Railroad excursion fares offered for conventions in Detroit and Los Angeles
Pennsylvania Railroad announces round trip excursion tickets from its lines to Detroit for the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor convention July 5 to 10. Tickets sold July 3, 4, and 6, valid to return by July 15, with option to extend to August 15 via Detroit joint agent and 50 cent deposit. Also offers Los Angeles convention tickets June 24 to July 7, with return valid to Sept 5 after stamping. includes $2 membership fee. Contact Thomas Purdy, Newark agent, for details.
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Detroit
Pennsylvania Railroad
Christian * Endeavor
Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
National Educational Association
Los Angeles
Cal
Thos. Purdy
Long Branch District
Broad Street
Newark
N. J
Summer Excursion Route Book for 1899 by Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Department will publish the 1899 Summer Excursion Route Book on June 1. It notes principal Eastern resorts with routes and fares, includes maps and illustrations, and lists over fifteen hundred route combinations. Copies at ten cents or twenty cents by mail. reduced rates to St. Louis for the Elks meeting with June 18–19 sales.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
America
Broad Street
St. Louis
Pennsyvania
Grand Lodge
B. P.O. Elks
P. O. Elks
Fragmented observations mix humor and philosophy in a stray verse
A jumble of quips and musings appears in a stray verse text. It riffs on luck, poverty, aging, and the foil of the sheriff’s sale with offhand proverbs and satirical lines about Washington and vanity. The piece shifts topics without a clear narrative.
Charles A Davis and the Dull Sneeze of a Boston Call
A colorful profile of Charles A. Davis a envoy and minister plenipotentiary famed for speech and stubborn consonants recounts a failed long distance phone call at the Hotel Aulic in New York and a frivolous note about his later train plans. The feature shifts to Negros island noting its geography population and resources including Bacolod and Dumaguete and local crafts and coal discoveries. It closes with a humorous local standee story about readers seeking wedding notices over election news.
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Charles A. Davis
Davis Withal
Davis
Colonel Davis
John Lewis
Boston
Hotel Aulic
New York
Mr Lewis
Negros
Island
Point Doong
Point of Yombonon
Sierra Dumaguete
Calatrava
Talabe
Western Negros
Negros Island
Bacolod
Eastern Negros
Dumaguete
Point Pandan
Philippine Group
Aosir
Surrey
Destruction of the Alabama by the Kearsarge in the English Channel
Tom Spellman recalls the 1864 battle at Cherbourg where the Confederate CSS Alabama, under Admiral Semmes, met the Union ironclad USS Kearsarge off France. The Alabama, built at Birkenhead and armed with 100 pounder and 3 inch guns, sank after a heroic duel as survivors were rescued by English guards.
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Tom Spellman
Raphael Seans
Alabama
Court of We
English Channel
Spellman
Semmes
Birkenhead
England
Mr. Spellman
United States
Ste Alanna
Ladd Yard
James D. Bullock
Napoleon Tet
Cherbourg
France
Inge
Tome Spellman
Carridge
Europe
Yong Republic
Wieslow
Nears
Admiui Semmes
Urbino
Wileh
Wwe
Winston
Sean
Kelle
Alb Bina
Deani
Gaede Deertaund
Liv Loys
Ueser
Ueser and Deap
Cherhoutye
Mrance
Kearsarge
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the Cranbury Press
Granbury
N.J
Pemberton
Burlington County “Democrat
N. F. Clayton Druggist
Convention National Educational Association
Spain
P. Olivia
Barcelona
Aiken 8. C
All
Dean Swift
Presbyterian
New Hartford
N. Y
Tre Hague
Holland
The
Hague
Baid
Netherlands
Hulsten Bosch
House of the Woods
Haarlaem
Bosch
Forest Park
Oranje Zaal
Royal Museum
Maurits Huis
Prince Maurice of Nassau
Wijverberg
Fishpond
Barnevelte
Ryswick
Scheveningen
van Tromp
Wilhelmina
Japan
Thin Earth
Jimensy
Washington Star
Parks
Amina
Matuilts
Tuan
Doston
Nme
Parsons
Chiles Parsons
Charles Parsons, Jr
Edwin Parsons II
Henry Parsons
South Carolina
Mad Georgia Railroad
Jones
Charleston
Augusta Southern
Jim Jackson
Trunk Mae
Wien Hati
WS Jones
Han
Soc
Adis Burtier
Amt
Foplneer
Condtretet
Ghd
Gener Moan
Babu Tuppy
Canly
Shnerk
Vminster
Layton
Limi
Capt. Semmes
Seamey
Charles L. Jewatt
New Albany
Manila
Aluli
George
Donnellay
Haberdashery
Opera House
Trenton, N. J
Mats
Clothiers
Hattero
Trenton
Vicinity
East State Street
Shangle & Bon
Hightstown N.J
Applegate’s
Eye Specialists
Opticiana
Warren Sts
Trenton, N
Goodwin
J. H. Goodwin
T Boy
Snedeker & Go's
N. Warren Street
Trenton, WN. J
Masoule Temple Music Store
Jovery Town
Dullon
R. Wolf
1530Th Ave
Edward Schaffer
Hightstown
I. J
Knox
Dobbins, the Hatter
Ease State Street
Winoosket CO
Frank A. Brown
Liverpool & London & Globe
Ins. Co. of North America
North British & Mercantile
Oranbury,n. J
Lupton Bros
Matawan, Keyport
Perth Amboy
Matawan, N. J
Larmwery 'Fence Machine Co
Hagarstown, Val
CIA
Ageute
Columbia
Featherstone, Monarch
Bergen & Rue's
Peppler
Aenn
Inva
Zonda
Purces
Thomas Hay
Masons
Boxico
Eldridge
Thomas Mason
Main St
Hightstown, N. J
Trueling
Charles A. Cummings
Davison’s
Lehigh Oal
B. D. Davison
Jamesburg, N. J
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