Northwestern Limited Train Adds Luxury Route Chicago to Duluth
Superb new train offers compartment sleeping cars buffet smoking library cars standard sleeping cars and ladies coaches on the Chicago to Duluth route. Departs Chicago at 6:30 p m daily via the Chicago and North Western line. Tickets via the North Western Railway sold by all agents. for details contact W B Kniskern G P and T A Chicago Illinois.
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Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
North-Western Limited
North-Western
Chicago & North- Western
Chicago & North-Western B’y
W. B. Kniskern
G. P
T. A
Chicago, Il
Big Cotton Presses in New Orleans History
From the New Orleans Picayune account, two major presses dominated sixty years ago. Levee Cotton Press built in 1832 cost about $500000, two stories, handling around 200000 bales yearly. Orleans Cotton Press begun 1833 finished 1835 cost over $753000, 632 by 308 feet, storing 25000 bales and processing about 160000 yearly.
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New Orleans
Levee
Orleans Cotton Press
Leves
Orleans Press
New Orleans Picayune
Santa Fe Route California Limited Train Service Promoted
The Santa Fe Route California Limited runs from Chicago at 6 p m on Wednesdays and Saturdays arriving Los Angeles in 72 hours and San Diego in 76% hours with return trips on Mondays and Thursdays. It offers vestibuled Pullman palace sleepers buffet smoking and dining cars. A second express train with palace and tourist sleepers departs Chicago daily at 10 25 p m serving Los Angeles San Diego and San Francisco. Inquiries to General Passenger Agent G T Nicholson in Chicago.
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Santa Fe
California Limited
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Diego
California
Two Enemies of the Long Skirt
A New York Times opinion piece warns that while long gowns stay draggle tailed in muddy weather, golf and the bicycle threaten more with their insidious influence. It notes growing tolerance for women riding bicycles and the changing view of bicycle dresses.
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Brooklyn
New York Times
Westward homeseeker excursions offered by Missouri Pacific line
On December 15 a one fare plus 2 dollar round trip homeseeker excursion runs to the west and southwest via Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain routes. Tickets allow return within 21 days from sale with stopover privileges on the outbound trip. For details and land books contact BISSELL WILSON D P A 111 Adams St Chicago.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
Iron Mountain
Bissell Wilson
P. A
Adams St
Chicago
Negro and Mule Haul Cotton Into Rome in Novel Plan
An old man and mule loaded with two bales of cotton entered Rome Georgia. The man, eager to market his crop, yoked himself to the mule and drove the wagon for several miles, using a single animal to pull both bales.
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Rome
California Car Excursions Advertised by Phillips-Rock Island
A dealer offers personalized visits to homes to explain the benefits of Phillips-Rock Island tourist car excursions to California. Readers are urged to send name and ad address to Phillips & Co at 91 Adams Street Chicago, with John Sebastian as G P A. NIL.
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Phillips-Rock Island
California
A. Phillips & Co
Adams Street
Chicago
John Sebastian
Town and Country Dialog Ends in Witty Parlor Debate
A sharp exchange between a man and a woman ends with the judge noting preference for country life over city park social watching. The remark highlights social norms about attention in quiet communities.
Advice to Men on Dressing for Women’s Favor
A New York World column advises men on what not to wear to win women’s affection. It warns against gaudy flamboyance and signals that common, well groomed attire pleases the average woman, while intellectual display through fashion is discouraged. It notes varying tastes among women across classes and emphasizes practical style over gimmicks.
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New York World
Nicknames for Coins Through the Ages
The article traces slang for small money units like car fares and chicken feed and explains nickel and bit origins. It notes misnomers such as the nickel being mostly copper and traces terms like flipper up picayune and quarter. It recalls colonial days when coins varied in value along the Atlantic coast.
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Picayune
Atlantic
Natural curling methods for hair care in modern practice
The piece discusses achieving natural curls without fringe pins, recommending upward brushing on wet hair for babies, and noting downward brushing promotes straight growth. It warns not all hair responds, praises soft soap with careful rinsing, and stresses keeping brushes clean, ideally using two brushes.
