Confidence on a Sleeper Car Confessions
A Chicago Chronicle observation notes travelers in sleeper cars reveal confidences to strangers during long rides. Men disclose business sins and private family details, with one recounting cattle rustling, government contracts, and embezzlement. It ends noting the impersonal setting fosters such disclosure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Chronicle
Wyoming
Sam
Army
Texas
Western Reserve
Ohio
Mountains Vacation Mystery Near Uncle Jim Stebbins Farm
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a local exchange about a family vacation in the mountains not far from Uncle Jim Stebbins’s farmhouse in southern Tiliney. Details on the exact location remain unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Stebbins
Tiliney
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Census Enumerator Notes Population Drop in Town
A Detroit Free Press remark identifies a census enumerator noting a smaller town population than ten years ago. The line uses humorous regional dialect to question if a man was in an explosion or railroad wreck, concluding not, while discussing the census count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Brown
Detroit Free Press
Traveling museums to enrich Chicago public schools
The Chicago public schools will feature traveling museums aligned to textbook lessons. Each unit, such as South America, will include country specific specimens maps photographs and lantern slides detailing products people and cities to support object lessons across subjects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry F. Fairbanks
Public Schools of Chicago
University of Michigan
Thomas J. Cullen
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Rochester
England
Dr. Horton
Manila
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
Richmond
Chicago
South America
The Case for Gentility in Our Modern Style
Mary R. Baldwin argues in Womar's Home Companion that genteel once captured a full range of grace and breeding. The author recalls a grandmotherly ideal of fashionable restraint and individuality, urging the return of the old word to describe refined character and manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary R. Baldwin
Womar
Times
Remarkable 1812 Cotton Deal Amid South Carolina Turf Race
The reminiscences of E. J. Scott recount the first recorded cotton sale tied to Gen. Wade Hampton and Ainsley Hall. A race to confirm or nullify the bargain unfolded between Charleston and Columbia, ending with Hampton narrowly losing a major purse as Hall’s rider arrived exhausted but ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
E. J. Scott
Chicago
Ainsley Hall
England
Gen. Hampton
Hampton
Hall
Kirkpatrick & Co
Charleston
America
Columbia
Kirkpatrick
Hampton Stables
Vast Philadelphia park showcases grand European scale
The article calls Philadelphia’s large park nearly 3,000 acres the greatest park in Europe or America. It notes the 1876 Centennial Exhibition held there and mentions the Schuylkill River and Wissahickon Creek crossing the grounds. It asserts national capabilities and improvements rank it among the world’s finest parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Europe
America
Schuylkill
Wissahickon Creek
Detrutt Free Press
Men Keep on Polling and Toiling for Leisure
A Chicago Daily News line notes men keep polling and toil for leisure only to find leisure not a desirable end after achieving it. The quotation reflects longstanding debates on work and rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Daily News
China opens empire to foreigners under new edict
An edict before February 1898 allowed foreigners with passports to travel any part of the empire and for ships to navigate provincial streams. Under the Shimonoseki treaty with Japan, foreigners could set up manufacturing at treaty ports and bring their own machinery. Provinces enforce heavy likin taxes, while a 50 percent uplifted customs tariff was supposed to relieve interior transit, but provincial tax collectors often reclaimed revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shimonosiki
Japan
China
Chicago Chronicle
Farmere Event At Mt Gretna Prompts Railroad Tour fares
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers round trip tickets to Mt Gretna Pennsylvania for the Farmere event August 20 to 24. One fare for the round trip available from main stations including Host Liberty Bryn Mawr and on several lines. Tickets on sale August 18 to 24 good to return August 27. Inquiries to ticket agents for precise rates and train service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Gretna
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Reduced Rates for Grangers Picnic at Williams Grove
The twenty seventh Inter-State Grange Picnic Exhibition at Williams Grove Pa runs August 27 to September 1. The Pennsylvania Railroad will sell excursion tickets August 25 to September 1, good to return by September 8, at one fare round trip from East Liberty to Bryn Mawr on the Northern Central route and from Stanley to Waterford. inquire at ticket agents for service and rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams’ Grove Pa
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
East Liberty
Bryn Mawr
Northern Central Railway
Stanley
Lutherville
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
Waterford
Proposal to Married Ladies
Advertisement from Quaker Valley Mfg Co offering free sterling silver plated sugar shells to every married lady in the United States who writes for a sample. No payment required. Include name only and choose from 40¢ designs with illustrations provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Quaker Valley
Quaker Valley Mfg. Co
Morgan and Harrison Sts
Chicago
Hydropathy Flourishes in Germany Says Post
The New York Post notes Germany leads the world in water cures with many spa resorts and numerous water cure institutions across the empire. Hydropathy reaches high perfection and aims to cure or attempt cures by water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawa
Anders
Ichter
East
New York
Richter
Germany
Empire
Wn. Y. Post
Dr C Edward Allison Physician and Surgeon
Dr C Edward Allison physician and surgeon with office in the Samuel building on N Oak St. Jefferson Medical College graduate with hospital and general practice experience. Office hours until 9:30 a.m. and 1 to 8 p.m. plus 6 to 8 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson Medical College
Mt. Carmel House
MT. Carmel
C. Edward Allison
Samuel Building
N. Oak St
Special Ten Day Excursion to Ocean Grove Asbury Park
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a special ten day excursion on August 23 to Ocean Grove Asbury Park or Long Branch from multiple stations at reduced rates. Tickets cover travel to Philadelphia then onward on 3:30 and 4:08 p.m. trains, with return valid through September 1 and permit a stop in Philadelphia within the limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocean Grove Asbury Park
Long Branch
Pensylvania Railroad
Ocean Grove Camp
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Ocean Grove
Asbury Park
Philadelphia
Broad Street
Mt. Carmel
Shamokhin
Csesecsees
Paxinos
Snydertownceees
Reduced Rail Fares for G A R Encampment to Chicago
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers reduced roundtrip fares to Chicago for G A R encampment attendees. Tickets from points on the line go on sale August 25 26 and 27 with returns allowed to August 31, or extended to September 2 or 9 with a 50 cent deposit.
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Leela
F. Ad, Richter &Co
Pearl St
Sictans
Ned Bo
Walter & Vought
Attorneys-At-Law
Office of
Oak Street
L. Grossman
Hullenbach
Ventist
Kiefer's
Grd & Oak
Jer, Bastafs, Td
Samuels Drug Store
Tefferson Shipmam
Mt. Marmel Banking Co
Tak Street
Will Amour
Justice OF the Peace
Third Street
Oak
Hickory
Goodman
Thomas N. Burke
Bolich
Commercial Stotes
Geo. H. Keefer
Amber
Mt. Carmel Bankig Co’s
Victor J. Evans & CO
Evans Building
Washington, D. CG
New Orleans
Fairmount Park
Williams Grove
Pennsylvania
F. Theel
M.D. Nzbizeat St
Eindentscher
Bolsone Ag
Felief
Pennsylvania Railroad
Grand Army of the Republic
Palent Record
Baltimore
Scott
John Christ & Sons
OAT
Isaac Kemble
Carmel
Jor
AIA
Wrehave
John Shoemaker
Ork Street
Hue
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