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Today one catches the Cape - to - Cairo Railroad at Buluwayo station and may push on in a luxurious Pullman car to the great Zambesi , and far beyond by the Uganda Railroad , from whose very car windows lion and rhinoceros can be shot !
Today one catches the Cape - to - Cairo Railroad at Buluwayo station and may push on in a luxurious Pullman car to the great Zambesi , and far beyond by the Uganda Railroad , from whose very car windows lion and rhinoceros can be shot !
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And the Transconpower latent in this mighty . cataract tinental Railroad shall be electrified by developing a gold region as large as the same power , quarries and forests deTexas , not to mention the vast iron veloped , and electricity ...
And the Transconpower latent in this mighty . cataract tinental Railroad shall be electrified by developing a gold region as large as the same power , quarries and forests deTexas , not to mention the vast iron veloped , and electricity ...
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At any rate the prosion will be 70.000 volts . jectors of this vastest of engineering This gigantic scheme has many critics schemes have sought the soundest expert —but , so had railroads when they were advice in all the nations ...
At any rate the prosion will be 70.000 volts . jectors of this vastest of engineering This gigantic scheme has many critics schemes have sought the soundest expert —but , so had railroads when they were advice in all the nations ...
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The Superintendent of the coal mining department of a large Eastern railroad reports to the Commissioner of Labor : “ Breaker boys at the coal mines receive from five to ten cent ; an hour ; How terribly dangerous this work is ...
The Superintendent of the coal mining department of a large Eastern railroad reports to the Commissioner of Labor : “ Breaker boys at the coal mines receive from five to ten cent ; an hour ; How terribly dangerous this work is ...
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... and anxiously ask themselves if the tion . fates will to - day deal them as splendid From the platform of a car , standing chances for quick and substantial success upon the tracks of a railroad little more as those which were open ...
... and anxiously ask themselves if the tion . fates will to - day deal them as splendid From the platform of a car , standing chances for quick and substantial success upon the tracks of a railroad little more as those which were open ...
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