The Crocodile A Chronicle of Menaces and Misconceptions
A fragment discusses the crocodile as a living dead seeming predator. It notes crocs are scarcer in the Nile below the second cataract due to tourist disturbance. Tourists repeatedly shoot at crocs, causing irritation to the otherwise quiet reptile.
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Animal Kingdom
Nile
Rameses
Curious Berlin Custom Revealed by Berlin Correspondent
A Berlin correspondent describes a local practice where butchers inform customers of sausage days by placing a chair draped in a clean apron beside the shop door. The improvised signal marks when fresh sausages are ready for sale.
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Berlin
Largest Baalbec stones measured sixty three by twenty six feet
Reference to cyclopean walls at Baalbec Syria notes the giant stones used in construction. The largest blocks reach 63 feet in length and 26 feet in breadth with unknown depth. The description emphasizes immense scale without detailing quarrying context.
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Baalbec
Syria
Hearst gift to Berkeley Funds Free Education Move
RS. PHOEBE A. HEARST donates $1,000,000 to the California State University at Berkeley to promote free education. She plans $200,000 for two new buildings and an international architect competition, with expectations the endowment will grow to about $4,000,000 as others add to the effort.
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Phoebe A. Hearst
California
Berkeley University
California State University At
Berkeley
Stanford
Palo Alto
State University
Great Bay
Hearst
Hindoo Baptismal Rites at India Exhibition Empress Theatre
A Cingalese baby born at the India exhibition was named in a lavish Hindu baptism at the Empress theatre. The pageant featured Buddhist priests in gold-embroidered robes, rose petal sprinkling, sacred odes in Sanskrit, and performances by devil and stick dancers before a large audience.
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Empress Theater
Earl's Court
London Hamil
Carolina Hami
London Hemi
Metropolis
London Standard
Noted Benefactor Mrs Hearst Honored by Regents and Governor
At a board of regents meeting a vote of thanks was given to Mrs. Hearst. Regent Reinstein and Governor Budd sent personal letters praising her significant gift. Mrs. Hearst, widow of the late Senator Hearst and mother of the San Francisco Examiner and New York Journal owner, is lauded as a capable businesswoman with mining and other interests.
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Board of Regents
Hearst
Reinstein
Budd
United States
San Francisco Examiner
New York Journal
National Capital
Congress
San Francisco
Memory of a captive bird tests its discernment
A captive bird clearly shows memory and discrimination by tasting a brown ant, rejecting it as unpleasant, then a day later recognizing a second ant and refusing it, wiping its beak in sign of recollection.
Nobleman Builds Private Railway At Hillsborough Grounds
Lord Downshire, a young nobleman, has laid a complete railway a mile and a half long within his Hillsborough grounds in County Down Ireland. Green tea will revive rusty black lace and make it look as good as new.
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Downshire
Hillsborough
County Down
Ireland
Woman Overcomes Neuralgia After Ten Years With Pink Pills
Mrs. John Beard of Jackson Michigan suffered neuralgia of heart and stomach for a decade, dependent on morphine and near despair. After trying Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People she reports immediate relief and full recovery following six boxes, with pills available at 50 cents each or six for 2.50 from Schenectady company and druggists.
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Greensburg
Ind
John Beard
Jackson
Mich
Beard
Henry Osting
Sunman
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Phineas Pett and the first yacht Disdain at London Bridge
Phineas Pett, noted for the fri gate, studied Genoese and Venetian shipbuilding during a Levant voyage. He became assistant master shipwright at Chatham and in 1600 built a gilded yacht for the young Prince Henry, 28 feet long and 12 feet wide, christened the Disdain with Pett as captain.
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Phineas Pett
Pett
Levant
Mediterranean
England
Chatham
Prince of Wales
Henry
London Bridge
Wisconsin Lands Rally in North Promises Quick Growth
Lands in Wisconsin attract settlers with timber and meadow tracts priced between 6 and 12 dollars per acre. Experts predict rapid value increases and strong community facilities including schools and churches. Investors urged to contact W. J. Powell, General Immigration Agent, 110 Old Colony Building, Chicago.
