Maple Leaf Route Offers Through Sleeping Car Service
The Maple Leaf Santa Fe Through Car provides a weekly through train from Minneapolis to Los Angeles with bedding linen toilet rooms and a porter. It promises lowest rates and fastest routing with no Sunday travel, departing Tuesdays via Chicago Great Western, Kansas City and Santa Fe routes, arriving in Los Angeles Saturday morning.
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Land of Flowers
Los Angeles
California
Chicago
Santa Fe
Minneapolis
Dodge Center
Hayfield
McIntire
New Hampton
Sumner
Oeceliwein
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Reinbeck
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Kansas City
F. H. Hunter
C. J. Brooks
St. Paul
F. H. Lord
Rail Time Tables East and West for Des Moines Valley Division
Rail schedules list eastbound and westbound departures and arrivals for the Monroe Newton Des Moines Valley lines. Times include No 202, 204, 232, 234, 233, 241 trains with stops at Prairie City Fairmount Monroe and the Des Moines Valley route details. Daily and Sunday exceptions noted as daily except Sunday and daily.
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Monroe Branch
Newton
Monroe
Des Moines Valley
P.m. P.m. Prairie C’y
Fairmount
Prairie C’y
Grinnell Northbound and Southbound Train Schedules
Chicago Great Western Ry lists local accommodation trains with northbound and southbound times. Stops include Baxter and Valeria with morning and evening departures and arrivals across multiple numbered services.
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Baxter
Valeria
Record Law Book Access for 1899 Subscribers
The Record Law Book is ready for all subscribers paying to January 1 1899 or holders of old receipts entitling them to the same.
Filthy Lucre: Conductors Despair Over Dirty Money Hands
A New York Post inspired piece quotes a cable car conductor describing blackened hands from coins and bills. He details staining from coppers, nickels, silver, and paper money, noting customers' reluctance to touch his hands and his wish to escape money’s filth. He laments the job and hopes his hands will bleach someday.
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New York Post
Sammy Craves More Ice Cream in Southern Tale
A lively Wellesley Magazine anecdote recalls a Thanksgiving ice cream scene. A young boy from the south asks for more, savoring three saucers until he sighs that he has had almost enough except his mouth. The narrator muses on the moment beside a river.
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Sunny South
Wellesley
Sammy
Kate
Happy Sammy
Yas’m
You Bag Grammar You Proveite High Standard Phrase
A playful quarrel in a literary household ends with the younger boy accusing his sister of bad language and then declaring You bag grammar you in a moment of comic linguistic flair demonstrating pride in proper speech.
Electricity Tames Balkers In Pittsburg Horse Racing
Pittsburg horsemen claim electric shocks train lazy bulky horses faster and more humanely than whips, using a few volts to induce compliant behavior and speed in racing stock.
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Pittsburg
Sleep Better Tonight The Chicago Chronicle Guide
Practical insomnia remedies listed with daily routines. Emphasizes morning rise, outdoor activity, light meals, dark quiet bedrooms, wool clothing, gradual winddown, and gentle evening drinks. Includes hygiene tips, ventilation, and stepwise CBT-like habits for chronic sleeplessness.
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Chicago Chronicle
The Single American Woman Aims Beyond Marriage
In The Forum, an outspoken stance praises the American woman who remains unmarried as supremely independent. It critiques flirtation, endorses nonmarital work for universal aims, and condemns sympathetic scorn of marriage while warning against vanity in pursuit of a career.
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United States
Oldest U S. house hosts Dr. Carver in St Augustine
Dr. Carver of St. Augustine Florida lives in the oldest house in the United States built in 1562 and formerly occupied by Spanish monks. He surrounds himself with Florida and Spanish history relics that form a private museum. His curios include Moorish era artifacts and a century old precursor to the nickel in the slot machine used to deliver tobacco via a copper cent.
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Dr. Carver
St. Augustine
Fla
United States
Florida
Carver
Where Kings Are Buried at Windsor Century
All English royal deaths this century are buried at Windsor except six. The Duke of Sussex and Princess Sophia lie buried in Kendal Green cemetery by their express orders. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge rest at Kew. Princess Alexandra of Wales is buried at Sandringham. Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse lies in her husband’s family vault near Darmstadt.
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England
Windsor
Duke of Sussex
Sophia
Kendal Green
Duke
Duchess of Cambridge
Kew
Princess Alexander of Wales
Sandringham
Alice of Hesse
Darmstadt
Penny Value and Coin Prices Mentioned in 1890 Contract
A fragment notes copper coin costs and penny pricing from 1890 contracts. It mentions a price around 17 cents per pound for copper and a comparison to the DrGs eat price under .20, with unclear spelling and wording.
Meek Cherry Orchard: California’s Vast Oakland Ranch
The Meek estate owns a 3300 acre cherry rich ranch outside Oakland between San Lorenzo and Haywards. It employs up to 150 pickers in tents, paying 75 cents to $1 daily, with a yearly crop value of $30,000 to $35,000. Cherries are packed fast to markets locally and eastward, facing perishability and price variation by region.
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of California
Meek
Oakland
San Lorenzo
Haywards
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Meek Brothers
Chilaro
New York
Thackeray Rescues an American at London Palace
Mrs. McLean of Brooklyn recalls the moment when a gentleman lifted her over the crowd at the London Crystal Palace opening to reveal royalty. Years later she identifies the helper as Thackeray, the novelist, who had offered the same quiet courtesy twice more. The tale underscores his tact and generosity.
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Thackeray
McLean
Brooklyn
N. Y
London Crystal Palace
Prince Consort
Plymouth
Henry Ward Beecher
Colonel Newcom
Useful Bacteria And Their Shifting Moral Light
A discussion traces how benevolent bacteria were once denied and now praised for health and longevity. A Boston Institute of Technology graduate led lab cultivates cream bacteria for butter and cheese cultures, with equipment ready for production. The piece also notes rural China experiments with pigs drawing small wagons.
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Boston Institute of Technology
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