Trains Schedules Including Columbus Cincinnati to Pittsburgh
Train timetable excerpt lists daily and partial service notes with arrival and departure times for Zanesville Wheeling Pittsburgh Washington Baltimore and Columbus connections. It notes through cars on the Columbus Cincinnati route and a fast express to Pittsburgh via Wheeling with a sleeping car attached. W E Reppert is the General Pass Agent in Columbus Ohio.
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St. Louis
Columbus
Cincinnati
Union
Pittsburgh
Wheelsoe
W. E. Reppert
Ohio
WM. Cole
Newcomerstown
James McCrea
A. Ford
L Pass
FASTWARD Lv Ar No 5 and 7
Scrambled OCR listing times and numbers from a page segment. The fragment shows rail or schedule-like entries with column headings and numeric stamps but no clear events or names.
Weary Mother Longs for Rest and Patience
Poignant verse from Ekea P. Nitchell in the Home-Maker reflecting a mother’s burden and enduring love. She pleads for patience for exhausted mothers while recalling the ache of separation and the call of the child’s footsteps.
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Christ
Ekea P. Nitchell
Widow Watkins Chooses Wait for a Second Husband
In the North Carolina mountains, Widow Watkins with three children entertains and toys with a visitor, offering a five year wait for marriage while her resourceful son Jerry negotiates for a gun. He hopes a future union, while she weighs another chance at happiness.
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Allus
Jerry
Molly
Watkins
Salisbury
Sartin
Zuns
Detroit Free Press
He’s In the Soup Origin of a Slang Expression
The piece traces the rise of the phrase in the soup from a boxing tale involving Kilrain and the Etruria. A tug boat crew member falls overboard and a bystander cries Ho Johnston’s fell in de soup signaling a vivid image that captured public imagination. It also notes a dress reform lecture linking ill temper to attire and mentions blacksmith Daniel D. Magnum and his Magnumbonuza wagon reach.
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Gallagher
Kilrain
Pugilist
Etruria
Johnson
Johnston
Mr. Gallagher
Mr. Sun
Daniel D. Magnum
Danbury
Congress News Roundup From December Sessions
The report covers Senate and House actions December 17 through 20, notably conference votes on Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, tariff discussions, holiday recess approvals, and pension measures. It notes adjournments, staffing amendments, and the passage of several bills including bridge construction and river and harbor appropriations. Local items include a violent clash in West Virginia and various crime and public-interest notes.
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Washington
Senate
Minnesota
Dawes
Riddleberger
House
Committee On Finance
A. J. Smith
Arizona
Io. Housr
Ford Immigration Committee
Oklahoma
Union Pacific
Nicaragua Canal
South Dakota
Morrill
Holman
Henderson
Civil Service Commission
Randall
Cummings
Evarts
Committee On Library
American Historical Association
Edmunds
Isthmus
Darien
Central America
Tennessee
Cumberland
Voorees
Andrew J. Smith
Robert N. Scott
Messrs
Sherman
Butler
Gibson
Louisiana
United States
Rhode Island
New York
Indiana
Missouri River
Iowa
Nebraska
Hovss
Pie or patience in a family dinner joke
A five year old Angus demands pie at dinner and jokes about choosing patience over dessert between grandparents. The piece also notes a traveling writer’s claim that editors discard new jokes, explaining why old jokes endure.
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Angus
N. O. Picayune
Cryptic remark on stoves and public behavior
A fragmented quotation notes that putting up stoves is not a friendly act and oddly reveals who takes part. The terse line hints at social or cultural norms, suggesting stiffness or surveillance in a domestic setting.
Combined English Egyptian Forces Win at Suakim in Decisive Victory
Dispatches from Suakim report a decisive battle where British and Egyptian troops routed rebel forces. About 400 insurgents were killed with light British losses, and Egyptian casualties were reported as two killed and several wounded. The engagement featured heavy trench fighting, a naval approach, and machine gun fire shaping the outcome.
