St Gothard Tunnel 9 Reveals Precise Alignment and Summit Details
Engineers report near perfect alignment of tunnel sections with center lines within a hair's breadth. The 9 tunnel stretches 15 kilometers with a summit 1,154 meters below the surface, 300 meters deeper than Andermatt, and 2,000 meters beneath Kastelhorn. No air shafts exist, and once interior obstructions clear, the passage is described as smooth though longer than Mont Cenis.
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St. Gothard Tunnel
Goschene
Goschenen
Airolo
Andermatt
Kastelhorn
St. Gothard Group
Mont Cenis
Pacific Railway
London Times
The Glossy Silk Hat and Church Etiquette
A humorous look at silk hats as Sunday wear and the chaos they cause in church pews. The article notes hats dropped in aisles, crushed by dress trains, or snatched from under seats, with women and men alike contributing to the disorder. It concludes that the soft felt hat, though plain, is preferable to the aristocratic silk hat.
Snake in Hotel Prompts Outcry in St Louis Museum Plan
Charles A. Donaldson, once a side show manager, moves to St Louis to open a museum and keeps an anaconda in his room at the St James Hotel. After placing the snake in a box in the check room, the reptile escapes at 5 am, slithers upstairs, and is found on the third-floor landing where Donaldson retrieves it amid alarmed chambermaids.
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Charles
A. Donaldson
Donaldson
St. Louis
St. James
Beards Across Ages and Ranks From Ancient Times
The article surveys beard use in civilizations from Assyrians and Egyptians to Greeks Romans and Russians. It notes fashions shifting after 1066 in England and Peter the Great enforcing shaving. It cites bearded individuals and a medical endorsement by J H W Scorr M D for lung weakness.
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England
Peter the Great
Great Britain
Pulto- Wa
Peter the First
Margaret
Netherlands
Molle Bois de Chene
Geneva
London
Eccentric News Snapshots Ranging From Dreas to Petrified Wood
A curio of items notes a luxury dreas texture at 765 a yard in London, promises of more underground rail in the capital, a senator’s daughter aiming for the stage, New England governors abstaining, Vatican veto on palace phone, a Nevada teacher’s death linked to a whaler headline, English capitalists scouting Arkansas mines, perfume poisonings from coal-tar formulations, a Providence Journal historian's count of long-serving representatives, Eureka Nevada petrified wood as a $1500 per ton silver assay, with half the fossil bark and copper-stained grain.
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Providence Journal
Eureka
Nev
Stories of Cox the Painter and His Lancaster Castle
The essay recounts painter Cox leaving Hereford in 1827 after selling his cottage to a West India planter. It notes a remark on changing coins and Cox offering drawings in lieu of change, plus a tale of Lancaster Castle, which Cox gave to a friend who later bought it back for twenty pounds and resold it for the same amount, with the picture fetchin about 3,000 guineas at the Gillet sale.
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Cox
Hereford
Mr. Cox
Lancaster Castle
London Saturday Review
Open Polar Sea Near Wrangel Land Report
John Muir reports an open lane of water off Wrangel Land during open season moving north at twenty to twenty five miles daily. The shore ice on both sides appears undisturbed for ages, with Wrangel visible and signs of land further east. Wild geese with young indicate fresh water and land beyond the ice.
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Wrangel Land
John Muir
San Francisco
Lucknow Politeness Delays Aid After Ditch Fall
A Lucknow correspondent recalls two native gentlemen who fell into a ditch while en route to the railway station. Each refused to rise first, insisting the other should, to avoid violating the laws of courtesy, and the exchange lasted about an hour.
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Lucknow
India
Mennonite Community Observed in Manitoba and Maine Gum Trade
Rev Prof Grant notes Mennonites keep to themselves with strict marriage rules while women do most of the labor including field work and ditch digging. In Maine the spruce gum industry thrives with collectors earning good wages. Maine residents total about 40000 dollars yearly from gum sales.
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Prof
Grant
Manitoba
Maine
A Well-known Wit's Endorsement
A letter from E. Harris of Carl Pretzel praises Safe Kidney and Liver Cure for kidney pain relief. The piece notes a Brazil movement toward abolition and a rising Relos party gaining public sentiment against slavery. Also reports a coal load over four thousand pounds shipped to Princeton College on the Lehigh and Susquehanna line.
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Chicano
HH. H. Warner & Co
E. Harris
Carl Pretzel
Brazil
Lehigh and Susquehanna
Princeton College
Dr Frazier Root Bitters Remedy Advertisement
Dr Frazier s Root Bitters are medicinal not a whiskey drink. They claim to act on the liver kidneys improve digestion strengthen nerves and cleanse the blood. Testimonials from Mrs M Martin Cleveland say two bottles helped her Dyspepsia dizziness weakness and kidney disease. Sold by all druggists at 1 per bottle Henry Co sole proprietors Cleveland Ohio 31lyl.
