Time Tables Show Central R R Schedules Major Lines
Timetables detail east and west bound trains from Omaha to Fort Dodge Dubuque and beyond. Passenger service lists coaches and sleepers with marked exceptions and daily operations. Agent HB Rowley notes limited sleepers on westbound nights and coach only on certain routes.
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Omaha
Tidasa
Abugue Expres
Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge Express
Dubuque
Omaha-St Paul Lim
Omaha-St P
Dubuque Express
Bouthern Express
Decatur
Wees
Deostar Express
Madison
Passenge F
Pasconmer
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Dodgeville
Mt Proight
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HB. W. Rowley
West Bound
Rockford
Beloit
Janesville
Milwaukee
Belvidere
Sycamore
DeKalb
Rock,gorda
Harvard
Spring Valley
Spring Valley and All Points Eest
Pacific Coast
John F. Daly
Fragmented timetable snippet with transit notes
Partial OCR shows a transit schedule with arrive and depart times, but many words are garbled. The legible parts indicate a timetable entry listing a Pawnee stop with arrival around 1 00am and departure times, but the rest remains unreadable.
Accommodates Customer In Boston Clothier Stunt
Quincy Tufts a Boston mens furnishings dealer famous for courtesy faced a test by Mr B who bet he could rile him. Tufts drew a chalk outline on cloth and cut a one cent piece to satisfy the wager then handed the piece to Mr B with utmost politeness in the Herald building on Washington Street.
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Quincy Tufts
Herald
Washington Street
Boston
Mr. B
Edison speech mastery credited to phonograph sales pitch
A book agent met Thomas Edison and delivered a long, convincing argument for publication. Edison recovered his energy and asked how she mastered such a speech. The agent replied that their speeches are taught at the home office by the phonograph.
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Thomas Edison
Mr. Edison
Harper's Weekly
Best Laxative Syrup Pepsin Claim
Advertises Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a pure digestive tonic for stomach liver and bowels. Claims to prevent constipation biliousness hypopsia headache and dizziness with permanent relief and no bad after effects. Sold by druggists at 50c and 1.00 with money back if it fails.
A Practical Wooing
Mrs Rainsford frets as her ward Ethel is secretly engaged to Tremayne the riding master. Leonard Grey schemes to marry off Ethel abroad while arranging a discreet Seattle? trip via empire and Sherry's then hints at a future reward for his schemes.
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Leonard Grey
Grey
Mr. Grey
Jack
Teddy
Oscar Tremayne
Bettins
Ethel
Tremayne
Elizabeth
Leonard
the Empire
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Sherry
Mr. Tremayne
Dick van Alystine
Caruso
Eithel
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Rose Cretonne
Europe
Amerika
Kodol Advertises Digestive Aid for All Stomachs
An ad promotes Kodol as a remedy that relieves tired stomachs by performing digestive work. It asserts the product rests the stomach without starvation and claims compliance with federal food drug laws. The Daily Journal offers home delivery for 10 cents a week via local druggists.
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Kodol
Old Woman’s Gastritis Joke at New York Hospital
A humorous incident from New York Hospital has an elderly black woman claiming severe gastritis because of a nearby gas house. The doctor prescribes medicine and promises to recheck if the pain returns in a week, noting the odd misunderstanding of symptoms.
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New York
New York Press
Appeals for Protection from Digestive Ailments
An advertisement urges readers to protect digestive organs from fermentation and dyspepsia by using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Offered at druggists for 50 cents and 1 dollar, the laxative remedy promises relief.
Burdett Piano Tuner Advertises at Brown & Dollmeyer
J Burdett, a piano tuner, places orders at the Brown and Dollmeyer establishment, signaling local service offerings.
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J. Burdett
Brown & Dollmeyer
Gor Phole
American diplomat Henry White to become ambassador to France
Henry White former secretary at London and current ambassador to Rome is to be transferred to Paris as ambassador to France. His tenure in Rome faced reported friction with the Quirinal over social receptions, while White’s long diplomatic career began in 1888 and he hails from Baltimore with a substantial fortune. Mrs White, a Rutherford from New York, is linked to the Vanderbilt family through marriage.
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New Ambasandor
France
Henry White
Rome
Paris
United States
London
White
Quirinal
Ambition Traits Highlighted By Virgil Kline
Cleveland corporate lawyer Virgil P. Kline discussed ambition in a Boston Post excerpt. He cites worthy and unworthy aims and shares a childhood anecdote of a boy who imagined delivering letters, packing a cedar chest full of love letters into a satchel to distribute locally.
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Virgil P. Kline
Cleveland
Boston Post
Clark’s candid take on a long message
Reporters press Missouri's Champ Clark for reaction as twenty correspondents hold pencils ready. He declines to read the message then comments it is a very long message, prompting a brief exchange captured by the New York World.
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Champ Clark
Missouri
New York
Samuel Gompers Repeats Leadership Of AFL After Long Career
Samuel Gompers, elected president of the American Federation of Labor for the twenty fifth time, has led the organization since its start with one-year exception. Born in England about fifty seven, he came to the U S as a boy and worked in a cigar factory at age ten. He remains devoted to the labor cause and believes wage reductions trigger panics, urging unions to resist wage cuts to stabilize the economy.
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
England
Tie
Mr. Gompers
Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup Opens the Bowels
Advertises Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup as a non opiate remedy that opens the bowels while soothing mucous membranes and stopping the cough. Contains honey and tar and claims to drive out the cold. Conforms to Pure Food Drug laws and is pleasant to take. Sold by all druggists.
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Kennedy
Mrs. Austin's Pancake Flour Tops Grocers Ad
A brief advertisement proclaims Mrs. Austins Pancake Flour as best of all and available through all grocers with a date line February 21.
Fly captured by a spider in a Chicago window
A naturalist recalls a large fly caught in a spider web near a workshop. The spider bound the fly with silk, delivered bites that paralyzed the prey, and fed on its juices for over an hour. The next morning the fly remained alive while the spider continued to feed.
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Saya
Chicago News
Moscow Tenor’s Supper Swap Gone Awry
A leading Moscow tenor used an orchestra member to hit a note during an opera then promised a supper in return. The plan worked with loud applause, but the singer forgot the supper. On a later performance the crowd hushed as the orchestra member asked, Where is my supper?
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Moscow
Iskra
Veranda Dinner Request During Honeymoon Stage
A nervous young gentleman in the early honeymoon phase directs a head waiter to serve both table d hote and a la carte items. He aims to impress his wife with lavish spending as he negotiates the meal setup on the veranda.
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Benedict
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