Illinois Central R R Winter Tour Resorts and Sleeper Service
Illinois Central advertises double cee and dining cars buffet library and sleeping cars from St Louis to New Orleans and south to Gulfport Hammond and other resorts. Through Dixie Flyer sleeping cars run St Louis to Jacksonville via Nashville Chattanooga and Atlanta with connections to Cincinnati and Louisville. For full details contact Illinois Central agents A. H. Hanson in Chicago or H. Hatch in Chicago.
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Mind Reaction Time and How It Is Measured
The piece outlines simple and discrimination reaction tests using ring hand presses and color cues. It explains how basic reaction time is measured, then adds discrimination and choice steps with two, three, or four colors. It notes rapid discrimination aids sports, astronomy, and combat sports, where quick decision timing matters.
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Forum
Disraeli's Maxims on Power and Governance
A collection of aphorisms on power social strategy and governance. It urges forming distinguished alliances avoiding fools mastering influence concealing wisdom behind folly foreseeing opportunities and knowing when to forego advantage. It also contrasts divine right in monarchy with government as human progress and advises talking to women to gain fluency.
The Philadelphia Parade Band With Corked Instruments
A political parade in Philadelphia featured a thirty five member marching band. Eight musicians were missing so eight nonmusicians were dressed in band uniforms and given corked instruments to simulate music. The troupe marched for the campaign with this improvised exhibtion.
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Philadelphia
A Wise Man Leaves Funds for His Daughter in Law
A kind man planning a second marriage settled $10 000 on his unmarried daughter so she could stay at home or go freely. The arrangement produced harmonious relations as both women understood there was no dependence on close cohabitation.
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Tay
The Dominant Air Through Ages
A reflection on life as a music motif with a single dominant air guiding youth strength and old age gentleness, shaping and coloring the entire human life's rhythm across ages.
His Happiest Hour Retold in Echo de Paris Style
A lighthearted dialogue recalls a wedding proposal and a quiet hour of dialogueless joy. The exchange centers on memory and affection, highlighting a remembered moment as the happiest in life. The translated vignette mirrors Tales From Echo de Paris with a gentle, humorous tone.
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Echo de Paris
Pain Through Ignorance Insightful Maxim
Quoted remark by Horatio W. Dresser condemns ignorance as the source of physical and moral suffering. It asserts enlightenment as the sovereign remedy for both mind and body, emphasizing education and awareness as healing powers.
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Horatio W. Dresser
Shrines in Morocco Expose Shrine Fraud Tale
A traveler notes Moroccan Christians suspect Mohammedan saint shrines. A boy tricks shrine keepers by burying a dead donkey as a fake saint, drawing offerings. The elder shrine keeper is exposed when asked who his saint is. The tale ends with the line about the saint being the father of the boy’s saint.
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Morocco
St. So
Dairy show at Coliseum to accompany Butter Makers meeting
The National Butter Makers Association gathering in Chicago runs February 9 to 25 with a large dairy show at the Coliseum showcasing dairy machinery and products. The Chicago and North Western Railway offers special low rates from February 15 to 22 for attendees. details from ticket agents.
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National Butter Makers’ Association
Chicago
Big Coliseum
West
Chicago & North- Western Railway
Mardi Gras Excursion Rates From North Western Line
Excursion tickets offered for Mardi Gras travel to New Orleans Mobile and Pensacola with stop over privileges from Feb 21 to 25 and Feb 26 for noon Feb 27 arrivals. Reduced rates also to principal winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. Information from Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
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New Orleans
Mobile
Pensacola
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Chicago & North- Western Ra Y
Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup Endorsed By Doctor
San Francisco physician Dr J W Hamilton says he has sold Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup for years and calls it the best cough remedy and unequaled for asthma. Loveman and Baver carry the product.
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J. W. Hamilton
San Francisco
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Warner
Dr Miles Anti-Pain Pills Soothe Nerves and Pain
During a trying period many women suffer from nervousness backache sick headache or other pains. Dr Miles Anti-Pain Pills stop the pains soothe the nerves and give relief.
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Dr. Miles
Miles Anti-Pain Pills Advertised By Personal Testimony
A testimonial advert claims Miles Anti-Pain Pills relieve nerve and heart pains and aid sleep. Mrs Henry Funk of Akron Ohio credits the pills with stopping pain after nine ailments and recommends them for pains. The ad states the medicine comes in 25 dose boxes for 25 cents and is sold by Miles Medical Co. Elkhart Indiana.
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Miles
Henry Funk
Akron
Vonett
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Musk the perfume base from the musk deer
The musk deer of Tibet yields a glandular secretion used as medicine and especially as a perfume base. Musk is highly valued for its lasting odor, with claims that a grain can scent a room for twenty years, and that 3 000 parts of odorless substance can be permeated by one part musk. Artificial musk has not yet succeeded.
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Tibet
The Handkerchief Through the Ages in Europe
A concise history of the handkerchief from its ivory era origins in Venice around 1540 to its spread across Italy France and Germany. It notes luxury status perfumed use and eventual general popularization contrasting past courtiers with modern common use.
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Italy
Alps
France
Henry II
Henry III
Germany
Dresden
Petrarch
Laura
Dante
Beatrice
London Standard
North German Superstitions About Christmas and Luck
The excerpt lists beliefs from north Germany about actions to avoid for luck. It warns against spinning during Christmas nights and after sunset on Saturdays, and against various behaviors like not eating herrings on New Year, not rocking empty cracks, and not spilling salt. It also mentions avoiding leaving dirty cloths on tables, pointing at rainbows, and referencing cabbages and a cabbage thief.
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North Germany
Leprosy Life Span and Onset Described by Pearson's Weekly
The article summarizes statistics stating leprosy commonly begins between ages fifteen and twenty five with many cases appearing around eighteen. It notes slow progression, minimal early medical need, death typically within five years of hospital admission, and an average life after onset of about nine years.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Fiji Islands Belief on Unmarried Souls
An unmarried man or woman is rare in the Fiji islands due to a belief that death in an unmarried state doom a soul to wander between heaven and Hades. In a lunar cycle the soul may glimpse heaven but cannot enter.
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Fiji Islands
Heaven
Hades
Reade Advice On Investments In First Class Securities
A writer who earned much from one riskier venture sought Charles Reade for guidance. Reade advised placing funds in gilt edged securities and first class bonds of top nations, noting it is better to sleep on 8 percent than lie awake on 6.
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Charles Reade
Reade
Keep Cheerful Aim For Joyful Atmosphere
The text urges maintaining a constant cheerful standard to create a joyful atmosphere for oneself and others. It emphasizes consistent positivity as a higher aim than occasional cheerfulness and links personal mood to the benefit of people met.
Pity Taught By Fellowship In Woe Coleridge Quotation
A brief note cites Samuel Taylor Coleridge on pity being best taught through fellowship in shared misfortune.
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Coleridge
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