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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1893
Page
2
Rail and coach timings listed for Bluff areas show daily and weekly departures. Notable services include connections to Denver via Kansas City, St Paul, and Washington routes with multiple daily options.
The narrator Departed from Jaffa at 7 15 am aboard the Syrian line ship Hungar ieo and reached Alexandria 27 hours later. He describes the Holy City and surrounding countryside from the sea then recounts Alexandria’s ancient wonders Cleopatra's Needle Pompeii's Pillar and Pharos lighthouse. He visits Cairo and notes its size Nile location and the Khedive.
A traveler documents Cairo streets and markets, Ismail the guide, and a donkey ride to Gizeh. He describes the Pyramids, Sphinx, and the Egyptian Museum, notes temple ruins, and laments looting for mosques and palaces. He compares ancient tombs with Jerusalem and calls for greater preservation.
W W Wanser recounts Egypt and Nile irrigation neglect from Zagazig to Ismailia. He notes no major canals or windmills, villages using ancient water wheels, desert encroachment with sand drift, and lack of afforestation while praising a post office steamboat along the Suez route.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists Toledo suppliers F J Cavenay & Co West Treat and others and notes the medicine is taken internally. Also mentions F R Corbett returning to New York and predicting U S victory in Behring Sea dispute after concessions from England.
Ad parodies a nursery rhyme to tout Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as mild yet prompt relief for constipation headache and abdominal pains. It claims to restore natural stomach and bowel action with a dose of one pellet and a 25 cent price, condemning drastic pills.
The Burlington Route proclaims the best line to Denver from Chicago or St Louis with one night on the road. Daily vestibuled trains feature Pullman sleepers reclining chair cars with free seats and dining cars.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Pain Balm as a quick cure for rheumatism with the first application calming pain. A 20 cent bottle is offered by J. E. Wright, druggist.
The Best Line to California Burlington Route offers daily vestibuled trains via Denver Colorado Springs Leadville Salt Lake and Ogden with Porman sleepers chair cars and Burlington Route dining cars. De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve advertised as cures for piles burns sores and ulcers.
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