Close connections at Madison with Hast trains for Eau Claire
Moving timetable snippet notes northbound connections from Galena to Madison and Milwaukee with arrivals around 5 to 9 p m and departures listing Madison South Madison and Milwaukee stations. The fragment mentions Hast trains and cross connections to Eau Claire St Paul and Minneapolis and Galena origin times.
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Galena
Chicago
St. Louis
St Louis
St. Paul
Minneapolia
Minneapolis
St Paul and Mint
St. Pau
Dubuque
St Paul
St. Loi
Canada
Alena
Passeenger
Chicago St. Paul
United
Madison
Eau Claire
Milwaukee
South Madison
Tllinose Central Railroad
Galen
St. Paul-Chicago
Chicago Limited
South Express
Postbabale S200
A.mrrives
St. Louis D'Ly
Galena A
Omaha Express
Fuat Mail
Decatur
Cairo
Bloomington
Nixon
Mendota
Normal
la Salle
Omaha
Sioux City
Oitain
Alea
Pointe
Onians
Oregon
Washington Territory
Coorado
Pacific Coast
A Bureau Drawer Of Love And Longing From Sunset
A narrator recalls a quirky, intimate vow as a husband treasures a bureau drawer filled with gloves and silk items. The tale blends desire and secrecy with a playful pledge of devotion spanning years, echoing romantic longing from Sunset Magazine.
Fortune and Mine Swindle Plot in Cold Winter
Clint Bayland wrestles with a deceitful plan to inflate mine values for a wealthy buyer as Battlesea plots with faxon clan. Clara Faxon confronts him as he weighs honesty, love, and reputational ruin amid risky ore reports and looming sale.
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Deele
Battlesea
Clara Faxon
Carries His Own Glass in Soda Shop Scene
A red faced man requests a glass of orange phosphate and presents his own tall glass. He explains past cleanliness issues with drugstore glasses and insists his glass is regulation sized and clean. The clerk reluctantly mixes the phosphate as the man savors it and mocks others using shared glasses.
Ministered to His Enjoyment in a Chicago Tribune Tale
A brief Chicago Tribune excerpt depicts Tommy returning after two hours with a humorous misunderstanding about a ride in an automobile. The speaker questions the time away while Tommy reveals he spent the interval shouting at a failing machine, thinking it was a horse.
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Tommy
Seven Readings Yet A Blunder Slips By
TheLondon Tit Bits notes a paper passed through seven readings from manuscript to press yet a simple error remained. A strike of workingmen is described as undertaken for lower wages instead of higher wages. The source questions where the slip originated.
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A. B
London
The Irony of Life and a Golfing Phasing Parody
A Cleveland Leader excerpt humorously contrasts a philosopher’s misfortunes in fire burglary theft and divorce with a claim of golf rivals beating him. The dialogue mocks obstinate optimism and social pretensions while ending with a patient poem about irony, fate, and fame.
Village Phone Line Promptly Brings Women to Receiver
In a rural area near Cleveland the local party line collapses social barriers as femine heads of households rush to the phone when the bell rings. A visitor noted a shrill voice ordering a message to Mary Jane about the Simpson affair, illustrating cooperative rural telephony.
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Cleveland
Mary Jane
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Snake Doorbell Visitor Startles Mrs Hughes in Spring Street
Mrs Hughes of Spring street heard a door bell ring, looked out, and saw a snake standing erect pressing the electric push button. The reptile rang two or three times then glided away around the piazza. It mounted the outer door’s supply and finally slept on the doorman duty until Mrs Hughes’s son returned home and killed it.
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Hughes
Spring Street
Improvement Association
Boston Journal
Not So Easy to Get Out of It This Evening
Gerald asks if it would be wise to give a ring now while Geraldine jokes about wearing it on the wrong hand in a playful exchange reflecting secret engagement tension.
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Battlesea
New York
Faxon
Clint Bayland
Clara Faxon
Clint
Bagland
Mr. Deele
Gerald
Geraldine
New York Mirror
Travis
New Lighting Systems and Telegraph Typewriter Advances
The article describes self regulating lighting systems using auxiliary dynamos to control main generator output and battery charging. It also covers Peary’s plan to use wireless telegraphy from the North Pole and a telegraph typewriter combining transmitter and typewriter for train dispatching with quick circuit switching.
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North Pole
Peary
New York
Labrador
Efficient Stepladder Design Echoes Familiar Form
The text notes that past stepladders repeated the same practical design, requiring little description due to its enduring fidelity and functional efficiency, suggesting a concise standard approach in ladder construction.
New Tripod Style Stepladder Boasts Light, Simple Design
A Colorado man devises a novel stepladder using a single vertical stile with multiple horizontal steps and a pivoting top prop. A Fuß crosspiece at the base spreads braces to widen the stance, aiming for stability with a three-point support system.