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Frazier
Illinois Central Time Card Rail Schedule Ad
Transit note shows Illinois Central timetable with passenger and freight trains. Listings include south and east routes, Freeport departures, Chicago arrivals, and Milwaukee via Belvidere connections. Passenger and night services noted with daily times and station stops.
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Chicago & Northwestern
Local Government Officials and City Roles Listed
A listing of city officers and their offices is provided including Mayor James McNamara at McNamara's Shoe Store 87 Stephenson Street, City Clerk Warren C. Clark in Council Rooms Try's Block, Treasurer D & B Breed at the Journal Office, and other municipal posts such as City Marshal E. Chamberlin Street Commissioner W Kulpsehild Surveyor IF E Jose and Aldermen for different wards with named members. The Rev C Hoffmeister is noted as pastor at German Evangelical St. John's Union with service times 10:30 am and 7:30 pm and Sunday school at 2 pm.
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If Et Shes
Evangelical Pleasant
West of Exchange
D. B. Byers
Emanuel—Oakst
sGettr of
Pleasant
Huelster
Sarvices
St. John’s—Union
Atl Cor State Road
C Hoffmeister
Williams St. Corner Union
Wernley
TA Gitoa Ae
Methodist Episcopal
Embury
Williams
HL Martin
Stephenson St
Northwest
Cor Cherry
Louis Meredeth
Methodist Episcopal—German
Chicago St
Cor Spring
Triller
Presbyterian—First
Cor Walnut
H D Jenkins
Presbyterian—Second
Cor
Galena Ave
Pleasant St
M. Crissman
Williams St
C L Kalvelage
St Mary’s
S of Mary
Mangan
Stephenson
Cor “Cherry
K F Sweet
James McNamara
McNamara
Warren C. Clark
Try's
Crry
D. &B. Breed
Se Asborne Sry
C Kean
Ivy’s Ock
8 Chamberlin
W Kulpsehild
E Jose
Court House
Ist
I’ L Waddell
J Hartman
J Brown Talor
Louis Stoskopf
J Porter
Win H Wagner
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J. H.W. Scorr
M. D
Gagetown
N. B
Wade Hampton
New England
Vatican
Nevada
Montgomery
Arkansans
Dr. Frazier
BANKS
First National Bank
United States Depositary
C. B. Bidwell
Gro. F. Deforest
Second National Banks OF
Freeport
A, Reifsnider
Michael Sawyer
Alfred H. Wise
John Kenfgy
Michal John B. Taylor
CTORS
Thompson Wilcoxon
Jacob Krohn
F. W. Hance
Abram Rower
Hettinger, Collmann Bros. & Co
W. H. Taggart
Munn’s
Kingsley & Mills
Dentists
Illinois
Elson’s
Second National Bank
F. GC. Winslow
Emmert & Burrell’s
Washington and
Mechanic Streets
J.C. Burbank
Munn
Col. van Buren
Sta
Western Star
C.C.F
Odd-Fellow’s
Hiram Shons
Orangeville
Til
I. F. Kleckner
A. T. Green
D. B. Schulte
Stephenson Street
Sanford & Rowell
Omacang
Brewster House
Freeport, Ill
Total Asset
M. Hettinger
Gund
Lllinois Central
la Salle
JP Freeport Ex
Freight
Chicago
Chico
Milwaukee
Belvidere
Milwauee
R. H. Folder
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y
Lanark Junction
C. &Pr.bd Vision
Pr. B.C. West
Emmert & Burrell
Druggists
Journal Book
Hodder
Journal Printing CO
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakota
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Ste
Minneapolis
Paul
Ooco
Waite
Jollyfora
Centra
Pierce
Uy Eit
Delaware
Monticel A
Oikaloosa Dan
Pita
Nel
Coterie
Ayaakcor
Vite Great
Union Depot
Madison, Canal and
Adams Streets
United States
Merrill
W. OC. van Horne
J. H. Page
Jas
A. Cotton
Nusau
West
John G. West & CO
Madison St
City Directory
Presbyterian—Third—German—Exchange
St.se Cor Pleasant
Eifeld
I F Kieckner
W W_ Hutchison
Dan'l Brewster
Captain Stewart
Public Schools
United States Mail
New York
Glasgow
Thea
Europe
America
Drefta
Scotland
Ireland
Bor
Hien Derson Brothers
Washington Street
BF. P. Oupen
Y. H. Murphy
Chicago & North-Western
R’y
Rok
Ordway
Oux Falls
Yanktony, Ne
Sioux Creigton Prvent City
Umon
Kearnty Ti Mot & Co. Chl
Lipe
Algona
Cali
Amhara
Floren
Worcest
Galen
Quinneses Spaldir
Chicago & North-Western Railway
Gouneil Bluffs
Denver & California
Winona
Central Dakota
Sioux City
Nor
W. U. Stenneit
L Pass
R. WH. Holder
Freeport Post Office
Chica A
N WU Russeres Caseserss
Ylso Way
BR Rae
Dubuque
Vial Seco Beaverseeeeers Yastern
Oneco
Shupey
Buena Vista
Cedarville
Duamascus
McConnell’s Grove
Atkins
Journal
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