Ingersoll on Women Love and a Growing Yellow Cab Fleet
Col Robert G Ingersoll’s lecture on divorce frames women as higher in love, forgiving injuries and inspiring art and music. The Yellow Cab and Baggage Co expands cabs and staff in Amarillo with two cabs and forty two drivers and a new uniform yellow fleet under ex Santa Fe officials J A Combs and M M Hicks. Minor returns to main Santa Fe line. Borger turn to oldest bidder. Santa Fe meeting set. Am my local railway and Masonic figures travel for business and duty.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Colonel Ingersoll
Yellow Cab and Baggage Company
J. A. Combs
Santa Fe
M. M. Hicks
Wellington
Kansas
Amarillo
C. B. Minor
Iast
Ira Simmons Returns to Duty on Buffalo Branch Run
Ira Simmons, popular Santa Fe conductor, resumes duties after months of relief for medical reasons. He is assigned to the mixed freight and passenger run on the Buffalo branch from Waynoka. The Roswell lodge No. 508, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, held a meeting with 52 members, initiating three candidates and featuring three speeches by Lovett, Herbert, and Ralph Simmons. A Dutch lunch followed. Rock Island adds 680 feet of spur at Shamrock to serve Columbian Gasoline, expanding yard limits. W. F. Dale, Rock Island conductor, also returns to duty after long incapacity.
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Ira Simmons
Santa Fe
Mr. Simmons
Amarillo
Ira
Buffalo
Waynoka
Brotherhood of Railroad
W. FE. Lovett
C. A. Herbert
Ralph Simmons
Knights of the Iron Trail
Call Bay
Rock Island
Shamrock
Columbian Gasoline Corporation
W. F. Dale
Sage Tea Keeps Your Hair Dark and Youthful
Claiming gray hair can be reversed with Sage Tea and sulphur, the ad promotes Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound for 75 cents. It promises natural darkening, invisibly blending gray strands, restoring color after one or two uses, and leaving hair thick and glossy.
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Wyeth
Notable Nonsense and Oddities from Early 20th Century Writings
A collage of curiosities and quotations on superstition, idiosyncrasies, rail travel, and urban life. It notes Sir Walter Scott fearing moonlit abbeys, Peter the Great avoiding bridges, Napoleon fearing a black cat, and various humorous personal quirks. It also mentions railway yard expansions near Amarillo, Chicago’s 1926 population, and reflections on progress, debt, and everyday habits.
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Walter Scott
Peter the Great
Napoleon
Bill Kretsinger
Charlie Austin
Sam Motlow
Gordon Palmer
Perry Perdue
Fragmented Historic Snippets Disjointed by OCR
A garbled OCR passage notes a crossed creek, a misdocumented cotton gin date, mentions a dentist advising alfalfa, and references electric lights improving life. It shifts to Observant Osewe claiming focus on automobile movement after a child’s death and police slowing traffic before speeds rose toward danger.
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Osewe
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Moore
J. B. Jones
M-K-T Railway
Denison
Chrysler Automobile
Panhandle
W. H. Duckworth
Las Cruces
New Mexico
Masonic Order
Duckworth
Vernor
Reliable Printing Service
Wright Printing Co
Taylor
Clothiers
Polk St
United States Post Office Department
Chicago
United States
Andrew Jackson
The
Country Gentleman
One Grey
MR. Farmer
March
Zona Gale
Thomas Boyd
Harris Dickson
Graeme Lorimer
Paul de Kruif
Stuart O. Blythe
Argentina
E. V. Wilcox
Edwy B. Reid
Charles Goodnight
J. Frank Dobie
Alonzo Englebert Taylor
E. H. Taylor
Harry R. O’brien
the Country Gentleman
Independence Square
Philadelphia, Pa
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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