Monon Route to Cincinnati Proclaimed by Illinois Dept
The Monon Route to Cincinnati via Chesapeake and Ohio to Washington is the Illinois Department of State official route. Special trains depart Dearborn Station Sept 17 and 18 for Washington with return tickets honored from Richmond via Lynchburg and Appomattox. Stopovers to visit Virginia battlefields provided at no extra cost. for details contact F J Reep C P A 232 South Clark Chicago NL.
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G. A. KR
Washington
D. C
Monon
Cincinnati
Chesapeake and Ohio
Department of State of Illinois
Dearborn Station
Virginia
Gordonsville
Richmond
Lynchburg
Appomattox
Potomac River
Old Point Comfort
F. J. Reep
South Clark Street
Chicago
Surprising Hardiness of Insects Under Extreme Cold
Entomologists note insects survive Arctic winters with surprising resilience. Milkweed butterfly larvae endured 68 degrees below zero, thawed and moved within thirty minutes. Butterflies fluttered at record northern latitudes and Alaska Greenland mosquitoes remain unusually healthy.
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Alaska
Greenland
Weather, humor, and politics mix in strange verse
A jumble of images notes a heavy storm with hail and thunder, mentions jokes and libelous articles, suspended strikes, and a mass of leaves. It also hints at box office queues and political banners, ending on a fragment about ticket men.
Round-Trip Lake Shore Route Fare to Chautauqua
Tickets priced at 14 dollars to Chautauqua and return via the Lake Shore Route go on sale August 13 and 14. Return validity extends to September 15. KF. M. Byron, City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 65 Clark Street, and C. Kk. Wilber, Western Passenger Agent.
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Chautauqua
Lake Shore
KF. M. Byron
Clark Street
Kk. Wilber
Favorite Prescription Promises Health for Weak Women
Slander about ice and schools gives way to ad copy for Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The text touts the remedy as a guaranteed cure for overworked and run down women including teachers milliners seamstresses shop girls and nursing mothers promising relief and money-back if disappointed.
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Dr. Pierce
A Kind Hearted Druggist and a Ghost of Skeletons
Mark Twain regales a Washington banquet with a tale from the Pharmaceutical Era about four printer apprentices and a prank involving a skeleton. The joke backfires as the skeleton is sold for 45, draining the druggist’s funds and altering fortunes, yet the druggist forgives them and remains generous.
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Mark Twain
National Wholesale Druggists’ Association
Washington
Nicodemus Dodge
Ife
Sian
Efe
A New Way of Saving Mercy
In 1855 Longfellow left Harvard to allow Lowell to succeed him and study abroad briefly. He later recounted how he trusted bankers to notify him when funds fell to a limit, drew as needed, and kept no account. A clerical error later caused his balance to be mischarged.
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Lowell
Longfellow
Harvard College
London
America
Wletter
Despotism in Tangier and Morocco Jeopardizes Prosperity
The Fortnightly Review laments lawless rule under the sultan, noting prisoners without trial, bribery and torture, and universal deprivation. It criticizes stagnation, tribal warfare, and lack of roads or ports while imagining rich, untapped inland plains and a great Lebon river export route awaiting cohesive governance.
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Ife
Tangier
Moroucco
Europe
Lebon
Staged Storm Watcher and Scratchin Matches Sky Tale
A Brooklyn five year old, Mabel Greene, stands at a window watching a gathering storm with fearless calm. She speaks of her father lighting his stars as he scratches matches on the sky, in a whimsical, childlike moment amid thunder and lightning.
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Mabel Greene
Brooklyn
Mabel
Mamita
New York Sun
What Have You to Be Proud of
A tease from Prof C. Everett in Ethics for Young People notes a boy asking a lady about pride. He recalls asking why she was proud and says such self inquiry may correct vanity if one answers honestly.
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C. Co. Everett
Must Have Been a Kentuckian
A Paris beggar known as the terrible Savoyard injured by a waitress when she splashed water in his face. He collapsed and died, with a doctor saying shock from a diseased heart and brain likely caused the fatal outcome.
