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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1908
Page
3
A World’s Work excerpt details a massive shift to electricity powering railways across the West. Proponents claim 3 million horsepower statewide, with electric locomotion conquering mountain routes and delivering freight faster, while rail firms like Milwaukee & St Paul and Great Northern push electric traction and new three phase locomotives enter service.
The article outlines 325 horsepower electric locomotives capable of hauling 100 loaded cars at 15 mph on 2 percent grades and using dynamic braking. It notes Harriman’s plans, Union Pacific Sierra Nevada grades, and Southern Pacific electrification efforts around San Francisco, plus extensive Washington and Oregon water power development for Spokane to Puget Sound lines and other routes.
An invitation dance by the A O U W at Bower hall on Friday night April 24 promises a lively evening with Merritt's orchestra providing ragtime music. Local updates include Karol D Weeks returning to Boston from Spokane and John Godfrey Back Auditor Godfrey's plans with Hayden Lake fruit land. Classifieds invite article submissions and announce the Women of Woodcraft ball at Eagle Hall with Crollard's orchestra.
At the Wenatchee Bazaar Alkali Ike and a visiting Eastman exchange quips on western life and eastern refinement. The tourist praises western enterprise while Ike defends brisk pacing and local character, joking about iconoclasts and Methodists amid bantering talk.
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