Illinois Central R R Promotes Winter Tour Resorts
The Illinois Central offers double daily service with dining cars buffet library chair cars and sleeping cars from St Louis and Cincinnati to New Orleans and the south. It markets Gulfport and New Orleans voyages to Mexico Central America Panama West and Europe with connections to Hot Springs Arkansas and a Florida Sleeping Car Chicago to Hot Springs via Memphis. Through Dixie Flyer sleeping car routes reach St Louis Jacksonville via Nashville Chattanooga and Atlanta. For details contact A. H. Hanson P T M Chicago or S G Hatch G P A Chicago.
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Minois Central
C St Louis
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Vicksburg
Gulfport
Miss
Hammond
la Mardi Gras
Mexican Gulf Coast
Forexico
Amerca
Panama
West
Europe
Chicago
Hot Springs
Memphis
Bassville
Dixie Flyer
St. Louis
Sacksonville
Nashle
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Central
Ander
A. H. Hanson
Ill
G. Hatch
The Agile Tiger Steals Quietly With Silent Prowess
A veteran observer recalls a tiger in India using stealth to ambush a bullock. The animal steps on leaves without a sound, uses a stump to gain reach, and only when the rope catches his eye does he break for the forest, eluding the hunter.
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R. H. Elliot
India
Size of a Thunderbolt Fulgarites From Sand and Rock
A geologist describes fulgarites formed when lightning fuses silica in sand or rock into glass. Tubes resembling the bolt size emerge in sand up to thirty feet deep and in rock as a thin surface layer. Examples include Little Ararat Armenia and Humboldt’s Nevada de Toluca Mexico.
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Little Ararat
Armenia
Humboldt
Nevada de Toluca
Mexico
Sardou's Breakthrough via Remarkable Handwriting
The French dramatist Sardou gained his first success when his rejected play La Taverne des Etudiants was noticed by Mile. Berengere for its exquisite handwriting. She urged directors to read it, leading to its acceptance while Sardou faced seven years of hardship.
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Sardou
Odeon
Mile
Berengere
Hops Arrive in England 1524 Face Early Backlash
The Kogtish learned hops from a native Artois and were introduced to England in 1524. Physicians labeled them unwholesome and Parliament opposed them as a wicked weed. Prohibition with penalties followed in 1528. Henry VIII shows evident prejudice in a January 1530 injunction to his brewer to avoid hops or brimstone in ale.
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Artois
England
Henry VIII
Eltham
Pocketbook Lost Under Pillow Sparks Domestic Jest
In a humorous exchange, Gregson alarms Scott by noting a pocketbook missing under a pillow. Fisher jokes about an honest servant who will supposedly take it to Gregson's wife, highlighting playful household mishap.
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Gregson
Scott
Fisher
Despair Seen As Eager, Unfed Hope Says Eliot
The quote asserts that what we call despair is rooted in the painful eagerness of unfed hope, reflecting George Eliot’s view on human expectation and emotion.
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George Eliot
First London Edinburgh Stage Coach From 1658 Chronicle
The article recalls the early London to Edinburgh coaching era starting 1658 with a biweekly service and fare of £4, noting four day rides York to London. It mentions 1765 monthly trips, occasional postchaise use, and a 1734 push to upgrade with a two end glass coach, advertised by Hosea Pastgate and John Somerville.
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London
Edinburgh
York
Edinburgh Courant
Hosea
Hosea Pastgate
Chambers’ Journal
Ireland's Ruined Castles and Comet Tales
A fragment from Pearson's Weekly surveys Ireland's ancient fortresses including Grianan of Aijeach, Cashel, Dunluce, Sligo abbey, and Donegal castle, then shifts to a science note on comet tails formed by solar heating and particle ejection with types noted by Bredhechen.
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Ireland
Aijeach
Swilly
Erin
England
Cashel
Dunluce
Sligo Abbey
Maurice Fitzgerald
Donegal
Pearson
Heat Generated by Vegetables Revealed in Field Observations
The article notes that living vegetables emit heat through life processes. Sap of healthy trees resists frost, inner fibrous parts stay warmer than air, and snow melts faster at tree bases. Some vegetables warm to midday, then cool. flowering also raises temperature. The Italian arum stalk reportedly rises by 100 degrees and another plant by 109 degrees Fahrenheit.
Heart Cure Promise From Miles Medical Co
A nurse and patient testimonials claim Dr Miles Heart Cure can improve weak hearts with bottles of medicine. The ad urges readers with heart symptoms to try the product, noting a refund guarantee if the first bottle fails. Claims include weight gain and symptom relief after using Nervine with Heart Cure.
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Feur
Miles
Miles Medical Co
Beauty Spots Across Women Cultures
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt notes global beauty practices among women. It describes teeth gilding in Japan, blue and yellow face painting in Greenland, red finger and toe staining in Arabia, black teeth in three Indian castes, hair dyeing in Borneo, full body greasing and saffron for Hindoo brides, shell-pattern facial scars in New Holland, black front-teeth ornaments in some South American tribes, nose rings in New Guinea, and ear piercing as a shared civilized custom.
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Greenland
Arabia
India
Borneo
New Holland
New Guinea
Philadelphia Bulletin
His Working Clothes and a Courtroom Witty Exchange
A bricklayer is reproved by Lord Ellenborough for appearing in work attire, insisting on clean dress for court. The bricklayer retorts that he is as well dressed as the judge. The chief justice presses for clarity as a flamboyantly dressed witness claims to be a surgeon and faces scrutiny from the bench.
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Lord Ellenborough
Coventry cabman who rose to learn under a rich patron
A Birmingham cabman resembling a dead son wins a wealthy widow's fortune on the condition he becomes an educated gentleman. He studies classics and secures a position as a scout at a university, using the experience to prepare for later study at another university and to fit into gentlemanly society.
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Birmingham
Oxford
Cambridge
Cast Iron Elasticity and Strength Report
Cast iron extends five thousand five hundredths of its length per ton per square inch of section. Elasticity is fully excited at one thousandth part extension, with the elastic limit at one thousand two hundredth part. The longest cast iron sample tested reached 45 970 psi tensile strength.
Newlyweds Debate Curtain Smoking Hazard
A playful exchange shows a husband joking about smoking to speil curtains while his wife commends his unselfishness and suggests removing the curtains to prevent any mess.
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Llinois Central R. R
Hot Springs, Ark
Florida
Chicago & North Western
Railway
Going East
Overland Limited
Atlantic Press
Pacific Exprem Limited
le Carroll
Bes
de Vas & Rep
Ames
Sioux City
Des M
Pan Moines & Ae
Ames Primeare
Roaers
A. & C. Railway
College
A.M
O. A. Gamble
Agile Tiger
Kennedy
Bears
The
Sis
Ernest
OLE Time Traveling
Green Isle
Ean
E. E. Barnard
Bredhechen
Chamberlain
Elkhart, Ind
Infan
Sumile
New York
Dallas
Castoria
Caniel Bros. & Herman's
Canier Bros, & Herman
Marinette
Aeen
Chicago Heights
Ilinois
W. M. Bartlett
Wellington
Des Moines
Iowa
Valentines
Loughran
Bauer
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