Rise of State Fair Horses and Trains Draw Crowds to Indiana
The Indiana State Fair at Indianapolis, the week of Sept 6, expands public access with trolley lines and special trains from Leake Erie & Western. Attendance has grown from 30,000 in 1852 to near 200,000. prizes total 75 350 dollars with rich divisions for beef cattle dairy stock horses and livestock. An eminent panel of judges will award ribbons to prize winners in multiple departments.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
United States
Fair
Leake Erie & Western Railroad
Indiana Grounds
Fair Gates
State Board of Agriculture
Clever wife tames husband through home remedy
A witty bride reforms her husband with a simple trick. Each night he goes out, so she places two armchairs by the radiator and lights a cigar to create a faint smoke scent, prompting him to stay home and become a model of domesticity.
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Jim
Lovable Woman Resists Phone Calls in Night Crisis
Humorous reminiscence recounts a gentle Southland woman who would not use a phone causing a late night panic when calling for a physician. Her whispered message to the tele phone girl ends with a cheer. Also notes Mr. Jefferson's death sorrow and a neighborly tale of Ebenezer and Eben in mourning described in dialect.
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Southland
Olds
Central
Lippincott’s
Horse Dash to Box Office At Local Theater
A horse stood in the carriage shafts near the theater then suddenly bolted toward the box office. Onlookers speculated until a spectator noted the box office window bore the legend To the Stalls in large letters.
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London Globe
The Town That Push Built The Town Pushes On
A fragment from Fire Island history recounts local commerce and maritime lore. It notes how merchants and tradesmen influenced daily life through advertising and trade and recalls historic shipwrecks along Fire Island beach before the life saving service era.
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Fire Island
Amsterdam
Hull
Plymouth Town
Life Saving Service
Fire Island Beach
New York Post
Fire Island Wrecks and Desolate Sands Draw NY Beach Echoes
The article portrays Fire Island as the Atlantic coast’s worst wreck area, where ships and steamers perished on shifting dunes. It describes barren, loneliest stretches near Shinnecock Bay, with buried timbers, relics washing ashore, and baymen huts amid desolation just fifty miles from New York City.
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Cape Cod
Nantucket
Bloch Island
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Fire Island Beach
Shinneecock Bay
New York City
Daysey Mayme Appleton Plans Social Guests
Daysey Mayme Appleton will host two out of town guests for two weeks and circulated cards asking friends to offer activities such as dinner, dance, party, tea or luncheon. She quips she will mourn if guests do not come up to the scratch and may limit plans to walks and prayer meeting.
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Daysey Mayme
Daysey Mayme Appleton
Atchison Globe
Burglar Alert Intervenes Night Footnotes
Fulleash wakes to noises in his room and asks who is there. A hoarse whisper identifies a policeman named Sikes who plans to nab the burglar by keeping quiet and not turning on a light. Sikes descends quietly and exits with the loot through the back door.
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Fulleash
Sikes
New York Journal
Jules Verne's Daily Routine in Amiens Cabin Study
The notable author Jules Verne rose at 4 am in summer, climbing a watchtower above his Amiens home to write until 10. In winter he read in bed or drafted scenes. After lunch he walked the boulevards, visited his club, and read newspapers and scientific reviews for inspiration.
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Jules Verne
Boulevard de Longueville
Amiens
Picardy
Never mind we never would raise that boy
An elderly Tennessee couple mourn the son, with the wife soothing the husband as he weeps, recalling the line I told you so. The brief note from Success Magazine frames a rural family's grief and a lingering joke about their child.
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Tennessee
John
Success Magazine
Intense Clicky Pains Relieved by Remedy
Beaver Dam Kentucky resident I S Mason reports years of intense clicky pains ended after taking Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A friend recommended the medicine and after a few doses the symptoms disappeared with no return in four years. Available from all druggists.
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I. S. Mason
Beaver Dam
Kentucky
Chamberlain
Express and freight train schedule with multiple stops
A historic timetable lists daily and limited service trains with frequent times from early morning to late evening. It notes an Express for delivery at station 15 with trains in both directions, a Greensburg Express limited to Shelbyville, and freight departures at 7 30 a m and 5 30 p m.
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Sun
Acton
Limited
Greensburg Express
Shelbyville
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