Illinois Central Railroads 1904 Galena Timetable Summary
Time table excerpt from November 1 1904 shows trains serving Galena with going west north east and east routes. Notable connections include Madison Milwaukee Galena routes and St Paul Chicago lines. Through trains link Chicago with Galena and Omaha Sioux City St Louis and western points with multiple daily departures and arrivals.
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Galena
Chicago
Louis
Louis i Poeta
St Louis
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minneapolia
St Paul
Trive St. Parrrive Minneapolis
Dubuque
Bay Ford
GhictEg
St. Louis
Min Lia Anity
Canada
Area Arena
Chicago St. Paul
M.J. Burns. Ag
Madison
Eau Claire
Inneapolis
Milwaukee
Passnger
Bestecasterstein
Aseerger
Nexcriper
Aesciger
Sasesizer
Illinois Central Railroad
Paul Limited
Maha Limited
Ives
Eel Maha Express
Marrives
Sioux City
Bonday
Ubuque
Brzyes
Galens
Reight
St. Louis D'Ly
Decatur
Trive
Cece Ever
Cairo
Bloomington
Dixon
Mendota
Normal
la Salle
Omaha
Allee
Pointa
Ontana
Oregon
Washington Terriory
Colorado
Pacifico Canal
Ompta
T. McPermorr
Wild Roses a Midsummer Ode to Simple Beauty
A lyrical meditation on wild roses contrasting serene rural scenes with polished garden displays. The poem speaks of their quiet dignity, timeless blossoms, and hidden sorrows while urging grace for their modest fate in hedges and roadside corners.
All In Point Of View by Impromptu Sermon Delivered Bishop Potter
A May stroll by Bishop Potter and a fellow clergyman along Fifth Avenue turns to a light philosophical exchange on psychology and perception. The bishop muses that faith resists appearances, noting the moon over the Flatiron and a distant pinhead star reveal vast scales and prompt doubt of impressions.
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Bishop Potter
Fifth Avenue
Madison Square
Thoreau
New York Times
Disarrange word explained by an eager student
A Miss Taylor class scene features Abraham, a ready volunteer, who explains disarrange by recounting how his parents light the fire in sequence. He mischievously adds a final mispronounced line showing his classroom nickname for the situation.
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Abraham
Miss Taylor
North End
Boston Herald
Revealed Lies Unmasked After Wedding Walk Through
The bride accuses Reginald of hidden marriage as tears flow during their carriage to the railway station. He denies, yet a flush betrays guilt while she insists the wedding march exposes his fraud and questions why their match feels rehearsed.
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Reginald
Angel
Duties of a Missionary in Korea Taught by Miss Edmunds
Miss Margaret Edmunds describes missionary work in Seoul as directing classes caring for the sick provisioning and managing a house repairing indoors and out officiating as an organist and book keeper and often acting as supreme judge in settling petty church questions at the first nursing training school in Korea.
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Margaret Edmunds
Korea
Seoul
Cause of Epidemic Linked to Unusual Sun Heat Delay
A prominent physician links the cerebro-spinal meningitis epidemic to an unusually large sun and its climate effect delaying the heated season, which he says sustains the cold weather and prolongs the outbreak. The remark reflects a belief that delayed warming contributes to continued illness.
Passengers Favor American Route Over Isthmus Travel
In San Francisco many travelers from Australia and New Zealand now prefer the American route home instead of the isthmus path, signaling a shift in preferred sea and air travel corridors among transpacific passengers.
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San Francisco
Australia
New Zealand
Elocution in the Woods Peculiar Bird Calls
A playful piece on forest talk and bird chatter with humorous asides on language shifts. The bluejay, meadow lark, redstart, and yellow bird are personified as speakers, while editorial digressions critique yes and the rise of yah and yep as modern pronunciations.
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Dan Beard
Churchill ridicules minor poets over lunch in New York
Winston Churchill, a novelist, mocks minor poets for vanity and indolence. At a hotel luncheon in New York two poets trade covert insults about a sonnet titled To a Gift in a Trash Magazine. The exchange unfolds as sly humor on literary pretensions.
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Winston Churchill
Mr. Churchill
New York
Nets Under Bridge Workers
Ironworkers use safety nets in cantilever bridge construction to protect workers. The net aligns with circus nets, avoids material handling interference, and reportedly saved six lives in a recent bridge project.
Irish Emigrants Statistics Through 1914 Report
A historical summary notes that the Irish emigration statistics started May 1, 1861, and over fifty three years the emigrant count reached 997 thousand with $13 in currency referenced. It records the peak annual emigration as 190,032 in 1852 and the lowest as 241 in 1808.
English novelist searches for colonial site across seven thousand miles
Rider Waggard traveled about 7,000 miles in a tour across the country seeking a suitable location for English colonists. He looked for a site to establish a settlement for his countrymen as part of his colonization project.
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Rider Waggard
Partition of Tin Cans Used to Build Hospital Room
An army surgeon in the Philippines used emptied tin cans to create partitions for a Borongan hospital. Lacking lumber, Capt. Robert nailed trimmed cans to a framework to form a nine by twelve foot metallined, dust proof operating area with washstand and sterilizing shelves built from scavenged lumber.
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Philippines
Capt
Robert
Samar
Borongon
Wagner’s Tristan was composed through famed inspiration
Excerpts from Wagner’s letters to Mathilde Wesendonck recount his creative bursts for Tristan. He describes being seized by das furehtbare Selnen guiding Acts I and II, contemplating death, and writing with a gold pen Mathilde gave. A hotel stay at Lucerne, Sturm and relief after Mathilde’s care, and a breakthrough at the line Sterbend lag ch stumm im Kahn mark key moments.
