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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
3
Big Four agent announces tickets on sale for trips from Indianapolis and other Indiana cities to destinations including Springfield Illinois Louisville Kentucky Valparaiso Winona Lake Marion Frankfort and Oganstpost. Tickets are valid for various sale dates in June 1906 with some routes continuing to September 30 1906. General Passenger Agent Rhine Cincinnati Ohio oversees sales.
A dense block of 19th century classified ads listing for sale and rent items. Purchases include pianos, plantation stock, multiple houses with terms, farms, stock, and several rental offers in various streets and districts. Also includes lost notice and local business promotions with names such as Wallace & Sons and Andrew Lamb.
The text notes diseases have characteristic odors detectable by smell and lists examples. Pyaemia yields a sweet nauseating breath. pus from the middle ear signals decay of bone. scurvy, chronic peritonitis, scrofula, and intermittent fevers each have distinct scents. Measles diphtheria typhoid epilepsy phthisis are cited as having characteristic odors.
The Yale psychology study reports tests where subjects claimed to hear tones during telegraph clicks though tones were omitted. In another setup a ball drop timed to a metronome created a felt sensation of touch without actual contact. A blue bead illusion made participants think the bead appeared at a set distance even after removal.
A Walbrook mother spoke to her two daughters days before leaving home for a trip to Atlantic City. She described the speed of the trains and the miles of gleaming rails toward the ocean resort in a personal note to her children.
The timetable notes parlor cars on Big Four trains 33 and 34 to Indianapolis with a through run to Cincinnati via Greensburg and Louisville. Agents A Henry and Warren J. Lynch, with General Passenger Agent H S Breim, oversee operations on the New York Central lines.
OCR shows scattered bus and rail schedule fragments with route numbers 14 26 48 154 152 and times like 4 30 and 6 20 pm. Many letters are misread making destinations and lines unclear.
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