New York Plans Titanic Subway Project
New York s plans reveal a巨antic subway line to connect Fort Hamilton and Coney Island through Manhattan the Harlem River and the Bronx to Woodlawn Pelham Bay Park and Long Island Sound extending forty four miles with 133 miles of single track. Excavation would reach 9 158 000 cubic yards and require 203 000 tons of steel and iron plus 1 865 000 cubic yards of concrete. The project would rival the Washington Monument in height and would carry about 1 000 000 passengers daily if the estimates hold. Each track would run in its own tube for most of the length making a radically different appearance from the present system.
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New York Public Service
Fission
Tri-Borough
Milway
Interborough System
Fort Hamilton
Coney Island
Manhattan
Harlem River
Bronx
Woodlawn
Pelham Bay Park
Long Island Sound
Washington Monument
New York
Santa Fe
NR. M
Hudson Terminals
Metropolitan Towers
United States
Public Service Commission
Gasoline Torpedo Car Trials by Eastern Railroad
An eastern railroad, in Philadelphia yard testing a new torpedo shaped gasoline car. The seventy foot steel craft features a forward engine, two doors for baggage and passenger compartments, a 110 gallon fuel tank, twelve cylinders producing about 200 horsepower, and a sixteen passenger smoking compartment. It ran fifty nine and a half miles on a trial, averaging about 12 miles per hour.
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Philadelphia
Passenof
Canadian Butter Exports Shrink to Insignificant Level
Canadian butter exports are described as so small that they are negligible for markets, indicating minimal impact on trade and prices.
Privilege of His Rank in Early Philippine Campaign
A humorous Civil War era aside recounts Captain M in Mindanao sharing birthday punch with two lieutenants. The junior officer refuses upper berth, insisting on his subordinate position as the first lieutenant rests lower, a tale from Lippincott's.
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Mindanao
Little Brown Brother
Lenant
Lippincott’s
September Sunshine Dulles Derbyless Day Remade
A fragmented verse notes September heat and bright sky while recalling a sunlit day without a derby. The speaker mocks straw hats and calls the scene a faded memory, hinting at fashion and seasonal change without concrete events.
Brazil poised for iron boom despite coal gap
A Stockholm congress report cites Brazil as holding vast high grade iron ore along the coast from Santa Catharina to Ceara and in Minas Geraes. The study notes 52 major deposits there, a coastal rail link to Victoria, and limited coal and hydraulic power hindering first rank status.
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Stockholm Geological Congress
Brazil
Santa Catharina
Ceara
Minas Geraes
Caraca
Victoria
Rio Janeiro
Electrification reach spreads across major rail lines
The report lists electrified single-track lengths for several systems led by West Jersey and Seaport at 150 miles, followed by New York Central 152 miles and Long Island 125 miles. It notes American subway and elevated totals 436 miles, with Long Island City’s Laterborough system at 1w miles and Chicago elevated at 113 miles among others.
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West Jersey and
Seaport
New York Central
Long Island
Pennsylvania
Metropolitan Railway
London
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
England
America
New York
Chicago
Brooklyn
Boston
Philadelphia
Hudson
Manhattan
Cremate Cash With Indian Tragedy at Yuma Cremation
A Native American tragedy at Yuma depicts Jose Escalate, a government school teacher at Old Fort Yuma, who killed himself after a rejected romance with a white girl. His funeral rite burned his possessions including 1500 dollars, while many tribal members tossed cash into the pyre, some as much as 200 dollars.
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Jose Escalate
Yuma
Escalate
Old Fort Yuma
Century Left to Indians at Denver Convention
Fred A. Barker of Washington told the Indian supervisors at their Denver meeting that within a hundred years Indians will likely be assimilated by whites. He said a few isolated tribes may remain, but most Indians will amalgamate with Caucasians, especially in Oklahoma among the Five Civilized Tribes, and he denied the race is dying out.
