The Great Burlington Mail Run on a Blizzard Day
An American correspondent travels the Burlington fast mail service from Chicago to Omaha amid a blizzard. He describes crowded mail cars, frantic loading of bags and papers, engineers and clerks at work, and the influx of Chicago Sunday papers from New York to Chicago, including English and German editions, with vivid frontline reportage and a sense of railway hustle.
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Omaha
White
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New York
Chicago
Chicago Morning
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Gero
Conras
Aurora
Burlington
Ita
Milwaukee
St. Paul
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Lyon
Alesp
Woodstock
Notasat
Inside the Burlington Chicago railway mail system
A vivid portrait of railway mail clerks handling Chicago to Pacific coast post, detailing the brutal pace, complex schemes, and risks. It explains how clerks track offices, rail lines, and routes, sorting tens of thousands of letters daily, and the high stakes of errors that can cost them their jobs.
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West
Lineia
Chicago
Burlington
Climbing the Alps with Two 14 Year Olds to Gemmi Summit
Special Correspondents Rowe reports a Swiss ascent with two 14 year old companions. Beginning at Kandersteg and moving toward Gemmi, they traverse lake views and pine forests then push into rising cols. A looming Alpine storm heightens tension as they near the pass hotel.
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Rowe
Europe
Cron
Tlan
Thun
Bellevue
Jungfrau
Harry
Fred
Kandersteg
Gosper
Berussa Alps
Bridila Peth
Doetor
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Pasy
Kundersteg
Sumit
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Littl
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American railway mail service praised as splendid system
A description extols the railway mail service noting Ivan yoor ib and 5,000 workers moving over 150 million miles yearly. It highlights 2,500 cars, each clerk handling about 4,000 pieces daily with about 200 errors, and wages from 8000 to 1200. The piece credits decades of growth from 700 employees to 5000 and immense public value.
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America
Atartin
M Warten Wellman
Madynan at Large and Cough Warned by Patent Remedy
A column urges a well known citizen, called a madman, to seek Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for consumption symptoms described as a hacking cough and night sweats. It cites a warning that delay brings death and notes similar claims for Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure, claiming two bottles cured a heart disease case. Wasp proverb closes the item.
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Dr. Pierce
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J. W. Wentworth
Elkhart
Ind
New York
Toléedo
Dr. Miles
W. A. Elston
Inestimable Papillon Cure at a Glance
Advertisements claim a discovery by accident of a cure called Papillon Cure, with bottles sold widely for a dollar. It promotes miraculous skin healings and notes huge demand and sales figures, while other nostrums are advertised for health issues like nasal catarrh and digestive troubles.
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Clarke
Ronnkind
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