River Power Crisis Hits Minneapolis Mills And Trams
The Mississippi at low stage disrupts water power for Pillsbury Washburn and other mills, forcing steam plants and reduced streetcar service. Twin City Transit plans to prevent future outages while officials weigh lumbering, ice congestion, and reservoir actions as causes.
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Minneapolis Journal
Missiesippi
Minneapolis
Mississippi
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
St. Paul
Pillsbury
Power Company
Tay
Pillsbury-Washburn Company
Is “Br
Washburn-Crosby Company
Consolidated Company
Excelsior
Columbia Mills
Twin City Plage Transit Company
St. Anthony
Falls of
C. C. Goodrich
Minneapois
de la Barre
Mississippi River
London Globe reports practice of tramping workers taking families
The London Globe notes that lower grade workmen often bring their families while searching for work, a habit uncommon among the better sort who fear children’s growing interest in accompanying them during long travels.
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London Globe
The Famous Maelstrom Described In Ocean Lore
A Chicago Record Herald letter summarizes the real maelstroms near Lofoten and Moskene Strommen, Vaero, and perilous tidal channels. It explains how whirlpools form twice daily, risk ships and even whales, notes historical superstition, and cites Norwegian hydrographic notes on safe passage periods and whirlpool speeds up to twenty six miles per hour.
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Lofoden Islands
Victor Hugo
Jules Verne
Edgar A. Poe
Moskene
Roest
Lofoden Archipelago
Moskanes-Strommen
Vaero
Saelstrom
Norwegian Hydrographic Office
Siberian Railway Scenes. Letter In London News
A London letter recalls the chaotic bustle of Siberian rail travel from Irkutsk to Transbaikalia. Trains run crowded with officials, peasants, and families, each scrambling to outpush others for better class seating. A Cossack officer even flaunts regulations to ride first class.
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London News
Irkutsk
Transbaikalia
Siberia
Jerery
Spark
Baranchiki
Lake Baikal
How to Manage a Wife in Senegalese Wisdom
Obudaga, a Senegalese chief with forty five wives, offers maxims on managing women for less experienced readers. He warns that a wife prefers a feared man, advises selective discipline, and notes that glances can be sharper than spears. He suggests moving wives to prevent feuds and counsels marrying many without taking it too seriously.
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Obudaga
New Stock of Artists Materials at Reduced Prices
Johnson-Woodbridge Co offers new stock of artists materials at lowered prices. Located at 42 East Washington Street, the shop promotes affordable supplies for painters and sketchers.
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Johnson-Woodbridge Co
East
Washington Street
Revenue Cutter Service Acknowledged for Heroic Roles in US History
The New York Press extols the Revenue Cutter Service for its war feats from the Spanish American War onward. It cites Lieut Frank H Newcomb and the Hudson at Cardenas, the McCulloch firing Manila’s first shot, and officers who aided Dewey’s fleet, plus life saving, piracy suppression, and harbor policing feats.
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New York Press
Navy
Revenue Cutter Service
Spain
United States
Congress
Frank H. Newcomb
Sperry
Patchogue
Cardenas
Hudson
Winslow
Manila
McCulloch
Lee
Dewey
Hong Kong
Hodgson
Washington
Manila Bay
Joshua Barney
Thomas Troxton
James Nicholson
Samuel Nicholson
Stephen Decatur
Constellation
Revenue Service
Naval Establishment
France
Little Treasury
Gulf of Mexico
Jefferson
Revenue
Union
Harriet Lane
Fort Sumter
Nemaha
Sherman
Savannah
Sewall'’s Point
Newport News
Hatteras Inlet
Fort Darling
Sumner J. Kimball
Revenue Marine
Naval Academy
Cers
Manhattan
New York Yacht Club
East River
Twenty-third Street
Philippines
George
Joynes
Cavite
Newcomb
Sebastopol
Half Hour's Daily Reading Note from Philadelphia Post
A fragment from Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post argues education should not end at graduation. It laments graduates forgetting the influences of schooling and contends true learning continues beyond formal coursework.
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Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Jeve
A Danger That Has Passed From the Saturday Evening Post
An early 20th century analysis argues that urban crowding is alleviated by rapid transit and telephone development. Cities are expanding outward, merging with rural areas, making the boundary between city and country indistinct. If transportation improves, a thirty mile radius could house immense populations without crowding, foreseeing vast urban growth beyond current limits.
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Saturday Evening Post
Philadelphia
New York City
Rhode Island
New York
United States
H. G. Wells
Urban expansion and the rise of suburbia in transit vision
The excerpt envisions rapid transit at high speeds creating vast urban regions. It describes a future where a radius of a hundred miles merges New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington, erasing city country boundaries and making urban and rural terms obsolete as life becomes suburban.
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New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Bumblebees as Topers and the Wistaria Debauch
The Chautauquan recalls bumblebees as a pest to timber and crops, detailing how black headed females bore holes that rot barns. A boy’s first money came from killing them. The piece links wistaria intoxication to bee deaths, noting white headed males dominate while females vanish near the vines. It warns of potential crop effects if bees decline.
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China
Caspar Wistar
Modernist Debate On Statesmen Insight
A Modernist objects to the idea that current statesmen lack foresight. Senator Sorghum replies that modern intelligence is not inferior and notes that opportunities to get rich were overlooked by older generations.
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Senator Sorghum
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Waters
Min
Neapolis
Bridgnorth
Board of Guardians
Hydrographic Office
Chicago Record-Herald
Siberian
Baltimore Sun
Lieut. Newcomb
Michael Angelo
Newton
Angelos
Newtons
Kev. J. Marott
Holiday Footwear
Wistaria
Garland Steel Range
Garland
Rambler Bicycles
Stearns Bicycles
Palmer Tires
C. Koehring & Bro
Virginia Avenue
Telephone
Taft’s Dental
West
California Fruits and Produce
Hoffman House
Monarch Grocery
East Washington St
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