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Fred A. Barker
Washington
Indian Supervisors
Denver
Mr. Barker
Oklahoma
Five Civilized Tribes
Indians Powerful Swimmers Discover Trudgeon Stroke
Some Indians of South America are powerful swimmers and use the stroke known as the trudgeon or double overarm, which they discovered for themselves.
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South America
Ben Hicks Mirth Copyright 1910
A brief note attributes a humorous work to Ben Hicks with copyright date 1910 under the American Press Association. The line preserves attribution and date as readable facts.
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American Press Association
Store Robbery Forces West Town to Rebuild Trust
Jim Murphy returns to a ruined store after two men seized Wilkins’ boy and robbed the stock. Ben Hicks, small yet steadfast, contemplates taking on the thieves with Murphy as the couple reunites with Moll and their child. The scene ends with Jim sharing Ben’s quiet resolve.
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Jim
Ben
Wilkins
Ben Hicks
Carter the Lion King Delays Bailiffs at Stage Door
A dramatic incident at a London exhibit features Carter the lion king sitting calmly in a large cage flanked by two enormous lions. Bailiffs demanded Carter show the gentleman, Ducrow signaled, and Carter roared loudly as the bailiffs fled in fear, leaving Carter in place.
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Carter
Lion King
Ducrow
London
Bailliffs
Buckley tells tale of girl and a dollar on winter street
In Harper's Magazine Dr J M Buckley recounts meeting a ragged hungry girl who got a silver dollar. Children guess what she bought first. a boy guesses basket after Buckley offers a reward, and the boy recalls Buckley’s Hoboken talk.
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J. M. Buckley
New York City
Dr. Buckley
Printer’s Price Jumps After Reed Lifts Hamilton Print
A Washington bookseller recalls James Guild selling a Hamilton print to Speaker Reed. The price rose from two dollars fifty cents to ten dollars after Reed’s later visit and the print’s artful approval by the speaker.
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Reed
Congress
James Guild
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Dr Jenks the Veterinary Healer on a Dying Passenger
A station master asks for a doctor on a train. Dr Jenks, a veterinary surgeon, treats a sick man with animal strength medicine. The tale ends with the patient dying, then the same man’s death is humorously recounted by a station master.
Between Two Fires A Camden Man Refuses Burglar Chase
A Camden man is awakened by his wife who fears a burglar in their home. She asks him to go downstairs and pursue the intruder. He declines with a quip that while he chases the burglar upstairs, she will be rifling his clothing, a six in one and half a dozen in the other.
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Jim Speers
Jim
Ben
Bin
Moll
Ben Hicks
Dole
Camden
Papa
Philadelphia Telegraph
Combustible Kitty Clive Stirs Georgian Stage Tempers
The Georgian actress Kitty Clive drew famous nerves and fierce temper in the mid eighteenth century. Garrick feared her tantrums and tried to steady her nerves while praising her talent and wholesome character as a pinnacle of English stage life.
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Clive
Kitty Clive
Green Room
Garrick
LE Luive
Steve
Social Worker Encounters Wives Husband’s Spree In Philadelphia
A young Philadelphia social worker who wrote Life's Problems meets a woman who tells her her husband has gone on a terrible spree. The social worker questions if her book influenced him, but the woman reassures that the spree was not caused by the book.
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Philadelphia
Jee
Signs Teach Infants in Welsh School Lesson
In a Welsh infant school, children learn from teacher signs with phrases like oblique and perpendicular. A bishop preached on a related topic as the scene illustrated a hands on method of instruction using signs and guided demonstrations.
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Wales
School silence breaks as students shout during sermon
A teacher signals for quiet, but multiple students react loudly calling out Perpendicular, leaving the bishop bewildered and the sermon interrupted as the school observes the scene.
Noisy contraption sparks odd dialogue in scraps
Fragments show a cartoonish clash where a claronet and troumboice debate a noisy device. The exchange leans toward humorous miscommunication about a bike and a human-like project, ending with a quirky line about making the most noise.
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Bane
Claronet
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Atchison Bros
J. A. Works & Co
Iowa
West Side Square
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U.S. A
Geo. Peck
South Dakota
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Maitie D. Babcock
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