Railroad Time Table Highlights Texas and Nearby Routes
Schedule lists G H 8 A routes from San Antonio with departures to the east at 12 10 noon and 8 p m and west at 9 a m arrivals from east 8 30 am and 4 45 pm. Through sleepers to St Louis via Iron Mountain and Frisco routes. Multiple departures to Houston Waco Rockport Kerrville and stockdale with varying times and daily or Sunday only services.
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San Antonio
Texas
Oklahoma
St. Louis
Memphis
Kansas City
Fort Worth
Alahoma
Laredo
Mexico
Houston
Waco
Lias
Rockport
Kenedy
Seville
Corpus Christi
Boerne
Kerrville
Rigen Houston
Dallas
Corn Christi
Alice
Beevile
Mail Schedules For San Antonio Post Office
The list shows mail arrival and departure times from the San Antonio Post Office for multiple rail lines including I N G N Ry G H and S A, Kerrville routes, Corpus Christi, and other branches. It notes daily and daily except Sunday schedules with morning and afternoon departures, along with star routes and special branches like Gallagher's Ranch and Helotes.
Italians as Immigrant Labor Force In 1890s America
The piece surveys Italian migration in the United States, noting counts by region, rates of return migration, and literacy levels. It highlights Italians as a large, mostly unskilled labor force and contrasts them with other groups, while also describing social impact and labor roles in urban life.
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J. G. Speed
Ainslee
South Atlantic
North Atlantic
North Central
South Central
United States
Bureau of Information
America
New York
Barber Shop Theft Leads to Arrest in Chicago
Detective Oscar Holty observed a theft at Mearson and Carpenter streets while at a barber shop. Two youths named John Dammers and Robert Dugan were nabbed after pockets were picked and a gold watch and chain recovered from a spectator’s pocket. The items belonged to Flezer Huhes of 303 West Madison Street.
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Chicago Tribune
Oscar Holty
Mearson
Carpenter
Holty
John Dammers
Robert Dugan
Mummer
Flezer Huhes
West
Madison Street
Refreshed memory puzzle in Philadelphia paper scent
In a Philadelphia press piece a playful exchange shows a teacher named Willie Starvem fielding a riddle about cold meat and vegetables. The landlady's son, Willie, answers with hash as part of a humorous scene about spelling and food storage.
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Philadelphia Press
Willie
Willie Starvem
Bird Builds Dainty Nest Stirs Fashion Hat Scene
In spring a bird builds a nest with twigs and zest while Madge imitates nature by weaving a flowered hat. The Chicago News notes the sight bewilders observers as style and humor mingle in a local tableau.
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Chicago News
In South African War Words of Cautious Credit
A tourist and a burgher discuss generously given credit for valor and persistence in the South African war. The tourist wonders if such praise stems from magnanimity or a need to explain the conflict. Washington Star reports the exchange as a snapshot of wartime sentiment.
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Washington Star
Supreme Court Bans Neighboring Hen Cackle in Brooklyn
Justice Gaynor issues a long decision banning the Walker hens at 586 St. Mark's Ave as a nuisance after neighbors Anna Geyer protested loud clucking. The case grew from disputes over the birds whose noise disturbed Mrs. Geyer leading to an injunction to stop keeping them in the yard.
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Chicago Tribune
Gaynor
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Ellenney
Walker
St. Mark's Avenue
Anna
Geyer
Like Him Hated Neighbor Swank Roars in Puck Fair Satire
In a pointed quip the Old Dodger dismisses a neighbor by comparing him to another man with dyed whiskers. He declares he has no use for Henry J. Swank and vents his disdain in sharp coastal slang.
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Puck
Dodger
Henry J. Swank
True of Life Playwright Dialogue Misread by Chicago News
The third act features a wife finding her husband asleep and quietly reading a novel while the manager suggests a more realistic touch of her rifling his vest pockets. The Chicago News cites this as a notes misread in a theater piece.
