Southwest Limited comfort gains counterpanes for sleepers
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway adds a sleeping car innovation on its Southwest Limited between Chicago and Kansas City. White counterpanes replace woolen blankets, easing hot weather fatigue and offering a more inviting bed. The new blankets will be kept in reserve for cool nights, benefiting travelers seeking comfort on long overnight journeys.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Southwest Limited
Chicago
Kansas City
Ime Jones as an Author Worse Work Promise
A brief exchange cites Ime Jones boasting about maintaining a reputation as an author while claiming he can produce poor work for life. A wry remark from Life contrasts this with a joke about eggs needing a cool place, echoed by a Bridget exchange in London Tit-Bits.
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Ime Jones
Bridget
Wanet
London
Fragmented ad copy and testimonials on cures and products
A jumble of 19th or early 20th century advertisement snippets claims for Hall’s Catarrh Cure Ball’s Catarrh Cure and various patent medicines. Includes testimonials about J Cheney & Co Toledo and wholesalers, praise for Hall’s pills for constipation, Piso’s Cure for consumption, a loafer remark, cigarette ads for Lewis’ Single Binder, and a beauty remark.
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Hall
Dominion Exhibition to Open in Winnipeg with Wide Attractions
The Dominion Exhibition in Winnipeg Manitoba attracts hundreds of thousands yearly. This year it will showcase Canada's agricultural and industrial resources with government support and broad rail access from the United States. Expected to open by Hon Clifford Sefton Minister of the Interior, the event offers ample hotel space and a chance to meet friends amid varied attractions. A playful note reminds that a plane with many keys is rarely locked.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
United States
Clifford Sefton
Interior
Labor Troubles Retard Trade In Chicago Area Markets
R G Dun and Co notes midsummer quiet touched major business, with labor controversies mainly hurting packing and livestock sectors and delaying relief for consumers. Country demand for fall delivery rises, western rail gains, and excellent outlook for crops. Grain shipments fall 38.2 percent from last year as butchers strike lowers livestock receipts and pork lard prices hold firm. 28 district failures in Chicago versus 44 last week.
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Chicago
Weekly Review of
Western Railroad
Mrs Nye accuses a banker in Breeze trial
Mrs B W Nye widow from Arden N C testified in the Breeze trial saying she entrusted $7500 to Breeze at the First National Bank where he served as president and lost it when the bank collapsed He claimed she was not responsible for the loss and noted she intended to take her children to Europe after her husband’s death while leaving her New York property in Breeze care.
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Charlotte
N. C
B. W. Nye
Arden
Breeze
Europe
Asheville
Missing Boston hotel cashier Fletcher Barker
Police search for Fletcher Barker a Boston hotel room cashier who vanished a week ago after a guest reported a $3850 cash deposit was stolen from the Parker house safe. The case centers on irregular vouchers and unknown deposit amounts amid Barker’s sudden disappearance after vacation.
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Boston
Mass
Parker House
Fletcher Barker
Barker
Boy Kills Fancied Rival At Hungarian Wedding
In Greensburg Pennsylvania a 17 year old boy Steve Popovich is alleged to have murdered Mike Matock during a wedding celebration. Popovich was arrested and jailed after a jealous act at the nuptials. A large party with beer followed the ceremony until the fatal stabbing occurred.
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Greensburg
Mike Matock
Steve Popovich
Popovich
Madock
Walks Miles With Arm Amputated After Freight Accident
William Sullivan of Stevens Point Wisconsin walked miles with an arm hanging by shreds of muscle after a fall from an Omaha freight train. He fainted several times, dragged himself toward Spooner where surgeons amputated the limb. He is now at home in critical condition.
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Stevens Point
Wis
WiLliam Sullivan
Spooner
Omaha
Hans
WILL REOPEN BIG SUGAR PLANT IN PEORIA AREA
Peoria Illinois July 26 Orders to restart the lower sugar works August 2 after a months long idle period. The glucose trust large plant had closed in spring during a wage dispute. Pekin plant resumes August 15. Together the two plants will employ about 1500 workers.
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Peoria
Ill
Glucose Trust
Governor Beekman Winthrop Tours Porto Rico
Governor Beekman Winthrop begins his first inspection tour of Puerto Rico, leaving San Juan and visiting Ponce Arecibo and Mayaguez over a week to study local conditions.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Beekman Winthrop
Ponce
Arecibo
Mayaguez
Self-inflicted wound in Iowa jail case
Sibley Iowa July 25 Fred Hoku self confessed murderer of Peter Johnson confined in jail here shot himself in the stomach with a revolver He is in critical condition and not expected to live The prisoner says he had the pistol since arrest but authorities doubt it It is believed a relative visiting his cell handed him the firearm
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Sibley
Iowa
Fred Hoku
Peter Johnson
Veteran Actor's Last Call
New York July 25 Charles M Collins once prominent on the American stage is dead at his ca ater.
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New
York
Charles . M. Collins
Iss
Lincoln Home Trustees Appointment Notice
Gov Yates appoints trustees for the State Asylum Lincoln Home Springfield July. 26. Trustees named include Darling from J Keh Wagner from McLean and others, reflecting state oversight of the facility.
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Lincoln Home Trustees
Springfeld
Yates
Aryley ‘Darling
J.keh
Wagner
McLean
This Will Interest Mothers Powders for Chil dren
An old advertisement for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claims to cure feversishness stomach issues and disorders, move and regulate bowels and destroy worms. Sold by druggists for 26c with a free sample. Address A S Olmsted LeRoy New York. Also a line about deaf mutes and a poker tip from W N U Des Moines Iowa.
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Mother Gray
New York
A. S. Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
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