Inventions and storms spark a maze of 19th century notes
Louis Gathnann of Chicago claims a new torpedo can launch above water and travel underwater to strike a vessel, with steel wings and self-steering. A submarine voyage from Detroit to Chicago tested buoyancy and air needs, while Maine farmers face corn canneries under capitalist pricing. Southern cotton, sugar and grain shifts reshape exports, and boomers in Kansas eye the Cherokee strip. Ann Arbor students model rainwear as fashion and Jewish Tidings debates proper nomenclature.
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Louis Gathnann
Chicago
Professor Baker
Wis
Detroit
Chicao
Maine
Burlesque and Opera Notices From A Civic Stagemarket
A Descriptive roundup notes E J Henley and Aubrey Boucicault with the Gaiety Opera company touring in Burd Campbell’s romantic piece A Heroine in Bugs. Leaping greyhound Normac links to Bur tine’s $10,000 dog hippodrome. Baroness Blane may fill James Owen O Connor’s place. Nat Goodwin favors dramatic parts with minimal pathos. A sensational stage accident features a horse plunging twenty two feet into a canyon tank. Denman Thompson hands a small donation to Hine at a New York benefit. John T Sullivan narrowly misses a chair in Diplomacy causing a dislocated shoulder, then finishes.
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E. J. Henley
Aubrey Boucicault
Captain Horne
Gaiety Opera Company
Fenance
Milton Aborn
Katharine Rober
Burd Campbell
Bugs
Normac
Greyhound
Burtine
Chicago
Baroness Blane
James Owen O'Conor
Nat Goodwin
Dr. Carver
Denman Thompson
Harry Hine
New York
Hine
John T. Sullivan
Philadelphia
Railroad Jottings and Industry Shifts Across the Nation
Pennsylvania doubles the Logansport to Anoka line while a Pullman and Wagner palace car consolidation is eyed. Kansas and Texas ink a contract with American Express to run operations across the Miscomee and Texas systems from February 1893. Great Northern launches mixed trains Spokane Falls to Wenatchee, adding 17 stations on the Pacific extension. May'slg and Egg Harbor City railroad to resume after 12 years, requiring major reconstruction. New York Central equips coaches with compressed gas systems, ten per week, from a central plant in Syracuse. A Chester man, James Bordley, dies when he is buried under a coal pile during loading at Wellmont Steel Works. A humorous note on Mrs. Lease becoming a U.S. senator elicits derisive commentary on lobbyists.
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Pennsylvania
Chicago
Indianapolis
Logansport
Anoka
Pullman
Wagner Palace
Kansas and Texas Railroad
American Express Company
Texas
May
Egg Harbor City
New York Central
Syracuse
James Bordley
Chester
Wellmanton and Steel Works
Bordley
Philadelphia Times
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Choice Family Groceries
Orth, Nevada
Edwin Fower
Wadsworth
Nevada
S. Emrich
Reno
Dispatch
Virginia Street
R. Herz
Reno, Nevada
Kansas
Cherokee Strip
Boomera
Ann Arbor College
Jennesy Miller
Igraelites
Swyx
Canby
Francis Wilson Opera Company
Guy P. Wilson
Baltimore
Great Northern
Spokane Falls
Wenatcchee
Wash
Lease
United States
John Sunderland
Reno, Nevabpa
Kine
John Lee
Wadsworth, Nevada
A.h.manning
E. C. Sessions & Co
Irk Destied
Three Doors South First National Bank
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