Royal Ice Stores and Scottish Jacket Tales
Royal Windsor stores hold about 500 tons ice sourced from nearby lakes and estates for kitchens and hot rooms. A humorous exchange recalls a Jersey jacket scorched by a stove, turning into a smoking jacket.
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Windsor
Osborne
Balmoral
North Terrace
Frogmore
Virginia
Larry
Norah
Denny
Chicago Daily News
Tr. Kilne
Br. Kilne's Institute
Arch &T
Philadelphia
Pious doubts on Van Diemen Land and other notes
A biblical misread links Emmanuel's Grounds to Van Diemen's Land in a preacher's Life tale from Joseph Parker. A youth’s fear of Tasmania is eased by reflection in A Preacher's Life. Other brief items note rocking chairs blamed for nerves and Chinese delicacy of aged eggs.
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Fromiac
Joseph Parker
van Diemen’s Land
Tasmania
England
Emmanuel
van Diemen's Land
The Mystery of Dust at Sea and a Stomach Bitters Cure
A note on dust appearing on ship decks at night despite morning washing. The puzzling condition is likened to indigestion and dyspepsia, creeping on people unseen. The remedy advised is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters which purportedly cures indigestion and prevents malaria fever and ague.
Diamond Ring Hypnosis Tale and Rail News
A dialogue recalls a hypnotism tale about a man fixated on a diamond ring. In rail news the O R N and Oregon Short Line add a buffet car and dining service on the Portland to Chicago through route. German experts project a 3 million dollar Southwest African railway cost with over a quarter completed. Egyptian lore links Ricinus communis to repelling mosquitoes. Zurich auction sells 1000 plus gold and silver Swiss coins dating from the 15th to 19th centuries.
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Oregon Short Line
Portland-Chicago
Granger
Union Pacific
Ogden
Rio Grande Line
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
W. Hi. Hurlburt
Portland
Swakopmund
Windhoek
Zurich
Salt Lake City as a Transcontinental Travel Hub
An advertising summary extols Salt Lake City's attractions including the Mormon Temple Tabernacle and Great Salt Lake. It highlights the Rio Grande Western Railway as the only line crossing the continent directly through the city and notes its year round popularity due to Utah and Colorado climates. It promotes copies of Salt Lake City the City of the Saints and offers contact names and addresses.
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Salt Lake City
Great Salt Lake
Dead Sea
Holy Land
Rio Grande Western Railway
Denver & Rio Grande and
Colorado Midland Railways
Southern Pacific
City of the Saints
Weekly Trade Review Highlights Shifts in Early Year Commerce
R G Dun and Co reports that most major industries see less new business in January versus last year while orders for earlier contracts keep deliveries rising. Woolen mills aside, prices have risen and volumes are constrained by crowded works. Atlantic exports reach 1,466,592 bushels. Pacific 4,209,300 in five weeks. Cotton speculation pushes prices to 84 cents amid weak demand. Failures total 232 in the U.S. and 84 in Canada.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Atlantic
Pacific
Iron and Steel
United States
Canada
Pacific Coast Trade Seattle Markets Report
Seattle markets list wide price ranges for produce and staples. Onions new at 2.50 per sack, lettuce 40c per dozen, potatoes 15 to 20, cabbage 1.00 to 1.25 per 100 pounds, apples 1.25 to 1.65 per box, butter at 31c, eggs 20c, cheese 16c, poultry 13 to 15c, flour and wheat prices across several grades, various hay and millstuff values, and meat prices from beef to mutton and pork variously priced.
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California
Puget Sound
Washington
Graham
Oregon
Wool—Valley
lee—Groes
River Burbanks
Salinas Burbanks
Valencia
Endorses Peruna Remedy For Catarrh And La Grippe
Isaac Brock of McLennan County Texas celebrates extreme old age and health attributing it to Peruna a remedy he found effective for coughs colds catarrh and diarrhoea. He cites reading Dr Hartmans books and urges others to obtain a free book by writing The Peruna Medicine Company Columbus Ohio.
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Peruna Medicine Company
Columbus
Ohio
Isaac Brock
Buncombe Co
North Carolina
Hays
Peruna Told to Cure 110 Year Old Land Suit Witness
A witness aged 110 testifies in a land dispute, praising Peruna as the greatest remedy of the age for catarrhal diseases and claiming it helped him conquer the grippe. The remark frames Peruna as a trusted health aid amid legal proceedings.
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Peruna
Farm Wagons Steel Frames Fill Western Wares
A modern shift to steel farm wagons to meet wheatgrower orders in Dakota and the West grows rapidly. New Orleans bears over half the Louisiana tax valuation. A rich copper deposit in Pearson county North Carolina yields about 100 tons daily, cobbed ore averaging 80 percent copper. Lace called point tresse, once hair made, is rare and confined to early nineteenth century French cabinets. A Brooklyn beer wagon drivers union wins a National Union charter. American bottles favored for exports, glass better annealed for tropical climates. Erie canal to run 200 electric motors moving 1,000 boats next year. A Chicago built trackless trolley motor designed to propel canal boats.
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Erie Canal
Chicago
Strictly Up to Date and Oddities
A note mentions Miss Sprinter having three new ball dresses for different sports, and a tongue in cheek exchange about a golf ball dress. A Paris loan plan seeks 20 million dollars for Algeria public works. A seven foot nine inch cobra de capella skin from Jaffna is reported as the largest recorded. The era’s two great conquests cited are the Pacific railroad expansion and the Suez Canal digging.
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Patrice
Sprinter
Yonkers Statesman
France
Algeria
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Shelb Bop
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Fred T. Merrill Cycle Co
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