Special Excursion Rates to Colorado Utah and Black Hills
North-Western Line offers summer excursion tickets starting June 1 to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City Hot Springs Deadwood Lead and Custer South Dakota return by October 31. Daily trains promote vacation travel and agents are ready to assist with rates and sale dates for listed events across nine locations including Indianapolis Boston Saratoga Springs Detroit and San Francisco with various organizations.
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North-Western
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Salt Lake City
Hot Springs
Deadwood
Lead and Custer
S. D
Apply O Agents CO
N.W. Ry
Chicago & North-Western Railway
Indianapolis
Ind
Travelers’ Protective Association
Modern Woodmen of America
Boston
National Educational Association
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
United Christian Endeavor
Detroit
Michigan
Epworth League
Baltimore
San Francisco
Sovereign Grand Lodge
North- Western
Man-Er-Vine tonic advertised as nerve strength booster
An advertisement for Man-Er-Vine tonic by Lougbran & Bauer claims the product builds up nerves like steel in worn out men and women, presenting it as a blood purifier and tonic.
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Lougbran & Bauer
Get Your Money's Worth Brand Cigar Ad Says Value
An advertisement promotes a cigars brand slogan Get Your Money's Worth and links value to fruits. It lists Frank B. Spence and F L Meredith offering farm loans at 5 percent and first mortgages, with contact in Ames Iowa and a prompt to inquire. It also notes information on farming lands near Winnipeg Manitoba and Alberta via W H Dayton in Ames IA.
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Frank B. Spence
F. L. Meredith
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Alberta
W. H. Dayton
Ames
Dorchester’s First Tax Supported School and Island Rent
The Dorchester settlement established the first public school in America funded by tax on town inhabitants in May 1639. Thompson's Island was taxed £20 yearly to support schooling, with a schoolmaster chosen by freemen and elders, and enforcement via distress if payment was refused.
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America
Dorchester
Mass
David Thompson
Thompson's
Thompson's Island
Thackeray Portrait Sparks Offhand Club Exchange
Thackeray disliked vanity but allowed a portrait after family urging. Lawrence, a famed London artist, undertook the task. While dining at his club, a pompous guards officer approached and quipped about the portrait.
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Thackeray
Lawrence
London
When Squirrels Were Numerous
Early writers recount massive squirrel numbers in colonial times. Godman notes a £8000 bounty paid by Pennsylvania for gray squirrel scalps in 1749, totaling about 640000 killed in a small district. Western settlers organized daylong hunts by two companies to compete in trophies.
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Godman
Pennsylvania
Abstract idea fuels tavern brawl over painters Holbein and Vandyke
In a card party at Hazlitt and Lamb's, Charles Lamb's brother and Hazlitt argued over Holbein versus Vandyke, toppled the table, and fought. Hazlitt sustained a black eye, then dismissed aid from Talfourd, declaring nothing matters but an abstract idea.
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Charles Lamb
Hazlitt
Lamb
Holbein
Vandyke
Talfourd
Dogmatism as Puppyhood Matured in a Professor Remark
A London Globe observation notes a professor delivering a sharp rebuke to a young dogmatic student. The quip compares dogmatism to puppyism grown older, suggesting rigidity and zeal persist as one matures. The essay frames dogmatism as a fixed trait used by the confident young.
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London Globe
All About Metaphysics Defined by a Scotchman
A Scotsman humorously defines metaphysics as explaining a subject to someone more ignorant, using the phrase when a man who knows nothing explains to another who knows even less. The remark captures a playful view of intellectual explanation.
Hair loss joke echoes in Atchison Globe item
A witty quip about a man losing his hair and not combing it much contrasts with a woman who combs brushes curls and pulls yet has a wad left when she dies. The line reflects lighthearted newspaper humor from the Atchison Globe.
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Atchison Globe
How Maudie Gets Experienced
Irene asks about Maudie marrying the young man and Enid clarifies Maud is only engaged. Maud has never been engaged before and believes she should practice before taking it seriously.
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Maudie
Irene
Maud
Enid
Mercy
New Yorker
Fragmentary Scene of Machinery and White Desert
A vivid, fragmentary description features engines buried in a vast trench of white with only their stacks visible, belching blackness around a virgin landscape. The passage emphasizes purity and a dramatic icy setting, concluding with a looming, unresolved image of the great white.
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Mmmat Estate
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Jjer Munden
le Ken
BBC
Low ‘Shacorsi
Capps Clothing
R. WH. McCarthy
Japan
Loughran & Bauer
Sammy & Miller
Garry
Ings
Mr. Fly
Coloado
Utah
Black Hills
the Health Institute
North Douglas St
Thomas Waterhouse
Chicago Tribune
New York Press
Chicago & North Western
Ratial
Bart
Overland
Portland
Atlantic
Mam
Chicago
A Pressene
Pacific
Colorado
Dam
Northern Iowa
Carroll
Goa
Dakota Express
St.p
5.C
Chicago & Carroll Pas
Chicago Express
Ameriday
Amrust
G. W. Roaersa
A. & C. Railway
A. M
College
Ivanas Denen
Leaves Ames
Ié Wkviveneadonn
Wiis van Ed Ceee
Ian Cccunna Wes Tof Rhicoscaces
Sua
Ces
Hivasevcissi
DeWitt
BE. C. Dewitt & CO
Meat Market
Story County Abstract Books
Nevada
Rocky Mountain
Mads Poets Cine Co
Madems
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