Excursions Offered by Missouri Pacific and Partners
The Missouri Pacific Railway announces seasonal tours for 1900 and 1901 including weekly personally conducted and inexpensive trips to Los Angeles San Francisco and Mexico. Excursions to The World's Sanitarium Hot Springs Arkansas are advertised with full information available from J P McCann or W E Hoyt at 391 Broadway New York. A US city population booklet for 25 000+ from the 1900 census is available by mail from the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway General Passenger Agent.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
Kansas City
Colorado
Denver
Salt Lak City
Rocky Mountain
California
Texas
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Mexico
Hot Springs
Arkansas
America
J. P. McCann
W. E. Hoyt
Broadway
New York
United States
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Chicago, Milwaukee &St.Paul Railway
Chicago
Ill
Letters in Asbury Park Post Office for Week Ending November 24
List of names including Morris, Mrs Wm ith, Mrs E Smith, Wm in the Asbury Park post office week ending November 24. The fragmentary notice shows scattered recipients and dated filing.
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Asbury Park
Bread Making Instructions from Home Magazine
A historic Home Magazine recipe outlines scalding milk with water sugar salt and butter, adding yeast dissolved in warm water, mixing with whole wheat flour to a thin batter, fermenting until morning, shaping and baking in greased pans for one hour in a moderate oven.
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Home Magazine
Bake Off: Coconut Almond Nut Loaf and Rebel Rooster Tale
A 19th century recipe blends sugar butter flour eggs almonds coconut orange zest and lemon icing for a coconut loaf. A cheeky Civil era anecdote tells of a British soldier in Egypt who confiscates a rooster after it refuses to crow for England, quipping at the colonel.
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Good Housekeeping
Egypt
Old England
Arrival and Departure of Melts at Asbury Park
Railway mail schedule for Asbury Park shows departures to New York and north at 7.30 and 11.40 a m with additional times for Trenton Philadelphia Freehold Point Pleasant Ocean Grove and other stations. Mails arrive from New York Philadelphia Trenton and Freehold at multiple times. Collections from letter boxes occur at 6 9 30 am and 12 noon with deliveries by carriers at 8 11 am and 4 30 pm.
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New York
Points
Trenton
Philadelphia
Freehold
Point, Pleasant
Ocean Grove
Reeserink
Asbury Park
Trento
Fire and alarm sections list city locations and signals
The text catalogs streets and intersections such as Main Avenue Gates and Pilgrim Pathway with notes on fire signals. Entries show general alarms and a sequence of numbered locations including Clayton's Store, Surf and Beach, Embury and Beach, and West Grove Engine House.
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Clayton’s
Main Avenue
Surf and Beach
Embury and Beach
Main
Pilgrim Pathway
Broadway
Tabor Way
Pennsylvania
Clark
New Jersey
Heck
Whitefield
Corlies
South Main
West Grove
Cage Engine House
West Rove
Weather Signals and Temperature Patterns Described
The report details numbered weather signals No 1 through No 5 with combinations and pairings. It notes fair weather, warmer or colder trends, stationary temperatures, and occurrences of rain or snow, including local rains and cold waves.
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Signaia
Automobiles Spread Worldwide In Early 1900s News
Reports show Belgium issuing 1500 motor licenses by August. Worcester to produce self propelled lunch wagons. San Francisco parks to allow autos with permits. Harvard's motor vehicle stable doubles in under a year. A Los Angeles to Chino freight line planned. Boston extends park driving hours to 11 30 p m with 10 mph limit. Taxes on private cars outlined for Spanish cities and smaller towns. Fragmentary religious wedding reading line appears.
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Belgium
Worcester
Mass
Park Commissioners of
San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Harvard University
Cambridge
Los Angeles
Pomona
Ontario
Chino
Col
Boston Park Board
Spain
Faithful Pigeon Delivers Life Saving Medicine Tale
A family in the Pacific Coast Pigeon society describes a carrier pigeon delivering a message about a sick baby with diphtheria. The husband at his Market street store received the plea, sent medicine with the pigeon, and the child improved within minutes.
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G. F. Marsh
Pacific Coast Pigeon Society
Market Street
Mr. Marsh
Trance Use and Theft Allegations Mentioned in Debates
A Detroit Free Press item cites a claim about trance states affecting behavior and a tale of attempted theft without payment. Brooklyn Life notes an interwoven joke about a woman blamed in a Cain and Abel dispute.
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Briggs
Griggs
Deen
Brig
Detroit Free Press
Benham
Cain
Abel
Brooklyn
Zeppelin Flying Machine To Astonish Europe And America
A Count Zeppelin flying machine, praised as a wonderful aerial craft, will undergo further tests in Europe and soon over American skies. The raft like airship, nearly 500 feet long, supports a large wooden building valued at about $50 000. When launched, the raft is withdrawn and the flying machine ascends.
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Count Zeppelin
Europe
Quotes from the crowd on office life and politics
A collage of snippets humorously contrasts gendered work roles and vanity. Jokes about private secretaries and typewriters spark flirtation and marriage, while a sly cartoonish exchange shows social pretensions. The Politician’s View hints at votes tied to a dairy community and a water rate ordinance.
Fragmented humorous dialogue snippets in a 19th century column
A collage of witty quips and exchanges covers poverty and wealth, a hinted romance, charity ball talk, and dinner table banter. The snippets parody social norms with playful dialogue and punchy one liners from a miscellaneous column.
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Springs
Ay Amn
iMorris
Wmith
E Smith
H.C. Johnston
Main St
Bond
Beventh
Webb
Sunset
Weather Sigagis
John N. Burtis
Mattigon
Bradley ‘Beach
Naph
Poland
Eugene
Eugene Field
Field
Manuufac
Mamene Field Erst Sentnite Fund
Monroe
the Journal
Xmas Trade
Pahson
Baby
Thad
Lis
Zeppelin
Gibson
Tix
Regord
P Delmonico
Co. W. Simonson
Sprinc Lake N. J
William Griffin, JR
West Wanamassa
N. J
California Carey
California Port
Honor Veron
Michelsohn
Belmar,n.j
Eave Pour Name
Matti 1Son Avenue
Journal
Pou
Central Hall
Orient
Cleveland
Spalding
Dayton
Barnes
Sterling Crawford
Spalding Sporting Goods
Mattison Avenue
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