Rock Island Time Table Goes East and West Schedule
Rock Island time table lists daily eastbound trains from 3:45 a.m. and 3:50 a.m. and multiple Omaha and Kansas City lines with arrivals at 11:10 a.m. and 11:10 a.m. The westbound schedule shows late night and afternoon departures with through service to Chicago Denver Pueblo and Colorado Springs. Through chair and sleeping car service is available on all routes to major western cities.
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Kansas City Line
Omaha Line
Kansas Cty Line
Fairbury
Fairoury
Mcfarland
Kansas City
Omaha
Chicago
Denver
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
A. Whittemore
Kansas City Times Offer for Readers Promote Democratic Paper
The Kansas City Times invites readers to subscribe to a live metropolitan daily. It touts war coverage, rapid distribution across Missouri Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma Arkansas and Indian Territory, and a broadly democratic Western stance. Readers are urged to order promptly.
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Uncle Sam
Great Southwest
Kansas City Times
Phillippines
Porto Rico
Cuba
United States
Yankee Enterprise
Union
Times
Missouri
Kanees
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Indian Ter
Kansas City
Dangers of the Grip and Chamberlains Cough Remedy
The greatest danger from La Grippe is pneumonia. With reasonable care and Chamberlains Cough Remedy, danger is avoided. Thousands have used it with no pneumonia cases, proving its preventive value. It cures the grippe quickly and safely. For sale by Armstrong & Co.
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Chamberlain
Armstrong & Co
Stateboards and politics clash in Kansas reform chatter
A jumble of opinions from a Kansas newspaper column rails at government waste and reform ideas. It critiques pardons abolition, salary raises for county officials, and a proposed state plumbing board while mocking boards and calls for accountability, noting past election debates and constitutional conflicts. Various pointed references to government action and public works expose populist impatience with surplus and inefficiency.
Uncle Samuel Charges for Cemetery Resting Rights
A fragment notes Uncle Samuel reportedly follows colonial practice at Manila by taxing locals for resting in cemeteries. The remark suggests new corpses could yield revenue over time, reflecting colonial-era control over burial spaces.
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Samuel
Manila
Trade Resumes Between United States and Spain
Anele Sam opened trade by buying a job lot of heathens from Spain at F2.60 per head while Spain buys 4000 tons of wheat from the United States and leaves room for more orders, signaling a continued exchange and goodwill.
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United States
Spain
Anele Sam
America
Junction City Tribune
Bryan Speech In Washington Attacks Expansion Policy
One of the era’s great patriotic speeches by Col William Jennings Bryan delivered in Washington on Wednesday of last week argued against expansion. It praised fairness and justice to all while delivering a strong arraignment of the nation’s expansion policy.
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Col
Wm. J. Bryan
Washington
Questioning Sweatshop Labor in War Clothes
The piece urges investigation by the people and Secretary Alger into claims that clothes for American soldiers were made in New York sweatshops. If proven and known to authorities, the public should judge who truly supports the working man.
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New York
Alger
Preacher Look Alike Warned By Kansas City Drinker
While hurrying to the union depot in Kansas City a man with a bay window nose and dark brick hue tried to force a whiskey purchase on us at a popular resort. Albert Ross of the Burr Oak Herald accompanied us, but he clearly did not appear to need a drink.
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Belleville
Union Depot
Kansas City
Albert Ross
Burr Oak Herald
Editorial Reflections on Politics and Public Figures
A condensed stock of opinions contrasts American policy, labor issues, and cartoons. Mentions Indiana representatives, Patrick Henry, Mr Johnson, California anti cartoon law, Uncle C P Huntington, Spooner, and Lyman Naugle of the Wellington Voice, with jabs at corrupt or hypocritical actions and calls for accountability.
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Indiana
Patrick Henry
Mr. Johnson
California
C. P. Huntington
Californans
Treasury deficit in fiscal year early figures show large shortfall
The treasury report for the period up to Feb 16 shows receipts from all sources amounting to 306,444,9160.55 while expenditures total 404,762,802.81, leaving a deficit of 98,817,842.26. War expenses total 216,812,191.18, nearly 29 million more than all other purposes combined.
