Cape Cod Canal Completed After Three Centuries
Cape Cod Canal opens after centuries of planning and effort. The waterway runs from near Cape Cod to Buzzards Bay, offering a shorter route from Maine to Florida and expected to carry high tonnage, with a 25 foot low water depth and 100 foot bottom width, costing about 12 million dollars and supported by engineers Belmont, Parvons, and Foret.
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Maine
Florida
Cape Cod
Paranim Canal
New York State
Lake Farle
New York City
Sui
Porte
Charleston
8. C
Reston
Harnatable Bay
Bustard’e Bay
Font
Sues Canal
Vedeela
Cape Polentad
August Belmit
Boanevil
Witla Barelay Parvons
Cape Cod Construction Company
Belmont
Foret
Baltimore
Watthre
Cape
Hartholonew Gonom
New Ansterdam
Miles Standish
Sounset
Monument River
Massachusetts Colony
Jate
Mystery of Republic Confuses Chinese Peasants in India
An anecdote recounts a Chinese minister explaining a republic to a driver on a Hagkow to Peking railway who doubts governing by the people. The driver argues a republic erodes authority, asking why send the emperor away when now there is trouble. The tale reflects widespread confusion about self government in China.
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Peking
KW Chung
Board of Communication
Wai Wang Sov Cheng
Meteriar
Bhia Chia Chang
Hagkow-Peking
Republic
Busybody reprimanded after drunkenness scare at Darn staple court
At Darn staple police court a busybody faced a rebuke for handling a drunken man. The private citizen had brought Again & Ina to the police station, prompting the mayor to condemn civilian intervention as unmanly. Magistrates dismissed the case on payment of costs.
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Londone
Darnstaple
Ina
Conta
Bought a Church for 20 Dollars in Winsted
The West Goshen Methodist church was sold at auction to W H Wadham for 20 dollars, including pews and fixtures. He also bought the land for 40 dollars, while the parsonage went to B E Wright for 140 dollars. The organ, melodion, church bells and barn sold to various buyers, and the proceeds are to be turned over to the New York East conference. The church has only one member besides three trustees.
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Mra
Harrison Ives
W. H. Wadhams
New York East Conference
Tramnete Images by Wire Porly A Long Dixtanes Mirror
Images by wire the telephone carries sound invented by George Tignour described in a malformed OCR passage. The text appears to reference early telephony concepts and fictional names, noting a wire based image transmission and sound transmission through a telephone yet lacks coherent facts or dates.
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George Tignour
Fragmentary Note on Chinese Script and Republic Concept
A brief, unclear item discusses how the Chinese lack a single ideograph for the word republic and that writing it requires several ideographs, indicating a linguistic observation rather than a current event or named persons.
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Tom
Republic
Giant diamondback rattler disrupts Philadelphia transit
Panic broke out at Broad Street Station as an eight foot diamondback rattler slithered through waiting crowds. Special officers captured the snake in a bag and delivered it to city hall for zoological authorities. The snake’s origin remains unknown, though authorities suspect it arrived in a carload of tropical fruit.
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Philadelphia
Broad Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Plan Home Classes in Practical Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture with agricultural colleges plans home classes for ten or more farmers or farm women. Courses run 16 to 20 lectures over five or more weeks, covering poultry, fruit growing, soils, dairying, cheese, butter, farm bookkeeping, and domestic science cooking. Each group receives $100 in lab and cooking equipment and library references.
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State College
Dinner Table Plumber Trapped Behind Wall at Elite Dinner
A Washington society banquet ends with a plumber in overalls stuck beneath a round table as a decorative fountain fails. He crawls out after guests depart. hostess praises his wit, pays $10, and thanks him for his discretion.
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Washington
Prophet Without Honor In His Own Country at Marshall Hall
An elderly Washington narrator recalls a scene at Marshall Hall where a Washington woman brings lunch for her basket and her children. A barefoot group of local boys, led by Virgil, ignore formal learning and focus on present pleasures as the woman asks about George Washington, receiving a humorous, regional reply from Virgil.
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Marshall Hall
Washington
Marshalls
Virgil
Mount Vernon
George Washington
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Suez Canal
New York
Moan
Pans Canal
Cape Cou
Tte
Mga
Boone
Sagamore
Boston
Long Island
Vineyard
Nantucket Sounds
Long Island Sound
Cape Cod Canale
August Belmont
Guzzard’s
Big Rattler
Zoo
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