Through Maple Leaf Route Tourist Sleeping Car Travel
Summer’s Sunshine in the land of flowers offers through tourist sleeping car travel to Los Angeles via the Maple Leaf Route. The car leaves Minneapolis Tuesdays through Dodge Center Hayfield McIntire New Hampton Summer Oelwein Waterloo Cedar Falls Reinbeck Marshalltown Des Moines to Kansas City arriving in Los Angeles Saturday morning. Through service also available eastbound from Los Angeles to Minneapolis with travel agents in Des Moines St. Paul and Chicago ready to assist.
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Land of Flowers
Los Angeles
California
Chicago Great Western Ry
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Minneapolis
Dodge Center
Haydelu
McIntire
New Hampton
Summer
Oelwein
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Reinbeck
Marshalltown
Des Moines
F. H. Hunter
Dee Moines
C. J. Boosts
St. Paul
F. H. Lord
Chicago
Railroad Time Tables East and West for Monroe and Des Moines
Rail timetable notes list east and west trains with numbers and times. Includes Monroe Branch with Newton stops and Des Moines Valley Division schedules. Sunday service indicated.
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Des Moines Valley Division
Grinnell Northbound and Southbound Train Times
A timetable fragment lists Northbound and Southbound departures for trains No.1 through No.6 with stations Baxter and Valeria. It shows times such as 8:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. for certain eastbound locals and 6:54 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. for others, along with partial schedule notes and times in a terse line format.
Record Law Book Subscriptions Ready for 1899 Holders
The Record Law Book is prepared for all subscribers paying through January 1, 1899 or those with old receipts entitling them to the same.
The Garrote the Anarchist’s Instant Death Device
An account of the garrote as a lethal invention from Spain, its inventor a Spanish ironworker, and its use as the substitute for the gallows. The piece notes its claimed instant death and bloodless method, the brutal mechanism, and reports on prolonged executions cited from Ma loja in Matanzas Cuba in 1888.
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Spain
Maloja
Matanzas
Cuba
New York Journal
Salads as a Diet Promoted by Mrs. S T Rorer
Mrs. S T Rorer urges salads as wholesome meals in the Ladies' Home Journal. She favors simple green salads with olive oil and lemon, notes fats aid digestion, and says a daily or near daily salad fits a healthful table. She recommends seasonal greens and simple accompaniments, including cheese and bread, with or before desserts.
Gems of Thought Compilation of Quotations and Reflections
A collection of moral maxims and passages by Whittier Stalicus Bovee Froude Chesterfield and others. It includes notes on courage perseverance modesty charity patriotism and the power of literature to shape character with references to Emerson and Browne.
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Whittier
Silius Stalicus
J. A. Froude
Chesterfield
Anon
Balzac
Prune Industry Booms in California Harvest Prospects
A Los Angeles correspondent notes California prune farming has surged over a decade with $20,000,000 invested in lands trees irrigation and processing. Current green prune output tops 83,000 tons with about one fifth shipped east and four fifths dried totaling around 24,900 tons. bearing acres reach 53,000 with 8,000 more to come and yields projected near 110,000 tons in favorable years.
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California
Los Angeles
Chicago Record
San Joaquin
Pomona
San Gabriel
Santa Ana
State Board of Horticulture
Woes of the Mosquito
The Washington Star notes two natural mosquito enemies: the dragon fly and the spider. Dragon flies prey on mosquito larvae and adults, offering partial relief, but their habitat needs and sunshine requirements make large scale cultivation impractical in mosquito habitats. The plan to hunt mosquitoes with dragon flies is deemed unworkable.
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The
Washington Star
Boston Plans New Public School Named for Paul Revere
Boston approves a public school to be named after Paul Revere with a total cost around 3 million dollars including the site. The building will feature light pink granite gray red and white brick and terra cotta siding and will include public bathing facilities for pupils.
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Boston
Paul Revere
Diverse Figures and Anecdotes Span Global Places
A collection of short items notes a De Lesseps statue at Suez entrance, Kentucky blackberry grower Charles Williams, 83 year old Mrs. C Reyes in Florida with a 36 pound watermelon and eighty pumpkins, Betsy Trout’s 101st birthday in Pennsylvania, and Royal medals for Mrs Chamberlain. Also mentioned are Hans Wiseman’s decades old Indian conflicts, Gladstone’s thanks for a Grant life, and George Gould relocating to New Jersey with the Atalanta yacht. The piece cites Lakewood Port of entry mystery and Gould’s odd transport puzzles.
