Illinois Central East Bound Time Tables
East bound schedules from Illinois Central Railroad presented in a compact table listing departure times and key stations. Readers can identify arrival windows and transfer points across main line routes.
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1906
Page
7
East bound schedules from Illinois Central Railroad presented in a compact table listing departure times and key stations. Readers can identify arrival windows and transfer points across main line routes.
An Ohio Farmer correspondent details a covered barnyard shed 30 by 40 feet with 3 foot deep posts and 8 feet high supports, straw stack on top, boards around, a permanent wind shield opening, two internal stalls, and an outside pen. Cattle are kept comfortable year round with feed racks salt box and movable siding for manure.
An excellent pair of nests is made from an orange box with top and bottom removed. Place the box on its side and nail a strip of the removed wood on bottom to form the front. Hinge the box to the wall by the top to create a self cleaning nest. When soiled, raise the box to let nesting material drop to the floor, leaving the box clean.
Keep Away From Bikunk Farms. Do not attempt skunk farming. No farms exist. Breeding in captivity fails, skunks die of disease, and a man who starts such a place earns lifelong ridicule. Never start a skunk farm, the Rural New Yorker warns.
A simple household disinfectant method from an old page recommends dissolving one pound of green copperas in one quart of water and pouring it down drains for sanitation. The item presents a compact, practical remedy with no modern safety caveats.
In a stormy inn taproom two men plot a repeat of a previous murder, recalling a year-old traveler and a past crime. Their fear and greed clash as a cold wind mirrors their guilt, and the killer trio confronts a room where the slain man lies.
A letter from Miss Margret Merkley of Milwaukee praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing ulceration and easing severe female trouble after a surgeon advised operation. The ad urges women with painful periods or pelvic pain to try the remedy and seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
This brief note describes methods to remove grease from clothing using salt and to lift ink stains from carpet while fresh by applying salt. It also suggests rubbing salt on prints before washing to set colors and a candle tip claiming powdered salt on the wick can yield a lasting light through the night.
Use ipecacuanha as an emetic for sudden attacks of croup bronchitis or whooping cough. For slight lung bleeding give twenty drops of la pid extract of witch hazel every two hours. For eye irritation dip a clean feather in sweet almond oil and brush across the surface toward the nose. A sore throat needs care during epidemics. a cleansing gargle mixes salt and carbonate of soda in water.
An inventor presents a novel shade holder that fits any ordinary window frame without damaging it during resizing. The device uses a center split bar with a grooved hinge and thumbscrews, roughened contact surfaces to prevent slipping, and adjustable journals for the shade roller kept in place by thumbscrews.
A note promotes potato water as a remedy for warts that affect children and adults. It advises washing hands two to three times daily with no soap, letting the water dry on the skin, or soaking the warts, and keeping the area constantly moistened until the warts disappear.
A destitute prospector meets his long lost sister Sue on arrival in a town. Mistaken for her brother, he shares meals and shelter, then plans to reveal his deception to her. He discovers Sue believes him dead, reunites with Tom Remington, and is accepted as a brother.
The Bean Belt notes that beans grow in many soils and climates but commercial production remains restricted mainly to the northern U.S. border region and parts of California due to bean weevil attacks, as reported in the exchange.
A historical remedy suggests a half pint of strained honey mixed cold with lemon juice and a tablespoon of sweet oil. Take a teaspoon when the cough is troublesome to prove effectual.
The Chicago Great Western railway offers round trip tickets at one fare plus $2.00 on the first and third Tuesdays of each month through April 17 to many southern and western states including Alabama Arkansas Colorado Florida Georgia Indian Territory Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Mexico Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Wyoming and Virginia Tickets to Alberta Canadian Northwest Assiniboia Manitoba and western Ontario are available on the first and third Tuesday of March and April Information from any Great Western agent or J P Himer G P St Paul Minn.
Colonist rates to Arkansas Colorado Indian Territory Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Mexico Oklahoma Tennessee South Dakota Texas and Wyoming are available via Chicago Great Western Railway Tickets go on sale January 10 February 6 and February 20 at one half the regular one way rate plus two dollars For full information contact any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A St Paul Minnesota
Reduced excursion tickets to the Corn Growers and Stockmen's Convention at Urbana and Champaign Illinois via the North Western Line on January 20, 21, 22, 29 and February 5. Return by February 8. Apply to Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
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