Railway and Engineering Review Highlights Global Rail Experiments
The Journal notes experiments with nickel steel rails on the Pennsylvania Railroad and a new 20 mile streetcar line in Tokio using air powered cars. It reports a Nassau Railroad verdict of 2300 dollars for a passenger being sat upon. It also covers liquid fuel trials on Great Eastern bogie express engines and potential crude oil supply from Borneo challenging coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Carnegie Steel Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tokio
Japan
United States
Supreme Court
Nassau Railroad Company
Brooklyn
N. Y
Great Eastern Railway
England
Borneo
Landlord confronts demands for game over beef and mutton
In a Rocky Mountain hotel a colonel insists the landlord provide game meat instead of the regular beefsteak and mutton. The landlord defends pricing while patrons crave venison and bird game, with a cartload of game expected to extend meals for days.
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Rocky Mountain
Jim
Rendy
Chicago
Boston Globe
Youthful Millionaire Plans Luxurious Home for Bride
A wealthy young man tells his fiancée of a bespoke mansion built to her taste, with costly interior design and furniture. She responds with happiness but adds a desire to furnish the home again after they move in, seeking another level of personalization.
Color and Army Humor Amid Philippine Duty
A Western volunteer greets a Black sergeant with a racist remark. the sergeant replies that they will take up the burden of service in the Philippines, reflecting wartime tensions and humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Rns
Absent-minded Beggar Confronts Approaching Person
A Philadelphia North American excerpt shows a mendicant claiming he was briefed about ten cents minutes earlier and apologizing for his absent-minded behavior. The exchange highlights a tense interaction between a petitioner and a passerby.
Coughing Leads to Consumption Promised by Kemp’s Balsam
An old advertisement urges readers that coughing leads to consumption and promotes Kemp's Balsam as a immediate remedy. It claims a sample bottle is free and offers large bottle sizes at two prices while warning delays are dangerous.
Iguana Question Sparks Witty Exchange
A quirky exchange references an iguana and a sleeping car aboard the Baltimore American. The dialogue hints at luck favoring the brave while noting misdirection or a trap in fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnnie
Paw
Mr. Wise
Baltimore
Stomach Troubles in Spring Signs of Distress
A brief health advertisement describes spring stomach troubles with bile, sourness, headaches, and poor appetite. It portrays the stomach crying for help as it becomes overworked and seeks a tonic with digestive strength.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Gains Praises as Cure All
Advert says Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best stomach and blood remedy known to medicine. It claims thousands of grateful letters prove its cures and labels it the greatest medicine for stomach troubles ever discovered.
Retribution tale of a boy and his beasts
A nursery tale by Carolyn Wells in St. Nicholas features a bold boy with a bear a tiger and a lion who threaten to eat travelers. When accused of such deeds the boy proposes a perverse justice and eats the tiger the lion and the bear, leaving the beasts silent.
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Carolyn Wells
St. Nicholas
Pet of the Regiment Jack the Second Infantry Mascot
Jack the Second Infantry mascot known as Hero of Santiago travels with Company D from Fort Omaha through Chickamauga Tampa to Cuba. He aided camps against cockroaches and bullets, crossed San Juan river during battle, and roamed the field to comfort wounded soldiers. Suffering malaria, he remains idolized by officers and men despite years of service.
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Jack
Second Infantry
Santiago
United States Army
Fort Omaha
Cuba
Standing Rock
Mandan
Fort Yates
Chickamauga
Tampa
Rough Riders
Col
Roosevelt
Sibony
San Juan River
Company D
Bay
Detroit Free Press
Peruna endorsements and medical notes from 1880s letters
Letters praise Peruna as a home remedy improving health for women and singers, including Mrs. Jones Hamilton of Columbus and Annie Wyandotte of Kansas City. The piece explains catarrh as mucous membrane inflammation affecting head to lungs and cites Dr. Hartman in Columbus offering free treatment directions.
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J. Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Columbus, O
Dr. Martman
Denar
Peruna
Star
Annie Wyandotte
Fatima the Wisdom Bear Delights and Demands Show
Fatima the bear appears with a grande Dame persona amid a circus routine. She possesses a curious, thoughtful gaze while lying in a brown ball pondering her toes. Jolly the elephant jealously assaults Fatima’s stage as she performs across morning afternoon and evening.
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Fatima
Jolly
N. Y. World
The Mother Duck and Her Odd Nesting Ways
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes the mother duck often chooses strange nesting sites away from water and defends her hidden nest with feigned injury. Despite anxiety over nests, her care persists amid dangers from rats, voles, pike, and herons threatening hatchlings.
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Cueckoo
Cincinnati Enquirer
A Good Suggestion Scribbler at Public
The exchange shows Scribbler seeking popularity with the public and Dauber replying you might stop writing novels in a brief diary style note from the Journal.
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Dauber
Ghost of the Glacier And Other Tales Volume Notice
Promotional blurb for a volume titled Ghost of the Glacier And Other Tales with tales including Making a Revolution and Susquehannan Trail. Describes delightful illustrations and distribution set for May 1. Contact TW. Lee Lackawanna Railway agent at 26 Exchange Place New York for 10 cent price copy.
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Lee
Lackawanna Railroad
Exchange Place
New York City
Mdition Limited
Artillery Gains Role as War Becomes Sell Game
Detroit Journal notes artillery growing in importance within the military sector and compares war to a sales-driven enterprise alongside diplomacy as a shifting facet of modern conflict.
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Detroit Journal
Richest Gold Field Found Twenty-Eight Hundred Miles From Seattle
The text notes a rich gold field discovered up to now located about twenty eight hundred miles from Seattle by ocean. It mentions the first steamer leaving Seattle around May 10 1900 and provides travel details to Geo HL Hentford General Passenger Agent Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Chicago Ill for full particulars. It also remarks on the paradox of living on five thousand dollars a year in Washington and the fate of congressmen who die in office.
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Seattle
Ocean
Geo
Hentford
Icago
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Chicago
Printer’s quips and a cure claim from 1900
An assortment of brief quotes and an advert style testimonial. The notes include a Punch joke about ink costs a fiver owed by Mr Jones and a Mrs Robbins claim that Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved her life. Also a quip about family smoking habits from the Atchison Globe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mres. Thos. Robbins
Maple Street
Norwich, N. Y
To Cure on Cold In Gone Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
Advertisement claims a cold remedy with a money back guarantee from druggists. It notes a saying about a woman avoiding asking her husband by sending her daughter. Published in Atchison Globe.
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Atchison Globe
Klondike
Cuba
Peruna treatment praised by Catarrh Sufferers
Miss Clara Stoecker of Pittsburg Pennsylvania credits Peruna with curing her chronic catarrh after trying multiple remedies. Mrs Margareth Writz of Wilcox Oklahoma thanks the remedy for relief from long standing uterine bleeding and weakness after three bottles of Peruna and Mau-a-lin. Pelvic catarrh described as a common affliction among women called female disease.
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Clara Stoecker
Margareth Writz
Wilcox
Okla
Uartman
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Omaha
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Harles E. Wires Co
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