Denver to Salt Lake City via the Union Pacific By
Denver to Salt Lake City trip July 23 188? featured a three Pullman sleeper dining car and private cars. Guests visited Cheyenne Rawlins and Spring Valley noting 166 miles of new track 31 miles saved in distance and a 43 ft per mile grade.
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Denver
Salt Lake City
Union Pacific
Union Depot
Cnrirrn Vlties
Union Pacific Railway
East Lake City
Lomax
Cheyenne
Marke
Lomas
Parke
Griffin
Comopany
Darlow
Professor Knight
Wyoming Univer
Tver
Bryan
le Roy
Evanston
Rawling
Sherman
Alling
Rar
Laramie
Omatia
Omden
New York Central
York
Chicago
Howell
Hutton’s Station
Lookout Station
Medicine Bow
Hanna and
Dana
Cooper's Lake
Lookout
Walcott
Fort Steele
Rawlings
Tipton
Rawlins
Spring Valley
Rocky Springs
Green River
Fish Cut
Marsh
Yale College
Aspen Mountain
Oregon
Vendetta and customs in Corsica from Colomba tale
In Corsica vendetta fades from legend while real crime shifts attention to tourism. The piece notes driftwood in Alaska and rockbound seas. visits from Americans to Colomba spark renewed interest, yet a judge clarifies the crime is vulgar, not cursed. Vatican expands with 800 rooms for pilgrims and museum annexes.
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Corsica
Ameria
Cottonseed and Cotton Boosts Asian Cotton Production
American cottonseed drives a big rise in cotton output across Russia, Central Asia, Bokhara and Khiva. The year 1900 shows a 44 percent gain over 1899 in Asian lands, and a 24 percent increase in the Russian district. Most former corn fields were planted with cotton.
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Rusaia
Middle Asia
Bokhara
Khiva
Unique Industry Promises Care On Atlantic City Boardwalk
A Washington Star report notes a new enterprise along Atlantic City’s boardwalk offering child care for five cents per hour. The manager ran a thriving business with several assistants as tired mothers left children while they bathed, and nurses sometimes shifted duties for five cents an hour.
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Atlantic City
Washington Star
Monument to Commodore Perry Unveiled in Japan
Japanese dedication honors Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry for opening Japan to Western trade. The article recalls Perry’s 1812 era service, his role in establishing Monrovia, command actions in Mexico, and the 1854 expedition that forced opening of Japanese ports, ending with his death in 1868.
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Japan
Matthew Caibraid Ferry
Matthew Calbraith Perry
Perry
United States
Europe
Matthew Calbeattn Berry
Christopher Raymond Perry
East Indies
Mercantile Marine
Oliver Hazard Perry
Presideny Fillmore
America
Holland
The Middle-Aged Woman Vision From Ledger Monthly
A Ledger Monthly meditation contrasts youth and aging, urging the middle aged woman to value inner growth over youth worship. It praises art, music, literature, compassion, and the dawn, urging self care through culture and kindness to stand as a force for good in a needy world.
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Ledger Monthly
Swiss Town Plans Abolition of Fuel Use in Davos
A Swiss correspondent reports Davos considers a bold scheme to eliminate conventional fuels by building a large electric plant at a mountain torrent confluence. A Swiss firm will harness the torrents’ force, supply heating and cooking devices, and receive a concession. Estimated first cost is 8,500,000 francs as electricity already powers lighting and motive work in villages and a major bakery.
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Kentucky
Union Pacific
Salt Lake City
Evanston
Ogden
Union Pagne
Rockies
Friel
Davos
Wall Street Luck Coins And Lucky Charms Anecdote
A New York Press item describes a Wall Street man carrying seven coins for luck, each linked to a weekday, plus a lawyer with nine more pieces for listening and belief in nine's power. An editor displays a dozen metal tokens, while a rheumatic sufferer wears magnetized rings and other talismans.
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Tack Pieers
Taktemann
Wall Street
New York Press
Consul Horatio J. Sprague Dies in Gibraltar at 82
Veteran Consul Horatio J. Sprague, long seated in Gibraltar, dies aged 82 after forty three years in service. Born Aug 12 1823 in Gibraltar, he served under fourteen presidents and hosted three visiting U S leaders, including Fillmore, Pierce and Grant. He aided Admiral Dewey during his Manila voyage and faced delicate wartime duties with credit to the Union. Extract from Paris cipher telegram.
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BR Horatio
Gibraltar
Ord
Prague
O Ury
Horatio J. Sprague
Washington
Goon
Sprague
Fillmore
Pierce
Rant
Admiral Dewey
Manila
the Rock
Mr. Sprague
Ideals and money岁 Americas clash with European values
London financiers discuss a continental boycott of American goods and question the dominance of money in global ideals. They argue Europe’s ideals outpace American materialism, noting U S war motives as self serving while praising American education and romance. The piece contrasts European barter with American love and opportunity.
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London
England
Europe
United States
Wight
Frederic Harrison
America
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Vatican
Rome
Vatican Museum
the XIII
Napoleon
Ajaccio
Westminster Review
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Newport
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Monrovia
Liberia
Colonization Society
Congress
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Mexico
John Randolph
Nicholas
Mehemet Ali
Khartoum
Egypt
Commodore Patterson
Naples
Ferdinand I
Count Cassaro
Jackson
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Scott
Tedo
Gorthama
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