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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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for me, as I received thoroughlysound teaching. My mother also taughtme how to read good books quickly andcorrectly, and as this opened up a greatworld in literature, I have always beenvery thankful for this early training. I was fond of experimenting, so, whenI was 12 years old I got work as a trainnewsboy in order to earn my own pocketmoney to buy chemicals and apparatuswith which to experiment. My train ranfrom Port Huron to Detroit, and this to be very happy in having these fine op-portunities of preparing to do big thingsin the world. Charges for Lost Checks Illegal. Railroad companies have lately re-ceived notice from the Interstate Com-merce Commission that the practice ofcharging SO cents for a lost baggagecheck and 25 cents demurrage per nightfor left baggage is not legal and neednot be paid. A traveler on one of the trunk lineslost his pocketbook which contained thecheck for his trunk. The railroad com-pany would not deliver the trunk tillthe owner paid 50 cents for the lost
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INTERIOR VIEW OF FINISHED STEEL CAR. were badly damaged. Needless to say.Tommy was forbidden to reconstruct hislaboratory in the car. Education of Thomas A. Edison. A letter of encouragement to the schoolchildren of New Jersey has been writtenby Thomas A. Edison. It reads as fol-lows : Dear Young Friends: I have beenasked to write a letter to the boys andgirls in the grammar schools in NewJersey, telling something of my ownschool days. Such a letter as that wouldbe very short, for I really never had anyschool days as you understand them. gave me opportunity to go to the libraryin the latter city and read books thatcould not be found in Port Huron, whereI lived. I always kept busy and had lots of ad-ventures in trying to add to my store ofknowledge, but to tell you the whole storywould make my letter too long. School days are very different from whatthey were when I was a boy, fifty yearsago. You now have beautiful schoolbuildings, with modern conveniences andapparatus, and your studie

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