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Wagner
Tristan
Mathilde
Lucerne
Kareol
Kurwenal
Kahn
Mathilde Wesendonck
The Shearing Day When the Baby’s Hair Was Shorn
A playful poem recounts the baby’s haircut as a family event with mixed reactions. Grandmother trembles, aunts cry, and the barber clips the golden curls while parents balance pride and sentiment. Time moves on as the nest loses its birds and the baby becomes a little man. Nancy Byrd Turmer, St Nicholas.
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Mother
Nancy Byrd Turmer
St. Nicholas
Truths About American Women
A 19th century meditation praising American women for their energy enthusiasm and youth at heart. The piece compares Americans abroad and at home noting their eagerness as travelers and their care as cooks and keepers of household linen and furniture. It highlights cross cultural exchange and admiration for American qualities.
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New York
Boston
Boring Words Alter Jury Impact In New Hampshire Case
Judge Eastman of Manchester recalls Gen Franklin Pierce opposing Hon Matt Hubbard in a NH court. Pierce’s pleadings moved jurors to tears, but Hubbard’s retort “I am not boring for water” neutralized Pierce’s strong oratory and neutralized its effect.
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Franklin Pierce
Eastman
Manchester
N. H
Matt Hubbard
New Hampshire
Green origin of the word green traced to Aryan root
A historical linguistic note explains that green originally described vegetation and not the sea. It cites Chaucer-era usage as the first quoted sea color reference and links green to the root shahr meaning to be green or yellow. The discussion connects green with grass and grow, and notes yellow and yolk share the same etymological root.
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Chaucer
The Wit of Wealth and the Lure of Money Jokes
A satirical note on money's power to spark laughter and respect. It contrasts broke humor with wealthy bravado, suggesting society taxes jokes with coin and clinking gold, while aging wit gleams in financial glow. The piece contrasts social desire for money with genuine humor.
Neal Dow Narrated Slip Upset by Liquor Comment
A Portland temperance orator Neal Dow stumbles into a gutter after tripping on loose sand in front of a prominent citizen’s home. The homeowner, reacting to the spill, exclaims how he wishes there were no liquor in the world.
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Neal Dow
Portland
Dow
Sherborne 1200th birthday marked by grand open air pageant
A vivid open air pageant in Sherborne reenacted the town’s 1200 year history amid the castle ruins. About 700 villagers performed eleven episodes from St Ealdhelm’s founding in 705 to Sir Walter Raleigh’s homecoming. The event showcased bishops, kings, monks, and legendary figures through dramatic scenes, a Morris dance, and a grand final tableau symbolizing Sherborne’s past and present.
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England
Sherborne
Old Gray Town
Sherborne Castle
Wessex
Dane
Alfred
Athelney
St. Ealdheim
Ealhstan
Ethelwulf
Parret
Alfred the Great
Ethelbald
St. Benedict
William the Conqueror
Wulfsyald
William
Sarum
Roger of
Caen
Henry I
Dorset
Robin Hood
Harry
Edward VI
Sir Walter Raleigh
Walter
Sherborne Abbey
Massachusetts
Preserve Eyesight With Simple Reading Rules
An experienced oculist advises readers to avoid eye strain by using proper distance, posture, and lighting. Read with the book held at a comfortable distance and at right angles to the viewing line, while ensuring light comes from above or behind to prevent eye muscle strain.
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Montreal Herald
Remarkable Puritan Names Echo Early Saints and Saints
The article catalogs biblical era names and dubious Puritan cognomens such as Deogratias and Quadrulideus, noting bishops of early centuries and Latin forms. It jokes about Barebone family myths and cites Hume's reference to monikers like God-reward Smart and Fight-the-good fight-of-faith White.
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Deogratias
Thank God
Carthage
Quadrulideus
Haberdeum
Adeodatus
Barebones
Barebone
Barbon
Christ
Hume
Kisu-sin Pimple
Flydebate Roberts
Balzac’s mistaken judgment on a schoolboy’s character
The writer Balzac boasted of reading character from handwriting but misread a student’s page. He declared the boy thick headed and frivolous, saying he would put him to the plow if he were his child, only to learn the specimen was Balzac’s own handwriting, hidden in an old lesson book.
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Balzac
Most Deadly of Snakes Cobra Di Capella
The cobra or cobra di capella is identified as the most deadly snake. It inhabits India, Ceylon, the Andamans, southern China, Indochina, the Malay peninsula, and the archipelago, with western range to Afghanistan and northeast Persia. Active mainly at night, it preys on small animals, eggs, frogs, fish, and insects, and is usually nonaggressive unless provoked. It drinks much water and can live months without food or water in captivity. It crawls with a bowed neck and resembles a harmless snake when undisturbed.
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Indian
Ceylon
Buram
Andamans
China
Indo China
Malay Peninsula
Archipelago
Afghanistan
Persia
Turkestan
Caspian Sea
Stocking Vancouver Island Waters With Atlantic Salmon
Canadian officials ship 250 000 Atlantic salmon eggs for planting in Vancouver Island waters. Experts foresee success despite earlier objections over meat color. The fish will likely become land locked in inland waters for sportsmen.
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Vancouver Island
Maine
First Musical Comedy Introduced In England 1656
May 23 1656 the Cockpit theater staged The Cruelty of Spaniards In Peru a work praised as opera with vocal and instrumental music and perspective scenery. It is noted as the first use of stage scenery, a development Pepys later mocked as audiences deserted traditional drama.
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England
Peru
Cockpit Theater
Pepys
Near the Grim Original Read By Chicago Pupil
A Chicago school pupil recited a sentence about death, prompting the teacher in a district where the street plane flourishes to question the phrasing. The incident centers on the misread line and its implication for classroom discussion and interpretation.
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Chicago
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