Willing to Help Keep Her Down
Fragmented local item notes cemetery markers and lingering costs, mentions Annstiy Traveler and Malone. An old mississippi missouri case recalls a jar with a large sum of money found near Enterprise, hints at a historic theft from the Southern Express Company in 1868.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tran
Arkansas
Patna
Orwitt
Fateiek Malone
Ash Wire
Enterprise
Miss
Southern Express Company
Wanted Anerekic Men for Nursery Stock Sales Rochester NY
Classified ad seeks energetic men for selling nursery stock and sweet potatoes with weekly pay and commission. Promises permanent positions, exclusive territories, and beginner inducements in Rochester New York. Also includes a moral anecdote about Rev Phillips Brooks and a health quack line touting Beggs Blood Purifier with a skin improvement claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Nursery Co
Rochester
N. Y
Northwestern line offers excursion tickets to Midwest and West
On Sept 11 and 20 and Oct 9 1894 the Northwestern line will sell low roundtrip excursion tickets to points in northwestern Iowa western Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Manitoba Nebraska Colorado Wyoming Utah Idaho and Montana Tickets good for return passage within twenty days from sale with stop over privileges on the going trip Information via agents Chicago Northwestern railway. A curious line notes bee post as a future fact in English agriculture with microphotography printing and staged mobility of bees as letter carriers discussed as feasible though impractical by some.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwestern Line
Pointa
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Manitoba
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Chicago & Northwastern Railway
Sean
One Minute Cough Care Promoted Over Cold Remedies
A fragment promotes One Minute Cough Care as an easier cure for severe cold or cough than Scotch products. The ad claims faster relief and better results with this product, mentioning discouraged weights and generic instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jd. M
Sheridan Shoe Tales and a Pittsburg Excursion Offer
A mock tale recounts General Philip Sheridan placing shoes on his desk and a Mexican guest misinterpreting propriety, leading to a comic exchange about slippers. The item then notes a G A R encampment excursion sale from Abbott Crossing at $19 round trip, via B C R MN railways, opening Sept 5 to Sept 26, with Chicago connections. A Chicago Tribune snippet adds a streetwise Sunday shoe shine scene at Englewood booths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lus Caine
Sheridan
Tropics
White House
Excursion Rates to Pittsburg for National Encampment
The Illinois Central Railroad offers a 19.05 round trip from Ackley to Pittsburg for the National Encampment with sales in Sioux City and Onawa on Sept 7 8 9. Tickets are valid to Chicago return on Sept 14 18 and 25 trains. Kdwen Headquarters train departs Chicago 11:00 am Sept 9. Rail lines provide multiple daily runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.R. C
Pittsburg
Penn
Illinois Central Railroad
Ackley
Sioux City
Onawa
Iowa
Sioux Walls
Chicago
Kdwen
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Pennsylvania
Mine Lines
J. W. Merry
A. G. P. Agt
Manchester
Illinois Central Harvest Excursions Offer Low Round Trip Fare
The Illinois Central Railroad announces Harvest Excursions with a round trip fare of one fare plus 32.00. Ticket agents will provide full details on the excursion days and destinations toward the West Southwest and South, including the low price and schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelinois Central Railroad
Harvest Excursions and Advertisements in Southern Illinois
A garbled note details harvest excursion plans to visit railroad lands in Southern Illinois with special permission via the Illinois Central Land Commissioner in Chicago. It mentions Yazoo Delta Lands in Mississippi and an Inter-State Fair at Sioux City, urging readers to contact agents or J T Merry for folders, plus random local notices and a medical ad for Beggs DiarrhaBalsam sold by C I Pander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois
Chicago
WV. Skene
Yazoo Delta
Mississippi
Sioux City
Ilinois Central
J.T. Merry
Winois Central RE. B
Manchester
Courage as Daily Habit Inspires Quiet Actions
The message urges courage as a constant daily motive guiding both small unseen deeds and widely approved public acts, stressing that steady courage shapes character and daily life.
Des Moines Began as Pom des Moines Frontier Post
Des Moines, capital of Iowa, traces to Pom des Moines a United States post. In 1882 the site served as a distant frontier garrison on the northwest edge of settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Nervous System as Seat of Life and Mind Claims
Essay-like advertisement argues the nervous system governs body organs from the brain base and cautions doctors focus on nerve centers not organs. It credits Dr Miles and his Restorative Nervine, touted as based on these ideas, with a money-back guarantee and nationwide sale through druggists or mail order from Miles Medical Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankoin Mines
Miles
Minus
Mines Moephan
Blichars
Ind
St Pee House
Mosquito Tips From Atchison Lobe Notes
A fragment mentions keeping mosquitoes away with a good coin and notes mosquitoes prefer a baby Atchison lobe. The text is garbled and does not provide clear persons, organizations, or events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haby— Atchison Lobe
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the Ackley World
Brooklyn
Hanilesa
Boule al
Sterling Remedy Co
Triland Mineral Springs
Col. Ingersoll
Phillips Brooks
Dr. Brooks
Jacob & Co
Phil
B.C. R. GN
Abbott Crossing
East
B.C. R & MN. Railway
J. Morton
GA & Pla
Cedar Rapids
Englewood
Lerg
New York
Jeve
New Yorker
Texas
C. I. Pander
Che Ontfit
Ben W
Abe Alroniseleess
Slyoe
Starcard
Economy Supply House
Hiram
Ohio
England
Uncle Sam
Parmer Jones
Tree Emmert Proprietary CO
Ill
Rea
Keystone Watch Case Co
Philadelphia
Piaparse
Comuntry
Caverly
Gopyrights
Lunn & CO
Diumn & Co
Bar View
Office OF
THE
Sd the Roved
Chitacq
Chicago Record
West
J. T. Hatfield
Northwestern University
Daily Journal
Madison St.ay
Boi
Ares
Skookum Root Hair Grower CO
South Fifth Avenue
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