The Wily Weather Man and the Missing Contract
In a tale of intrigue, Lucius Werner, a weather bureau man, helps uncover a missing contract tied to Lasell negotiations. The narrator, fearing a clerk’s theft, watches windows and uncovers a staged burglary ruse. Alston confesses intent to betray, facing career ruin as the contract is recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucilla Werner
United States Wreather Bureau
Werner
Mr. Werner
Omiga
Larsell
Lucius Werner
Lassell
Alston
Emell Suias
Lanselia
Engineer's Department
Weather Bureau
Subaervicuo
Amarty
Bird
John Alston
Alstom
Starm
Dex
Cupid and Croesus in a Modern Love Tale
Rosamond Maythorn, tired of social frivolity and fortune hunting, chooses to work as a stenographer. She meets Graham Hillis, the earnest mayoral candidate she grows to love, proving wealth is not needful for true affection.
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Rosamond Maythorn
Rosamond
Father
Toby Lapuian
George Abtorgilt
Alma
Wayne
Maythorn
Marsh
Wall, Street
Matvy Brown
Ufefren
Graham Dilla
Hofus Maythorn
Graham Hillis
Ead
Graham Eilis
Hosamond
Matty Brown
Graham Bliss
Graham Tile
Rosamund
Ellis
Rufus Maythorn
Rosamond Marsh
Jonet
References and echoes in a Philadelphia hiring scene
A Philadelphia Record item recalls a middle aged colored woman asked for references when applying for a cook position. She tearfully claimed the references were destroyed and quipped that people would suspect her as a poor servant without them.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Record
Very useful but thin horse causes tragic mishap
A Liverpool Mercury item quotes a dealer praising a horse as useful though thin. The seller describes tying the tail to prevent escape and hanging a sack to keep hay in. A ride with the dealer’s wife and mother-in-law ends in a fatal fall, killing a woman, after the horse bolts from the rattling bones.
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Deaser
Liverpool Mercury
Two Aerial Machine Challenges Face Professor
A Washington returnee discusses with an old friend the progress of a professor on an aerial machine. The inventor notes two goals to achieve: first to launch the machine into the air, second to keep it sustained there.
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Washington
Ucco
Poultry Department to Lead Missouri Agricultural College Expansion
The Missouri legislature allocated 87,000 for the Minor Agriculture college with 15,000 to establish and support a poultry department. Instruction starts next fall at the state university in Columbia, funding buildings, equipment, and grounds. The move follows nationwide trends, with poultry becoming a major industry in Missouri and a key focus of the agricultural college alongside horticulture and dairy programs.
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Payls
St. Louis
Mingourt University
Agricultural College
Cornell University
Rhode Island
Maine Agricultural Colleges
Tils
The
State University
Columbia
Mimouri
Effects of bad cooking and TB linked by Dr Huber
Dr Huber of New York linked tuberculosis to poor cooking and alcoholism. He cited the New York Tribune noting that many TB cases follow poor diet, especially in rural areas, and urged better cooking by women of leisure to prevent disease. He described the harsh rural kitchen as a TB factor and called fasting among consumptives cruel and unchristian.
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Huber
New York
J. B. ‘Huber
New York Tribune
Met
Buber
Bowell
Sinc
Spring Fever Poem Fragment Reveals Rural Speech
A fragmentary poem uses a rural dialect to describe work avoidance and a change of heart. The speaker recalls reluctance to start, then glimpses a dawning resolve as daily life and weather intrude. The text preserves local color and a humorous tone.
Illinois Central Train Schedule Snippet Between Waterloo Fort Dodge
A fragmented timetable lists eastbound westbound and northbound trains on Illinois Central. It notes passenger trains 93 and 94 between Waterloo Fort Dodge and Waterloo Dubuque, Albert Lea to St Paul express and way freights, with a Chicago sleeper from Waterloo to Chicago arriving 7 30 a m and other daily services with some marked as not run on Sundays.
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St. Paul
Albert Lea
Albert
Lew
Paul
Paul Manifest
Chicago
Gt. Paul
Waterloo
Right Hoan Railway Service Summary
Railway timetable extract listing east and west bound services between Chicago and major western and midwestern points. It notes daily stops at important points, with multiple trains including 20 Chicago and Milwaukee lines, St Louis Mail and Express, Twin City Limited and Way Freight routes, plus timing details and limited passenger coverage. The fragment references stations like Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Memphis, Colorado Springs, Peoria, Fort Worth, St Joseph, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and St Louis with varying daily frequencies.
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Chicago
Omaha
Seals
Denver
Memphia
Colorado Springs
Peoria
Fort. Worth
Joseph
Ru Paul
Kansas City
Minneapolia
Laws Limited
Chicaga and
Burtington
St. Lowis
Twin City Limited
Seesencenereuercees
Twin City Bx
Rockford Pays
Sun
Pau
Chi
St. West Side
St .West Slide
Twin City
Nans Way
South Bound, Inc
Joe
Pan
Waterloo
Cedar Falls & Northern Railway
Daly Pass
Cedar Fails
Latyow
la Danver
Deaver Jeb
Deaver Jet Tns
Ly Waverly
Beeme
Samase
Tripoli
Bount
Sies
Rae Waliy Daliy
Pat BeBe
He de ML
Ly Sarmper Ss
Brewer
Wavarly
Glasgow
Bhopney
Wy Job
ArGeder Salle
Waverly
Oclwein
Warerts
Gecesse Sess
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Rowaxp Fielding
Ferre
Burt
Laseel Construction
Elf
Aluton
Wen
Jethua
Lassells
Croesus
Compignes D'Arcy Mackay
Mary McKeon
Missouri State University
Dar
Ieee Age Si
Chicago Express
Chicago Limited
St. Pau
Ob. Lim
Fort Dodge
Dubuque
Sioux City
Dubuges
C.R
Cedar Rapides Division
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