Transcontinental Rail Service Connecting Major Cities
The new daily through line offers parlor cars smoking cars pulling sleepers and dining cars between Kansas City Chicago Des Moines Peoria and Omaha with connections to Union Depots. Readable parts mention the line's equipment and general management by the railroad's general manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grogacs
Shicago
Rock Island & Pacific
R’y. Beiniz
Chicago
Joliet
Peoria
Ottawa
Gsallo
Geneses
Moline
Rock Island
Ilinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Washington
Keokuk
Knoxville
Oskaloosa
Fairfield
Des Moines
West Liberty
City
Atlantic
Avsca
Audubon
Harlan
Guthrie Center
Council Bluffs
Gaugiin
Trenton
Cameron
Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenwort
Atchison
Kansas
Great Rock Island
Pullman
PRR
Chicaco
Missouri River
YWU
Minneapolis
ST. Paul
E. ST. John
ViecePros
T & Geni
Gen’ T’k't & Pass’r Ag't
Shigael
Pullustn
M&o Tinnigars
Ans
eCounci & Des Moine
BiufPs
Union
tVic Yrest
Gen
Larpayette
Bloomenington & Muncie
Sake Brigé & Louisville
Ttte
Cleveland
Buffalo
Pittsboro
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Westinghouse
Ene & Western
Iowa State Fair Opens Strong with Record Exhibits
Eight thousand on opening day and twenty thousand on the fourth amid record animal and dairy shows. Dairy butter entries few. dairy judging sparse. Implement and machinery displays grow with new firms and the Danish centrifugal milk separator draws attention. Art Hall and Floral Hall bustle with flowers fruit and fine arts. cattle and swine displays draw acclaim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hore
Dairy Department
Register
Towa
William Schoen
Winterset
CH. Lyon
Dexter
A. M. Bingham
Jessup
Jows
C. H. J.yon
H. C. Swallow
Tooneville
E. S. Warren
Adams
C. W. Wilcox
Des Moines
Hammond
Ames
C. J. Reed
Fairfield
J. E. Neely
Grinnell
F. M. Sexton
Summerset
Iowa Fair
Oles Wagon Company
Ft. Wayne
Indiana
Potter Plow Company
Monmouth
Kalamazoo Bangey Company
Racine Carriage and Wagon Company
Columbus Buegi Company
John Bore & Sons
Burlington
Fuller & Johnson
Madison
Wis
Deere & Company
Peru City Plow Company
Vern, UL
W. L. Taylor
Canton, NL
Reynolds Bros
Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Company
Wisconsin
Eagle Manufacturing Company
Davenport
Deere and Mansur Company
Moline
Hoosi
Chandler
Taylor
Merrill
Parker
Mechanics Hall
F. L. McGrew
Dou''s
van Ginkel Coal Company
Stacy
Jonas
Iowa
Kelsey
Des Moine
J. Bancroft
Cedar Falls
Shaup
Moore
Knapp
Smith
Tona
West
Gorv. Kirkwood
Jersey
Kate Shelley
Lowa
The Toothpick Vice Described At Local Counter
The article features Wyle of Sherman Chicago discussing daily consumption of 2400 toothpicks and Rich of Thatcher's noting about 20000 picks used daily. He explains toothpicks as leisure filler for gamblers and busy patrons, with different user profiles from fashionables to nervous rushers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyle
Sherman
Chicago
Mr. Rich
Europe
Ten Mile Race Ends Fair as Nellie Burke Wins
The concluding event of the track day was the ten mile race between Nellie Burke and Lillian Devere. Burke won as Devere was unseated after her saddle shifted during a sixth mile. Devere did not finish. horses were changed several times. The half mile times were recorded as the riders competed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Agricultural Society
S. F. Spotford
John Scott
J. M. Shaffer
le Grand Byington
Oliver Mills
John HL. Bacon
Geo. Duffield
Ketchum
S. H. Malory
C. T. Lampson
W. T. Smith
John Grinnell
Judge Davis
James D. Wright
E. F. Broeckway
ZT. Fisher
A.D. Adkinson
F. Lb. Stacy
William R. Leach
J. J. Snouffer
J.D. Brown
Col. Scott
Br. J. Fisher
Red Oak
Society
Story
Cass
Iowa City
Henry Clay Dean
Mississippi Valley
State Register
Ieee
Aia
Nellie Burke
Lillian Devere
The Coast Storm and Newfoundland Ship Losses
Reports from St Johns Newfoundland recount a sea of wreckage with Capt Nickerson describing a damaged Bessey and smuggling rumors on the St Lawrence. Trepassy vessels lost to Thursday’s storm and Provincetown gale claims drownings aboard J W Russel Welcome and other ships. panicked crews cling to rigging as vessels drift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jonxs
N. F
Nickerson
Bessey
Grand Banks
Cape Spear
Canada
Sault Ste. Marie
St. Lawrence
Wbout Foundation
St. Joans
Trepassy
New Foundland
Provincetown Mass
J. W. Russel
Mahone City
Fiera Delmar
Welcome
East Point
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Minnesota Wheat and Other Crops Yield Report
United States Commissioner N H W Young reports Minnesota wheat acreage at 2,571,647 with 14.96 bushels per acre and an estimated yield near 36.55 million bushels after storm damage. Oats cover 923,466 acres 12 percent higher with 40.14 bushels per acre and about 35.16 million bushels, rye 30,095 acres at 48.45 bushels yielding 521,382, barley 291,157 acres at 25.99 yielding 1,287,423 bushels. Corn shows central promise if frost delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. HW. Young
United States Commissioner of Agriculture
Minnesota
Reward of deceit in trusted wit and laughter
A reflective saying warns that deceiving a person who trusts you may provoke momentary laughter but earns lasting contempt and indignation through thoughtful consideration.
