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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1916
Page
23
An engine fireman acts quickly to save lives when a connecting rod breaks on a locomotive traveling about 60 miles per hour. He climbs the tender and uses an air line cut to stop the train, saving crew and passengers amid wreckage.
A garbled OCR note reports a record carload moved by a major railroad, mentioning Vernertramky and Cran Greenville with references to tonnage and car stow measurements. It cites Arcoaling to the Engineering News and hints at a large payload, though many words are illegible.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch correspondent recalls Tommy Drake, a frequent Braddock to city rider on the Pittsburgh and Connellsville line in the sixties. When trains at City Farm siding faced delays, Drake warned passengers they could ride back or walk the two blocks to Braddock, a practice born from railroad rules and schedule pressures.
Great Western Railroad company introduced gardening plots along the railway to aid employees during the war. Men cultivate wartime vegetables on available spaces on both sides of the line, with each allotment 10 to 20 rods. The effort increases home produce and supports wartime needs as fewer deliveries arrive.
A damaged engine housing yielded a rare scene as four robins nested inside and were moved to safety. A crate's contents and a scowplow yard transfer followed as technicians freed the birds, which promptly returned to the scene before relocation.
Fragmented OCR describes a derailment with an engine leaving rails and a guard falling back onto the main track. It mentions a freight crash near Uhrng and a derailed car, with halted operations and subsequent stoppage. The text is badly garbled and names are unreadable.
Electrification efforts in the United States advance as planners estimate about 2,500 wires needed for rail lines. The project aims to improve traction, efficiency, and service reliability across multiple routes.
The text describes the Isonzo river running through Austrian territory near the Parale and Juthin Alps to Trieste, its navigability limited by turbulence, and its delta forming the GuIf of Trieste. It notes Istria and Trieste as Austria coastlands, with Gorice as a fashionable resort city, Aquileia’s rise, and rail links to Venetian towns.
Mazatlan on Mexico's Pacific coast is described as a busy entrepot for wealth in Sinaloa and surrounding mining regions. The harbor is guided by Cerro del Creston lighthouse, with ancient Indian habitation nearby, and the city sits on a peninsula opposite the Bay of Olás Altos. The article notes its export of gold and silver, ore shipments from Zacatecas and Durango, a six day steamship distance to San Francisco, and a history including a bubonic plague depopulation fourteen years earlier with vast casualties and cleanup efforts.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a rural dialogue with garbled words and missing context. It mentions a city boy and a farmer and puzzling phrases about height and timing, but no coherent events, names, places, or dates to establish a clear news item.
Wealthy mining engineer Donald Mack tells Miss Ethel Williams of Syracuse how a dream girl named Ethel Williams guided him to avoid open water and reach safety during a 700 mile sled trip across Alaska. He mailed the card and story from Juneau, praising her intervention.
A damaged text describes a theater poster controversy. Wiese objects to a poster featuring a draped figure in overshirt, likened to Anthony Comstock. Children appear on smaller sheets while a large display hides the figure, prompting concerns over propriety and censorship.
A tumbling sequence of misfortunes spans Fallon to Renner and Elko with shootings, automobile wrecks, drowning incidents, and hunting mishaps. Reports note injuries to Wallace McNeil, Joe Powers, and others, a coroner’s inquiry into a death due to heart failure, and a message about a rise in severe storms in Salt Lake area.
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