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Wisconsin
West
W. J. Powell
Old Colony Building
Chicago
Ill
Measuring Cloud Heights by Photographic Parallax
A yearlong effort by a British Association of the Advancement of Science committee used dual cameras 600 feet apart to photograph clouds and compute height from lateral displacement. Some mackerel sky clouds reached seven and a quarter miles, while the loftiest cirrus or curl-clouds exceeded seventeen miles.
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British Association of the Advancement of Science
Deafness Cure Claim By Hall's Catarrh Cure
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from an inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers one hundred dollars for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, with circulars from EF J Cheney & Co of Toledo and promotes Hall's Family Pills as best.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
The Point of the Problem Quips on the Problem Play
The exchange questions whether a problem play is destined to endure public scrutiny. Puck notes the public may tire of such works, hinting at evolving tastes and tolerance for challenging themes in theater.
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Puck
Texas as a land of farming promise appeals to settlers
The text extols Texas agriculture noting cotton corn cereals and crops like sugar cane and sorghum in central and southern regions while Gulf Coast yields include vegetables and berries. It promotes land for homeseekers with milder winters and higher profits, offering pamphlets and low-rate rail excursions on November 17 December 1 and 15, 1896. It lists H A Cherrier as Northern Passenger Agent at 326 Marquette Building Chicago IL.
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Texas
Gulf Coast
California
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
H. A. Cherrier
Northern
Marquette Building
Chicago
Mixed schools not tolerated in southern states
The Atlanta Journal argues that no southern state would tolerate racial mixing in schools. It condemns New England critics and asserts that both races have strong leaders opposed to integrated education, stressing that Negroes favor separate schools as do whites.
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New England
South
Atlanta Journal
Garden Spata of the South and Soil Resources Book
The Passenger Department of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad releases a one hundred page volume describing soil resources and capabilities along the railroad line across Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Mississippi and Western Florida including a county map. Copies available for ten cents in silver or stamps from C. P. Atmore General Passenger Agent Louisville Ky. Semi monthly excursions South. ask for details. Warns lodge treasurers about personal ruin risk.
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Louisville & Nashville R. A
Ontucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
South
C. P. Atmore
Gen. Pass. Agt
Louisville
Cure a Cold in One Day Touts Laxative Bromo Quinine
An advertisement promises a one day cure using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee if it fails. It mentions Dr Kay’s Lung Balm as a pleasant cough remedy and humorously comments on a man’s fear of his wife finding out.
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ANL
Kay
B.J. Kay
Dr. Kay
Nellie Penoyer
Tenth St
Omaha
Neb
Western
Bb. J. Kay
Brainsuay
Clinton House
Cinton
N. O
Cronus
J.J. Joys
Kowzlas
Kansas
EL Can Davis
Huthersville
Ind
Peter Loraino
Lindstrom, Minn
Swawson Rheumatic Gure CO
Dearborast
Chicago
Ill
Are You Going to Florids For Rates and Times
Chicago guidance prompts readers to contact J C Tucker or H W Sparks at 234 Clark St for Florida and Southeast travel rates and descriptive material from the Popular Big Four Route. The notice urges travelers to seek agent information for schedules and fares.
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Florida
J. C. Tucker
General Northern
H. W. Sparks
Clark St
Chicago
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California Fig Syrup Co
Mrs. Hearst
Berkley College
Phoebe A, Hearst
John WV. Morrison
Diocese of
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Tle
Canada
McGill University
Dominion
Morrison
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Christchurch
Herkimer County
Ogdensburg
St. John's Church
American House of Bishops
Death's Door
Philadelphia
North American
Wm. B. McClellan
Chester, Florida
Hegeman
C. C. G. Clark Co
New Haven
Ayer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, NW
W.N.Y. Chicago
St. Jacobs
Ad. Sterling Rewedy CO
Montreal
Can
Amas Meniiat
Beast
Eplega & Co
Prons
Nashua
N. HL
Soli
Drugeists
E. S. Murray & CO
Licks
Chicago Board of Trade
AM National Bank
H.d.o'r
Morrow
Army of the Town
Chestnut Street
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