United States Shipbuilding Output in Fiscal Year
American-built ships show 1,657 vessels totaling 475081 tons produced in the year ended June 80 1002, vs 1,070 vessels 405610 tons last year. Steel steamers total 273470 tons, with four new vessels over 1000 tons. Lakes heavy output 41 steel steamers 198631 tons. delays due to steel strikes, demand for structural steel, and lack of orders.
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Bureau of Navigation
United States
Aganst
Mulling Verrels
Emni-Hoote
Barger
Great Lakes
Newboard
Hae
Dainty Summer Blouses and Other Modes
Fashion notes from Ellen Osmonde highlight the season's blouses and bathing outfits. Describes Araberque lace touches, colored glace silk designs, tucked mourseline collars, and various sleeve styles. Features pastel and rose pink accents, black point d esprit, and decorative belts, with pongee and mohair options for beach wear.
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Ellen Osmonde
Anchoring End Posts For A Sturdy Farm Fence
T G Shirley explains how to anchor end posts for a long lasting fence. Use a large cedar or locust post, 10 to 12 inches square, set five feet deep with an oak anchor brace four feet long. A notch on the post supports a brace made from four by six timber, with an iron rod or wire tension to hold, ensuring the post resists forward pressure.
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Race Tor
T. G. Shirley
Dipping for parasites and drainage tips from farm notes
Dipping sheep for parasites is essential at shearing, with multiple dips and sprays needed and housing treated to prevent re infestation. Drainage under barns and yards prevents moisture build up that fuels germ growth, with deep drains to keep ground dry. A long lived goose owned by William Brigham of Chadron attracts attention at a centennial event.
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Boseton
William Brigham
Chadron
Mr. Brigham
Burton
View of Westerners Sparks a Dining Room Debate
An opinster landlady complains about Westerners over a meal as her nephew and a politician join in the banter. The boarders discuss Western character, manners and manners of women, with jokes about California visitors and a lively, informal meal-time exchange.
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West
New York Tribune
California
Aunty Reprimands Nephews Over JAS Incident
A brief item notes an aunt chiding her nephews after a JAS incident. The report highlights family reaction and local commentary. No further details or names are provided in the readable text.
Driven to Desperation and Moral Misfires
A fragmented excerpt from a Los Angeles Herald item recounts a stormy romance torn by passion and sacrifice. The lover laments a lost pledge and a maid’s fatal devotion as others remark on wisdom, dissipation, and the poet’s missing feet, all conveyed in a collage of jokes and anecdotes from various papers.
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Wensick
Iset
Abe
Searick
Markets Report from New York and Other Cities August 1902
Market summary across major grain and livestock markets with prices for Flour Winter patents Wheat Corn and Oats in New York Cleveland Toledo and other centers. Cattle Hogs Sheep Lambs and Cheese and Butter prices noted with steady to dull tones and varied bids across regions.
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New York
Cleveland
York State
Hutter—Keat
Toledo
Interchangeable Mileage Tickets Good Across Major Lines
A Newark and Harlem division notice explains mileage tickets issued by the New York Central and shared with several railroads. Valid over 6000 miles of lines, including Rochester, Pittsburgh, Erie, and Atlantic City routes, these tickets cover one person or a dozen, with no fixed expiration and subject to local fares and rules. Thousands already hold them for regular and occasional travel, priced at two cents per mile.
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Ne Central
Work Central
Lawrenes Iaeons
New ‘Work Futons
Newark & Harlem
Penny Fanin
New York Central
Went Shore Railroad
Chenan Fens Vale Valley
Orton & Albany Row
Ueid
Rochester
Central Railroad
Peipay
Pittsburg
Johnstown
Eben Eastern Railroad
Qredelone Eta
Atlantic City
Buffalo
Ny Argun
Courteny Rewarded for Courteous Attentive Conduct
A conductor on the Chicago & Alton Line is rewarded after a passenger, a high Mobile & Ohio official, praised his attentive courtesy. The official appointed Mr Titus as Superintendent of the Mobile & Ohio, with duties starting August 1 from Jackson, making him the youngest dining-car superintendent in the U S at age twenty four.
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Chicago & Altar
HJ. Titus
Alton
Chicago
Mobile & Ohio Railway
Chicago & Alton Railway
Tithe
Jackson
Onn
United States
Jennial
San Francisco
Ald
Miller
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Newport
Sumamdr Bloubes
Reasick Maidem
Washington
Remus
Chicago Daily News
Onkers Statesman
Ohio State Journal
Cincinnati
Eniench For
Travilens
St. Louis
Nebraska
Braska Journal
Baltimore
Ioian
Ilia
Bougcas
Morden
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Lye
Claveland, Ly
Shelby Ly
Crestline
Indianapolis
St. Lathtess
Thas
Warrin J. Lynch
W. P. Deple
Vane
Ford
Uth
Uns
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