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Rue St. Marguerite
Paris
The Frugal Glasgow Banker Carrick and the Two Guinea Episode
A tale of Robert Carrick a Glasgow banker who amassed wealth but lived frugally. Faced with a subscription demand for the Royal Infirmary he claimed he could not afford more than two guineas. A Glasgow manufacturer pressed him to donate, prompting Carrick to withdraw his deposits until finally he added fifty guineas.
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Robert
Carrick
Glasgow
Old Ship Bank
Paxton Hood
Milquham
Robin
Milqguham
Worship of Heroes Across Generations in Meads View
Edwin D. Mead argues that society worships past heroes while failing to recognize current ones. Carlyle, famed for idolizing figures like Mazzini, is critiqued for not understanding contemporaries and failing to see heroic acts in his own era.
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Edwin D. Mead
New England
Emerson
Webster
Garrison
Phillips
Parker
Whittier
Carlyle
Mazzini
England
Ito
Cromwell
Luther
Likeness and Memory Mix In Family Tales
Prof Galton notes uncanny likenesses among relatives as youngsters misidentify kin. Stories include a son mistaken for his brother, a girl calling relatives by the wrong names, and a mother confusing Alfred for Benjamin. A British officer recalls misrecognition after long apart. The piece ends with a reflective caution on temptation.
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Galton
London
Prof. Galten
India
Ben
Benjamin
Alfred
Kidney disease warning and remedy use
Frightful and nothing less describe kidney and bladder ravages from disease. Early inactivity leads to progressive renal destruction. Arise and regulate kidneys with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, an efficient diuretic tonic and purifier aiding rheumatism dropsy malaria constipation bilious liver issues nervous dyspepsia.
The Wild Dogs of Kansas Battle Unknown Wolf Pack
Reports from Goodland Telegram describe a band of fifteen wild dogs in northwestern county attacking horses and killing colts. Farmer Withers fired at a pack during an attack, linking stray dogs to the wolflike behavior heard at night near scattered farmhouses.
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Kansas
Withers
Goodland Telegram
Delavan Lake Excursion Trains Offer Weekend Travel
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway runs Friday and Saturday excursions to Delavan Wisconsin with return tickets at 2 dollars 65 cents valid through Monday. Special Delavan Lake trains depart Union Depot Fridays and Saturdays at 3 PM with extra trains at 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM on other days. Delavan Lake is promoted as a prime Wisconsin resort with hotels, fishing, and boating nearby, with ticket information at 207 Clark Street.
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Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Delavan
Wis
Delavan Lake
Union Depot
Wisconsin
Clark Street
Algeria a costly luxury for France says London Daily News
The London Daily News notes Algeria remains a heavy financial burden on France with a 1.5 million franc deficit last year. Rail subsidies nearly match railway receipts as native populations rise slower than French, who are set to double in twenty years versus forty six for natives.
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Algeria
France
London Daily News
Army Deserters and Patent Remedies Tell War Echoes
From the Civil War era, claims about 268000 Union desertions are cited along with testimonials for Hall's Catarrh Cure and various patent medicines. An Ohio resident in West Toledo urges readers to write for particulars. The text mentions Zylonite as inflammable and promotions for Dancer AeA BIGNALLER and other remedies. It ends with a patriotic line and a misquoted Goethe injunction.
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Albert Puach
Toledo
Ohio
Hall
T5c
Frye
W. H. Green
O.w.e.snyder
McVicker’s Theatre
Chicago
Lll
Arnohn W.tiorrens Ee
D. O
Ally Pro
Syrain
German Syrup Boschee Claims Superior Consumption Cure
The advertisement touts German Syrup Boschee as the most successful remedy for consumption. It asserts trials across climates from the North to the South and across nationalities, claiming universal demand and effectiveness in all stages.
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Boschee
New England
Middle States
The Gospel of Health and a Cure for Colds
A health advice piece argues sin and suffering are linked and a summer cold can settle on the kidneys. It promotes Reip's German Cough and Kidney Cure from Sylvan Remedy Co of Peoria Illinois as a remedy to cure chills and prevent heat related illness.
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Reip
Sylvan Remmedy Co
Peoria
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O-we-e
Lucey
A Ochile
Mfers
Aea Bignaller
Hatr
Pire
Mms. Richardson
Hood
Lood
Hood'ss
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W.Y
Perry Davis
Kemps Eti
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Jefferson St
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