Maple Leaf Santa Fe Through Car Offers Summer Travel
Through tourist sleeping car service from Minneapolis to Los Angeles departs Tuesdays via Chicago Great Western Kansas City and Santa Fe Route. Features include bedding two toilet rooms a cooking range porter service and lowest rates with shortest line and no Sunday travel. Car arrives in Los Angeles Saturday 8:30 am. eastward trips reverse. Contacts: F H Hunter Des Moines C J Brooks St Paul F H Lord Chicago.
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Land of Flowers
Los Angeles
California
Chicago
Santa Fe
Minneapolis
Dodge Cenater
Hayfield
McIntire
New Hampton
Sumner
Oelwein
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Reinbeck
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Kansas City
Los
Railroad Time Tables for RI and P Going East and West
Rail timetable lists routes on the Des Moines Valley and Monroe branches with departure and arrival times. Includes AM and PM trains to Newton and Monroe, freight notes, and a fast mail service that does not stop.
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Monroe
S Newton
Newton
Des Moines Valley Division
Grinnell Rail Schedule North and Southbound Times
train timetable details for Grinnell showing northbound and southbound departures and arrivals from Baxter and Valeria stations with listed times including morning and evening runs. The fragment lists No 1 to No 6 services, local and express routes, and station names with specific daily times.
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Baxter
Valeria
Record Law Book Ready for January 1, 1899 Subscribers
The Record Law Book is ready for all subscribers paying to January 1, 1899, or those holding old receipts entitling them to the same.
Airship Debate in a Curbstone Club
A Washington Star clipping recounts a Curbstone club argument about airships. Skeptics question the need for air travel, while a tale of a Lake Erie storm underscores prudence. The narrator concludes that winning an argument is less vital than mastering one’s conscience.
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Curbstone Club
Grolley
Lake Erie
Harry
Washington Star
Without a Compass How Guiding a Vessel Works
Gustav Kobbe explains several methods for steering correctly. He notes that a ship’s wake shows drift, leeway increases in gales, and ships use landmarks, soundings, and echoes from shores to maintain a course. Examples include lining up surf, candle-tacking, and in New York Harbor using depth and lead lines to avoid hazards.
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Gustav Kobbe
St. Nicholas
Mr. Kobbe
Alaska
New York Harbor
Fire Island
White Buffalo Chase on the Plains in 1875
In summer 1875 bands of Indians reported a white buffalo amid vast herds on the plains. A Blackfeet hunter pursued the creature for miles near Red Deer river but fell, as his horse stumbled into a badger hole, ending the chase and his hope for a white robe.
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Red Deer River
Snow White
The Gravitation Theory Challenged in Lecture
Professor G F Wright argues in Boston that modern physics deepens mysteries not clears them. He cites Newtonian gravitation as paradoxical and costly to reconcile with action at a distance or a universal medium. He asserts gravitation remains inconceivable and paradoxical today.
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Lowell Institute
Boston
G. F. Wright
Robert G Ingersoll A Famous Orator of Practice and Poise
Chicago Times-Herald recalls Robert G Ingersoll as one of America’s greatest orators. The piece notes his spontaneity, quick wit, and sustained eloquence built through hard study. It recounts a youth anecdote where he forgot the poem’s rest after the telegraph wire line, joking the bird remains on the wire after decades.
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Robert G. Iugersoll
America
Bob Ingersoll
Ingersoll
Robert
Chicago Times-Herald
Colonel Burr Hunts Foxes Amid Loud Hound Pack
A Virginia colonel, famed for fox hunting, leads a morning ride with friends and an American guest who has never seen a foxhound. The pack explodes in full cry, prompting the colonel to exhort Major to listen as the hounds drown out all else.
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Colonel Burr
Virginia
Texas
San Francisco
Seafaring Man Transformed From Sailor to Painter
A New York Journal column recalls how modern seamen on large liners are less sailors and more painters. The aging mariner, once full of adventure, now spends days cleaning and painting ventilators. The tale contrasts past energy with current job realities aboard the ships.
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Marryat
New York Journal
Bushwhacker with instinctive map sense noted by Porter
General Horace Porter in Century describes a man who formed a lifelong, nearly photographic map memory, rarely confused by compass directions, a natural bushwhacker who navigates by streams and hills. He recalls a single misdirection at Cairo caused by a river bend, making the sun appear to rise in the west.
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Cairo
Horace Porter
Moonlight versus Sunlight in Flammarion Tables
The article notes Flammarion's tables of relative light show the moon’s brightness is not vastly greater than nearby sky areas. It states that the sun emits as much light as 680,000 full moons, a comparison used to illustrate the sun's immense output.
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Flammarion
M Flammarion
Short Living Peerage of Frederic Leighton
A reader notes that oxygen is vital to life and historically discovered only a century ago. The discussion recalls Frederic Leighton's peerage as the shortest lived in English history, dying the day after his patent of nobility issued with no heir, causing the title to become extinct.
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Lestoring
Frederic Leighton
England
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