Journey through Holy Land ends in voyage home
Constantinople January 1890 notes a writer leaving America after a lengthy Palestine and Syria tour. He describes hardships on Mount Hermon, camping in a mud village, and sanctifies the journey with Biblical sites from Damascus to Jerusalem while planning a Brooklyn Tabernacle cornerstone ceremony and baptism in the Jordan.
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Constantinople
America
Atlantic Ocean
Christ
Holy Land
Genesaret
Palestine
Syria
Atlantic
Mediterrean
Adriatic
Gean
Dardanelles
Marmora
God
Damascus
Saya
Noah
Ananias
Saul
Naaman
Abana
Pharpar
Jordan
Europe
Paul
Patmos
John
Mount Calvary
New
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Dead Sea
Gideon
Lake Galilee
Mount Zion
Mount Moriah
Mount Hermon
Nazareth
Capernaum
Tel-el-Kebir
Battle
Megiddo
A Call for Village Athletic Fields for Boys
A persuasive appeal urges establishing well equipped athletic fields in every American village with 10 000 to 800 population. It argues such facilities promote health morals and good behavior, suggesting land grants of two to acres per village and organized outdoor sports for boys to deter saloon culture and nocturnal excesses. It cites the value of accessible base ball and physical exercise in shaping youth nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Christian Union
Industrial Intelligence From Historic Trade Highlights
English syndicates invested 205000000 in American industry since May 1888. Anthracite coal output fell by over 3000000 tons from the prior year. Germany hosts fifty imitation butter manufactories. Mannheim factory brews 6000 pounds daily from coconut. Pomona cannery inks four year contract to deliver 625000 quarts of peas and fruits to an Eastern house. Kokomo glass works claims largest U.S. sheet glass at 175 square feet and 58214 pounds. Hydrocarbon treatment costs half galvanizing with greater durability. Okra fiber stalk offers valuable jute substitute, Florida capable of two crops yearly.
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Germany
Mannheim
Pomona
Cal
Tur Glass Works
Kokomo
Ind
United States
Florida
Catarrhal Deafness Hay Fever A New Home Treatment
Sufferers learn that catarrh hay fever and deafness are due to living parasites in nasal membranes. A simple home remedy cures in one to three applications every two weeks. Not a snuff or ointment. pamphlet available for three cents postage from A. H. Dixon & Son Toronto.
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N. B
A. H. Dixon & Son, Cor
John and King Street
Toronto
Canada
Seal Skin Sacques On Sale And Dr Pierce Promise
An advertising page touts seal skin sacques at 1.00 each triggering a hype about a flood of buyers. It endorses Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a guaranteed cure for female ailments with a money back guarantee and mentions Dr Pierce’s Pellets for constipation or headache. The note ends with a Century quote about the philosopher and life’s prejudices.
Consumption Surely Cured Claim Ad in 19th Century Notice
A telegraphed advertiser offers a positive remedy for consumption claiming thousands cured. The seller, TA Slocum, M C, invites readers to request free bottles by sending express and post office addresses from Pearl Street New York. The note ends with a moral quip about the good dying young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TA. Slocum
M. C
Pearl Street
New York
Express and Post Office
R. Root
Pear Street
Syrup of Figs Fame Cited By Boston Herald Quote
The favorable impression from the agreeable liquid remedy Syrup of Figs on its first appearance years ago is confirmed by users. The Californix Fig Syrup Company owners reap success as the product gains popularity according to a Boston Herald remark mockingly noting a long crowd in a dime museum.
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Californix
Boston Herald
Hood
Excursions to Florence Alabama by Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Florence Alabama hosts personally conducted trips by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Evansville Route. Excursions run February 4 11 18 and 25. For Alabama As It Is copy and details write William Hill General Passenger Agent Chicago Illinois.
