Galena Time Table Adapts 1904 Rail Schedule
The Galena timetable showing the November 27 1904 adjustment lists trains west and northbound to St Paul Chicago and Omaha including the Omaha Limited Fast Mail and Dubuque routes. It notes arrival times at Galena and connections for St Louis Bloomington and the Midwest region with through trains to Omaha Sioux City and the Pacific Coast.
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J. B&q
Drrive
St. Pauls
Minneapolis
St Paul and
Minn
Pau
Dubuque
Dubuque d
Chicago
St Paul and Mills Daly
Erom
St. Louis Daily
United States
Alonn
Ud Minneapolis
Peerlesa
Accomo
Baton
M. J. Burns
Ag'ty
SS ES Illinoie ‘Central
Traina
Galena
Paul Limited
Sssc
Omaha Limited
Galens
St. Paul
Chicago Limited
South Express
Ikerive
St. Louis
Bloomington
Hixon
Mendota
Normal
la Salle
Omaha
Sioux City
Seoul
Montuns
Oregon
Washington
Terriory
Colorado
Mepey
Savage Plans Four New Productions for Next Season
Manager Henry W. Savage, despite medical warnings about overwork, announces four forthcoming productions for the next season. First, a new spectacular opera by Bangs and Klein. second, George Ade’s comedy The Second Time on Earth. third, Jesse Lynch Williams’s drama The Stolen Story about New York life. fourth, an opera by the English Grand Opera company with a novelty office press scene.
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Messrs
Metropolitan
English Grand Opera Company
Cleveland
Kate Hardy Castle
Elsie Janis
Milton
Sargent
James Neill
Dazzle
Robert Edeson
Bret Harte
Satan's Mount
Washington
Ivan Caryll
Earl
Duchess of Dantzic
Spain
Dorothy Donnelly
Arnold Daly
James Lackaye
Simon Peter Martin
York State
Fred B. Wright
Lolita Tavyara
Herbert Standing
Charles B. Dillingham
My Girl
Joe
Clyde Fitch
Maxine Elliott
Grace Griswold
Mrs. Norton
Satan
Mount
Billie
Marie Hall
London
England
Henry Wolfsohn
United States
Syecik
Louis James
Shakes-pearelan
Squire Hardcastle
Nellie McCoy
Lillian Russell
Itzel
New York
Palmer's
Helen Bertram
Farina
Digby Bell
Laura Joyce Bell
Annie Meyers
Hubert Wilkie
Kitty Cheatham
Grace Harkaway
London Assurance
Ellis Jeffreys
Augustin Daly
John Drew
Adam Behan
Charles Calvert
Gilbert
Liebler & Co
Mrs. Hardcastle
Allstar
Edwin Booth
Mary Anderson
Lawrence Barrett
Sadlers Wells
Robert Browning
Mak Ton
Amateur theatricals spark neighborhood interest in Maude Adams
Neighbors seek Maude Adams help for home mission society events. A pretty local girl is urged to take part, praised for beauty yet modestly downplayed by her mother. The tale illustrates community theater impulses and the era’s social dynamics.
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Maude Adams
Home Missionary,society
Miss Adams
Iamily
Greenroom
Kirke la Shelle
Isabelle Evesson
Los Angeles
John Craig
Lillian Lawrence
San Francisco
Sadie Connelly
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Willis P. Sweatnam
Otis Skinner
Joseph Buckley
Mabel Barrison
Chicago
The Court Fool's Return in Verse and Bell
The speaker echoes the ancient court jester, claiming wit lies in fresh humor over learned wisdom. He vows to entertain with cap and bells, weaving jokes to ease care and spark smiles, even as the world grows solemn. The closing lines lament a world that smiles for a child yet mourns when a performer departs.
Spirit in Coffin Prank Shocks Kansas City Deputies
A traveling man recalls a ramshackle union station scene in Kansas City where a ventriloquist used a hidden box to project a voice claiming to be dying from within. An Irishman sought to rescue the supposed spirit, only to uncover a stash of contraband liquor. The incident ends with bystanders swept into the joke as a depot worker aids the unsealing.
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Kansas City
Union Station
Depot Express Office
Prohibition
Kansas
Rock Island
Life in Busy Shanghai amid a Russian influx
A Shanghai correspondent portrays the city as bustling and cosmopolitan despite a growing influx of about 5,000 Russians from Port Arthur. He notes crowded hotels, refugees in warehouses, and social contrast as shopkeepers profit from the newcomers while authorities boast orderly municipal projects and transparent spending. The piece comments on the Russians’ appearance, behavior, and the uncertain census, estimating about 400,000 residents with around 8,000 foreigners.
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Shanghai
Port Arthur
Bank of England Notes Printing and Security Features
The article details how Bank of England notes are produced with six printing presses printing value and signatures in sequence. It explains the unique paper texture and water mark as anti imitation features, the five to six day average life of a note, the process of cancellation upon return, and the stamping and accounting steps that track numbers and prevent counterfeits, with notes stored for five years.
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Bank of England
Chicago
Bank
Joe Jefferson and the Ticket of Leave Man tale
The article recounts Joe Jefferson facing grief after his wife’s death and a failed early play. He travels from San Francisco to Australia and stages The Ticket of Leave Man, a hit amid controversy as critics feared mob violence. A Springbelt rescue by Abraham Lincoln saves a troupe.
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Joseph Jefferson
San Francisco
Australia
England
Jefferson
Attractive Box Furniture for the Summer Bedroom
A New York Herald idea shows how to furnish a summer bedroom cheaply using boxes as a modular furniture set. Build a wood frame, paint white or green, line boxes with silk or lawn, add fabric tabs as pulls, and arrange boxes as shelves or a hat box stack. A box closet with chintz curtains completes the decor.
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Pompadour
New York Herald
Bad Habits: Princeton Player Reprimanded Before Big Game
A Princeton football coach confronts a key player about poor form before an important game. The coach suspects habits harming fitness and productivity, pressing the player on smoking drinking and study, seeking a decisive turn in preparation.
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Princeton
Hyde's Magnificent Stables in Equitable Fight Center NY
Hyde's stables in New York are described as premier, run by Francis Gerillot, with Hyde occupying an office inside the stable. The facility features telephones, electric bells, fine carpets, mahogany furniture, hunting trophies, and sport photos. Guests reportedly dine in a kitchen adjacent to the office, within the stable complex.
Mathew I Allen Receives $1000 From Carrie Nation
Guthrie Oklahoma editor Matthew I Allen of Gathered Isheaves receives a $1000 check from Carrie Nation to buy a new printing plant and start a temperance religious paper for the prohibition campaign launched recently.
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Mra
Nation 9
Matthew I. Allen
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Gathered Isheaves
Harvest Home
Carrie Nation
Bad Circumstantial Echoes of a Western Lawyer
An overcrowded eastern bar sends a young attorney westward to practice in a developing city. In a storeroom office he gains friends and clients, but locals mock him as a fraud, while a rival tailor uses his sign to claim the space and his law practice. The scene reflects exits and misperceptions in a bustling frontier town. The piece also notes a remarkable Everest photograph by the British, a rare view from Tibet suggesting climbers may conquer the peak despite risks.
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James Bartley
Mount
Everest
Tibet
Not Meant to Read and a Bookbinders Reply
Locker Sampson linked to the Rowfant library complains to Bedford the bookbinder that a treasure recently bound “cackled” by opening on its own. Bedford, after examining book and owner, sternly remarks you have been reading it.
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Locker Sampson
Rowfant
Dow
New York
Bedford
Itv
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