Through Rock Valley Local Timetable and Sioux Flyer details
Local timetable for C M and St P Ry through Rock Valley lists Passenger No 4 to Spencer Des Moines Mason City Marquette Savanna Clinton at 3 42 A M. The Sioux Flyer No 22 runs daily 6 16 P M via Sheldon Spencer Des Moines Mason City Madison Milwaukee Chicago. Wayfreight No 98 operates 10 10 A M Tue Thu Sat to Sanborn. Sioux Fiver No 11 8 53 A M daily Canton Sioux Falls Mitchell and North Black Hills. Passenger No 3 daily local to Mitchell and north 7 24 P M. No Sioux Falls connections. Tickets and baggage check advised for east train No 4. Coupons to destinations. Sleeping car reservations day of two in advance. Jacobs Agent. Phone 33.
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Spencer
Des Moines
Mason City
Marquette
Savanna
Clinton
Sheldon
Madison
Milwaukee
Chicago
Wayfreight
Sanborn
Canton
Sioux Falls
Mitchell
Black Hills
Grinnell Police Plan For Handling Tramps
Grinnell Chief A B Mason outlines a plan to manage the tramp question. He describes pity for those who seek work and critique for nonworking men. The city employs work hour relief earning thirty cents per hour, hailed as a working relief plan.
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Grinnell
Police
A.B. Mason
Folding Beds Hidden In Plain Sight In Crowded New York
Henry Collins Brown notes folding beds in Valentine's Manual as clever disguises for furniture in crowded apartments. From bookcases and cheval glass to wardrobes, these beds concealed their true purpose while etiquette muffled discussion. One weight driven type could snap shut, leaving a sleep walker in a perilous headstand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Collins Brown
Eliot
Theories on Origins of the American Flag
The article surveys rival explanations for the flag’s design, noting many historians doubt the Betsy Ross legend. It cites the Grand Union flag with 13 red and white stripes and a union, mentions other sources for stripes or stars, and lists claims tying the flag to Dutch influence or the Lyra constellation.
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Betsy Ross
Washington
St. George
St. Andrew
Rhode Island
Netherlands
Franklin
Adams
America
Abbotsford Home of Sir Walter Scott and Troy Site
A tour note links Abbotsford on the Tweed near Melrose and Galashiels as Sir Walter Scott’s historic home filled with relics such as Scott’s chair sword of Montrose and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s cup. It also recounts the Hissarlik mound near Troy as the site settled by 1808 for the ancient city’s location after Demetrius of Scepsis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tweed
Melrose
Galashiels
Abbotsford
Sir Walter Scott
Scott
Montrose
Bob Roy
Belen MacGregor
Bonnie Prince
Troy
Sium
His- Sarlik
Simois
Hellespont
Aegean
Beiska Bay
Demetrius of
Scepsis
Hissarlik
Mycenge
Deropolis
Schliemann
Sports on City Roofs and a Texas Union Question
A vignette describes New York roof workouts with two men boxing and golf practice near walls. It then notes Chief Justice Chase's ruling in Texas v White, ruling Texas remained in the Union. The piece closes with a marketing-like line about opportunity being close at hand.
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New York
United States
Chase
Texas
Pathfinder Magazine
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Rock VaLley Grain Co
John
Coert
PAGNE
Rock Valley
Dizgam Abova
Puller
Farmers Lumber Company
C. M
ST. P. RY
Low
Jacobs
Fouth
Poland
China
Farrow
McCormick Deering
New Century
McCormick
Hero
Hero Corn H. P. International
John Deere
Deere Wagon Ags
H. P. Fairmont
U. K
P. de King, Jr
State Bank of
Towa
Emmerson
Rocky Mountain
Bernard Splear
B. J. Meylink
Robinson
Owen Fanning
Harrow
Nee-inn
Deerinn
Janesville
P Vande Vegte
Ben J. Meylink
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