they produced saluting bombs for Italian festivals.
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New York
Joseph Speizo
Green Point
Speizo
Antonio
Kansas City State Bank Fails in Voluntary Liquidation
Kansas City State Bank, under president Wiley O. Cox, failed to open and entered voluntary liquidation. It had loaned 168000 dollars to Sal mon and Salmon Bank at Clinton Missouri, which failed last July, hurting depositors for several hundred thousand dollars.
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Kansas City
Kansas City State Bank
Wiley O. Cox
Bank of Salmon & Salmon
Clinton
Duchess of Marlborough Undergoes Throat Operation
New York Sept 26 The duchess of Marlborough formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt was operated on for a throat affection by Dr H Holbrook Curtis at a private hospital. She withstood the operation in a most satisfactory manner.
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Duchess of Marlborough
New York
Consuelo Vanderbilt
H. Holbrook Curtis
Snow Covers Mt Washington Summit In Early Fall
Snow to the depth of six inches covered the summit of Mt Washington and lay on the ground to a lesser depth down to the half way house. The thermometer registered 26 degrees as the chilly autumn morning set in.
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Mt. Washington
N. H
Fatal Train Collision at Woodstock Crossing in Birmingham
In Birmingham on September 26 a Alabama & Great Northern train collided with the Blockton accommodation of the Louisville & Nashville at the Woodstock crossing. Conductor H. H. Marbury was killed and 27 others were injured, including 16 white men and 11 black men.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama & Great Northern
Louisville & Nashville
Woodstock Crossing
H. H. Marbury
Roosevelt Jr to Enter Harvard After Harvard Visit
Boston Sept 26 Mrs Roosevelt visited Harvard to inspect rooms at Claverly hall for Theodore Roosevelt Jr and reports he will enter Harvard this week.
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