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Florence
Ala
Chicago & Eastern Ilinois
Evansville
Alabama
William Hill
Pass
Chicago
Ill
New York Central adds fifty standard coaches to fleet
The New York Central Railroad has added fifty new standard coaches heated by steam and illuminated by Pintsch gas. The railroad’s passenger equipment now totals 681 first class cars, 98 composite cars, 6 dining cars, 62 second class and immigrant cars, 250 baggage mail and express cars, and 267 passenger locomotives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central Railroad
Comic Stale Ads and Quips Fill Page Notes
Patches of old newspaper style advertise Dossins Electric Soap claiming it cures salt rheum and keeps clothes white. Kitchen grocers offer the product with brisk tone. Other lines push Carter’s Little Liver Pills for nervousness digestion and sleeplessness. A proverb about marrying a widow appears, and Piso’s Cure for Consumption is pitched as easy to say for cures.
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Carter
Naming the Baby and Dr Pierce Pellets Ad
An elderly home remedy ad promotes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets for gentle bowel and liver cleansing. It commends the sugar coated pills as pleasant to take and effective, priced at 25 cents per vial.
Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for Weak Women
For run down and overworked women Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a potent tonic and nervine. It claims to restore vigor, cure stomach weakness and insomnia, and strengthen the nervous system. The product is vegetable and guaranteed by the Worp’s Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, with a $1 refund if not satisfied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worp’s Dispensary Medical Association
Proprietors
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
Wheeling & Lake Erie R Bids Central Standard Time
Short notice rail timetable item notes Central Standard Time for Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway operations. Local schedules reference time standard for arrivals, departures, and freight movements.
Through Line Linking Major Ohio Cities and Beyond
A proposed railway line connects Marietta Caldwell Cambridge Newcomerstown Canal Dover Canton Akron Cleveland Buffalo Toledo Pittsburgh New York Coshocton Newark Zanesville Columbus Chicago St Louis and Kansas City. The project envisions a continuous route serving diverse urban centers and enabling interstate trade.
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Marietta
Caldwell
Cambridge
Newcomerstown
Canal Dover
Canton
Akron
Cleveland
Buffalo
Toledo
Pittsburgh
New York
Coshocton
Newark
Zanesville
Columbus
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Monroeville
Milan Vlla
Norwalk
LNO
Wellington
Parkersburg
Orrville
Massillon AY
Caywood
Massillon
Pewee Eewnae Lv
Stanley
Whipple
Navarre A Ees
Warner
Tam Elba
Ewe
Wens If
Ewes Ill
Macksburg
Dexter City
South Olive
Valley Junction
Seees Ava
Bowerston Ene
Reece Oldham
Cadiz Sores Pace Esccoves
We Miller’s
Steubenville Ee Ata
Kimbolton
Guernsey
Westward
Post Boy
Elf’s
Steubenville
Hewes
Seelenwwee
Eeee Irg
Adiz
Etree
Se Enee
Urichsvile
Turner’s
Dennison
Bowerstones
P. l
Valley
le Tees
Leesville
Len
Sherrodsville
Cumberland
Cleveland Steeee
Lascone
Eso
Te Messilion
Navarre
Ohio
Creston Teat
Wellinton
P., C. Peee Eresecese
St. L
C.&p
Valley Milan
Eee
Huron
Through car service to western points via Toledo line
Columbus and Cincinnati Midland R R daily train No. 13 departs Toledo at 7 45 p m carrying passengers west of Kingsway. Line open from Toledo to Bowerston with connection to Pennsylvania System for east. Through car service between Toledo Cambridge Marietta and Bowerston, and Akron Youngstown Pittsburgh Chicago. Blair traffic manager James M Hall general passenger agent.