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Colorado
Testing Rails for Curves on Alleghany Grades
The study compares manganese, manard steel, and standard rails on a 200 foot Horseshoe curve in the Alleghanies to determine wear resistance on heavy grades and sharp curves. Nickel steel shows peeling at cracks and pieces once unloaded broke when dropped. Rails tested withstand wear better but risk of breakage limits heavy curve use. Great heat from mirrors promises furnace temps near 3500 C using 6000 mirrors in a 44 by 18 by 20 foot reflector.
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Alleghany Mountains
Horse Stable Remodel Plans and Plastering Advice
A question about converting a 30 by 40 foot horse stable to a single row with a head feed alley, plus storage for bran and oats, a harness room, and a box stall, with north entrance, and notes on reversing the plan. Also asked about outside cement plaster and hair in mortar, with proportions for sand and cement and alternative rough casting with lime and gravel.
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S. D. McC
Tin Harte
Flooring a Horse Stable and Wall Cement Calculator
A historical note gives estimates for paving a horse stable floor 21 by 54 feet with a four inch base and one inch top layer using eight to one gravel cement mix for the base and two to one mix for the top, plus a 27 by 9 by 8 inch thick wall requiring about five and a half barrels of Portland cement and six yards of gravel, with two 2.5 by 2.5 foot windows.
Barn layout for grain farm with horses and cattle
Plan describes a barn for grain farm housing fifteen horses and four cows. Heads join wall with a feed passage in front. Includes a harness room, a large box stall, two single stalls, and the rest as double stalls. North wall has five double horse stalls, south wall has two doubles and three singles, plus four cow stalls and a large box stall.
Stable layout and passageways described in barn plan
The text outlines a barn or stable layout with stalls for horses and cows, store rooms, harness room, alleys six feet wide, a two-deep gutter, a nine foot wide passage behind horses, mangers, doors eight feet wide, windows, and a central passage from the front of the house. It notes convenient alleyways and an admirably situated manure passage.
Nailing Shingles J C guidance on nailing shingles
Instructions describe nail counts for shingles based on width and weather, with four nails for wide shingles and two nails for narrow ones. It notes about five pounds of nails per thousand shingles and gives spacing guidance to drive nails roughly half an inch from the edge.
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J. C
Coloring Concrete Blocks Tips for tinting cement walks
For coloring concrete sidewalks use mineral coloring from hardware stores. Mix the tint with the top coat to achieve the shade desired, applying more or less coloring for lighter or darker results.
Waning of the Honeymoon
A newly married couple faces a night apart as the husband departs for downtown and instructs his wife to stay calm if he does not return by midnight. The tenor of the exchange suggests strain or foreshadowing in their brief marriage.
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Edward I
England
English Society of Antiquarians
Longshanks
Logical puzzles and oddities from old London times
A jumble of antiquated anecdotes recalls a farmer, a sage, and a donkey debating logic. Various curiosities follow, including bees stopping a village, a wax king tale, and Edward I’s wax burial myth with enduring longshanks fame.
Granite Block Found Near Woodbury Vermont
A granite block over 200000 pounds was found near Woodbury Vermont with flat top and clean breaks on two sides. A barrier of granite fifteen feet high rises between the block and its source ledge, puzzling geologists over the natural shift in position.
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Woodbury
True New England Grit Under Fire and Firefights
The tale focuses on Moses Weare the Cape Neddick fisherman who smoked a cigar and never flinched during a doctor’s amputation of a mangled finger from fishing tackle. His grit draws considerable public comment and attention.
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New England
Moses Weare
Graves in English Road Near Worthing Station
A small graveyard lies in the center of English Road near Worthing Station containing three graves. A mill once stood there and the owner willed burial there, stating he should be buried where the mill stood.
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English Road
Worthing Station
Eng
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Galena Tribune
20Th Century Printing CO
Edwards M. EB. Daniels
Carter
Aus
G. W. Everet, M.D
Logan House
Barna
Omca
Loran House
Galena, TU
Blum’'S Brewery
Galena Studio
Hensing Studio
Galena, Illinois
Neapolis
Madison Division
Sienna
Sunset Magazine
BY PW Li Aye
Daily Story Pub. Co
Faxon's
Old Faxon
Deele’s
Ike Deele
Uris
Bethe
Black Gulf
Mr. Bayland
Papa
Smithers
Jollibergh
Wall Street
George Golpher
Jollibeigh
Thia
Ma Pankey
Arthur Gutterman
New York Times
Weston-on-Trent
Derby
Dover, N. H
Easton
L. M. Thayer
Easton Mas
Jong
Ty. M. Thayer
Boston Globe
George R. McKenna
Westerly
R. L
Washington
Columbus
John Allison
G. B. Spinner
Bowdoinham
New York Observer
Abraham Lincoln
Edward Phelps
East Cornwall
Conn
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