Rail schedule excerpts show Galena connections and trains
Passenger trains run daily from Chicago to Galena with arrivals around 10:08 p.m. and 12:25 a.m. Freight and passenger trains link Chicago with St. Paul Omaha Sioux City and western points. Several trains offer except Sunday service with close connections at St. Louis Bloomington Nixon Mendota Normal La Salle and Omaha routes.
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Galena
Chicago
St. Louis
St. Louie
Cesseseeeseers
St'Louia
St. Paul
Minneapolis
St. Pau
Minneapolia
St Paul
Gally
Tatice Sui Testerrive
Dubuque
Aily
States
Canada
Salena
Pasal Anger
Chicago St. Paul
United
M.J. Burns
Ic.&n. W
Madison
Eau, Claire
Milwaukee
St. Paul Limited
I i
Omaha Limited
Dessha Express
Sioux City
Cnge
Ives
South
Paul-Chicago
Chicago Limited
South Express
Louis D'Ly
Decatur
Feassener
Cairo
Reight
Pakes
Bloomington
Nixon
Mendota
Normal
la Salle
Omaha
Taul
West
Fontana
Oregon
Washington
Terriory
Coorado
Pacific Cauntrie
Mefermorr
Let Me Keep On Within Thy Will Forever
A devotional speaker contemplates dread and mortality and resolves to persevere, guided by faith. The poem asks how to endure tomorrow, to sleep peacefully, and to live by divine will, trusting God through long journeys and unknown futures.
Mandrake Folklore: Souls , Dangers and Fortune in Medieval Belief
In medieval lore the mandrake root is said to hold a soul due to its humanlike shape and to emit dying cries when uprooted. Adventurers plugged ears with wax to avoid the groans while Germanic tradition linked the plant to luck money and love for its owner. Mandrakes were kept as precious dolls in caskets and used for health or divination of future events.
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Mandrake
Man Claims Seven Foot Black Snake Trips Farmer In Lehigh
Joe Hoffman of Siesholtzville reports a seven foot black snake coiled around his left boot and a pine tree after tripping over a hissed path. Witnesses doubted the tale but one runner, breathless, asked for a preacher in the crowd as he sought to take the pledge.
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Hao
Lehigh
Joe ‘Hoffman
Siesholtzville
Hoffman
Philadelphia
Bishop Clark Had Reason for Playing Role of Spectator
A humorous anecdote recalls Bishop Thomas L. Clark of Rhode Island at a Boston lecture. He thought a man three seats ahead was the one he knew and urged a punching act with an umbrella. The stranger proved innocent, creating a public scene as Clark observed and the prankster questioned his action.
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Bishop Clark
Thomas L. Clark
Rhode Island
Boston
Treating the New Man and a Fishing Exchange
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky is cited drinking two cocktails before breakfast to justify his double station, echoing a Sheridan quip about ripening ideas with port. A summer girl quips about fishing with Mr Softly, noting the catch was made by Mr Softly.
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Blackburn
Kentucky
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mr. Softly
Wealthy youths turn to hard work on Pacific coast
The Denver Republican notes a fad among affluent families where sons of the wealthy take jobs as longshoremen and deckhands in San Francisco area ports. Paul D. Lansing cites graduates from college earning no more money yet doing equal work to their fathers’ employers, intended to prepare them for business life and wealth appreciation.
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Paul D. Lansing
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Denver Republican
Trends in Loving Cups and Odd Traditions in History
A brass cup banded in copper gains library admiration as a modest, bright decorative piece amid dark furnishings. In Pennsylvania's gas region duck farmers rely on constant gas warmth for ducklings, lighting pens at night to prevent panics and injuries. A modern dating trend shifts from portraits to bracelet charms featuring a beloved eye, worn as a token of affection.
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Pennsylvania
Wonderful Woman Athlete Miss Helen Buck Shines at Mount Holyoke
Miss Helen Buck president of the Mount Holyoke graduating class stands as a leading woman athlete. A university trainer notes that with scientific instruction she could rival top male athletes. Recorded marks include fifty yard dash six point nine ten, seventy five yard dash one oh four ten, fifty yard hurdles two oh two, broad jump twelve feet five inches, shot put twenty two feet three inches, and a throwing baseball distance of one hundred fifty seven feet nine inches. Buck hails from Manchester New Hampshire.
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Helen Buck
Mount Holyoke College
Buck
Manchester
Force of Habit Tragicomedy Sparks Proposed Romance
In a comic aside the tragedian Mr Ham bone halts mid proposal to Misa Goldie as the audience applauds. The moment plays on stage as Waiting for the applause, a playful quip from Floss.
Control of the Elements in Pekin Times
The viceroy of Kwangting province has taken in hand the control of the elements. After a long spell of cloudy weather he began to set matters right by ordering forts to fire salutes for several days to break up the darkness and coax the sun to shine.