Iowa News Items Highlight Fires Crime and Deaths
Old Settler's Day planned in Jefferson county September 20. Ottumwa reports 12,000 population with twenty wholesale houses. Cedar Rapids Catholic schools enroll 300 children. Minden fire destroys half the business district. Des Moines stabbing kills harness maker Arthur Fagan. Des Moines man Crone wounds wife and is arrested. Congressman Cutts dies at Oskaloosa. Marsena Cutts and D K Henderson prominent mourners attend. Maquoketa and Oskaloosa events noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
Sioux City
Byers
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Crawford County
Marshall County
Willis Hallock
Elkhorn Grove
Extra
Meadsmin
James Hennersheets
Chicago
Keokuk
Grinnell
Marshalltown
Carthage
Kansas
Atlantic Coal Company
Andrew Murphy
Burlington & Quincy
Burlington
D. E. Partridge
Denison
Joseph Jackson
Samuel Bell
Louisa County
Mr. Partridge
Messrs
Jackson and
Hell
Vaughn
Council Bluffs
Judge Cole
Des Moines
Gen. Grant
Grand Army Re-Union
Arthur Fagan
N. W. Lewis
Fagan
Lewis
Mt. Vernon
New London
John Crone
Crone
Cutts
Oskaloosa
D. K. Henderson
Dubuque
Moses A. McCord
Jefferson
Rothrock
Seevers
Supreme Court
D. F. Cooper
D. H. Emry
Johnson
Connell
Orwell
Addison County
Rutland County
Vermont
St. Lawrence Academy
Pottsdal
New York
Sheboygan
Wis
Montezuma
Senate
W. H. Seevers
Henry O'Connor
Congress
State
Cook
Iown
Nickel ore discoveries and other weekly notes
Weekly review records nickel finds in Churchill Nevada with 30 percent yield. It notes the Henderson woolen mills fire at Manchester New Hampshire Sept. 7 and several job losses. It reports deaths including Julia P Smith near Hartford Conn and a Wisconsin judge Jason Downer. It covers a Juneau steam engine blast near Frankfort Dakota Territory and a Winnipeg steamer foundering on trial. It lists political and market items and a disastrous cattle shipwreck off Baltimore with 36 cattle surviving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson
John Holland
Manchester N. H
Julia P. Smith
Hartford
Conn
S. E. Kennedy
Commercial National Bank
Youngstown
Ohio
Toronto
Canada
Kennedy
Lily
Winnipeg
Western Transportation Company
South Saskatchewan River
Nebraska
James W. Savage
Butler
J. J. Ames
J. N. Merritt
Arrests in Girgenti Province Over Bribery Crimes
About two hundred people were arrested in the province of Girgenti on charges of brigandage. The detainees include a priest several landowners and members of communal councils as part of the crackdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girgenti
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MTS
Nsas CH
Sirlington
Cnicago, Stirlington & Quincy Railroad
Olter
St. Louis
Trannibal
Quincy
Purlincton
Albert Lea
St Paul
Anc
Louis
Lincoln
Denver
Lowell
Lantral Tow
Ft.d.1
ECON
Niani
Winherpols
D. N. Tee
B. R. S. McMurray
Up't
MitsuaLiTrow
Fatret Eld
Lake Erie & Western
G. W. Smith
Shu
Lafayette
Ind
R. Gaines
K. H. Kirkpatrick
Jordan Block
West Side of Square
Fairfield, Iowa
Ames & Kirkpatrick
Charter Oak
Jefferson County
Hawkeye
West Side
Homey Folas
II. C. Rowntree
Prgsh Meat Market
Robert Kaestner
1St West St
Wilkins & Tilson
Fensoo
W. Co. Lewis
N. M. Bright & Son
East Side Park, Fairfield
G. DR. Clarke
C. S. Clarke & Son
West Cory
North Side
W. H. Jones & Brother
Parsons College
T. D. Ewing
D. D
A. McCalla
Thomas Bell
Holesale and Retail
Northwest Corner Park
HO. A. Wells
G. A. Garrrettson
Wells & Garrettson
Bankers
South Side Park
Fairfield, Rew
Samuel C. Farmer & Sons
Penernal Banking and Exchange
Pairfield, Gowa
Ser Balsa
Tercicu
Singer
Tare
Panken
Junie
Minista
Stranenxious
Parks
Hany
Syscox & CO
William St
Floreston
C. Clarke
Pinse Mational Bank
D. &. Wilson
Geo. di Temple
General Banking and Exchange
Southeast Corner Park
Owa
Eeseek Tigbitecieen
Do Wiosshacseessussess
Oneeeee Corennes
Micistuessasatgeeins
Aero Wees Eeneenes
United States
Lincoln Guards
Boonsboro
Minden
Weekly Review
Churchill County
Nevada
Tippecanoe Ind
San Francisco
England
Australia
Farm, Field and Fires
Jason Downer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Milwaukee
Milwaukee ‘‘Daily Sentinel
Frankfort
D. T
Wm. Bonnell
Clarence Reed
George Strom
Java
Frank James
Gallain
Gov. Crittenden
Wyoming
Lamport
London
Halifax
Lingeam & Co
Jones
Avrord
Italy
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