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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1899
Page
3
The article profiles the Andean condor as a sober large bird with a white collar and trimmed crown, noting female coloration. It warns that condors host strong parasites and describes their grand flight with a twenty foot wingspan. It also mentions sailors blinded by sugar fumes at night in the tropics.
A returning traveler recalls a seaside stay in Lysekil with a four person party paying ten dollars six cents weekly for meals. They enjoyed meat and fish breakfasts and a Swedish smorgasbord featuring herring, sausages, cheese and more. The group also fit in a Paris shopping trip and a glimpse of the pudding revolution.
Henry Canning, famed bass soloist at St. Augustine's in Dorchester Street, Boston, completes his twenty-fifth year with the church and reaches a total 38 years as a soloist. He previously served St. Joseph's in the West End from 1861 to 1874, taking up church work at age 18. Across decades he has performed in hundreds of concerts and more than 4,000 church services.
The Birmingham Canal Navigation company bids farewell to its veteran steam engine built in 1777. A beam engine with a 32 inch cylinder and an eight foot stroke, the wooden beam and long service mark its retirement after more than a century.
A fragmentary page notes explorers in the Rocky Mountains discovering new ailments and tonic claims. It warns against mercury in catarrh treatments and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure and family pills. The section also advertises a cheap elegant guitar, magnetic starch, and a London house undertaker.
Lincoln officials consider a state street fair tied to city festivities but deem it impractical under current laws and grounds. The board will review the old fairgrounds and seek citizen support and municipal accommodations before any future scheduling.
State editors arrange the annual meeting at Lincoln Lindell hotel with officers Huse Merwin Ludi Croain Seacrest guiding plans. The session reports a press building sale agreement and notes rapid burglary case progress in Chapell and Crete.
John K. Calking, formerly linked to the Chadron Journal and later in Wyoming, sold the Wyoming Derrick to W. H. Korns and joined the Ruskin socialist colony in Tennessee where he held multiple roles in the Coming Nation. Fred Laubsch’s shotgun accident injures his seven year old son, while the Milford Soldiers' Home Hospital project shows fresh outside paint and improved appearance.
The notice advertises Southern Pacific Sunset Route daily service from New Orleans to San Francisco via Houston San Antonio El Paso and Los Angeles with a semi weekly Sunset Limited from New Orleans featuring a full Pullman lineup including dining and drawing room cars. It promotes a Chicago to City of Mexico tour on special trains under Beau Campbell with first class arrangements and multiple travel agents. It also references promotional content for railroad literature and various patent medicine and store promotions.
Railways test track tanks with water scoops on passenger locomotives to avoid water stops. The B and O railroad plans to fit five main lines, starting with 50 new Vandal compound engines. The system aims to save time and reduce wear by cutting water stop needs.
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