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Pekin
Hina
Kwangting
Remains of Ancient Bonfire Found by Plowmen
While George B Taylor and his son plowed a tract never before tilled they unearthed a foot and a half below the surface charred wool and ashes indicating a prehistoric bonfire. The land had not been underdrained allowing a team to pass.
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George B. ‘Taylor
Houston Globe
The Miracle of Memory and Its Mental Mechanics
The article explains memory as a miracle of brain function. It compares memory to phosphorescent bodies storing sunbeams, then reproducing impressions via neural connections. It notes fatigue, substances, and sleep loss degrade memory, and recalls that early life events often persist longer than recent ones.
How He Became Liveryman
A genial livery stable proprietor explains how he entered the business to cover his large carriage bills for his daughters. He recalls starting with their patronage and later serving many more families, noting his daughters now own carriages and send him money. The tale ends with his reflective remark on the amusing origin.
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Ters
Golfing on Desert Sands in Egypt
An Egyptian traveler notes English influence in sports abroad and describes golfing in Egypt. The piece recounts a desert links hazard beside an oasis with a clover field where balls often disappear. Arabs with bare feetRestricted access and a bold old woman who hoards balls are recounted with humor.
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Egypt
Upper
Oasis
Thoroughbreds in Action Inspire Riders and Fans
Poetic ode extols the showy spendthrifts and legendary Irish Lad and Sysonby among spirited thoroughbreds. It praises their speed, power, and the Derby-Brooklyn treasures, noting their fierce gallop and laurel worthy feats as the crowd roars. The verse closes with Kinsella’s tribute from a post office district.
Front-Line Lodging Tale From Dalny Beset by Rooster
Frederick Villiers recounts an early Port Arthur front visit. In ruined Dalny rooms the ten correspondents share rations, divide into messes, and contend over a chicken named Kuroki. A lighthearted dispute ends with the bird revealed as a rooster, complicating the egg plan.
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Frederick Villiers
Port Arthur
Dalny
Barry
Chicago Daily News
Ricarlton
Four-Wheel Bicycle Thriller Promises New Amusement
A historic note says thrill devices evolved from the loop the loop to dangerous stunts. Now a bicycle with two pairs of wheels stacked on a single frame is planned, with a rider on a main saddle and a cushion on the upper frame for extra bracing during maneuvers.
Scene of Wheels Contact with Loop-the-Loop Frame
A fragment notes upper wheels meeting the loop the loop framework in a dramatic, possibly damaged ride section. The wording hints at a structural interaction during a carnival or amusement display, with emphasis on the contact point and potential looseness or distortion in the loop.
Duty of Cemetery Censor and Nature's Armored Cruisers
A newspaper piece discusses cemetery tombstone censorship in which inscriptions must be approved to avoid libel or blasphemy. It cites examples like a mill worker killed by a defective boiler and a prizefighter’s family seeking a chamber belt as grave ornaments. It also notes atheists’ blasphemous wishes and the censor’s protection, then shifts to a Bay of Biscay crab story about giant land crabs that crack coconuts and bathe in the sea nightly.
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Norristown
Nature
Bay of Biscay
Montreal Herald
A Famous London Tavern at Hampstead
The Bull and Bush tavern in Hampstead began as a farm house and was allegedly tenanted by Hogarth. It was soon loved as a country tavern by Georgian era wits and artists such as Addison Gainsborough Reynolds Lamb Coleridge and Cibber. Later visitors included Sterne Garrick Dickens Sala and Keene among others in a bracing bright social spot.
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London
Bull and Bush
Hampstead
Hogarth
Addison
Gainsborough
Reynolds
Charles Lamb
Coleridge
Cibber
Sterne
Garrick
Dickens
Sala
de Maurier
Charles Keene
Clement Scott
Locomotion Trouble in Rutland Towed by Oxen
A large touring car broke down on the Rutland road and had to be towed in by a yoke of oxen. Horses were tried first but frightened by the machine’s noise, so helpers relied on patient oxen instead.
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Rutland
Tragic End of Berlin Baker Apprentice Hero Motive
Frederick Kohn, a Berlin baker's apprentice, shot himself after writing a letter claiming he wanted to be the hero of a tragedy following reading over 100 sensational novels. Also noted, Mrs. Coyle of Beaver Brook, Pa, at nearly ninety, is cutting her third set of teeth, both upper and lower, well formed and sound.
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Frederick Kohn
Berlin
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Daniels Eprrons
Galena Tribune
G. W. Everet, M.D.C
Logan House
Locan House
Blum’s Brewery
Galena Studio
Henning Studio
India
Tutanors
Illinois Central Railroad
By Susan Coolidge
Tal
Ve Look
Eres
Williams
Jangunt
Jackson ‘Park
Chicago Record-Herald
Awatn
New York
Coney Island
Achilles
Feres
Legion
Brooklyn Treasures
Rabbia
Sysonby
Kinsella
Alearlton
Kuroki
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