Trains and schedules for Chicago and North Western routes
Passenger and freight schedules from Freeport and Rock Island to Chicago and Milwaukee. No 10 leaves Rock Island at 7 am with connections to Janesville and Madison, No 9 links to Kansas City Omaha and Dakota points. Western routes list trains to Dubuque Minneapolis and the Pacific Coast with special excursion rates for California and Seattle.
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Chicago & North Western
Freeport
Chicago
J. F. Daly
Mid& Sh Prr
Rock Island
Presengers Fresport
Bukbortiecswescee
Mt. Onarroll
Davenport
Omaha
Cedar Rapids
North
South Dakota
J.B. Sweatt
South Freeport
Brewster House
J. F. Lady
J. P. Elmer
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Pacoima
Seattle
Tacoma
California
Pacific Coast
Overland Limited
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Your Hat May Be a Stylish One But It Maken Trouble
A humorous caution about fashionable hats causing baldness and dandruff. It claims parasitic germs grow on the scalp and hair loss results unless Newbro’s Herpicide is used to kill the germs. Sold by druggists. sample offer via The Herpicide Detroit Michigan.
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Newhro
Detroit
Mich
Joseph Emmert
Gladden 14 At 11 Again
Dr Washington Gladden of Columbus Ohio sends to the American board officers a critical statement on the boards principle of accepting tainted money He forwards his resolution on gifts to be presented at the board meeting in Seattle Sept 14 15 He argues the prudential committee errs in three points denying that the lord is merely sent as representative and failing to condemn donations from doubtful sources.
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Boston
Washington Gladden
Columbus
American Board of Ommissioners For Foreign Missions
Prudential Committee
Chadden
Seatte
Wish
Glidden
Phatt
Syndicate to Dig a Canal in Michigan Route
Detroit report cites Nelson Miomasso claiming a syndicate plans to dig a canal from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan via the Whitefish River, shortening the route to Chicago by about 265 miles and saving over 200 miles from Duluth to Buffalo, with safer passage around the St Marys River.
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Detroit
Mich
The
Detroit Journal
Nelson Miomasso
Man of
Chicago
Mindstone
Esminaba
Michigan
Whitefish
Superior
Micigan
Duluth
Buffalo
St. Mary's River
Conger resigns post as U S ambassador to Mexico
Edwin H. Conger of Iowa resigns from his U S ambassadorial post to Mexico, effective Oct. 18, with Roosevelt said to consider a China mission. Some reports suggest the China assignment may be dropped or Conger may not be sent on it. The note follows earlier related dispatches and other news from St. Petersburg Chicago and Mexico City.
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Mexico
China
Oyster Bay
Edwin H. Conger
Towa
United States
Rooosevelt
Conger
Peking
Japan renames warships and roof collapse mar St Louis fair
A jumble of notes reports Japan renaming captured warships, injuries from the St Louis World’s Fair building roof collapse, and various other items including deaths, lectures, trials, and travel incidents across multiple places.
Amusing hoaxes on antiquarian societies and scholars
A collection of anecdotes recounts hoaxes played on learned societies and scholars. A Greek charm said to come from a Bedouin legend fools the Dumfries Antiquarian Society in London, revealing a common practice among wits to parody antiquarian lore. Other pranks include Steevens deceiving Gough with a fake inscription and a Cumberland sink inscription that mocks hard nuts to crack. The piece notes humor in clever forgery and ends with unrelated advertising copy for Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.
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Harr Neen
Dumfries Antiquarian Society of London
Anethquarian Society
Semple
Bob Ridley
H. Pos
E. Selero
F. Imp
Tt A. Snar
O. ON
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Oxford
Sarbridge
Eton
Antiquarieca
England
Claud Coster
Impington
Jane
Steevens
Gough
Hardenut
Kennington Vine
Hardleanute
Society of Antiquaries
Publshad
Gentleman's Magazine
Cumberland
Samar
Encampment Plans Set for Grand Army Visit in Denver
Dover outlines a thorough plan for the thirty ninth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic with Sept 4 start and expected attendance possibly reaching 100000. Downtown churches schools halls and storefronts are designated as meeting places and headquarters while churches and homes pledge guest rooms along with hotels and rooming houses to accommodate visitors.
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Dover
Grand Army of the Republiic
Denver
Surpluses Highlighted in Melbourne Budget Debate
Melbourne reports that Sir Forrest the treasurer introduced the foleral budget. The total revenue for the ten year period is estimated at 23,000,000 with a surplus of 35,705.00 returnable to the state and expenditures projecting 23,000,000, with 3,120,000 returned to the state. Virginian election hints show Martin and Swanson carrying the state by a large majority, with Ellyson, Anderson, and Eggleston also winning key offices. A convention on uniform marriage and divorce law set for Washington in 1906. In Virginia Democratic primaries Martin and Swanson nominated to succeed themselves as senator and governor respectively by large margins.
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Melbourne
House of Representatives
Dot Forrest
Richmond
United States
Martin
Senate
Swanson
Ellyson
Narragansett Pier
R. 1
Pennypacker
Pennsylvania
Washington
Thomas
United States Senate
Claude A. Swanson
Fifth Congressional District
Andrew J. Montague
Weather forecast for Illinois to Wisconsin tonight
The official forecast covers Illinois and Indiana with southerly winds. Lower Michigan and Wisconsin expect fair weather with variable winds shifting to fresh southerly. Iowa shows fair conditions with southerly winds.
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Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin— Fair
Iowa
Chicago Markets Report Grain and Live Stock Prices
Quotations from the Chicago Board of Trade show mixed open highs and lows across Wheat Soybeans and Corn with September and December contracts fluctuating. Live stock receipts and market tones indicate steady cattle and weaker calves with feeder notes, while hog markets reflect varying cash and futures directions.
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Mulengo
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Chicago Live Stock
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SFA Fed Amt
Ehoaice
Eliatee
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Berlin Hanford
Seclal Democratic Party
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London
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Dr. Caldwell
Pepsin Syrup Co
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