Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway in Sleepers and Dinning Cars
Pullman Sleepers and the Finest Dinning Cars in the world are run on the main lines of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. Every attention is paid to passengers by courteous employees of the company. Signed S S Merrill A W H Carpenter General Manager General Passenger Agent J T Clark C H Heafforde.
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Remarkable recovery of Davenport railroad man and other Iowa notes
Davenport's D J Starbuck, a caboose freight conductor, survived a severe head injury with brain exposure after a crash fourteen years ago now living in Boston. The column also reports accidents and crimes across Iowa including Eddie Lardon's death near Kilbourne Park, a fatal mill collapse in Lynnville, indictments for murder in Adair County, a missing Council Bluffs man, a river hunting death in Dubuque, a bridge accident near Peterson, a kerosene fire incident, a suicide in Mills County, and local civic actions and industry updates.
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D. J. Starbuck
Brooklyn
Fews City
Peek
Starbuck
Boston
Milton Berry
Kilbourne Park
Keokuk
Eddie Lardon
Lynnville
Jasper County
Adair County
Greenfield
Ed Wildman
Bing
Orient
Army ordnance report details outlays and Rock Island work
Brigadier General Benet reports 2,015,265 dollars for ordnance department expenditures incl. condemned stores. Rock Island arsenal work cited with storehouses and shops, completion estimates, and calls for 100 8? for care. Notes 35,133 rifles and guns manufactured. concerns over coast defenses and need for permanent annual appropriations.
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U. S. Army
Rock Island Arsenal
National Armory
Benet Cage
Congress
Senate
Gresham
J. J. Barker
First Comptroller of the Treasury
Lawrence
Barker
Barissi
American Merino and Southdown Dominate Wool and Meat Sectors
The essay celebrates progress in wool growing led by the American Merino praised for fine wool and strong demand from Europe, Australia, and South America. It notes large improvements through careful breeding and cements the American Southdown as a top meat breed with healthy frame and ample wool.
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Europe
Australia
South America
Man Compared to Egg in Test of Character
A proverb likens a person to an egg and argues true character is revealed when he is broke. The saying emphasizes financial strain testing virtue and honesty.
Actress Lillian Russell Faces Absolute Divorce Suit
Lillian Russell or Helen Braham is named as defendant in an absolute divorce suit filed in Brooklyn by husband Harry Braham. The same piece notes miner deaths and rescue efforts at a Youngstown coal mine and reports Pittsburgh area mining wage actions and a resumption of operations at reduced rates.
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Lillian Russell
Helen Louise Braham
Brooklyn
Harry Braham
Edward Bolomans
London
New York
Solomons
Youngetown
Certa
Storms and wrecks pace coast reports from Lower California
The Newbern delivers storm news from Mazatlan to the Gulf of California. A steamer Estado de Sonora reportedly vanished with fifty seven aboard after a first cyclone. A later storm Oct 7 to Oct 10 caused more wrecks and multiple vessels lost with unknown names. Other items recount arson, shootings, lynching risks, a fatal bat accident, and regional fires plus global notes on rail plans and politics.
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Caliornia
Newbern
Mazatlan
Estado
Gulf of California
San Jive
Guaymar
Newbeen
Cape Calemail
M. Gree
Cape St. Lucas
Nice
San Pablo
San Pedro Cisne Antonio
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Lincoln
Nebraska
Otober
M. E
Prohibition National Executive Committee
Christian Church
Good Hope
New Mexico
Jos Hickman
Hickman
Frank Beck
Tom Welch
St. Helena
John Phillips
Cedar County
Phillips
Quincy
Fowler
Waile
Hannibal & St. Joe
Multistate hangings and a deadly household tragedy reported
Reports detail hangings in Kingston Georgia Paris Texas and St. Bernard's Parish Louisiana for murders and outraging a white woman. A Calhoun county West Virginia family murder suicide occurs after poisoning three children and the mother dies. A white church dedication near Parkeesville South Carolina leads to gunfire and a police officer killed amid rising tensions. Wages in Oldham spun cotton mills fall five percent and UK House of Commons approves franchise bill on Oct 24.
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Ike Fair
Kingston
Georgia
Hank Curren
George Hill
Atlanta
Wm. Bryant
Bill Bass
Paris
Pexes
Albert
Charles Goodman
St. Bernard's Parish
Louisiana
Louis Maspers
Charles
Calhoun County
W. Va
Johnson
Covington
Parkeeville
James Blackwell
Thompson
Parkesville
Edgefield County
Augusta
Oldham
House of Commons
Farm sale after death noted in Plymouth county
Shortly after the death of Mr. John Wright the late Sheriff Anstruther told Fiskine the Eller farm in Westfield and Johnson township Plymouth county has been sold to Robert Henry of Jo Davies county Illinois for 10000 cash. The 400 acre tract includes commodious buildings.
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Anstruther
Fiskine
Eller
Westfield
Johnson Township
Plymouth County
Robert Henry
Jo Davies County
Heroic Fire Rescue Ends in Tragic Mortal Wound
A Chicago five story brick building housing cigar box factory and other firms burned around noon on LaSalle and Michigan. One man died by jump, another perished after rope failed during rescue. Thirty-seven workers escaped with injuries. cause and full loss tallied at about $100,000. Captain James Carr died after aiding others. his sacrifice amid roaring flames drew onlookers and fire crews.
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Cureaco
LaSalle
Michigan Streets
Fisher
Culver
Culver, Page & Hoyne
Sekavel & Co
Campbell Printing Press Company
Donheister Bros
W. E. Fisher
Forman
James Carr
Carr
Nieteen
Pelmet
Campbell Printing Press Co
Schnabel & Co
Fisher & Co
Ages of Actresses in Early American Theatre
AYork Tribune survey lists ages for prominent actresses once applauded on American stages. Notables include Mrs. John Drew 60, Maggie Mitchell 51, Effie German 47, and Fanny Davenport 44, with notes on marriages fortunes and connections, such as Mrs. Drew mother to Georgiana Drew and Effie German's six marriages.
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Y Tribune
John Drew
Charl’te Sepega
Adelina Paiti
Wood Vase
Dickie Lisgard
Mes. Ceanfrau
Celia Legap
Lizzie Price
Bara Jewett
Carn Louise
Bijou Herop
Stella Bosiaee
Drew
Mossop
Georgiana Drew
Hoey
John Hoey
Adams Express Company
Maggie Mitchell
Rose Exstinge
Albany
George H. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler
Effie German
Lotta
D. P. Bowers
Victoria Hotel
Broadway
Fortieth Street
Metropolitan Opera House
Charlotte Thompson
Henderson
Eliza Weathersby
Nat Goodwin
Stella Boniface
George Boniface
Fanny Davenport
E. L. Davenport
Charles Fechter
Paris
Devices on coins in early U S minting history
The Inter Ocean recalls the 1792 act establishing a Philadelphia mint and the coin design rules with liberty emblem and year on one side and an eagle with United States of America on the other. It notes similar provisions in 1837 and the silver dollar restoration act and hints at the careful craftsmanship behind the inscriptions.
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Congress
Liberty
United States
Chicago
Inter-Ocean
Philadelphia
United States of America
The Vanderbilts The Making and Emptiness of Great Fortune
The piece extols Commodore Vanderbilt and his rise from poverty to wealth while critiquing the modern Vanderbilt fortune. It contrasts founders like Vanderbilt Law and Astor with today’s heirs, noting a supposed decline as wealth and hospitality erode amid a life amid jockeys and stables.
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George Law
Cornelius Vanerbilt
Astor
Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
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