Dining car service enhances travel on Denver Rio Grande
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad provides elegant dining cars on all trains from Denver. Meals are served at moderate prices, improving the trip through Colorado’s scenery. For information on time cards and rates contact S. K. Hooper in Denver or H. M. Cushing in Salt Lake City.
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Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Denver
Colorado
S. K. Hooper
H. M. Cushing
West Second South Street
Salt Lake City
Various 19th Century Notices and Advertisements
A collage of short items: a Sunday school quip about happiness, bankruptcy talk for the Earl of Yarmouth, claims of new devices aiding the blind, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters touted for digestion, influenza cases in Rome, a Toledo firm’s catarrh cure offer, bubonic plague notices from Sydney, infant teething syrup, German naval bill adoption, Baker’s chocolate promo, plans to grow cotton along the Balza river in Mexico, Piso’s cough remedy, transatlantic steamship booking limits, La Grippe cure via Lasative Bromo Quinine, and ministerial resignations in Brazil.
Dorman B. Eaton Civil Service Reform Leader Passes Away
Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, a leading advocate of civil service reform, died leaving a legacy as the father of the movement. Born in Hardwick Vermont on June 27 1828 he studied at the University of Vermont and Harvard Law School before shaping New York Citys health laws police courts and civil service framework. He served as a civil service commissioner and was active in multiple clubs and reform efforts across years and states.
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United States
Dorman B. Eaton
Mr. Eaton
Hardwick
University of Vermont
Harvard University
New York City
William Kent
Grant
Civil Service Commission
George William Curtis
Congress
Europe
President Hayes
Civil Service Board
Eaton
Arthur
Cleveland
Washington
Houses of
Law School
Yale University
Independent Movement
New York
Great Britain
Lalor
Cyclopaedia of Political Science
Chipman
The
Bar Association
Citizens’ Municipal League
the Excise Reform Association
City Reform, Union League
Commonwealth, Century, Nineteenth Century and
Unitarian Clubs
Reform Club of
Boston
England's Deadliest Weapon Strengthens Navy with New Gun
A Woolwich report notes Britain to field a twelve inch steel and wire battleship gun. Weighing fifty tons at forty one feet, it fires 850 pound projectiles with 2,367 feet per second velocity. Orders total 450 at ten thousand pounds each, with 150 complete and 300 in hand.
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Woolwich
Great Britain
London
Royal Navy
Admiralty
United States
Watervliet
Dover
France
Swordfish Duel Off Santa Monica Shows Fierce Combat
San Francisco Call describes swordfish as fearless hunters like buffalo and rhinoceros. Off Santa Monica two large swordfish fought in close quarters near the long pier, leaping and clashing with powerful blows as they jammed swords through each other until one foe finally withdrew.
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San Francisco
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
Switzerland's President Walther Hauser Re-elected Leader
Walther Hauser, recently re-elected president of the Swiss republic, has long dominated Swiss politics. He served ten years on the National Council, then became vice president and was elected president last year.
Capt Gridley’s Mother Seeks Pension Increase in Congress
A bill in Congress would raise the pension of Mrs. Anne Gridley mother of Capt. Charles V. Gridley commander of the Olympia at Manila. An elderly Land Office clerk she earned a modest salary plus a $20 monthly Civil War nurse pension but is now too old to work.
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Capt. Gridley
Congress
Anne Gridley
Charles V. Gridley
Manila
Land Office
Chinese Cooking and Rail Mileage in 1899
The article contrasts Chinese cooking traditions with Western perceptions, noting that households usually cook by women while men dominate large establishments. It also reports Railroad Gazette preliminary estimates for 1899, predicting 4,557 miles of new U S railroad, led by Iowa and Illinois with significant gains in several states and lines, notably the Chicago & Northwestern at 358 miles.
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Railroad Gazette
United States
Iowa
Minnesota
Arkansas
Calfornia
Michigan
Pennsyyvania
Alabama
Louisiana
Florida
Mississippi
South Carolina
Georgia
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Tennessee
Missouri
Chicago & Northwestern
Illinois Central
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Seaboard Air Line
Minneapolis
Fox tail escape in Clinton fox chase shocks observers
In Clinton during a fox hunt a fox darted into a hole but obstruction trapped it only partially hiding its body. A dog ripped off the fox’s tail with the brush and fled while the fox escaped with a stump, despite several shots fired.
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Clinton
Hartford Courant
Overland Limited Set for Salt Lake City Connection
Rail ads tout the Rio Grande Western as the year round trans continental line through Salt Lake City with Utah and Colorado climate. Union Pacific announces the Overland Limited debut October 15 with daily Salt Lake City departure 11 45 am and through service to Denver Omaha Chicago, promising no car changes to Denver Omaha and Chicago and minimal changes to eastern cities.
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RIO Grande Western Railway
Salt Lake City
America
Dead Sea
Utah
Colorado
Denver & Rio Grande
Colorado Midland
Pullman Palace
Union Pacific R. R
Overland Limited
Ogden
Denver
Omaha
Chicago
New York
Boston
Washington
Company
Old Stead
Main Street
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Mrs. Pinkham
Aweormama
Chase
Adv
rwiLal
Haverou
Hr Knolls Ao
Kansas City
Earl of Yarmouth
Rome
Onto
Orry
Toledo
Lucas Cousry
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney &Co
Hall
Sydney
Nourmea
New Caledonia
H. H. Green
Atlanta
Germany
Bundesrath
Baker's Chocolate and Cocoa
Balza River
Mexico
Mexico, Cuernavaca & Pacific
Mrs. C. Beltz
Std Ave
Col
Kk. W. Grove
Senor Viera
Interior
Senor Maia
Orescas
Samuel Pitcher
Fac Simnite
NEW _ YORK
Bears
Salt Lake Business College
Civil Service Fame
England
Warrior OF the
DEEP
Switzerland
Hauser. Dent
China
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