Cableway plan for Erie Canal electrifies transport debate
Special correspondence reports New York state weighs bonds for canal improvements totaling 9,000,000 to deepen and widen the Erie. A proposed cableway system uses suspended cables and a movably driven car to haul boats along the canal, with electricity sourced from Niagara Power and a three-cable setup for propulsion and return current.
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Berraxo
Duluth
New York
Erie
Horatio Seymour
State of New York
Cataract General Electric
Niagara Power
Frank W. Lawley
Frank W. Gawley
Cataract Ceneral Electric Company
Hawley
Marsa
Letter From Guatemala On Ball Amid War Talk And High Prices
Tom Ropixson describes a Guatemala City ball honoring an arriving guest commandant amid tensions with Mexico. The event reveals class tensions and wartime rumors, with food and luxury items scarce and prices high due to lack of labor. The native workers’ reluctance to toil and creole patron dynamics drive inflation and hardship.
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Corri Wndence
Peten
Mexico
Belize
Senor
Tom Ropixson
Soroe
Sarony
Mall
Bouguereau
Cupid
A.B. Chasmar & Co., Publishers
Union Square
New York City
Greeley and Scaggs Tale of Learning Under Trial
Horace Greeley, a precocious ten year old in Erie Pennsylvania, befriended neighbor Nat Scaggs, a devout man with a library. His father denounced Scaggs as a child of the devil, yet Scaggs taught Latin and philosophy. After repeated whippings for visiting Scaggs, Greeley later recalled the episodes, noting his loyalty to learning amid harsh discipline.
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George Washington
George
Horace Greeley
Erie
Horace
Scaggs
Nathaniel Scaggs
Mr. Greeley
Child
Old Scaggs
Cicero
New York
Erin
Vermont
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N. J. Wendlebee
Warren, Ba
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Kremedy
Evan Power
Maes
Nerve Bees CO
Masonic Temple
Ghicagza Elbe
Warren
Ieguied & Co
Co. F. Davia
Gov't Printing Office
Supreme Court
Wntes Son
Th. Brewer
U S Supreme Court
Merriam CO
Sprivgfield
Mass
U.S.A
Emphiet
Ons
T. Case
Warren, Penna
Westen
Agency of American and
Anchor Lines of Ocean Steamships
A. J. Hazeltine
O. W. Beaty
G. B. Ensworth
GEO
H. Jackson
Ass’t Cashier
M.B. Dunnam
LB. Freeman
L B. Wood
Charles W. Stove
James Clark
A.J. Hazeltine
W. M. Lindsey
Sigel
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August Morck
Morcebros
Warren, PA
A. Weiss
Armotar
R. G. Chase Company
Sli
Hazeltine Woolen Mills
Warren, Fa
Chichester
Madlaen Square
Philodo
Hemlogk Timber Lands
Hemlin Tp
McKean Co
Lafayette Township
McKean Count
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J.G. McKinsty
South Penn Oil Co
Mippano Divistoy
Warren Mills
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