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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
14
Grain-O is a delicious nourishing beverage to replace coffee. Sold by grocers and praised by users for tasting like the finest coffee when prepared properly. It aids digestion and strengthens the nerves without being a stimulant. Suitable for children and adults, offered at 15 and 25 cents, costing about one quarter of coffee.
Trains depart Marshalltown daily at 4:46 a m for Des Moines and 9:15 a m for Aft en Jet. Also daily runs to St Joseph Leavensworth Kansas City Southwes t 6:16 a m and 10:55 a m to Cedar Falls Waterloo. Evening service to St Paul Minneapoli 10:40 p m and fast trains to Dubuque Chicago with free chair cars Pullman sleeping cars and dining cars. Rates and details from J A Evvis, Agent, Marshalltown Ia.
A fragmentary timetable lists routes such as Chic Express Atlantic Express and Overland Limited with northbound and southbound times. It notes that No 1 will not carry certain passengers, baggage handling rules, and staff signatures including W. Rogers.
Mr. Ober describes Porto Rico as fertile with 1,800 streams and rich soils in the northeast highlands. He notes crops from sugar to coffee, cotton to cacao, and a diverse tropical flora and fauna, including vast mineral deposits and abundant pastures, but a high insect population.
The quote from Uncle Eben notes that being content is nearly as hard to obtain as wealth, saying contents of contentment are not easily come by and that comfort does not stem from riches alone. It appears in the Washington Star.
In effect December 19 1898 the St Louis and Kansas City Mail No 2 runs at 5 pm No 4 Peoria Express 40 am No 6 Peoria Diseositive Koreas 940 am No 12 Local Freight 600 am No 1 2 3 and 4 daily all other trains daily except Sunday Thos P Barry General Passenger Agent
Compact digest issued by Northern Pacific presents navy and army facts at the war’s start. Includes map of Cuba, ship illustrations, glossary of terms, and Spanish word translations. Send ten cents to Fer General Passenger Agent N P R 1 St Paul Minn.
The listing advertises Black Mineral Red Pile Games Pit Games and White Brahmas stock and eggs for sale at Gilbert Station in Iowa.
The Illinois Central Railroad publishes a rewritten 264 page illustrated pamphlet with letters from northern farmers newly located along the line through Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana. It provides city town and rural details and targets homeseekers for the southern region with information on accessible prosperous areas. Free copies are available from J F Merry A G P A Manelowa.
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