Style and economy clash on a Chicago to Dubuque trip
A pair of fashionable young women flee a costly palace car seat by negotiating from Galena to Dubuque for 30 cents, hoping to appear as if they traveled from Chicago in luxury. The item mocks vanity and social pretensions in transit.
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Freeport
Galena
Geo. W. Engler
Heys
Wm. A. Kight
Ford, Fillon & Co
West Main Street
Tavern Street
Mary Drinkwater
Mullinery
The
Scientific American
Monn & CO
Park Row
New York
Messrs. Munn & Co
Munn & Co
F & 7Th Sts
Washington, D.C
Breakfast Rule From Aged Proverb
A fragment from an old column jokes that the surest way to secure an appetite is to sleep without supper the previous night. The snippet then veers to playful remark about stubborn women and stationary engines, suggesting one should act under advice rather than on impulse.
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