Elegant Wonderful Passenger Train Phoebe Snow Dead
AP report notes Phoebe Snow the famous elegant passenger train has died amid a decline of deluxe trains. It traces the loss of famed names such as 400, Nellie Bly, Royal Blue, and Commodore Vanderbilt, with shifts to cars and air travel. The piece highlights abandoned routes, mergers, and ongoing survivors like New York Central’s 20th Century Limited.
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New York
Phoebe Snow
Phoebe
Commodore Vanderbilt
Nellie Bly
Interstate Commerce Commission
C&nw
New York-Atlantic City
Pennsylvania
Reading
Sea Shore
Baltimore and Ohio
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Buffalo
Lehigh
New York Central
New York-Chicago
Cornelius Vanderbilt
the Central
20Th Century Limited
Optimists launch annual membership drive at Tioga Hotel
Chanute Optimists opened their yearly drive at a Tioga Hotel breakfast. The group names Wayne Smith and Dick Bohling as chairs with Robert Cox and the Rev. Claude Pittenger as captains for the Astronauts and Nuclear Fizzer teams. Contests run to Feb 13 with a Feb 15 meal and game. top signer wins free family registration to Toronto Optimist International in June.
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Chanute Optimists
Tioga Hotel
Wayne Smith
Dick Bohling
Robert Cox
Claude Pittenger
Toronto
Canada
Bohling
Ashford
al Brenz
Wichita
Floyd West Jr
Pittsburg Optimist
West
Smith
Loren Marsh
Hutchinson
Parsons
Chanute
Optimist International
John Free
Doyle
McKinney
Max Zimmerman
Excellent Condition For Kansas Wheat
TOPEKA AP The 1963 Kansas wheat crop remains in good to excellent condition despite cold weather that frost killed top growth and restricted pasturing Rain and snow last week gave needed moisture in western areas Livestock entering the year in excellent condition with solid gains and adequate feed from pastures and stores
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Federal
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
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Bill Fribley
R-Crestline
Clyde Hill
R-Yates Center
Republican Caucus
Kansas House of Representatives
Floyd Coen
By Roger Lane
AP Business Writer
Chicago and North Western Railway
Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Highways and the Air
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Pacific
Los Angeles
The
Santa Fe
Great Northern
Southern Railway
Illinois Central
B&o
VFW Club
Juke Box
Swift
Boston
Hull
Scout
Bacon
Sureeerns
Iweers
Margarine
Swift's Premium Wieners
Shank
Arfield
Hunt
Fleming
Swift's Premium
Vienna
Baker's
IGA
Carol
TV Milk Ag
Tribune
Rainbo
Gory of Food Center
South Santa Fe
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