Travelers' Guide to Rail Routes and Schedules
Hollows of Chicago to Denver Omaha Minneapolis Des Moines and Chicago rail connections listed. Station details include depots, fares around 100 dollars, timetable notes with daily operations and exceptions, and stops at major cities like Denver St Paul Minneapolis Des Moines and Peoria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ICAGO
Rock Island
Ita Radway
Ticketn Am RC
Oz Daamege
Epen
Gepot
Tb Avenue
Plummer
Raaisa
Denver Limited
Omaha
Amla Am Ft Worth
Lanenin
Denver
Janooin
Ocsaba
Linwuln
den Moines
Fe. Worth
Ihew Moines
Caicace
Devenport
Teleuhone
Major Crofoot’s Grand Floor Scheme Dupe Scam
A printer visits Major Crofoot to settle a $4.50 bill and is drawn into a fraudulent scheme. Crofoot pitches a fake Wide World Chicken and Infant Raising Company promising massive, risky profits and stock inducements, then pushes the printer to accept a bogus deal before escaping as the door bill remains wedged at his feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major Crofoot
Tere
Monty
Alka
Tan
Crofvot
Wide World Chicken and Infant Raising Company
Asor
Ite
Crefant
Cripple Creek
Gotconda
de Beers
Crofoot
M. Quan
Mastering Chinese and Language Quirks Across Cultures
A compilation of humorous anecdotes on mispronunciations and language learning from past writings. It includes a clergyman mispronouncing a Chinese phrase, a bishop's quip about Brown’s autobiography, and a tale on the Thames river misinterpretation tied to an old sieve story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Leslie Weekly
Law
Afriuipa Brooks
Phillips Brooks
Brown
Thames
Ladies’ Home Journal
Mafeking Stamps Impress Philatelists With Baden Powell Head
Reports from Mafeking describe improvised postage stamps bearing General Baden Powell’s portrait and currency notes created under siege conditions. Papermaking limits forced photography for stamps and silver shortages driven by blockprint notes, with collectors abroad showing keen interest in the scarce issues crafted by Col. Drew and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philatelista
Stege Jasue
Baden-Powell
Mafeking
Baden- Powell
Mronehman
Julyx Verne
New York Times
South Africa
Baden- Fowell
Drew
Greener
Ingree
Resale
Mafeking Hotel
Mrs Whitney's New Den Cut In Newport Cliff Studio
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney once Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt begins a fashion here with a cliff cut studio facing the Atlantic to entertain guests and serve tea. Meanwhile Princeton students plan a cross nation prairie schooner trip to the Pacific coast with modern comforts. China plans traction engines and wagons to rival camel caravans, with 50 engines and 300 wagons anticipated within a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Harry Payne Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt
Tarry
Whitney
New York
Princeton
Pacific Coast
China
New York Post
Siberia
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. Hi Bogardus
World
Bricht's Disease
Dodd
Medlpeg
Enea
Buliala
N.Y
THE
Travelers’ Guide
Trockistand & Peoria
Cme
Aco
warkEers
Rainey
Ra- Sonne
Eau Sveriion
Ridge
Tae
Tueave
Expres
St Paul Expres
Sarreing
Teiveanuive Stretiens
Clacienat
Pe ‘St Coal Eapeosa
BES Sermateld
Cinaie
Asem
Ine
Sheree
Taham
Tren Warren
Lous
Burlington
C. Il
MD. Young
Fares
Peoria
Iter Ling
Hani & Sinnenpate
Achaea
Dine Wonawentern
Rae Fees Dod, Eoeery
Aed
Psssut Sterling
Bes
Creaniacs
Prister
Wesyright
C. B. Lewis
Major Crofcot
Mastering
Atchison
Mrs. Whitney
the Argus
Stearns
Spencer
TamLon
Louse
Market Square
Suis Order
Bromercy & Lowe
Shore LE West
Chas, Allemeter
Pharmacigt
RP Spechitts
Seventeenth Street
Hull & Co
Wape
Rock Island Press Co
Forgin
Mineveenth St
Germany
Hofmann
A.mager
Academy OF the Visitation
Vnst
Sation
EL Sourion
E. F. Stroehle
Central News
Siasa
Chicago
Third Avenue
Mm. Bosna
Lewis
Ana Re
24Th St
Srd Ave
Bock Island
Thomas van Tuyl
Mississippi Bicycles
West Seventeenth Street
Globe
Book Concern
Tuiky-cumin Street
Seventh Avenue
Cash Grocery
Davenport
Second Avenue
Rock Inland
Telepiece
Boggess
St. Ambrose College
Lows
George Stocker
Jon Bing
Beck Island
George Bick
Buford Block
East Second Street
Bridge Avenue
Avenport
W. A. Jacobs
Oniece
Houra
Nelson's
Argus
Ans
W. Z. Magitl, —Dentist
Masonlie
Isl Rook Island
Euwoop Looras
Philesoor
Feck and
A Beeereeraree
Sopher
Shana
D. D. Doran
Dential Srown & Nridar ‘Works Specialty
Loaves
Kitthave
Hoppe
Tom A. Marshal Telephone Co
Gos Soro Sevenport, Sas
Biwre
S. McCains
Osermat
Central Trust and Savings Bank, Rockstanp, Itn
Board OF Dierectors
Pater Fries
Ls, Macabe
ED Sweeney
Oj, Larzin
JF. Robines
Henry W Tremann
Jamea J. LaVelle
H E Casteot
Ty. D. Baer
John Sonete
Louis
Sobming
Rock Island National Bank
Rock Island Savings Bank
Rock Island. Til
Wimertos Eien
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!