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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Missouri River
Chicago
Joliet
Ottawa
Peoria
la Salle
Moline
Rock Island
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine Ottumwa
Oskaoose
Des Moines
Winterset
Audubon
Harlan
Council Bluffs
Ece
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Dakta
Cameron
Omaha
North Platte
Neb
Chicaco
Colorado Springs
Denver
Pueblo
St. Joseph
Kansas Ty
Topeka
California
Salt Lake
Ogden
Portland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Pike’s Peak
Manitou
Colorado
Albert Sea
Minneapolis
Kansas
Spirit Lake
Pipestone
Northwest
Seneca and
Kankakee
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Atchison, Leavenworth
Kansas City
United States
Canada
E. ST. John
Toledo
Kingsway
Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
A. G. Blair
Columbus
Union
Wheeling
Co- Vane
Valley Junction
Mineral Point
Sparta
Canton
Thornsburgh
Old Porte Age
Hawkins
Alexanders
Tinkers Creek
Thornburgh
Cleveland
Canal Dover
New Comerstown
Canal Ae
WM. Thornburga
R. A. Curran
Gen
Ohio
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Bethel
Jacob
Rome
William Tell
New Haven
Franklin
India
Bruder
Disraeli
Industrial Intelligence
Catarre
Tur
Hale
Pike
Boston Transcript
C. IL. Hoop « CO
Apothecaries
Lowell, Masa
J. F. Smith & CO
St. Louis, Mo
Salvation Oil
Ely
ELY Bros
Warren St
Charles D. Plake
Galaxy of Music
Washington Street
FE Oston
Rakuass
Wau-Ke-Maugh
Rochester
Indiana
A. W. McWormi K & Sons
W.t. Fitzgerald
Washington, D. C
Seaan Wolene
Albers
Sample Ag
Island Home Stock Farm
Savage & Farnum
Detroit
Mich
E. T. Hazelt
Warren, Pa
8. Co
Washington, D.C
Bryant’s College
S. W
Brewster Safety Rein Holder CO
Holly
Mick
Saucier
Owes Pert
Ava Ross Ye
Jacobs Oil
Boonville
St. Jacobs Oil
H. M. Clark
Penna. Ave
Pittsburg
St. Jacobs Il
John Klepple
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
DFA
Chicago, Ill
John Sebastian
Gen’s Ticket & Pass
Agena
Tutt
Weal
Curtis Puntisuiic Co
Philadelphia, Pa
John Lewis Childs
Floral Park
N. Y
Paris
W. Baker & CO
Dorchester
Mass
D.C
Tani Ee
Mackenzie’s
MacKenzie & CO
Propr's
Epps’s
Jones
Binghamton
Binghamton, No
Howard County
Iowa
Berg
Cresco
Munil
R. Schiffmann
Minn
Iranian Detective Bureau Co
Arcade
Saat Abe
Unngton
Africa
Historical Pub. Co
American School of Telegraphy
Madison, Wis
Name Tillis
S. H. Garrett
Mansfeld
AN. K.G
Wheeling & Lake Erie R. RB
Cleveland & Marietta Railway
Wikoff
K. Richards
Oak Harbor
Fremont Clyde
Bellevus
Bellevue
Clyde
Fremont
P. m. Eee
P.m. P.m
Midland
R. R
Central Time
James M. Hall
Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati Railway
Woodsfield
Anne
Bellaire
P. m
Bellaire, Captina
Summerfield
Sarahsville
Belle Valley Cumberland
Chandlersville
A.m.ja.m.ja
W. R. Crampton
J. B. Rhodes
Supt. of Transportation
Zanesville, Ohio
Mt. Sterling
Bloomingbur
Washington
Sabina
Wilming
Midland City
Loveland
P. Peabody
P. McCarty
Valley Railway
Cleveland, Akron, Canton & Marietta
Baltimore & Ohio
Philadelphia
Washington and
Everett
East Akron
Myersville
Greentown
New Berlin
Lake Park
Canton Sparta
Ineral Point
A. M
Ari “Ar
Mansfield
Shelby
Sandusky
Fostoria
Holgate
A.M
A. Mm
Pp. m
Sumekte
Sue Perp. M
Independence
Ja. M
Holgate Fostoria
Barnesville
Teres Eees
Eemees
P.M
Steel En Wees
Cree
O. P. McCarty
Cnicago
Peabody
Cdell
Spc
Belle Valley Caldwell
Louisville
C. I. St
Leavy
Cincinnati A.m
P. mm
Nena Nanan
West Bound
A.m.p. m
Madisonville
Nati, C. I
St Fats de
Louisville, C. & M
P.m. m
Western Express
Limited Express
Eastern Express
Chicago & Wheeling
WM. Cole
Wane Bang
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