Rail schedule notes Freeport to Chicago and connections
Eastbound No 20 202 4 and 201 Sunday only buffet and parlor cars with varied times. Westbound Nos 1 and 9 8 205 27 offer coach and parlor service. Connections at Rockford Belvidere Beloit Janesville Harvard Sycamore Madison and more. Maples Leaf Route lists trains from South Freeport with Chicago Express and other daily services and connections to Milwaukee Kansas City and North Dakota points.
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Unclear Regional Rail Schedule Noted in Fragment
Fragmentary OCR text mentions trains between Freeport Rockford Beloit and Chicago with weekday and Sunday services. The garbled notes reference departures around the hour, connections via Beloit and Freeport, and names such as WAL NEESE. No coherent event or date is established.
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Gare Deave
Sanbc
Rockford
Citmeo
Freeport
Buckford Tualay
The Serene Mr Thomas. A London hotel tale of theft
In a London hotel room a well dressed stranger named Mr Thomas reveals a plan to steal £20000 from his firm. He parries questions with serene certainty, plans to flee to France, and even performs a comic disguise to pass as American. The narrator weighs calling for help but hesitates as the scheme unfolds.
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M. Cunningham
London
Mr. Thomas
Tie
Sone
Tosh
Olstel
Writers Who Plagiarized Across The Ages
The piece surveys famed authors blamed for literary theft. Shakespeare and Goethe are cited as prolific borrow ers with dramatic instinct, while Dumas, Pope, and Sheridan are accused of uncredited helpers and repurposed work. It contends that modern writers continue copying, and only history can speak frankly.
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Shakespeare
Goethe
Sheridan
Charles Reade
Alexandre Dumas
Alexander Pope
Pope
Lord Bolingbroke
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Charles Surface
Joseph Surface
Tom Jones
Blifil
Fielding
Tabitha Bramble
Hubert Mackilligut
Mrs. Malaprop
Lucius O’ Trigger
Our own home sounds better than it looks
Mrs Bradley explains the charms of home to a traveler in the Pullman car while her daughter Grace listens with enthusiasm. Grace asks about the location and is told it is their own home, prompting a humorous remark about appearances versus reality from the child.
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Grace
Why we say He need not do that in English grammar
A Chicago News note explains that the pronoun he takes no third person verb change in negative sentences of obligation or necessity. Here need acts as an auxiliary and remains unchanged for singular subjects.
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Chicago News
The Iron Crown of Lombardy History
The Iron Crown, famed as the Lombard royal symbol, was likely first worn by Agilaph at his coronation in Rome. It later adorned Charlemagne, Henry the Fowler, Frederick II, Charles VI, and Napoleon, before being given to Victor Emmanuel in 1866 and is now carefully preserved at Monza near Milan.
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Agilaph
Ool
Charlemagne
Henry of Lusembuegs
Frederick
Charles VI
Napoleon
Victor Emminuel
Monza
Milan
Fragmented OCR Note Seeks Clarity on Event Details
The readable lines mention a father, a latte sister, and unclear dialogue about affection and plans. Distinct names or dates are not identifiable, and the passage appears garbled with nonsensical phrases and stray quotes. No coherent events or participants emerge from the legible text.
Notable Fragments Prompt Curiosity in Readers
Fragmentary OCR yields puzzle text and stray lines about a story. The passage mentions mock phrases and a stray complaint about reading a love story, attributed to the St. Louis Republic. No clear events, names, dates, or places are establishable from readable text.
Fragmented OCR reads as if from a voter note
The readable text appears garbled with stray phrases about a vote under a window a maid and a man speaking of a benee ad the time and a note about Vivane Gedo and a cuw for the Bae al nod Chines Proverh. The fragmentary words suggest a disrupted newspaper item lacking clear event or date.
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Aretiack
Daily Journal Delivery Rates Declared
The Daily Journal announces home delivery across the city for ten cents per week. The notice states affordable service and broad circulation, encouraging readers to subscribe for convenient daily access.
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the Daily Journal
Knightly Rescue at the Chateau of the Marquis
Eugene Levesque a royalist officer plotted to free Marquis Mirachten and his daughter Heloise from a French revolutionary prison. Disguised as Marie Brouneau, he aided their escape by secretly unlocking doors and coordinating with loyal servants. The pair fled at dawn with Levesque and Heloise boarding a wagon toward the border, aided by Marie Gravillen and the Brouneau family. The escape reached the border and the couple were welcomed by the Marquis’s force led by the Prince of Conde.
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Marquis of
Mirachten
Heloise
Levesque
Seave
Enard
Tunis
Brouneau
Mitaehieus
Olli Gation
Marie Bronneau
Marie
Eugene
Felofse
Biugene
Neloise
Chateau
Leloise
Marie Gravillen
Becene
Weloise
Hifi
Maurie
Dimene
Lester
A Vindictive Reptile In Tropical Lands And Its Venom
The fer de lance inhabits Martinique and Santa Leacta where natives view it with jungle lore. It does not warn like cobras or rattlers but coils and waits. A passerby may be killed with a single bold move as the snake strikes swiftly to protected areas, then savagely retches at stumps or itself.
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Martinique
Sante Leacta
Dining table dispute ends with floor raise compromise
The Plunkett family debated table leg height for some time. Mira urged lengthening the legs while Jared argued the table was fine. A compromise proposes installing atop the old floor hardwood flooring to raise the surface by three eighths of an inch, satisfying Cordelia.
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Plunkett
Mira
Plankett
Jared
Cordelia
Mr. Plunkett
Balzac Has Five Act Drama In Head Not On Paper
Balzac promised to read a five act drama The Springs of Quinola to Odeon manager Lirieux in Paria. He read four acts and confessed the fifth and two alternate endings exist only in his head, not yet written.
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Lirieux
Odeon Theater
Paria
Springs
Quinola
Bunyan’s Sharp Reply in Bedford Jail
John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress in Bedford jail where he was confined for his religion A Quaker visited the prison and said the Lord sent him to seek Bunyan Bunyan answered that the lass had not sent him and that the Lord would have sent him directly if he had indeed been sent.
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Bunyan
John Bunyan
Pilgrim's Progress
Bedford
Gas bill sparks discussion in Chicago News style
A fragmented quote describes confusion over a gas bill as an irate resident confronts a gas office clerk. The exchange centers on whether the bill reflects usage or a broader charge, highlighting tensions in municipal utility billing.
Walks and wagers from Waushington Star
The Waushington Star quotes Meandering Mike and Plodding Pets debating a golf outing at Walk for pleasure in an antique city setting. The playful exchange imagines a millionaire lifestyle as a humorous contrast to common folks.
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Walk Fur Pleasure
Ancrete Eltty
Waushington Star
Sleepy plea spurs lone effort in Telegrauph tale
Fragment from Telegrauph shows Thea pleading with Lopdan to do a task for her. Maxino notes a local saying that a person who acts through sapether must do it himself. The dialogue hints at exhaustion and insistence amid unreliable narration.
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Sapether
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