Running to a Fire in Sewell Ford’s Horses Nine Theme
The passage describes firehouse pride as the Gray Norse truck rushes to a first call box through Broad Way. Silver the captain and Lannigan atop the lines lead a chorus of sounds—hoofbeats wheels bell rope ladders and helmets—coalescing into a single racing, music like rhythm of the run.
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Sewell Ford
Silver
Lannigan
Broadway
Burial customs across ancient civilizations
The text surveys historical funerary practices from the Turks and early Jews to Egyptians Greeks and Romans. It notes cemetery use, earth burial, embalming, cremation, and selective preservation of body parts by various cultures including Tartars who kept only thumbs and toenails.
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Land of the Crescent
Amusements of Great Men and a Dollar Adage
A list of hobbies and pastimes of notable figures such as Burke Byron Carlyle Dickens Pitt and Wesley among others highlighting activities from farming bowls and smoking to chess and horse racing. It closes with a Canfield quote about money warning that nothing matches a dollar or two for care and caution.
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Edmund Burke
Lord Byron
Carlyle
Lord Chatham
Darwin
Dickens
Tom Hood
Kingsley
Lamb
Lord Lytton
Captain Marryat
Lord Palmerston
Pitt
Bhelsey
Sydney Smith
Wesley
Dean Swift
Subscriptions Offer for Prairie Farmer Bundle
The Telegraph offers a one year advance payment deal: Prairie Farmer weekly plus Prairie Farmer Home Magazine monthly supplement and The Telegraph all for 1.50. The Prairie Farmer is described as the leading farm and livestock paper with market reports from Chicago Kansas City and Omaha.
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Prairie Farmer Weekly
Prairie Farmer Home Magazine
THE
Telegraph
Prairie Farmer
Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
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Greenlee & Benson
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Crockery
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Burlington
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Sidney, Nebraska
Kruse Bros
Schlitz
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Chicago, Union Pacific and
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Points
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Vn One Pacific
Union Pacific R. A
H. C. Cheyney
Ganersl Agent
Chisage & North-Weevera J . Omaha
NEB
Ue McIntosi
J. T. McIntosh, Carhier
American Bank
Sidney
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Tobin & Wasem, Proprietors
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