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Chicago News
Paderewski Wit Recounts Polo Dinner Gag
Walter Damrosch recalls Paderewski’s quick humor at a New York dinner with polo player C- and wives. Damrosch notes Paderewski’s quip: I am a poor Polo playing solo, while he is a dear soul playing polo.
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Walter Damrosch
San Francisco
Polvo
Damrosch
Padereweski
Paderewski
New York
Mr. C
Rockaway Club
Sharp Classroom Gag On Musical Signs
A South public school teacher attempted to teach the dynamics f and ff in a song. After defining f as forts she asks what ff means. A quick witted pupil yells Righty revealing a playful mishearing of the signs.
Heliograph Definition Noted in War News
Mrs. Bloomfield asks Frank about a heliograph as she reads South African war reports. Mr. Bloomfield explains it is an instrument to throw light on a distant situation.
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Frank
Mrs. Bloomfield
Mr. Bloomfield
Notable Exchange in Quiet Conversation
A blushing girl affirms safety with the youth replying with pride that she is protected. The scene centers on trust and reassurance as a strong arm is mentioned in a moment of intimate dialogue.
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Puck
Sapho Sightings Stir Jersey City Down Jackson Avenue
A young woman in a bright red costume attracted a crowd on Wednesday night in Jersey City near the railroad bridge. She asked a boy to deliver a note signed Your Sapho, triggering a public stir until police intervened and escorted her away for transport to the ferry.
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Jackson Avenue
Jersey City
Sapho
Lockwood
Forest Street
Communicaw Street
Booth
Stomach Exploding Feat Astonishes Friends
I M Spawn a 19 year old school teacher in Alto Pass Illinois shocked observers by consuming in one evening his regular supper plus a can of tomatoes a can of peas a can of sardines seven glasses of soda water and two quarts of temperance drinks. This remarkable feat challenges prevailing beliefs about stomach capacity and is noted as one of many such showings by which he astonishes his acquaintances.
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Oakland
Cal
Spe
San. Francisco
W. S. Porter
Rosie James
Berkeley
Twenty-eighth
Grove Streets
James
Porter
Alto Pass Spe
Chicago
Inter Ocean
I. M
Spawn
His Presect of Mind
A playful dialogue features Mr Meekion and his wife Henrietta debating wisdom of nature. He quips that women need not sharpen pencils or throw stones while men idle about, sparking a sharp exchange on gender roles.
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Mr. Meekion
Henrietta
Washington
College hammer result shocks Philadelphia crowd
In a Baltimore American snippet a Yale man defeats McCracken of Pennsylvania with the hammer. A bystander, a woman, laments the surprising upset and reads aloud the alarming sports news to her husband.
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Yale
McCracken
Pennsylvania
Kitchen secret about jam pudding ends
A kitchen tale recalls Mamma serving jam pudding. Johnny asks for the ends and learns Ellen advised to cook in the ends because they are always left for them. The exchange, from Tit-Bite, highlights a household quip about frugality and leftovers.
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Mamma
Johnny
Ellen
Harry's Experience
A humor vignette notes a man failing to learn his wife’s secret in fifteen years. The quip contrasts male curiosity with female discretion via a wartime era newspaper tone. The piece plays on domestic chestnut and yields a light, comic observation without explicit detail.
Weather Whims Spark Work and Play Urge
The piece notes the eccentric ways of weather and how good spirits arise when days that invite work also entice play, reflecting a light, observational stance from the Indianapolis Journal.
Where the blame lies in a witty pencil quip
A humorous exchange centers on a man claiming women cannot sharpen a lead pencil and a woman countering that the blame lies with the pencil itself. The dialogue plays on gender and invention as a joking banter.
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Elmendorf & CO
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Dukegan
Lone Star
Erlanger
Jan Antonio
Lockwood National Bank
New Orleans
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Elite Hotel
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Cattlemen Main Plaza
Main Plaza
Soledad St
J. Loustaunau
P. Berceron
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Connort
Santa Fe
MK & T
A. P. Ry
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Corpus Christ
IL No. N. Ity
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Berlin
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Illinois
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Minnesota
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