Railroad Time Table Promoted by Officials
Time table details from the St. Joseph and Chicago Branch Railroad list officers including Hop R. Campbell C B Hatten J D McKean KR Lindsay H B Hawley P Dixon Mies M L A Laie Wm Eaton Leonard Ewell Dr T C Harris D A Edgerton and Chm c Vanatta Geo Gillmore with official duties noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.C. Campbell
C. B. Hatten
J. D. McKean
KR. P. Lindsay
H. BE. Hawley
Weseeels P. Dixon
Mies M. L
Horses and Mules Ante Buy and Board Barn
We are locating in the old Bogan barn on north Main street to buy sound horses and mules and run a general boarding and feed barn. Special attention to boarding farm teams. Saturdays are special buying days in Hamburg. Week buys at Percival Thurman Tabor Silver City Bartlett Randolph Malvern Glenwood with dates in April.
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Bogan
North Main Street
Hamburg
Percival
Iowa
Thurman
Tabor
Silver City
Bartlett
Randolph
Malvern
Glenwood
Kentucky Mammoth Jack Bird at Wingates Farm 1903
A six year old Kentucky Mammoth Jack Bird stands for the 1903 season at Wingates farm six miles east and one mile north of Hamburg and five miles south and one mile east of Riverton. He is 144 hands high black with white points. Sired by Liberty Jr dam Blue Bird and a full brother to Sampson Jr. Terms: ten dollars to insure colt to stand and suck. P. C. Wingate.
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Kentucky Mammoth
Jack Bird
My Place
Hamburg
Riverton
Liberty Jr
Blue Bird
Sampson Jr
P. C. Wingate
France
Ursule
Baptiste
Maderin
Vidocq
Coco
Deo Tule
Thad McKean
Taloo
Singmaster & Sons
Keota
Iowa
Fred Becksteal
The Stokehold of an Ocean Liner Fires the Furnace
A vivid portrait by Benjamin Brooks in Scribner's describes the stokehold as the ship’s life and the demanding path to mastery. It details 30 fires, constant replenishment of coal and ash removal, and maintaining near perfect temperature while engines run at full capacity.
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Benjamin Brooks
Scribner's
Chinese Hatch Spawn Method Protects Fry
Fishermen gather gelatinous spawn masses from water margins and fill emptied hen eggs with the spawn. The eggs are incubated under a sitting fowl until hatching, then kept in pure water before releasing into ponds. Spawn sale is a notable Chinese trade.
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China
Hats suffer in China climate attack but efforts persist
A discussion on hat making in China notes extreme dry and humid conditions ruin materials such as silk beaver cloth and felt. Mold and fungus transform sweatbands into green velvet. Hats exposed to sun thrice weekly. pests like ants and roaches threaten leather paper and pasteboard components. Care includes periodic carbolic acid creosote or crude creosote use.
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China
Poker and How to Play It Book Gift Sparks Banter
Mrs. Torkins presents Charley with a small volume titled Poker and How to Play It. He wryly notes he may not care for sermons even if he loses at times. The scene captures playful domestic sarcasm about gambling advice.
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Charley
A Homely Man and the Earl of Chesterfield Bet
John James Heidegger, manager of the Haymarket Opera House in London, bet the Earl of Chesterfield that he could not find a uglier face in all London. After a lengthy search a woman of St. Giles appeared who initially rivaled him, but when the manager wore the woman’s cap he won the palm of ugliness.
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John James Heidegger
Haymarket
London
George
Earl of Chesterfield
St. Giles
George's Kind Termination
A short humorous note from a newspaper page describes a daughter named Mary responding to her father about bedtime. The father tells Mary to ask her man, George, if it’s near bedtime and George replies that if she is sleepy she should go to bed.
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George
Mary
Toledo Bee
Witty Exchange Sparks Silly Retort in The Smart Set
A brief quip from The Smart Set features a blind man and a talking pun about sight and mind. The exchange showcases the magazine's sly humor and wordplay typical of light literary humor pieces.
Thought works in silence and statues to Allen
A compact aphorism notes that thought operates quietly while suggesting the value of memorials to Allen. The line reflects Carlyle's view on virtue and public memory in a concise, period voice.
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Carlyle
Branding Horrors Described By A Cowboy In Elorses Nine
The excerpt details brutal branding methods used on horses and ponies, including catching, roping, stamping with a red hot iron, and the lasting agony that follows. It portrays branding as a violent, nerve wracking process causing lasting fear and pain.
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Sewellord
Elorses
A Life Saving Order Off Sardinia Saves Delaware
During a heavy squall off the Sardinian coast the American warship Delaware barely avoided foundering when an unauthorized release of the fore sheet saved 1,100 souls on board. The first lieutenant, later Commodore Thomas W. Wyman, crawled to the quarter deck and ordered Keep clear of the paint work, a command that calmed hundreds packed in the tees and prevented panic by stressing the importance of maintaining paint quality amid danger.
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Delaware
Sardinia
Leutenant
Thomas W. Wyman
Canard Origin Remembered From Duck Feud Tale
A French journalist once staged a gruesome duck experiment to prove a hoax could spread through newspapers. He claimed authorship and fed pieces of ducks to others until one remained with the earlier 19 inside. The tale spread across European papers, giving the word canard its enduring meaning.
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Europe
Eyes of the Musk Ox Reveal Adapted Vision
The musk ox skull shows eye orbits projecting beyond the frontal plane to avoid horn obstruction. The animal relies less on sight and hearing, with small ears hidden by fur. Instead its scent organs appear highly developed, aiding its keen tracking of mammals and threats.
Safe From Fommonous Serpents
A physician who spent time near the Gulf of Mexico describes curados de cnlebra or the safe from vipers among natives. They are inoculated with viper venom from a venom tooth and a native plant bulb called mano de sapo to resist bites. The practice is an old regional preventive inoculation.
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Gulf of Mexico
A Suggested Cure for a Poetical Bump
A phrenologist tells anxious parents their son will become a poet. The father worries aloud about curing him now with a sledgehammer or a similar drastic measure.
Disgrace to His Race in Prizefighter Rivalry
A Chicago Post quote rails at a prizefighter as an Irishman and a disgrace to his native land. The speaker refuses to fight except for money, saying he will not shake hands with the prizefighter.
Land Pool
Household banter over Swamphurst assets shifts to appetite in a brief Town and Country exchange between Hassit and Haddi about needing land to eat rather than to sell.
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Hassit
Swamphurst
Haddi
Moments of Truth Shine as Truth in All Moments
A compact quotation from Cook notes that the finest moment reveals universal truth, implying enduring honesty across times and situations. The line suggests that clarity at peak moments reflects truth everywhere, framing integrity as constant.
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Cook
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Howard Lloyd
W. H. R. Dean
W. M. Boyer
F. E. Hammond
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P. O
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John Conver
Hulshizer & CO
Eagle Laundry
N. H. Hopkins
Paul Wikoff
D Street
N. P. Reynolds
Hatch’s
Eureka Barbershop
Bath House
Wingate & McBride Prop’s
Demo
Della Sykes
Butterfield
James Coeman
Idork Steam Laundry
Roy Sykes, M. D
Lyceum Building
J. F. Hoppe
Blue Front
Swensen & Combe
Webster Bros
Ofice
Sidney, Towa
Smith & Dickinson
E. A. Chapman
Mary N. Mathews
Postoffice
United States
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Alabama
Gulf Coast
S.A. Park
General Industrial and Immigration
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Golumn
H. G. Butterfield & Co
Monk
Kipling
Scott Wright
Hamburg Lumber Co
J. F. Riedy
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