Seattle Ship Canal Maps Shaping Major Harbor Project
Surveyors finalize maps and estimates for a Seattle Puget Sound canal linking to lakes Union and Washington. If built, it would create a premier harbor with an estimated cost of 3,000 dollars.
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Puget Sound
Lakes Union
Washington
Seattle
Astor
Sterlin
Italy
International Railroad Congress
St. Petersburg
Brussels
Milan
Paris
Vienna
ISM
The Worlds Largest Orchard In Koolan Wilderness
A Honolulu Letter describes the Koolan district wilderness between Hana and Kaiku home to vast wild apple groves. Trees forty to fifty feet tall bloom from July to September, with red and white fruit. The harvest could fill fleets of steamers, though no commercial use exists yet and fruit stores poorly when ripe.
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Hana
Kaiku
Koolan
Honolulu
Device for Duplicating Handwriting
A newly invented device claims to duplicate handwriting by combining a sewing machine with a stylographic pen. A needle projects from the pen to puncture the paper, producing multiple copies. the count depends on needle projection, with a sixty fourth of an inch giving four or five copies and an eighth inch about thirty. Chicago News
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Chicago News
Longest Coal Train Passes Over Lehigh Valley Railroad
A train of 225 loaded four wheel coal cars recently crossed the Lehigh Valley Railroad, touted as the longest and heaviest train ever on any road in the United States and possibly the world. The piece compares it to Conestoga team trains from sixty years prior and notes the era’s teamster could not envision such a feat.
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Chicago
L. C. Dillman
Washington
Dillman
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Pittsburg
Scranton Penn
Apron described with lace edge and ribbon rosettes
The article praises a lawn apron with a three inch lace border across the lower edge, caught by white ribbon rosettes. It features a small pointed lace bib fastened to the bodice with a rosette and white ribbon strings tied to one side.
The Young Folks Little Gardener Seeds Cookies Daydream
A young gardener tends a hot garden and asks if cookies will grow. He explains planting broken cookies seeds from caraway and watering. he hopes the first blossoms will yield fresh cookies for his mother tomorrow.
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Mamma
Strange NZ fauna in the wake of Captain Cook
The article notes New Zealand had few indigenous animals before 1769, mentioning kiore rats and two small bats. It describes a vast west coast rat migration, and profiles the tuatara as a motionless lizard that tolerates confinement, dies not require air, and appears stuffed to observers.
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New Zealand
Captain Cook
A Teal's Loyal Attachment and Timely Sensing of People
A wounded teal shown compassion grows attached to its owner and family. The bird follows him to the door, rests on the step, greets his return, and protects against strangers while displaying doglike affection and time awareness.
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Macmillan’s Magazine
Remarkable 106-Year-Old Woman Still Active in South Glens Falls
Siar Garet Riley of South Glens Falls New York has just passed her 106th year and retains most faculties. She is as active as a young person, has never worn glasses, and can thread a needle and sew as well as in years past. She remains intelligent and agreeable in conversation.
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Siar Garet Riley
South Glens Falls
N. Y
Mount Morgan gold mine cup of Croesus revealed
The Mount Morgan gold mine in Queensland sits atop a 500 foot hill with a cup shaped deposit formed by a hot spring containing the ore. The mine has paid dividends of at least six million dollars yearly and samples were sent to the United States for comparison with Yellowstone hot springs. Geologists found no gold treasure in Yellowstone’s cups.
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Australia
Mount Morgan
Queensland
United States
Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone
Bolton man Henry Jenkins claimed to reach 169 years
An 17th century account by Anna Saville recounts Henry Jenkins of Bolton England saying he aged 169 but historical records suggest he was a boy at Flodden Field in 1513 and died in 1669. The piece compares his age to known long lifespans including Methuselah and old Parr.
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Henry Jenkins
Bolton
Lancashire
England
Anna Saville
Jenkins
Flodden Field
Henry VIII
Northallerton
Old Parr
Shropshire
Methuselah
Earth Grows as Meteors Pelt Globe at High Rate
An astronomer estimates the planet enlarges yearly due to meteoric matter. The Earth is being pelted with 143,000,000 projectiles each year, contributing to a gradual increase in size.
Scott Bowne Chemists Ad Improves Cod Liver Oil Emulsion
An Immersive ad from Scott Bowne Chemists at 152 Southern Avenue New York promotes Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil with widespread druggist availability and a price point noted.
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
South Ern Avenue
New York
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