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de Lesseps
Larue County
Kentucky
Charles Williams
C. Reyes
St. Austin
Fla
Betsy Trout
Earl
Berks County
Joseph Chamberlain
W. C. Endicott
Cleveland
Hans Wiseman
Nebraska
Hartington
Neb
Wiseman
Gladstone
General Grant
America
Washington
Grant
George Gould
New Jersey
New York
Sf Yacht
Lakewood
N. J
Gould
New York Times
Child brides out of date in changing marriages
A Philadelphia Times editorial notes changing marriage norms from 18 as a traditional age to later unions. It argues youths in their teens lack fixity of mind, warns against impulsive engagements, and suggests breaking off engagements before marriage can prevent ruined lives.
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Philadelphia Times
Dr Depew's Happiness Recipe for Despondent Readers
Dr Depew offers a path to happiness for those discouraged by dull seasons or lost games. He urges staying connected with youth through shared activities: games, dances, college songs, theater, bowling, and laughter. He suggests being a confidant in young peoples affairs and writing affectionate letters.
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Depew
Virginia
A Telegraphic Instrument That Prints
A new printing telegraph device works like a typewriter and prints messages on six inch wide sheets. Once slow, improvements now push 2200 words per hour while keeping a perfect record. Many units are being deployed and investors are showing strong interest in the invention.
Beaver Cloaks and Jackets Fair Prices
The advertisement lists heavy beaver cloaks and jackets from $3.00 upward. Black beaver jackets with new style sleeves start at $5.00 and up. Plush capes are priced from $5.00 to $15.00.
Hosiery and Underwear Prices in Plain Style
Listing of women and children hosiery with plain fleeced hose priced at 0 cents ribbed fleeced hose 15 cents children's fast black hose 5 cents and heavy fleeced pants and vest for 39 cents. Includes varying styles and discounted bundles.
Dress Goods Sale Lineup At Yard Prices
A nice line of all wool dress goods yard wide priced at 25 cents per yard. Double width plaid 30 inches wide offered while they last for 6 2 3 cents a yard. Fifty inch all wool broadcloth in all colors valued at 1 00 per yard is offered for 69 cents.
Bargain Textiles Saleостей
Domestics offer yard wide brown muslin four cents value five cents per yard and standard calico four cents per yard Good apron ginghams five to four cents per yard Catton batting four cents a roll Best table cloths ten cents See Gents suspenders ten cents Canton flannel six and seven cents All wool in grain carpet forty seven to fifty cents Full yard wide bleached cambric muslin six cents per yard
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Giood
Excusable Crime Claims Self Defense Verse
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item quotes a man declaring he killed a person to save himself. He says, I have just taken a life to save my own, and the woman book agent would have talked me to death if I hadn’t. The excerpt blends sensational remark with courtroom style phrasing.
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Grant
Cleveland Plain
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New York Tribune
Des Moines Register
Detroit Prep Press
Prairie Farmer
Oranee Judd Farmer
Des Moines Leader
Toledo Blade
Omaha Bee
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Des Moines Daily News
Cues
McClure’s Magea
New York World
Peterson's Magazine Town
Spirit of the Well—Horsemen
Frank Leslie
E Weekly Bees Bee
Youth's Companion
Demorest’s Magazine
Eested Auee
Cosmopolitam
Aee
Pee
Leslie's Popular
Harper's Monthly Magazine
Harper's Young People
Harper's Baa
Harper's Ilimetrated Weekly
Century Magazine
Esos
the Forum
the North American Review
Wotecr Poco
Catholic News
Prairie Famprer
Ccc
Monroe Branch
Newton
Monroe
P.m. A
Prairie C’y
Fairmount
Qst
Iowa Central
Iene i
Sully
Nile
Lynnville
New Sharon
Oskaioosa i
Grinnell
Great Western
Baxter
Valeria
Kates
Bishop Hall
James Hamilton
G. Herbert
T. W. Higginson
Atmel
Thos. Browne
Oldsmith
Emerson
Drager
Culex
Angeline
Maran
Cash Dry Goods House
Holiday Trade
North Side Square
Lowa
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