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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1907
Page
2
The article discusses the high costs of duplicating and modernizing railroad tracks. It cites Wolcott Drew and Moody's Magazine noting large roads struggle to cover annual expenses with added revenue. Southern Pacific’s history shows initial $40 million estimate and a $90 million extra outlay to meet up-to-date standards, resulting in a bond capitalization of $44,000 per mile.
A 1906 discussion on preventing death by own action praises Salvation Army methods used in Boston to deter suicides. The piece mocks self pity, notes fire losses and preventable costs, and humorously envisions monk chauffeurs driving cars for St Bernard hospice inmates. A New Jersey judge sentences a husband to 30 days for drunkenness, joking about wives’ powers.
Britain says no new warships pending disarmament conference action. Despite this, dust settles as five battleships seven cruisers eight destroyers and twelve submarines are under construction. Andrew Carnegie declines reopening steel discussions citing retirement and age. A Topeka family finds burglars took all belongings but left the carpets.
On the steamer Patricia from Montevideo to Barcelona the passengers include Donna Juanita Valles Senora Espinosa and Thomas Lawler an American cattleman. Lawler woos Juanita while Senora Espinosa schemes to send her to a convent, a delay-strewn voyage ends with Lawler’s illness misread as vomito and a gold piece sealing a romantic twist as the ship reaches Barcelona.
The American Missionary notes Arctic customs in Alaska where infants stay naked inside a mother’s sealskin blouse until able to move. Mothers work, travel, and hunt without a baby minder. Fathers’ dress mirrors mothers with a long tail. Infants gain fat from blubber diet, remaining unclothed in skin tents. Family life is communal and sociable around shared deerskin bedding.
Phineas Gardner Wright of Putnam Connecticut funded a 1600 monument with a middle beard bust and a grave side room he plans to mark with a steel flagstaff and his name banner. He says he will leave a gin and whiskey supply in the grave and a later inscription about never being defeated by a woman.
Congress raises contract surgeon Dr. James Carroll from lieutenant to major in recognition of his voluntary inoculation with yellow fever mosquitoes at Havana. Carroll, born in England in 1854 and naturalized, suffered severe illness. colleague Dr. Jesse Lazear died after similar exposure. Carroll has a wife and five children.
King Edward opened the new central criminal court built on Old Bailey Newgate site with a semi state procession. The building’s 287 foot frontage on Old Bailey and 195 foot dome cost 1.5 million dollars, framed by royal pageantry and city officials in robes of state.
A large flounder off Atlantic City bore a gull skeleton fixed to its back, the gull having attacked a too large prey and drowned. The flounder likely carried the gruesome burden for years. Eight dollars was refused for this remarkable catch.
In London, more than 22,000 umbrellas are recovered and taken to police headquarters each year, prompting officials to urge owners to label and secure their gear and outlining how to reclaim them.
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