If you want on or off the ping list for the daily newspaper from 120 years ago, drop me a line, either here or by FReep mail. The rate is 23 cents per week (3 cents for the dailies and a nickel for Sunday).
Wow holy cow! I didn’t know this was online! That’s incredible, and it goes back to 1866
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1866-04-10/ed-1/seq-1/
Who saved these papers?
Every day it’s 15-20 killed by storms or flooding. I didn’t know global warming had been invented yet
It was unusual to find a yard or rail engineer who wasn't missing at least an eye or finger, and the loss of a leg or an arm was par for the course.
We stand and we ride on the shoulders of no small people.
If anyone cares now, a great number of terrible train wrecks and collisions way back then were found to be basically caused by INACCURATE WATCHES OF THE DAY. If a train was to be on a siding to allow another to pass was late due to an inaccurate watch, they collided on the single track BOTH were using.
The U.S. government,reacting to the carnage commissioned a Mr. BALL to set the rigid standards to be the LAW regarding the accuracy of pocket watches carried by trainmen.
Thus was born the AMERICAN POCKET WATCH, and the American train system entered a new era of saftey
Hundreds of thousands of these watches run AS NEW to this very day, thousands over one hundred years old. As a watchmaker, I’m proud each time I’m sitting as I put the final adjustments on “legal” railroad watch. Yes, “LEGAL” because it was AGAINST the law for an everyday pocket watch to be carried by a trainman.
Most of what we see now....TEN years are uncommon.