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Suakim
Sinal London
Standard
Buakim
Loxpoon
London
Abs
Unsuccessful Mississippi Search for Negro Outlaws Details
A Mississippi dispatch reports searchers from Whitehouse failed to locate the band of negroes sought after shooting incidents. A negr owoman at the house confirms earlier accounts. prison escapees may be scratched from the spotted list. Other notes cover Confederate immigration probes and contract labor imports affecting wages.
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New Oneans
The
Picayune
Wahalak
Miss
Whitehouse
Anots
Maury
Meridian
W. C. Nicholson
John Dewis
William Vaughan
Frank Maury
Great Apostle of a Single Tax Receives Enthusiastic Ovation
Henry George drew a large Cooper Union audience in New York as he returned to America. Thomas L. Johnson of Cleveland presided. vice presidents hailed from Kentucky and Tennessee. George recounted his England visit and cited New York Times and other papers recognizing land-value taxation as fair. He said the recent campaign educated voters on political economy and would pave the way for the single tax.
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Castle Garden
Congressional
Pitrsnurcu
Congressional Immigration Investigation Committee
Anderson
M. H. Ford
Michigan
Messrs. Ford
Guenther
Robert Elliott
Department of Public Charities
Poor Department
England
Ireland
America
Elliott
New York
Blackwell's Island
Ramsey
Poor Board
George Hoffman
Department of Public Charity
Workman Robinson
Brass Workers’ National Assembly
Workman Doyle
District Assembly No. 3
K. of L
President Smith
Flint Glass Workers’ National Union
James Campbell
William Cake
Window Glass Workers’ Federation
National
Robinson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Doyle
Westmoreland
Fayette
Wales
Scotland
Smith
Flint Glass Workers
White Mills
Thomas Latham
Henry George
Cooper Union
Thomas L. Johnson
Cleveland, C
Art Ficht
Congress
Kentucky
Tennessee
George
Zimes
Mr. George
Haggin bids $25,000 for Proctor Knott horse in Kentucky
News from Louisville indicates Haggin of California has offered 25 000 for Proctor Knott the two year old Futurity and Junior Champion winner query. Bryant and Scoggan owners say 39 000 would secure him with negotiations ongoing as California representative heads to discuss terms.
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Louis Virin
Haggin
California
Bryant & Scogran
Protter Knott
Haein
Dicker
Bryant & Scoggan
Proctor Knott
Death of Burra NY editor N J Matthews
Dee l l Don Matthews editor and proprietor of the Express died yesterday after four months of illness from Brights disease and kidney abscesses. Born in England in 1828 he came to Buffalo at eighteen and built a career as printer bookbinder and newspaper owner. He started the Journal of Commerce in 1850 and later owned the Express and the Commercial Advertiser. He also ran Matthews Northrop & Co art printing. He was married in 1851 and survived by two children.
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Burra
N.Y. Dee. l
J. N. Matthews
The
Express
Matthews
Bright
England
Buffalo
Journal of Commerce
Commercial Advertiser
Matthews, Northrop & Co
Second Time for Redemption Theft at Treasury
One or more National bank notes once redeemed and cancelled reappear at the Treasury for redemption. The theft likely involved a person handling notes after redemption, as the lower corner with bank officers’ names is cut off, then notes are cancelled again by the Comptroller and macerated for destruction, complicating detection.
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Wasursatos
Treasury Department
Comptrolect
Comptroller
Ten Dollar Rent Dilemma in Youth's Companion Note
A Washington woman asks her nurse if she saves any from ten dollars a month. Lucy replies she cannot save much, since nine dollars and a half must go to rent for her family, illustrating poverty and constraints faced by a household in a humorous juvenile piece.
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Lucy
Washington
Jouth
Comprnion
In a Paris shop Russian miss a language barrier joke
A cultivated daughter asks for help in a Paris shop and speaks in her best French but the clerk says she does not understand Russian. The joke hinges on miscommunication and national stereotypes in a light domestic scene.
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Paris
Down in Front Origin Hinted by Boston Theaters
Yonkers Statesman notes that in Boston theaters the front rows house young men with budding mustaches, suggesting this area gave rise to the expression Down in front.
