Trains Southward Daily Service Between Cities
Tinrnse Tables describe daily trains running southward with all other trains daily except Sunday. Central Time schedule notes solid trains with Pullman cars on night services and day trains. Through coaches and sleeping cars connect Chicago Indianapolis Cincinnati with ticketing and baggage checks to principal points. E O McCormick Gen Pass Agent Chicago and Br Hammon Greencastle listed.
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Chicago
Louisville
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Train schedule fragment shows eastward services and westward lines
A fragmented timetable lists Eastbound trains including Atlantic Express Cincinnati Fast Line New York Express and Western Express with arrival and departure times. Westbound service notes Kansas City Omaha Mattoon accommodation St Louis Mail California Express and Local Freight, indicating a mixed schedule excerpt.
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Yapolis
Atlantic Express
Cincinnatti
Cincinnatti Express
New York Express
Kansas City
Oma
St. Louis Mail
California Express
Northern Pacific Railroad Promises Wide Reach Westward
The Northern Pacific Railroad controls 57 of Montana rail mileage and links Helena Butte and many key towns while serving 56 of Washington mileage from Spokane Falls to Seattle. It offers ten day stopovers on secondary tickets and claims shortest routes from St. Paul to Tacoma Seattle and Portland. The line includes scenic Shasta routes to California. pamphlets and maps are available from agents.
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Northern Pacific Railroad
Montana
Helena
Butte
Miles City
Billings
Bozeman
Missoula
Yellowstone National Park
Northern Pacific
Washington
Idaho Line
Spokane Falls
Cheney
Sprague Yakima
Ellensburg
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
Washington Territory
Northern Pacific Secon Cass
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Idaho
Oregon
Minnesota
Dakota
Shasta
California
Duluth
Ashland
Mil ford and Guilford Readying for 250th Celebrations
Milford marks the 20th anniversary of its founding while Guilford prepares a three day Sept 8 250th celebration. Guilford plans poems addresses and papers by local and college figures to honor its heritage and the old stone house amid historic relics and the Gorge bridge memorials.
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Milford
Conn
Guilford
Nion
Wepowang
Charles Lute
Samuel Harpe
Trin
Ity College
Johnson
Sam Institution
T. W. Higginson
W. R. Dudley
Cornell University
John Todd
New Haven
Mr. Whitfield
New England
Taste and odor illusions in medicines and flowers
A Garden and Forest writer cites a Chicago physician who could not distinguish castor oil from olive oil by taste. His wife used olricin in a salad and he enjoyed it, later receiving its remedial effects. The Journal notes this may reflect olfactory blind spots and prompts readers to report their own experiences with scents and floral fragrances.
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Garden and Forest
Chicago
Deaf Old Gentleman’s Veto Inspires Quiet Gratitude Tale
A hearing impaired elder with a silence veto helps a grateful youth learn restraint. When the youth pleads for thanks, the old man removes the ear trumpet and the conversation collapses into air. The tale adds a humorous twist to the Keats line about unheard melodies.
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Boston Transcript
Keats
Strong Smell & Co. Offers Evening Mackerel Run
A playful dialogue shows a husband rushing to the office to post books and a wife directing him to Strong Smell & Co. for mackerel before 8 pm. The humorous aside hints the husband will skip theatre plans once he has fish. New York News.
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Strong Smell & Co
New York News
Bear Drives and Harsh Encounters in Himalayan Hunts
A narrator recalls bear drives in the Himalayas with vivid scenes of shooting a bear at a fair, a grain dealer struck by a bear, and a mother bear slain with one shot. He notes a quirky planter and improvised bullets, and reflects on the wilds, danger, and excitement of chasing bears.
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Himalayas
Murray
Dundee Whalers Build Stronger Ice Breaking Vessels
Ensign A. A. Ackerman describes Dundee whalers as 400 to 1000 ton ships with reinforced engines and duplicate rudder and propeller gear. They feature a bow inclined to lift and slide on ice for heavy-ice ramming, enabling ships to ram ice over twenty feet thick without immediate damage. When stuck, crews face ice and slush pressing the wake and the ship may be crushed if extraction fails.
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Dundee Whalers
A. A. Ackerman
Fred Winston’s Elephants The Persian Gift Exchange
Chicago lawyer Fred Winston who served briefly at the Persian court received four elephants at Teheran and later sent five more to the shah. He joked that the extra elephant cost him $100 and helped him escape a delicate predicament.
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Persia
Fred Winston
Chicago
United States
Teheran
Wee
Winston
St. Louis Republic
The School Ma’am in Maine
The Saco school committee issues guidelines for teachers. Teachers must be in rooms fifteen minutes before opening. ensure cleanliness, secure doors and windows, and ventilate. They must bar attendance from homes with scarlet fever measles diphtheria or varioloid. Tobacco use in buildings is absolutely prohibited.
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Saco
Lewiston Journal
Brown-Sequard's Elixir Tales Delight and Dismay
The Boston Courier recalls Dr. Brown-Sequard and his curious method to test skin sensitivity. A suburban visit ends with a failed examination when a patient jokes that he merely stuck a needle in her back, revealing the physician’s overconfidence and the family’s relief at the misinterpretation.
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Brown-Sequard
Dr. Brown-Sequard
Boston
Spain and the Bull Fight The Import Debate
A Saturday Review critique argues bullfighting not natural to other nations. It contends importing the spectacle brutalizes viewers and distorts local character, noting the show’s violence and health risks. It urges avoidance of foreign recreations that erase tradition.
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Spain
Saturday Review
Modern Rome Expands As Old City Is Rebuilt
The London Tablet notes Rome's post 1870 transformation with widening Corso, new palazzi, and a growing suburb outward from Porta Pia. The Tiber embankments rise, bridges multiply, and monuments like the Bridge of St Angelo face alteration as the city reshapes around ancient gates and villas.
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Rome
Ludovisi
Tiber
St. Angelo
London Tablet
Dictionary Enthusiasm Adds Not Excitement in Chester Practice
A Chester County physician finished reading the dictionary in seventeen years and six months. The newspaper notes the plot lacks thrilling climaxes and romance, limiting its appeal to readers of the circulating library.
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Chester County
Norristown Herald
Cigar Exchange Sparks Prefix Banter Between Men
In a brief Detroit Free Press item a man offers a cigar to another, who declines citing dislike of nicotine. A quip about the cigar’s value prompts a huffy reply from the first man, ending the exchange.
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Boringbloke
Ogleboy
Nic
Borinbloke
Detroit Free Press
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