25 Feb 1898
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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1898
Page
1
Daily train connections announced between Kansas City and St. For further information contact Josian Buair, Agent, Scandia, at 1.30pm and 4.00pm.
Rock Island timetable lists Mail and Express and Local freight trains with daily runs, noting 6 makes close connections for southern Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas points. No charge of cars between Denver and Chicago. Agt. E. J. Chart.
Incomplete schedule notes show multiple routes with southbound departures and exceptions for Sundays. Mentions No 52 passenger south and No 55 mixed from south with 2:20 PM and 12:30 PM, plus a connection at Jusictinn City for all points east and west.
Editor Reppert B. Kimball recounts a rail journey from Kansas City to Port Arthur aboard five Pullman cars. The trip highlights lumber belts, new towns like Mena and Port Arthur, canal plans, dredging progress, and coastal commerce with Kansas flour and Cotton traffic.
An advertisement promotes White's Cream Vermifuge as a purely vegetable worm expeller. It claims to benefit children with growth issues or pallor, suggesting worms drain vitality and promising certain results. Sold by A. P. Happer in various bottle sizes for 25 cents.
The famed temperance advocate Frances Willard has died young due to stomach illness. Some quip that if she had followed St Paul’s advice to drink wine for her stomach’s sake she might still be alive today.
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