Time Table of Illinois Central trains to Galena 1904
Illinois Central timetable effective November 27 1904 lists West North bound trains from Chicago to Galena with schedules for the Gt Paul Limited Omaha Limited and local trains. East and South bound service includes departures to Chicago St Louis and Decatur with connections to Dixon Mendota Normal La Salle Omaha and the Pacific Coast. Freight and passenger combinations noted.
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Galena
Caldas
Chicago
St. Louis
St. Louie
Cessiere Reese
Wees
St Louis
St. Paul
Minneapolis
St. Louisia
St Paul
Daly
Furitea
Chicago St. Paul
United
M.J. Burns, Ag
Milwaukee
Illinois Central Railroad
Gt. Paul Limited
Omaha Limited
Omaha Expreas
Dallysesceiant
Nini Dreesey
Ubuque
Iherve
Reight
Chicago Limited
Ghiségo
St.Louis D'Ly
Decatur
Cairo
Bloomington
Dixon
Mendota
Norma
la Salle
Cain
Omaha
Sioux City
Fontana
Oregon
Washington
Terriory
Coorado
Pacific Coast
McDermott
Fate and Forfeits in Evening Fun Party Game
A playful social game outlined for a mixed audience. guests guess future spouses using “Fate” via masked cue, followed by a set of playful forfeits. Describes a female host guiding envelopes read by girls, then boys opening their cards to reveal a Mrs. prefix. Forfeits include ship walk, curtain pin, kissing self, walking Spanish, and threading a needle while balanced.
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Fate
School is in today and the rest of life awaits
A jumble of memories and notes runs through the page, recalling fishing sprees on Tyler's Creek, kite flying, slings, wheel rides, cattail hunts, and gopher snaring. Amid personal musings, historical dates mark Virginia’s Civil War era, from the 1801 Virginia secession to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, with Windsor Castle tower births and ancient state prison walls recalled in reflective tone.
Phone Aid to Matrimony Lures Young Women
The Utica Press notes the rising number of private home phones and argues the device boosts social life and matrimonial opportunity. Advertisers depict the girl with a phone as most popular, appealing to parents, and suggesting easy communications for dates and courtship.
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Utica Press
St. Louis
Harry
St. Louis Company
Status of the Baby and the Park Encounter
A dialogue between a home baby and a hotel baby at a park corner reveals clashes of lifestyle. The hotel baby emphasizes status, rings, and public decorum, while the home baby advocates casual comfort and private freedom. The hotel baby warns that God disapproves of home life, ending with a moral rebuke.
Free Certificate for Himself Story From Dr Swan Bridgewater Tale
The late Dr James C Swan a long time Bridgewater Mass physician offered a free certificate to a pernicious father seeking admission for his insane son. After hearing the father's poverty claim and his dissembled finances the doctor declared you pay me for this one and I will give you a certificate for yourself whenever you wish it for nothing.
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James C. Swan
Bridgewater
Mass
Value of General Culture and Community Education
Governor Aycock argues education must spread through neighborhoods to create competition and culture. He says sons and daughters educated to the world’s level still stagnate without a cultured community to spur growth and that a truly great person rises only when surrounded by strong neighbors.
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C. B. Aycock
Divisions of the Drama by Mrs Hobbes A Nine Year Old Idea
Mrs Cragie known as John Oliver Hobbes proposes a dramatic tripartite division through a nine year old authority. Tragedy involves fancy dress and murder, Just plays feature harming others and death or suicide, and comedy centers on going through much yet still loving. New York Times.
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New- York Times
City in the Sea Poem Fragmentary Vision of Doom
A stark scene of a buried metropolis where Death sits on a throne beneath the sea. Towers and palaces emerge from lurid waters as waves glow red at dusk. In a Babylon-like town the living fade, while Death and Hell loom and the city sinks toward eternal rest.
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Death
Babylon
Hell
Disease and the Microbe
A discussion on defeating disease germs argues that complete eradication is unlikely soon. It cites malaria as well understood, notes many pathogens remain unknown, and explains microbes evolve rapidly. The piece references Yersinia pestis discovered a decade earlier and the rat’s role in transmission.
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C. W. Saleeby
M. D
Harper’s ‘Weekly
Xitasato
Turnverein in War Time Effects of German Turner Societies
The first Turner societies formed in 1841 in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, with a New York Turnverein in Hoboken. By 1843 ten societies united as the National Turner union. Germans fled to the United States after 1848. Turners served as patriots and trained bodies for field and camp. Civil War service saw Turner regiments in New York, Ohio, Philadelphia, and St. Louis under leaders like Col. Max Weber and Gen. Seigel transforming the movement into a national force.
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United States
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
New York
Germany
Max Webber
Ninth
Ohio
St. Louis
Seigel
Turnerbund
Switzerland
Odd Coins and Cash Flows Across Borders Question Money
Canadian business interests seek to curb American silver coin usage and replace with Canadian coin duties while banks reimburse shipping costs for American coins. Chinese copper 10 cash coins flood markets in Shanghai at 90 cents to a Mexican dollar, undermining gold cash. A new mint will produce 2,000,000 coins daily, signaling shifts in Chinese monetary systems.
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Canada
Canadian Bankers’ Association
United States
Hangchau
Shanghai
Anecdotes From Monte Carlo Include Kvass And Lively Chats
In a rambling tale an American notes a crowd of celebrities at Monte Carlo during motor boat races. Sir Alfred Harmsworth visits Clito's to sample Russian dishes and kvass. A waiter, the old man at Sweeting's and a tale of ale foam end with a quip about a short neck.
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Monte Carlo
Alfred Harmsworth
Clitro’s
Marseilles
Ciro
Alfred
Caucasus
Sir Alfred
Sweeting
Walter
The Luxury of Friendlessness and Forecasts
A light exchange between Miss Forty and The Optimist about having friends and things to live for. An Austrian meteorologist, J N Nowak, forecasts weather via the abrus precatorius plant. He plans weather stations in Vienna and London for forecasts three to eight days ahead.
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Miss Fortyadd
J. N. Nowak
Alexico
Vienna
London
Nowak
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Galena Cribune Daily
160Th Century Printing CO
Edwards M.E. Daniels
Pulschiption Mar
Deliv
G. W. Everet, M.D
Logan House
Blum’s Brewery
Galena Studio
Henning Studio
Illinois
A. Ng
Madison
Soung Folies
Jim
Stern
James
New York Sun
Turkey
Boston Globe
Lapland
Philadelphia Record
Yale
Ernest Thompson Seton
America
Onlesulnese
Tyler's Creek
Binnie
Uncle Will
London Tower
Windsor Castle
Wellbelove
Virginia
South Carolina
Richmond
Bull Run
Peninsula
Shenandoah Valley
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Wilderness
Richmann
Robert B. Lee
Grant
Appomattox Court Loase
Appomattox County
Sam
Gaid
Allan P
Turnverein
Ster
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