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CU. S. Treasury
Republicans should read Johnsons army bill speech
A Republican congressman from Indiana is praised for a forthcoming speech on the army appropriation bill. The piece asserts the speech will be ranked among the greatest in Congress and notes many party members privately agree with its sentiments.
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Johnson
Rep
Indiana
Traveling Quaker doctor ad sparks caution
A reader notes that a so called Quaker doctor, used in advertising to attract patients, is not inherently different from Methodist or Baptist physicians. Quakers are a religious group with no medical superiority. Such a toutsman may be neither a good Quaker nor a good doctor.
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Tsu
Chiate
Chester
America
Ohio
Iminy
Ligaie
Vee
Columbus
Bob
O. TC
Tim Short and the Paper Debt Assignment
An editor recalls a subscriber, Tim Short, who stopped his paper for economy yet owed ten dollars. A church visit and a melodious hymn followed, prompting the editor to send a receipt in full and pardon for not knowing Short had assigned his liabilities to the Lord.
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Tim Short
Tim
Short
Jesus
Seventh Annual Kansas Editorial Association Meeting in Topeka
The Kansas Editorial Association held its seventh annual meeting in the new capitol library room at Topeka, with 200 attending for a social and educational program. Election of officers crowned G. W. Martin as president and J. W. Murphy as secretary, as a Kansas City excursion and banquet closed the conference. Sousa’s concert and a grand ball highlighted the trip, with remarks on Kansas pride and local hospitality amid the grand convention hall’s vast, costly venue. The next gathering may include a Cuba excursion, pending plans.
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Kansas Editorial Association
Capitol
Topeka
Kansas
Frank Elliot
Troy Times
Tom McNeal
Mailand Breeze
GG. W. Martin
Kansas City
J. W. Murphy
Persimmons
Freeman
United States
People of
Sousa
Cuba
Protest Against Bogus Butter Makers at Packing Houses
A citizen group argues against forced consumption of rancid cottonseed oil and tainted margarine claiming such products are unsafe. They urge a law to shield consumers from deceptive butter substitutes and seek stricter packing house oversight.
Finely Woven Wonders of Wire and Metal
The article details extreme wire fineness in industry, describing meshes up to 40,000 per square inch for certain woven gauzes and cloth. It notes platinum wire drawn to seven-thousandths of an inch, aluminum wire extreme lengths, and iron elongated to miles per ounce, including a remarkable feat of 24 grains of gold drawn onto silver wire for 120 miles.
Gladstone Resigns After Liberal Desertion in 1868
The scene recalls Mr. Gladstone's brief resignation when Liberals deserted him by a small majority on a state question in 1868. Lord Sherbrooke and Mr. Lowe feature in the dramatic moment as colleagues attempt a confidence vote.
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Lord Sherbrooke
Lowe
Mr. Gladstone
Gladstone
Mr. Lowe
Gold Rush Shifts to New York State Claims Rise
A large share of gold seekers are turning from the Klondike to New York. Over 4,000 gold mining claims have been filed with the secretary of state's office in Albany, with reports of plants turning yellow sand into gold nuggets already in operation.
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New York State
Klondike
Secretary of State
Albany
A Whole Zoo in One Wild Bexus
A. Wilmot of Bernice reported an unusual animal he shot a few days ago. The body resembled a dog's with hairless back and sides. It had coon ears and nose, opposum tail, and wildcat feet, suggesting a bizarre mix or unknown creature.
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Bexus
A. Wilmot
Bernice
Hunt
Why He Came with Bishop Wilmer and a Lazarus Conundrum
A historical clipping recounts Bishop Richard Wilmer of Alabama visiting New York in aid of a Confederate orphanage. He dined with Union friends, declined to share a story, and posed a Lazarus riddle implying Southern resolve. A bishop’s blunt wit draws mixed laughter and curiosity.
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Richard Looker Wilmer
Alabama
New York
Lazarus
Chicago News
Impregnable at Crabshaw
Dialogue captures encouragement and guidance as Truth notes room among the big fellows up above, with Crawford urged not to feel discouraged and to seek opportunity beyond present limits.
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Crawford
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