Time Table for No 1 and No 3 Passenger Trains
Schedule lists No 1 Passenger and Freight leaving Atlantic with stops at Smith Lake Gates Hansen Heights and Kimballton arriving around 12:50 am. No 3 Passenger and Freight departs Atlantic at 1 pm with stops at Smith Lake Gates Hansen Heights and Eir Boyd arriving at 4 pm.
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Atlantic
Smith Lake Gates
Hansen Heights
Eikhorn
Kimballton
Smith Lake
M. Hansen Heights
M. Eirboyd
Sebeenae
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific trains schedule excerpt
The document lists Audubon Branch and Griswold Branch mixed extra trains with numbers 839 321 393 395 335 and times 6:40 am 2:20 pm 6:35 am 2:30 pm 2:35 pm. It notes Sunday only services and that all trains run daily except Sunday and provides corresponding passenger service details.
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Audubon Branch
Griswold
Chicago Stock Market Report From August 19
Chicago market summary shows hogs at mixed prices 6.15 to 6.85 with heavy and butcher bids. cattle trades 14,000 head ranged from 1.50 to 7.60 for cows, heifers, stockers, and westerns. hogs, cattle, and sheep volume and prices listed for next day projections and market activity.
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Chicago
West Frankfort ad touts King’s New Life Pills at hamlet drug
An aged fragment from a 19th century page touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a family laxative. The text mentions a West Frankfort area and local druggistRHODY’S offering duster sale at cost. The ad emphasizes affordability and quick results with a sales pitch on “good things.”
Bavarian Cream Coffee Delicacy and Home Remedies
A vintage home guide describes Bavarian cream using gelatin and strong coffee, then stirs in whipped cream and serves chilled. It also outlines salt as a catarrh remedy, and tips for oily skin with diluted alcohol and borax, ammonia drops, and a light powder finish.
His Own Bait Snapping Turtle Described By Chicago Tribune
A Chicago Tribune account details a clever snapping turtle that uses a grublike bait in its mouth to lure fish. The creature weighs around 50 pounds, with a 28 inch long edible appendage and a mud colored shell studded with moss. It crouches motionless on soft bottoms and then strikes, jaws capable of severing fingers or wrists.
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Saints
Mexico
Mississippi
Chicago Tribune
Tricks of Writers and Literary Quicks to Mock Readers
The New Orleans Times-Democrat comments on Kipling faking quotations at tale openings to spark curiosity. It parallels Scott and Poe using invented lines attributed to imaginary thinkers, arguing fiction thrives on illusion and methods used to create it, regardless of reader deception.
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Kipling
Mr Kipling
Scott
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe
New Orleans
Times-Democrat
New Suction Washing Machine Patented by Syracuse Inventor
An innovative washing machine from Syracuse debuts a suction cup system that draws dirt from clothes rather than pounding it out. The device uses a lever to plunge an inverted cone suction cap into the water and fabric, then reverses to lift dirt away and permits easy transfer to laundry pins.
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Syracuse
Strawberry Rash Remedies Describe Simple Treatments
A fragmented note advises that wormed Adve 12 totego berries irritate the skin causing a rash. To counteract the berry acidity, limewater or soda in milk or water once daily may help. Hot baths ease itching followed by talcum powder dusting.
Making Lard Sweet
In warm weather render lard and melt it, then add water at two quarts to one pint of lard and three peeled potatoes sliced and cut up. Boil ten minutes, then cool. The lard becomes fresh and sweet.
Home remedy to remove iodine stains with milk
A tip explains soaking iodine stained fabric in sweet milk for several hours then air drying to lift the stain. It notes milk itself can be washed away with warm water and soap. This compact remedy reflects practical householder advice from a historical page.
Te Dry Clean Hairbrushes
Apply a half cup each oil flour and waft to a dry brush. Mix well then rub the bristles two or three times. Shake out the mixture and the brush will be clean. This method is better than washing as it does not soften the bristles.
Fragmentary note on dyeing or cleaning with earth paste
The text seems to describe a method using fuller's earth paste to remove spots from gut dresses. It mentions applying a paste, drying, brushing, and possibly a second application, but lacks complete context or clear instructions. Named entities are absent or unclear due to damaged wording.
Immigrants Purses Reflect Diverse Money Ways in New York
The New York Press paints a vivid census of immigrant money habits with vivid details. Irish carry notes and coins in a canvas bag, Germans wear embroidered money belts, French and Italians use brass tubes with screw tops for twenty franc golds, Swedes tote a long trusted cowhide pocketbook, and Slavs store cash in high boots with a fork and spoon.
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New York
Forest of State in Albany Australia Revealed as Stone Forest
The Albany area in Australia is home to a petrified forest formed when ancient vegetation was buried by sand and later solidified into gray stone. Over time water softened the sand, preserved the wood as stone, and winds later exposed the fossilized trunks anew.
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Australia
Albany
Geen & Stone
London Globe
Legal Thrust in Mock Exchange Highlights Courtroom Tone
The Philadelphia Press notes a defense counsel fretting over readiness while the plaintiff’s attorney presses. A New Yorker cites national attitude and Liberty goddess symbolism as a Western visitor comments on American character, captured with sharp newspaper witticisms from Washington Herald.
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Philadelphia Press
New Yorker
Washington Herald
Compliment Sparks Clerkly Banter Cited in Paper
A brief exchange quotes Cholly Sappey denying understanding Miss Rood who allegedly called him a crank. Miss Cutting protests Gow flattering while Cathote Standard and Times notes the remark.
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Cholly Sappey
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Rock Island & Pacific
Omaha Flyer
No. & Cola. & Calif
Mall and Express
R. M. Limited
Chicago Express
Chicago Flyer Oe
Meadiy Pork
Chicago Stock Market
Rhody’s. Dwtt
Evisi
Iowa
Atlantic, Iowa
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