Excursion Tickets From Iowa Central Ry To Western Cities
Iowa Central offers round trip excursion tickets to Denver Colorado Springs Salt Lake City Ogden and parts of the West with return validity to October 31 1900. Tickets priced via one fare plus two dollars for round trip with coupons through agents Geo S Batty Marshalltown Iowa and Gro S Batty. Also 600 pairs of shoes advertised and a Kodol Dyspepsia Cure note inserted by L M Bosworth.
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Colorado Springs
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Identified Outlaw Pete Curry Hidden in Utah Visit
Glen Miller a Utah marshal recalls a Salt Lake City encounter with Pete Curry the famed mail robber from Kansas. The meeting revealed Curry had just been released nine months early for good behavior. The second piece describes a disabled paper-scrap pickup man recounting a brutal fight and injuries with bold dialect.
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Glen Miller
Utah
Salt Lake City
Glen
Kansas
Salt Lake
Marshal
Pete Curry
Kansas City Journal
Insomnia After Mint Julep Misadventure in Hyde Park
A Hyde Park matron with high nervous temperament experiences sleeplessness after even a small whisky dose in her husband’s mint julep. She sleeps only after five, then awakens to hear her six year old son reassure neighborhood children that his mother slept late.
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Hyde Park
Kansas City Star
Wealthy American Convert Delights Pope With Medals
A rich American convert to Roman Catholicism showered Pope Leo XIII with gifts and medals during annual Rome pilgrimages. The pope teased that next would be a snuffbox a table or another object he could not attach to the man's waistcoat.
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Rome
Leo XIII
Holy Father
Chicago Times- Herald
65 536 Jack and Jill Tales in New Reading Plan
An English clergyman writes the history of Jack and Jill on an original plan. The book contains 65,536 stories arranged so each page 2 follows any page 1 and each subsequent page 3 follows 1 or 2, page 4 follows 1 2 or 3, up to page 8. The method uses permutation laws to create the vast set of tales.
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Jack and
Jill
Not an Old Acquaintance in Washington Star
An exchange about a runaway horse ends with a humorous remark from Mr Meek ton and his wife Henriette. The husband notes the horse acted as if unacquainted, implying the animal’s unruly behavior. The Washington Star presents the anecdote in a light, witty tone.
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Mr. Meekton
Henriette
Washington Star
A Sermon In Brief From a Field Encounter
A man met a bull in a field and the bull tossed him, leaving the man defeated. The moral warns against gambling when odds are against you, a brief caution from the Philadelphia North American.
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Philadelphia
A Conscientious Person Should Beware Passion
A conscientious person should be ware of getting into a passion for every sharp word one speaks lodges in one's own heart and such slivers hurt us worse than any one else.
Yale Nine Slams Down Princeton Pair On Broadway
In a Thanksgiving tale from the Saturday Evening Post, eight triumphant Yale men silently form a circle around a Princeton couple on Broadway after Yale’s football win. The Princeton man lunges, is tackled by the silent Yale crowd, then the eight Yale students resume their march, tipping their hats to the frightened girl.
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New York
Frank W. Graves
Graves
New York Polo Grounds
Yale
Princeton
Broadway
Funeral Dinner Prank Delights Pennsylvania Town
A Pennsylvania man recalls a German town hoax where a funeral guest returns from the dead to join a meal. The living husband had fallen from a hay wagon, died, and the bereaved dined around the corpse until the interloper from beyond unexpectedly ate with them.
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Pennsylvania
Jake
Philadelphia Record
Liszt Memory Feat Described by William Mason
The Century article recounts Liszt recalling a manuscript from memory after its owner sought publication. The composer then wrote his name on the title page to accept the dedication, confirming his remarkable memory and artistic influence.
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Liszt
William Mason
Weimar
A Feminine Trait in Sleep Talk Rumor
In Harpers Bazar a quip notes Mrs Swiftsmith troubled by insomnia after learning her husband talks in his sleep. The joke contrasts marital comfort with nocturnal revelations, reflecting social humor of the period.
New South Wales Ports Prized as Freest Globally
The ports of New South Wales are described as the freest in the world with no discriminatory or differential duties in any Australian colony. This assertion highlights uniform tariff practices and open port policies across the colonies.
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New South Wales
Quote from Somerville Journal on knowledge and rhetoric
A Somerville Journal quote warns that a man who only tells what he knows is worse than one who tries to tell all he thinks he knows, highlighting caution about overconfidence in speech.
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Pillah
Somerville Journal
The Peoples Standard History of the United States
A family friendly gift praised for broad appeal and lasting value. Readers can enjoy and study it together, with each member finding merit and lasting interest in this comprehensive history.
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United States
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