Railroad timetable snippet for Atlantic lines and branch services
Eastbound and westbound schedules show multiple through trains with numbered services, including Local Passengers and Expresses on the Atlantic lines. Sundays exclude Nos 63 and 64. Audubon, Griswold, and Harrisdale branches list mixed and Sunday services with specific times.
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Omaha Flyer
Cola. &Calif
Mali and Express
R. M. Limited
D. Lo
Oom
RB. M. Limited
Bocel Pasas
Ifail and Express
Chicago Express
Chicago Flyer
Audubon Branch
Griswold Branch
Chicago Markets Report Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Chicago markets report hogs receipts 9,000 with top day 7.10 and mixed butchers to 7.10. heavy 6.63 to 7.10. rough heavy 6.35 to 6.55. light 6.30 to 6.95. bulk 6.65 to 6.85. pigs 5.50 to 6.35. Cattle receipts 300 steady with Monday 20,000 expected. Sheep receipts 39,000 steady with Monday 22,000 expected. Estimated next week hog 110,000. cattle 20,000. sheep 22,000.
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Chicago
Railroad schedule extract for Atlantic Northern and Southern lines
Passenger and freight timetable shows northbound No 1 from Atlantic to Kimballton arriving 8 50 am with stops at Smith Lake Gates Hansen Heights and Elkhorn. Southbound No 2 from Kimballton to Atlantic arrives 10 20 am with intermediate stops at Elkhorn Hansen Heights and Gates. No 3 and No 4 passenger and freight trains have limited details and times listed.
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Atlantic Run
Smith Lake
Gates
Wansen Heights
Elkhorn
Kimballton
Antig
M. Gates
M. Hansen Heights
Eikboin Wieeree
Arive
Hansen “Heights
Atlantic A. m
Kimblalton
Elshorn
Eeess Hansen Heights
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City Market Report
Stock hogs priced at 5.80 to 6.10 dollars, beef cattle 6.00 to 6.50, cows and heifers 2.75 to 3.25. Grain lists wheat 77 to 80, corn 66 to 67, oats 37, barley 46, rye 60, hay 7 to 9, straw 6. Produce items include hens 8, spring chicks 12 percent, old roosters 3 4 4, turkeys 10, ducks 6, geese 45, eggs 15, butter 18 to 20, potatoes 50.
Human Monsters Revealed as Bloodthirsty Degenerates
London Answers recounts terrifying criminals across Europe and beyond. Alfred Knapp, the Hamilton, Ohio murderer executed in 1903, confessed to strangling children. German killer Johann Bobbe concealed a pit under a Berlin shop with a trapdoor and impaled victims on a spike. Teacher Mueller near Bayreuth confessed to eight years of murders after a widow’s remains were exhumed for proof.
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Alfred Knapp
Hamilton, O
Germany
Johann Bobbe
Berlin
Bobbe
Mueller
Duernburg
Bayreuth
Ehaken
London Answers
Hannibal Hamlin’s Carthaginian nickname origin tale
A Lewiston Journal piece recalls Hannibal Hamlin’s Maine legislature clash with John Holmes. Hamlin’s witty retort about complexion and brandy drew applause, with Holmes apologizing later. The quip likened Hamlin to a “young Carthaginian” who routed the “old Roman” in political sparring.
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Maine
Hannibal Hamlin
John Holmes
Hamlin
Holmes
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Alfred
Hamlip
Lewiston Journal
One Way to Look at It in Cornish Wit
A piece in the English Illustrated Magazine humorously notes Cornish talk and offers a concrete example. A Cornishman asks if to teach a boy the fiddle and the other confirms, insisting the boy’s head is too big. The gag rests on the idea that a larger head would hold more tunes.
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Gwain
Earth and Moon Size Comparison
The moon's real diameter is 2160 miles about a quarter of Earth's. Its surface covers 14.6 million square miles, roughly a thirteenth to a fourteenth of Earth. Earth's volume exceeds the Moon by about 49.5 times, yet Moon material is lighter. Earth's mass surpasses Moon by about 81.5 times.
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New York American
Achilles in women's garb puzzles ancient Greeks
In a Kansas City Journal excerpt, Ulysses explains the riddle by noting that Achilles hid among girls not by visible disguise but by not dropping his handkerchief when he turned. The quip highlights wit about gender and recognition in mythic history.
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Achilles
Ulysses
Kansas City Journal
A Dime Novel Reader Feature Quips on Kindling
A Washington Herald snippet notes a reader exchange about telling Johnny to split kindling. The response claims Johnny promised to split it but did not, followed by a remark that he would swim in blood first.
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Washington Herald
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