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Boston
Yonkers Statesman
Elevator shaft fall inspires old time telegraphist quip
A fragment quotes a man who fell down an elevator shaft saying not to alarm friends and that he is an old time telegraphist, delivered in a humorous tone attributed to Puck.
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Beck
Puck
Explorers Stanley and Emin Bey Continue Safe Return Route
Dispatches from Zanzibar and Loxpon report Henry M. Stanley and Emin Bey traveling toward the Congo mouth. Stanley, then at Bonyala on the Aruwimi river since August 17, left Emin Bey eighty two days earlier with the expedition in good health and ample provisions. The House of Commons heard telegrams confirming their arrival at Aruwimi, fueling belief they are advancing to the Congo estuary.
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Stanley
Emin Bey
Zanzibar
Stanley Falls
Tippoo Tib
Henry M. Stanley
Bonyala
Aruwimi
Emin
Loxpon
St. Thomas
West African Telegraph Company
House of Commons
Africa
Congo River
Fraud schemes hit Western Union office in Boston
Irregularities totaling thousands were found in the Western Union Telegraph Company main office in Boston. Disguised as destroyed telegram copies and fictitious dispatch numbers, the scheme paid messengers up to 25 dollars weekly. The receiver aided the fraud. he has been discharged and the company will not prosecute those involved.
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Western Union Telegraph Company
Boston
General Harrison Denies Plot Rumor With Indignation
In Indianapolis on December 22 General Harrison angrily rejected a sensational report that a plot to kill him existed. He called the claim baseless and foolish, stating there was no truth to it, and he refused further questioning at the Denison hotel as he departed.
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Denison
Fire devastates Court and Elm building with porch collapse
Fire at L A Stobel & Co. mouldings plant on Court and Elm streets in Cincinnati spreads after midnight. Fireman Jerry Bray dies while others are trapped. walls topple and debris buries multiple firefighters with several severely injured or missing.
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Cincinnati
Court and
Elm Streets
L. A. Stobel & Co
Jerry Bray
Anderson
Flaherty
Furlong
Hunt
George Buschkamp
Morton Anderson
Two Crew From Curtis Ackerly Rescued By Adirondack
The steamship Adirondack arrived with two survivors from the Curtis Ackerly, wrecked last month off Seranilla Keys while bound from London to Ceylon with lumber. The captain and most crew are believed lost after attempting to reach Cape Gracia Dios. The Adirondack also reports the loss of the Florence on Fortune Island reef, with all crew saved. Also at Fortune Island were crew of a wrecked Austrian bark. They sail for New York aboard the Alvo, due December 24.
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New York
Adirondack
Curtis Ackerly
Ackerly
London
Ceylon
Seranilla Keys
Jesse Kingsland
Robinson
Cape Gracia Dios
Florence
Boston
Fortune Island
Alvo
Senate Finance Panel Sets Final Vote on Mills Bill Substitute
The Senate Finance Committee fixed a final vote date on the Mills bill substitute and will not hold further hearings. It will meet daily during the recess to amend the measure based on input from manufacturers and laborers and other interested parties.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Finance
Allison
Attempted arson at Prospect Park House in N Y
In MacaraA Fallis New York on December 22 a deliberate fire attack was spotted at the Prospect Park House. A bag of paper shavings and gasoline saturated material was found and a second barrel prepared for ignition. Police investigate with no arrests yet.
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Macaraa Fallis
N. Y
Prospect Park House
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Attorneys-At Law
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Steele & Rosemond
Attorneys-At-Law
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Cosgrave Buyling
Main Street
Onin
V. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Guernsey County
Jebutt
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R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott
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Brow House
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Exchange Hotel
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Cambridge, Ohio
Lakin C. Taylor
Ichard K. Fox
Franklin Square
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Wall
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Chicago & Wheeling
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Yaas
Noth?” Sea
Pete McCoy
Nancy
Joan Lamp
George Mason
Howard’s Chapel
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Chicago
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Howell
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Newton
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Oliver Mill
Lazare Lent
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Shamokin
Peri
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Harrison
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