Six years for Cashier Valentine of Perth Amboy
A six year sentence is reported for cashier Valentine in Perth Amboy New Jersey. The tale mentions a grave of Queer Dagmar and a belief in protective signs though the health warning focuses on ill health and digestion. A private revenue stamp appears on the bottle neck of a tonic. The text notes female variability and changing minds, dresses, and names.
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Saint Valentine
Valentine
Perth Amboy
N. J
Dagmar
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Various Health Advertisements
An assortment of 19th century medical ads and brief notices claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh, with a $100 reward for a failing case. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Allen's Foot Balm, Cascarets, and a Kansas City restaurant stunt with iced soups.
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Hall
F. J. Creney & CO
Toledo
Dam
Barren Island to Get Schoolhouse and Church
LARREN ISLAND on the New England coast will receive a four room schoolhouse this fall with kindergarten space. The community, split by poverty and odors from local works, hopes also to build an undenominational church aided by Miss Mattie Smith.
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New York
Darren Island
New England
Board of Education
Barren Island
Broken Land
Rom Barn Island
Lott
Birn Island
Mattie Smith
Whitcomb
Flatlands
Miss Smith
Sitzabee
Sitza
Buckholtz
Canarsie
Jamaica Bay
Womn
Rebuilding Cost Hits 35 Million in B and O Receivership
The Baltimore and Ohio receivership ended after a vast reconstruction effort. Cowen and Murrey aggressively modernized the system in 1896 97, spending about 35 million including 15 350 box cars 6 751 wooden gondolas 6 000 steel cars and 216 locomotives. Steel rails 123 010 tons plus ballast and bridges boosted terminals and trackwork, with maintenance wages near 12 million.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Messrs
Cowen and
Murrey
Baltimore and Ohio
Cowen
Census Taking Underway For 75 Million Americans
The 75 million people across 3 million square miles will be counted next year. Census authorities organize nearly 5,000 workers for three months of field work with the remainder handling clerical duties for two years to compile and publish results.
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United States
Society Leaders Praise Union Pacific Service
Travelers of high society demand top service and generous patronage proves the Union Pacific’s superiority. The narrator notes ticket prices at the Old Stand on Main Street and a grumpy passenger quips about long stops, while the conductor assures trips are always on time.
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Union Pacific
Pfice
Main Street
Rio Grande Western Introduces Dining Cars on All Trains
The Rio Grande Western starts new dining car service from June 1 serving all meals on through trains. Numbered trains depart Ogden at 7 30 a m and Salt Lake City at 7 30 a m with No 4 from Ogden at 6 25 p m and Salt Lake City at 7 40 p m. West bound through trains will carry liners and offer à la carte options.
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Rio Grande Western Railway
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Utah
Sport at the White House through Presidential amusements
The New York Press notes how presidents entertained themselves with games and leisure from Jefferson to Buchanan. It recalls Franklin Pierce, Harrison, Adams, Grant, Polk, Arthur, Lincoln, and Buchanan, and highlights a historic billiard table purchase opposed by Buchanan.
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White House
Cleveland
Harrison
John Quincy Adams
Grant
Pennsylvania Avenue
Polk
Arthur
Lincoln
Buchanan
Congress
Adams
New York Press
Old Reliable line touted for swift westward travel
An advertisement extols Union Pacific Overland Limited service with Dewey as a historic example. It notes the Old Stand ticket office at 101 Main Street and praises tandem riding for couples. Commodore Dewey in 1897 bought two first class tickets via B&O and other lines. D B Martin later collected the coupons and issued lithographed facsimiles as souvenirs.
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Overland Limited
Union Pacific
Waele Sam
Main Street
Dewey
Commodore Dewey
Washington
Pacific Ocean
B. Hege
Baltimore & Ohio
Sea Fighter
San Francisco
Chicago
North- Western
Southern Pacific
Lieut. Brumby
D. B. Martin
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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Ayer
DL. J
Lowell, M
Harvard
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy, N. Y
Kansas City
Salt Lake Business College
Browning Brosco
Washington Avenue
Ogden, Utah
Santa Fe
C. F. Warren
Dooly Block
JON
Utalifornia
Treas Chronic
Drs. Shores
Second South &J
Harmon
Commercial Nat'l Bank
Uta
W.N. Y
Salt Lake
Arters
Uncle Sam
Ca. K
A. J. Tower
Boston, Mas
Finswering
Larren Island
Tople
Barren
William Mellen
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