Northern Lights Legend and Northward Ambitions
In a tense dialogue a young woman Belen Chester debates fate in the north with Glenister and Dextry. He recounts a Tananas legend of Itika and spectral wolves, framing a rugged northern life. She asserts women can help tame the land while he trusts law and wealth to define power in this frontier era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dextry
Glenister
Itika
Fle
Tanana Valley
Saw Tooth
The
Yukon
Isaac
Alaska
Choate and Webster
Patrick Henry
Blackstone
United States Supreme Bench
Belen Chester
Oregon
Seattle
Ohio
Unalaska
Dextru
Bold frontier outlaw woos heroine amid ICE bound voyage
A rugged captain declares, I want to love you, Helen, and stirs passion on a ship bound for a distant city. Helen recoils yet is drawn to his dangerous magnetism as tensions rise among the crew and stowaway passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen
Dextry
Stephens
Glenister
The
Ohio
Nome Arrival Brings Steamship Welcome Harbor Salute
The Santa Maria enters Nome harbor after a perilous voyage through ice and open water. Passengers celebrate as tiny craft crowd the iron sides while an officer reports a clean bill of health to Captain Stephens. Tugs circle, and boarding boats swarm the ship as formalities conclude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Maria
Bering Strait
Ander
Nome
Stephens
Willie Smith and the damp shirt misadventure
A boy named Willie Smith keeps swimming with his mother’s permission. He catches a cold after drying with his wet shirt. He later confesses he dried himself with his friend Tommy Jones' shirt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Smith
Willie
Smith
Tommy Jones
Mamma
Chinese woman to be educated in America to become a distinguished recruit
Miss May Liang Cheng daughter of Sir Chentung Liang Cheng Chinese minister to the United States will return to China and be educated in Barnard College or Wells College Aurora New York. She is under sweet 16, fluent in English and skilled in music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
May Liang Cheng
Chentung Liang Cheng
United States
Miss Cheng
Washington
Barnard College
Wells College
Aurora
N. Y
Miss Liang
Li Hung Chang
Bien
Broadway
Revenue From Playing Cards in Austria 1906
The Austrian ministry of finance derived 150 600 dollars in tax on playing cards last year. Ten manufacturers employing 236 workers produced 1 578 000 card packs in 1906, averaging one pack for every two families. Varieties included tarock German games picquet whist and others with many exported mainly to Turkey Africa and India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ministry of Finance
Tressetti
Turkey
Africa
India
Trains Schedule Fragments for Wabash Route Post
A collection of timetable fragments listing East and West Bound Wabash routes with numbers, stations, and daily or Sunday only service. Includes No 2 and No 28 from St Louis to New York, No 1 to St Louis, No 41 and 43 to Terre Haute and St Louis, plus Logan and Butler accommodations with varied departure times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
New York
Gaily Co
Penn
Kansas City
Toledo
Dee
O.caseaf Sanetuster
Burke
T. Haute
St. Louis Mall
Terre Haute
Logansport
Terra Haute
Logan
Butler
Sun
Logan Ac
Train schedule highlights for Pennsylvania Lines and Vandalia timetable
The 1908 schedules show intercity trains between Chicago Logansport and Bradford Loransport with numerous No. trips, sleeping and dining car notes, and liveried express and mail services. It lists departure and arrival times, daily and Sunday constraints, and special services like parlor cars and limited trains. Freight improvements and interurban connections around Ft Wayne Lafayette Huntington Delphi and Boyd Park are noted with specific departure times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Louisville
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Columbus
Pittsburg
Lousville
Logansport
Springfield
Huntington
Boyd Park
Ft. Wayne
Lafayette
T. Gunn
Ind
Express and Mail Schedules Listed By Frank J Reed
The notice lists fast mail and express services with operating times for different trains and mail runs. It includes South Bound departures at 8:57 am 6:34 pm 1:48 pm and 4:37 am 9:57 pm, plus additional mail and express times 5:48 am 2:58 pm 2:15 am and 6:13 am, attributed to Frank J Reed G P A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Reed
Chicago
U T System timetable changes and coupons announced
Effect March 12 1907 the logansport to indianapolis interurban runs with multiple daily departures and limited trains connecting at tipton to elwood and other towns. Interchangeable coupon books offer 12 dollars worth of travel for ten with coverage across 32 traction lines in three states and 1 807 miles of track. Traction line connections extend from muncie to hartford city montpelier bluffton farml and winchester among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Indianapolis
Kokomo
Tipton
Elwood
Alexandria
Fairmount
Ander’son
Middletown
Muncie
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Hartford City
Montpelier
Bluffton
Farmland
Winchester
Nion City
Greenville
Pointa Heayond
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Indiana — Union
I. U. T. System
Southern Michigan
Wabash R. BR
Detroit
Mich
Petoskey
Omaha
Col
Orado
Denver
Walens
Chet
M. Burke
Nick Klein
Fourth St
Porter' 'S Drug Store
C. O. Heffley
Charles and
Elizabeth Wipperman
Cass County
Silas Storer
W. T. Wilson
State Fair Grounds
Indiana Union Traction Company
Fair Grounds
J. &. Crain Architect
Masonic Temple
Knouff
HOYT
Traveler’s Guide
St. Albans
England
Oliver Cromwell
Logan Acc
South Bend
Pennsylvania
East
Accon
CIA. D
Bradford
Loransport
Pac
Chi
Lied
Effner
Vandalia
North Sound
South Bend Acco
Ccce Eee
South Bend Mail
Vacevereeto Secc
Scceee
South. Bend Express
Fort Wayne
Wabash Valley
Peru
Wabash
Hunatmeton
Intermedi
Te Delphi
Monon
Delphi, Ind
O Kokomo
Marion
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