Homeseekers' Rates Offered On Select Tuesdays
The Iowa Central Railway sells special homeseekers round trip excursion tickets to Northwest West Southwest South and Southeast on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at one fare plus two dollars. Return limit twenty one days from sale date with stopovers. One way rates for settlers on the same dates. Contact an agent or write A B Cuts G P and T A Minneapolis.
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Iowa Central Railway
Northwest
Southwst
Minneapolis
Minn
Cheap Excursions Over the Clover Leaf
Homeseekers rates on first and third Tuesdays to the southwestern territory. Tourist rates daily to Pacific Coast points. Pullman sleepers and reclining chair cars on all through traffic. Low round trip fares to Great Lakes resorts, Thousand Islands, and Eastern resorts in summer 1903. Write for details to C D Whitney, Gen. Traffic, Toledo, Ohio.
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South Western
Pacific Coast
Traffe
Great Lake
Midh
Thousand Islands
C D Whitney
Traficigre
Tuleda
Sale for horses notes good and cheap
Fragmentary lines indicate a horse sale with notes about good value and low prices. No clear dates, locations, or seller names are readable.
Franklin County Secession Voted in Turmey Led Meeting
Washington Post reports that Franklin County Tennessee, unique in the state, once voted to secede during turmoil around 1861. Led by Pete Turmey, locals held solemn meetings and passed an ordinance of secession, then rejoined when Tennessee reconciled in June.
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Tennessee
Franklin
Wiiley
Prares
Pebrusky
Fort
Supiter
Franklin County
Pete Turmey
Supreme Court
Solemmaly
Washington Post
The Pendulum Test For Standard Measures
The narrative recalls a six year old’s barleycorn experiment failing to match the inch, and a later pendulum method proposed to restore standards. It notes that barleycorns and pendulums did not agree, even after fire damaged the official standard in 1884.
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Vacuo
London
House of Parliament
London Chronicle
Lexicon Faced With Witty Undergraduate Test
A Canterbury undergrad faces Christchurch dean Liddell over a misdeed. The dean offers leniency if the student writes an impromptu verse about the lexicon. The student quips that the good part was by Liddell and Scott, while the rest was not. The exchange echoes the old whisper about who funded the lexicon.
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Liddell
Scott
Christchurch College
Oxford
Silk Spinning Oyster Could Transform Textile Industry
A mollusk found in Warn seas especially Sicily could influence textiles if abundant. The wing shelled bivalve genus pinna reaches two feet in length. It attaches to rocks with a byssus cable of strong filaments, yielding silken threads used for delicate fabrics. Glove pair in British Museum and ancient mummy cloths show historic use.
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Sicily
British Museum
Thrift and pride cursed by a thimbleful stinginess
A San Francisco Bulletin piece ridicules extreme thriftiness likening it to stinginess that blocks entry to heaven. It argues thrift is fine but when it runs to seed it becomes petty and foolish and even invites ridicule.
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Nira
San Francisco Bulletin
Impersonation of Hamlet Draws Mixed Reaction at Foyer
In a Boston Transcript note Strutter mocks an impersonation of Hamlet while Foyer defends it as genuine realism. Strutter doubts earnest effort, but Foyer insists the attempt was sincere and clearly visible in every line and gesture.
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Strutter
Hamlet
Foyer
Boston Transcript
Time and money clash in a village exchange
A vignette from the Cincinnati Enquirer depicts a laid back chronic loafer muttering about time being money. The village grocer chides him to spend more money locally and waste less time. The scene captures friction between patronage and punctuality.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Secret told by Thompson Jones sparks tattler remark
A whispered confession between Mr Thompson Jones and Mrs Thompson escalates into a rebuke about Mrs Jones being a tattler. The judge admonishes that nothing else should be shared.
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Mr. Thompson— Jones
Mrs. Thompson
Mr. Thompson
The Same Girl and a Field of Frayed Aims Cartoon Quip
A humorous dialogue exchange contrasts old heads on young shoulders with love and education. The Bit witty banter features De Gay and Miss Spright and a joke about slaps and kisses illustrating domestic quirks.
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Miss Spright
de Gay
Butte Inter Mountain
Von Blumer Baby Care Question Sparks Talk
A fragment suggests a query about who tends a baby with Von Blumer. Another line says no one. a new nurse is with him, described as smart and set.
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von Blumer
von Dlumer
Requests for More News Correspondents Across Counties
The message seeks additional live correspondents to cover all areas of Fountain County and neighboring sister counties. It emphasizes a broad geographic reach and asks for usable reporters to join the team.
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Fountain County
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