President Ingalls and the United States in an era of change
An editorial review highlights President Ingalls as a thoughtful leader of the Big Four railway system. It discusses the nation’s shift as new commerce, technology, and international duties emerge, the struggle between capital and labor, and the call for public virtue, taxation, and franchise taxes to curb vast corporate power while protecting small landholders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Service Magazine
United States
Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Ingalls
Mr. Ingalls
Orient
South America
Cleveland
Venezuela
Carnegie
Republic
Three Words a Day Language Learning Method
A Globe-Democrat piece recounts a man who learned languages with a simple plan from a trip to Mexico. He vowed to learn three Spanish words daily, totaling about 60 monthly words and over a thousand in a year, enabling conversation and correspondence in Spanish within nine months.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Mexico
The Volcano Bird of St Vincent Fades After Eruptions
The Guilding's Amazon parrot, once found only on the Soufriere slopes and dubbed the volcano bird, dwindled after 1718 eruptions and the 1898 hurricane. Recent eruptions left no birds in St Vincent, with survivors likely destroyed or fled from the danger zone.
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St. Vincent
Guilding
Antilles
Detroit Free Press
Trick of Dutch Anglers Attracts Fish With Bottled Worms
The New York Sun notes a Dutch fishing method using a bottle partially filled with water containing live worms and insects. The bottle is corked and dropped, enticing fish to bite as the wriggling contents lure them to the baled hook.
Keeping Out Disease Shows Quarantine Scale in 1900s
The public health and marine hospital service under the treasury governs global disease alerts. Weekly bulletins track deaths from epidemics in major cities, with wire reports from Canton to Washington for proactive quarantines. Vigilant measures aim to prevent importations as immigration flows rise.
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Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Treasury Department
Ite
Canton
Hong Kong
Washington
Pacific
United States
Flondala
Cuba
Orient
Vera Cruz
New Route Aims To Make Global Travel Faster Than Ever
Travel from the Far East to London and Europe could be quicker via a route through San Francisco and across the United States, following a demonstration that ships can reach London faster. The Inter national Sleeping Car company may run weekly then triweekly Trans Siberian service between Moscow and Port Arthur with a deluxe train from Warsaw to Port Arthur connecting to the Express Du Nord.
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Far East
London
China
Manchuria
Philippines
Japan
Suez Canal
Royal Mail
San Francisco
United States
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Russian Ministry of the Interior
International Sleeping Car Company
Moscow
Port Arthur
Warsaw
Express du Nord
Paris
Berlin
Pacific
Sea Overland Limited
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago
Siberia
Siberian Express
Women Mine Owners in Empire District Colorado
Two mines in the Empire district Clear Creek county are owned by women and described as good paying. One owner is a pair from Boston who visited Colorado on vacation, bought a prospect, and turned it into a leading low-grade ore producer. In the same district a Colorado woman directly supervises timbering blasting and all mine operations at her own property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Turkey
Empire District
Clear Creek County
Col
Colorado
Chicago Journal
California Fig Syrup CO
Curious rude flowers on Fuegan trees described by La Nature correspondent
A Tierra del Fuego correspondent of La Nature reports on so called flowers that grow on trees. The blooms are parasitic growths where inner wood is pushed through bark forming shapes resembling classic acanthus motifs on Corinthian capitals. The parasite is related to the mizile toe.
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Tierra del Fuego
la Nature
Parie
Corinthian
Hamburg breast tea and drops offer for coughs and lung relief
An overlong fragment details quack remedies including Hamburg Breast Tea and Hamburg Drops by Dr August Koenig, urging open air living, diet, and nightly throat rubs. It promotes medical ads, a calendar, fur catalog, and various ads with promotional tones and dubious claims.
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Eostie
Hamburg
August Koenig
St. Jacobs Oil
Gissetisas
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Big Four Railway
Brand
Boston Rubber Shoe Co
Murra St
New York
Daily News
Tle
Indianapolis News
Cork
Piso
Minn
Fowe Farms
Mulhall
Bronx City
Prsisa
The
Omery Wi Ward & CO
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Ape
Maresis Five
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Paxton Co. Heaton
Winchester
Hide Bfur CO
Ineapous
Mustang Liniment
Temeoy Ron
Libby
Libby,mcneill & Libby
Western
Canada
America
Manttobs
Asainibeia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
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