Transandine Railway Linking Argentina and Chile Key Features
The Transandine railway will connect Argentina and Chile, providing through rail between Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso once finished. The existing segment reaches Las Cuevas near the frontier with a tunnel planned and a 21 mile Chilean section remaining. The Mendoza route climbs to 2200 feet with a summit pass at 12,700 feet and features diverse terrain, bridges, and seasonal interruptions.
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Transandine Railway
Lnk
Argentine Republic
Chile
Buenos Ayres and
Valparaiso
Segentine
Andes
Buenos Ayres & Valparaiso Transandine Railway Company, Limited
Las Cuevas
Transandine Construction Company, Limited
Mendoza
Buenos Ayres
Maxwell Boom Aimed At National Irrigation Leader Run Mate
National Irrigation Association considers George H. Maxwell as Theodore Roosevelt’s running mate at the Ogden Utah convention. Advocates highlight Maxwell’s role in the Hats-Brrow-Newlands act and his work on western arid land reclamation. Maxwell, a California native and former lawyer, has been active in securing the Tonto basin reservoir dam project as a major irrigation milestone.
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George H. Maxwell
National Irrigation Association
Phoenix
East
Ogden
Utah
P. C. Jackson
Lomita
Tex
Maxwell
Theodore Roosevelt
Congressman Newland
Hatsbrough
Bonome
Cal
California
Tonto Basin
Vanity and ego in politics from a platitude to a joke
Senator Thomas C. Platt marks his 70th birthday with a sly critique of egotism, advising flattery to trap a politician. The piece contrasts his jab with a tale of ex governor Phineas T. Lounsbury who accepted a prank to be a village constable and keeps amused by watching office seekers.
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Thomas C. Platt
Manhattan Beach
Phineas T. Lounsbury
Connecticut
Ridgefield
Pershing Valor Spotlight in Philippine Service
Capt John J Pershing of the Fifteenth Cavalry arrives in San Francisco after commanding in Mindanao and earning Moro respect through diplomacy He led assaults but favored diplomacy and built roads establishing ties with inland communities Born in Linn County Missouri Pershing attended West Point and taught military science at Nebraska State University before the Spanish American War and later served in the Philippines and against the Apaches Navajos and Sioux.
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John J. Pershing
Fifteenth Cavalry
San Francisco
Manila
Washington
General Staff
Mindanao
United States
Pershing
Mindanso
Manila Times
Lake Lanao
Bayan
Capt
Linn County
Missouri
Laclede
West Point
Sixth Cavalry
Tenth Cavalry
Arizona
New Mexico
Chaffee
Miles
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska State University
Philippines
Emperor Revered Yet Bound by Ancient Customs
A 1900s portrait notes Japan as a modern nation with enduring rites surrounding the emperor. It describes imperial power, Ito’s funeral tribute, garden parties, relics of soil and food kept as cures, and a guarded, ceremonial presence with two old attendants, plus the famed palace figure known as the man who drives with the emperor.
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Japan
Alfred Stead
Fesey
House of Peers
Marquis Ito
Hoshi
GENUINE GEORGIA GIANT W T Brinson of Waycross
A Waycross Georgia man named W T Brinson, a Knight of Pythias member, is portrayed as the world’s biggest K P. He weighs 570 pounds with a 92 inch waist and 11 shoe size, married with eight children, runs a turpentine still, and once stopped a runaway mule with a single strong grab.
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Waycross
Knight of Pythias
W. T. Brinson
Mr. Bringon
Mr. Brinson
Wakefeld Lodge No. 27 of
Knights of Pytthisn
Helen Keller Inspired by Speech Learning
The article extols Helen Keller as the world’s most remarkable deaf and blind person. It notes her early dumbness, later speech, and education at Radcliffe College, highlighting her public address during the Schermerhorn New York dedication and her birthday on June 27.
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Helen Keller
Klind
Schermerhorn
New York
Radcliffe College
Helen Keller Aims For College Diploma Amid Adversity
The piece praises Helen Keller for overcoming deafness and blindness to pursue college education. It notes her willpower, accomplishment in typing and solving geometry by touch, and the expectation that her diploma will mark an epoch in U S educational achievements despite health risks. Notables like Mark Twain and Phillips Brooks admire her remarkable mind.
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Miss Keller
Scollege
Detroit Free Prose
Mark Twain
Idelen Keller
Napoleon
Merry Mark
Helen Keller
Phillips Brooks
Edward Everett Hale
John G. Whittier
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Joseph Jefferson
Rosa
Traveling beauties risk fire on steamers with heated tongs
A warning notes that ladies traveling on ocean steamers ignite curling tongs with spirit lamps, risking fire. One steam line equips state rooms with electric heat for curling irons, reducing danger. In other notes the Vandervliet family of Passaic, New Jersey, grows rapidly as ten children were born in ten years.
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Ble Steamship Lines
Andrew Vandervliet
Passaic
N. J
Palra
Wallace Debuts a New Theory On Creation At Eighty
Dr Alfred Russel Wallace, aged eighty, asserts a model where the earth sits at the universe center and creation seems tailored to man. The notion, emerging after his feverish awakening in the Maluku Islands, echoes debates sparked by Darwin and challenges long held theological views.
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Alfred Russel Wallace Annee
Earth
Alfred Russel Wallace
London
Dr. Wallace
Charles Darwin
Wallace
Darwin
Moluccas Islands
Amazon
Malay Archipelago
America
Alfred R. Wallace
The Servian Throne Fostered by Intrigue and Murder Fears
A disputed succession center in Serbia fears two throne claims after King Peter's death. Crown Prince George, the son of ex King Milan, is supported by Obrenovitch allies, while the morganatic son Prince Milan is backed by Crisptitsch family factions in Constantinople. Meanwhile a New Haven cook causes a domestic disturbance by seizing control of a household after an epileptic episode.
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Peter
George
Milan
Cris
Obrenovitch
Alexander
Constantinople
Cristitsch
Turkey
Peter of
Servia
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