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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1913
Page
7
Two American travelers in Shanghai's walled city encounter a bamboo umbrella vendor. After selecting two fine bamboo woven covers, they face an inflated price and suspect they are being overcharged, while the vendor adjusts the value in a show of shrewd bargaining.
Railroad timetable excerpt lists PennsylvanIa Line departures from Pennsylvania Station on Pearl and Butler Streets to Richmond, Logansport, Chicago, Hamilton, and Richmond Accommodation trains. Notable departures include morning and afternoon options such as 9 a.m., 2:20 p.m., and 9:15 p.m., with several lines serving Cincinnati, Decatur, Springfield, Delphos, and Findlay. Some services run daily, others exclude Sundays or weekends.
Pennsylvania Station Pearl and Butler referenced in a brief about Louisville and Nashville operations. Non-specific details mention station names and intersections without further context.
Fragmentary railway timetable shows stations near Lexington and Richmond with daily departures and Sunday exceptions. Partial entries list Marin fer and Atiacta as likely misread names, plus times around 2100 hours and 299700 p.m. due to OCR errors.
Fragmentary rail schedule shows Cincinnati connections to Detroit Indianapolis Decatur Springfield and Chicago. Entries list departure times from Cincinnati and Detroit with multiple routes and stops at Fifth and Baymiller Streets and Detro it timetable notes.
Numerous timetable fragments list departures for lines including Baltimore & Ohio Grand Central Station routes from Cincinnati to New York and other connections. Partial times show morning and evening trains, with destinations such as French Lick, West Baden, Louisville, Evansville, Madison, Cairo, and St. Louis.
A dense OCR of train departures lists multiple lines including Norfolk and Western, New York Central, Buffalo New York and Boston, Columbus and Cleveland, and Indianapolis routes. It notes daily and Sunday patterns, with numerous departure times across cities such as Columbus, Middletown, Toledo, Dayton, Kenton, Sandusky, and Chicago region connections. The fragment highlights station names, depots, and varied daily schedules.
Two American tourists buy bamboo umbrellas in a crowded street alley and hear a vendor's tale that the umbrellas once belonged to a learned physician. They enter the temple for meditation to gain the wisdom of the ages, while a skeptical companion mocks the legend as heat and exhaustion rise.
The text blends fragmented ads for goods and services at obscure addresses with a reflective exchange between unnamed characters. A pair of thieves appears in a long, digressive prose section about umbrellas, a Chinese proverb, and a moral about self-knowledge as they travel toward the Bund and the Hu angpo river.
The Department of Agriculture issued a bulletin detailing typical daily work. It cites a walking plow and two horse team may plow 1.69 to 1.9 acres per day, a three horse team up to 2.77 acres, harrowing 10 to 16.3 acres, and manure spreading and drilling figures varying with land and equipment.
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