Gargantuan Locomotives Delivered to St Paul Line
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul received several of the era’s largest locomotives with 84 1/2 inch driving wheels and 25 and 15 inch cylinders. The engines measure 68 feet 11 inches long with a 200 pound boiler and 3,215 square feet of heating surface. They promise high speeds and drastic schedule improvements on Chicago to Milwaukee and Chicago to Omaha routes. Mrs Theresa Wilcox, Hawaii delegate, starts a bilingual Honolulu paper. A column offers advertising guidance stressing clarity, relevance, and frequent, informative notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road
St. Paulton
Miller
The
St Paul
Chicago
Milwaukee
Omaha
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Michigan Stove Company
Hereford
Thomas Mayburn
Mfr
Chicago Journal
Ants and Gum Arabic and a Not Eaten Dinner
Ants of the Aldau Industry describe how gum arabic collection is aided by ants perforating acacia bark to reach sap, leaving gum globules. A garbled tale mentions a Christus Dinner uneaten due to indigestion and a Nature remedy for digestion. Thomas Fleming of Rathdram Idaho is found guilty of manslaughter for killing John Keeler during an attempted beating.
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Ants
Aldau
Thomas Fleming
Rathdram
Idaho
John Keeler
Fleming
Keeler
Handsome calendar offered by railway line art
An advertisement for a calendar titled The Handsomest Calendar of the Season in ten colors featuring six paintings by Moran. Reproductions advertised on six 10x12 inch sheets, issued by General Passenger Agent F A Miller of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. Price is twenty five cents plus mail, address Chicago.
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Moran
General Ger
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
F. A. Miller
Chicngo
English Capital In Russia Shapes Industrial Sectors
Inte Russian reports English capital plays a key role in Russian industry with forty British firms active mainly in southern Russia. Sixteen in petroleum, eight in coal iron and steel, twelve developing mines for metals and precious stones, and nine in textiles bicycle making and general construction.
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Russia
Inte
Lght
Twelv
River Ore and Alde Iken river fortress view
London Spectator describes the River Ore in mid Suffolk known as the Ore or Iken river, its journey from Orford to Hollestey bay, and the Alde and marsh barrier. From Orford keep the landscape reveals a labyrinth of river, marsh, and sea guarding the coast and the old Flemish invasion route.
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England
Orford Beach
Wea
Hollestey Bay
mid-Suffolk
Aldeburgh
Orford Keep
Bartholomew de Glanville
Henry
Walla
London Spectator
Steel trap for tigers in Sumatra novel method adopted
A new tiger capture method in Sumatra uses a dog luring tiger to a fenced enclosure with a delicate steel trap. When a tiger steps onto the platform, springs trap the leg, holding the animal while nearby handlers either kill or cage it. The dog is released, as the trap is designed to prevent its own capture.
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Samat
Sumatra
Great Tobacco Mix and Hospital Plans Highlight 19th Century notices
The piece notes a proposed Universal Tobacco Company with capital of 75 million, a British and Ontario hospital for consumptives funded by Mr Maseey, and free patient transport by the Grand Trunk railway. It discusses fashion trends, tech advances, and social notices including Mrs. Lewis A. Hall’s death, parks gulls in London, and Marconi’s wireless signaling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Tobacco Combination
Universal Tobacco Company
Capital
Feld
Great Britain
Butoye Ontario
Maseey
Grand Trank Railway
French Poachers Use Cars to Net Partridges in Hants
French poachers exploit cars and bright lights to drive along public roads and net game birds at speed. The birds are drawn to the lights and captured in nets. No game-law violation is evident in this method.
Squirrels Nest Destroys Church Chimney in Winter Park
Squirrels caused trouble at Coseregational church in Winter Park Florida. Sexton Davis reported an unexpected difficulty when firing the season’s flat fire. An inspection found a nest of squirrels filling the chimney top to four feet below the opening.
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Chtawen Sexton Davis
Winter Park
Mla
Florida Times-Union and
Citizen
Mourning Ends as Parliament Opens Next Year
A wind up of mourning for Queen Victoria ends January 22, 1902 with possible state ceremony. If Parliament opens January 23, the king and queen will attend with royal family in England for the first full coronation style events of the new reign.
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Victoria
England
Sprinkling Streets With Oil In D C To Cut Dust
Sprinkling certain streets with oil in Old Columbia following California example costs about 36 dollars per block and improves dust suppression and surface smoothness. A St Petersburg capitalist offers 140000 roubles for North Pole expedition costs in the ship Panteleimon. Seventy Turks denounced as hostile to the regime have been arrested, including Mahmud Hey.
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Old Columbia
D. C
California
Putnam
St. Petersburg
Panteleimon
Mahmud Hey
Lamal Kemal Bey
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ST. Paul
Theresa Wilcox
Delgate
Congress
Hawaii
Honolulu
Cornhill Magazine
Geina
Init Worone
English Channel
Lewis A. Hall
Pacific
Idaho Northern
Portland
Thames
St. James’ Park
Xuunee
Garneld
M. J. Papin
Columbia Unternity
Marconi
New, Foundland
Cornwall
J. W. Dues
Minnespolo
Minn
Fas
Banaus
Kansas City
Bologna
Rainelli
Pisa
Antchel
Price
Urorein Fia Syed
San Francisco, Cal
Louisville, Ky
New York, N. Y
Lise
Sciense
Anithar
Hall
Uldviss
P. J Cheney & CO
Toledo
Drumgigia Te
Philippines
Abern
Forestry Bureau
New York
Jake Gunther K. Ackerman
Ackerman
John Kelly
San Joaquin Valley
Lake Superior
Price Ste
TERN
Canada
Initoba
Aminibula
Sasiap and
Albersa i
Furan
Western Catind
B. Pediey
Imanigretion
Otawa
Cicada
Sanett
Canning
Ork Life Hidg
Neb
Answerieg
St. Jacobs Oil
Age and Sec
Capsicum
Unies
Chesebholm Meg
State Stree
New Rome
Tui CO
Lexander
Gaga
N. Us
Eddreason
Shorls & Shores
Uteh
Enduraa
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