Illinois Central Railroad Time Table Nov 27 1904 Galena schedules
Illinois Central timetable effective November 27 1904 lists trains west and north from Galena including St Paul Limited Omaha Limited and Dubuque Passenger. Westbound freight and eastbound connections to Chicago St Louis Sioux City Omaha and western points described with departure and arrival times. Includes through trains to Omaha Sioux City and western connections via Galena with noted Sunday exceptions.
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Galena
S.m
Chicago
St. Louis
Sane Sane
St Louis
Bre Paul
Minneapolia
Chicase
Nicago
St Paul and
Minneapo
Euis
Illinois Central Railroad
Traina
St. Paul Limited
Omaha Limited
Omaha Express
C.cesseeetseeseeeers
Plaat Mail
Sioux City
Dubuque
St.Louis D'Ly
jPassenger
Decatur
Ept Sanday
Sserse Seeree
Express
Eevee
Loomington
al Ixon
Mendota
Normal
la Salle
Omaha
8Th
Sul
Igontana
Oregon
Washington
Terriory
Coorado
Pacific Coast
St. Paul
Medere
White Plague Victims Seek Arctic Cure on Havana Expedition
The article discusses two Arctic ventures in pursuit of health and exploration. Dr Frederick Lohon leads a tuberculosis cure mission aboard the Havana with thirty patients, aiming for Greenland fjords. Commander Peary plans a pole expedition aboard the Roosevelt, while physicians advocate germ free regions and extended sun exposure as curative.
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Arctic
Seif Cadats
Pole
Peary
Roosevelt
Frederick Lohon
Washington
Havana
Halifax
United States
Sohon
Solon
Arctic Circle
Greenland
Perry
Omenak Fjord
Inglefield Gulf
Cape Sabine
Nash
United States Navy
Greely
New York Times
Students shift from games to modern athletics abroad
The British Journal notes Japanese students twenty years ago eschewed games for study, but now embrace rowing, lawn tennis and baseball. A Waseda University team traveled to challenge American university champions, signaling potential Tokio eight at Henley. Other notes recount the Worcester court career of Elliott H. Peabody, a nurse’s quip about Mrs H, English science in the Congo, the Czar’s aid to Boston Greek Orthodox worship, and a humorous Oliver Wendell Holmes anecdote about a skull.
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Waseda University of
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Harvard Medical School
Holmes
Bosto
Herald
Ambassador Hengelmuller Seeks Transfer From Washington
Ambassador Hengelmuller of Austria Hungary seeks reassignment to a European post due to intolerance of Washington winters. He desires a change of climate and location for his duties.
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Hengelmuller
Austria-Hungary
Washington
Train-gleaming homer tale fuels Maryland baseball lore
A Baltimore Sun recounts a legendary Fourth of July game between the Texas Sluggers and the Timonium Little Potatoes. In the fifth inning a home run ball vanished into a passing train’s smokestack, the puffing engine sending it aloft until it landed in the third baseman’s glove for a double play, leaving the Little Potatoes incensed but retired.
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Maryland
Texas
Baltmore
Texas Sluggers
Timonium
Little Potatoes
Baltimore Sun
The Joy of a Moving Day Misadventure
Mrs Potts endures a weary moving day as her influenza-stricken husband rests upstairs and her son returns home gleeful amid jam stains and broken crockery. The scene contrasts a weary parent with a child’s hopeful joy, suggesting that children lighten burdens even on dull wet days.
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Echo
Entertaining a group of Englishmen with Western tales
George B. Cortelyou amused English visitors by recounting pioneer tales from the California gold rush era. He spoke of resolute diggers who founded towns, a prairie caravan that planned a scientific settlement, and even the idea of opening a new town cemetery with an old man as a symbol.
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George B. Cortelyou
America
Mr. Cortelyou
California
Buffalo Enquirer
Legal Triumph and Rivalry Highlight Contested Trial
The defense attorney challenges a witness with sharp questions about alleged threats and a bulldog revolver. A verse critic mocks a rival, calling her unattractive and lacking wit. The column notes Charles F. Holm of Massachusetts, father of twenty four with one wife, who enlisted in 1837, likely the earliest enlistment among living men.
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Charles F. Holm
Massachusetts
Navy
Sconcing and bier king contests in student drinking tales
A London Chronicle writer contrasts Oxford sconcing with German bier konig duels and Egyptian water-drinking tricks. The piece notes sconcing fines for etiquette breaches, the ritual of passing the tankard, and the spectacle of drinking feats as acrobatic displays.
System That Didn’t Work Mnemonic Tale From a Bank
A bank cashier recounts trying an elaborate mnemonic system to memorize names and faces. He built associations between people and trades, but a misremembered name led to a humorous blunder at a hardware store where he addressed a man as Mr Snails, realizing the name was actually Stacks.
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Jame
New Jersey
Sanders
Grocer
Mr. Snails
Great scheme that failed
A sailor recalls Uncle Joe who offered to take a Civil War conscription exam in his name for $200. Hiram Haines agreed, passed, and Uncle Joe also passed, but the ruse backfired as Joe later lost $200 and still fought four years.
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Russia
Joe
Hiram Haines
Hiram
Uncle Joe
Jimmy
Russian Capital Enslaved by Excessive Indulgence
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent describes Moscow society as reveling in lavish meals and champagne, with long lunches and extravagant tea, while streets reveal wealth in coal-black carriages racing through Prospects. The host presides over abundance, horses gallop, and social life reflects imperial Rome in this second capital of the czar.
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Rome
Pall Mall Gazette
Stories of Beau Brummel in English Papers
An English paper recounts tales of Beau Brummel including his snuffbox prank at Brighton and his wit at social events. He jokes about humble birth, avoids sharing a carriage, and twice wins the mayor's pony in a Brooke's hazard game before vowing to drink no one’s porter but his.
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Long
Boston Herald
Beau Brummel
Brighton
Brummel
Brooke's
Blackguard
London
Daisy as commonplace muse in Wordsworth’s verse
Poem framed as a celebration of a plain Daisy, seen as worthy and comforting. It praises the flower’s homely beauty, steadfast gaze, and simple grace as Wordsworth casts it as a queen, star, and source of solace, merging nature with affection and poetic reverie.
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Daisy
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Galena, TU
Blum’s Brewery
Galena Studio
Henning Studio
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Eau Claire
St. Minneapolis. Paul
Milwaukee
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Tialeno
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Elliott Peabody
Elott H. Peabody
Worcester County Court House
Justice of the Peace
Consolidated Index
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Mrs. H
Congo
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J. E. Dutton
Boston
Amali
London Chronicle
Chicago Daily News
Oxford
Egypt
Annie Tam
Love
Willam
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