Illinois Central R R Announcements for Tours and Mardi Gras
Illinois Central Railway announces enhanced daily service with dining, library, chair cars and sleeping cars from Chicago to New Orleans and points south. Includes winter tours to New Orleans Mardi Gras March 7, Gulfport and other Gulf Coast resorts, and Mexico and California trips under Raymond Whitcomb plans. Through vestibule trains, special baggage cars, and all expenses included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiats Center
Chcago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Loubville
New Orleans
iNew Orleans
Vicksburg
Havana
Cuba
Colon
Panama
Gulfport
Miss
Great Southern
Lon
Alexico
Central Merion
West Indies
Europe
Mexico
Linois Central R. R
Reap Campbell
The
American
Tourist Association
Adams St
Chicago
Alves Chicago
Chiliniti
California
Itnolls Central
Los Angele S
San Francisco
New Orletn
Clacinnati
Oman Ad
Illinois Central announces round trip rail rates read to several cities
Illinois Central schedules round trip fares from Webster City to Jackson Mississippi Natchez and New Orleans with 21 day return limits. Additional routes include Jennings Lake Charles LA Beaumont Houston San Antonio and other Texas and Louisiana points via Southern Pacific and Illinois Central lines. Tickets available from local agents listed in the notice.
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Illnois Central
Webster City
Jackson
Miss
Icksburg
Natchez
Orleans
Audi
Illnois
Jennings and
Lake Jurles
Beaumont
Vuston
San Antonio
Texas
Rates and Dairy Mentioned in March 08 Event
Fragmented OCR piece notes rates for Minnesota and dairy around March 08. It references buses, depots, and routes including Paul and North Dakota areas. Mentions household necessity and medical terms such as burns cuts wounds sore throat and fever, but context is unclear due to garbled text.
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Minnesota
Dairy
Baleota
Huttlers
Fox
Paul
Uh Dakota
Isough
North
Irene Counsetne
Hailstone Tale From Dakota Man Relates New York Incident
A reminiscence relates a Dakotan named Joshua surviving a New York street mishap with a falling hailstone. The speaker cites large Dakotan hailstones as proof of the region’s weather lore and recalls the curious scene as a hot afternoon anecdote about doorstep dangers and casual travel recollections.
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Boggs
Dakoty
Mr. Boges
Hoges
New York City
Joshua
Dakota
Hattery
Dahoty
Ire
FINE ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS REPORTED INNOVATION IN FURNACE USE
The New York Tribune notes progress in using waste silicon carbon mixtures to produce diamond like material. Experiments show hardness rivaling or exceeding carborundum and aim to eliminate silicon entirely to yield pure carbon diamond equivalents. Inventors pursue more valuable outcomes beyond current carboqundium production.
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New York Tribune
Grubs for Fishing Lines From Silkworms
The article explains selecting Spanish silkworm grubs for fishing line production. After mulberry feeding they are salted, killed, and their silk spun in a cocoon is extracted. The raw threads are cleaned in water and soft soap, then dried and bleached to resemble spun glass, yielding transparent fishing line material.
Perishable Currency in Mayo and Nearby Counties
The piece notes Eges as current coin in Mayo Kerry Donegal and Latrin used to pay for tea sugar meal oil bread tobacco patent medicines and general haberdashery. It mentions predatory agents caravaning through wilds and itinerant traders hawking cheap wares accepting this coin and unloading it at railway towns as seen in a school excuse snippet about Sallie and Willie.
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Mayo
Kerry
Donegal
Latrin
Stray Stories: A Quirky Exchange on Respect and Courage
An oddly phrased dialogue hints at a domestic tension where a man dismisses jealousy and proposes a pragmatic, if odd, plan. The narrator suggests confronting temptation with humor and a shared activity while referencing potential danger and social propriety.
Perilous Duty of Railway Mail Clerks Compared to Soldiers
The article argues railway mail clerks face higher fatality and injury rates than soldiers. Data shows 21 clerks killed on duty and 90 seriously hurt in a year, with 378 clerks injured overall, while army casualties were far lower. It questions pensions for maimed clerks and widows.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Milippines
Hand to Hand Fighting Amid Russian Breakout
A Japanese observer in Leslie's Monthly recalls a ten o'clock morning clash where Russian troops emerged from hiding for a brutal hand to hand battle. A daring Russian officer led by example, urging his men forward, but panic and retreat spread as troops trampled one another. He turned his sword on himself and fell, heartbroken by the rout.
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Leslie's
Henri Dunant Founder of Red Cross
The New York World notes Henri Dunant, now 76 and in poor health near Lake Constance, founded the Red Cross movement. It marks 45 years since his work began and 40 since the Geneva convention. He was inspired by Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War, with Solferino and a European tour shaping his humanitarian effort.
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Henri Dunant
Lake of Constance
Red Cross
New York World
Geneva
Dunant
Florence Nightingale
Solferino
Bolferino
Europe
Crantz
Napoleon
Mr. Dunant
Roller Skating Revival Gains Steam in Northeast
The New York Sun reports forty to fifty roller skating rinks have opened in New England and New Jersey in the past year. Promoters expect the sport, popular 20 years ago, to rebound as adults and children return to rinks amid hockey, endurance races, and exhibitions that drew large crowds before a rapid decline when the pastime wore thin.
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New England
New Jersey
The
New York Sun
Weather and Torpedo Invention in Buys Magazine
An invention described in Buys Everybody's Magazine would make a wireless dirigible torpedo extremely deadly if weather favors it. Loaded with gun cotton, it uses dual rudders, a firing pin head, a battery and wireless transmitter for propulsion, and a jet of sea water. an observer from shore could launch it 0 miles out, stalk battleships, and strike armored hulls. A station could defend Sandy Hook entrance to New York harbor in favorable weather.
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Sandy Hook
New York Harbor
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for Children
A late medicine for children promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe and effective. It claims to relieve colds, coughs, and whooping cough with no danger and prompt relief. Sold by Ik. & Co. and Gonner & Co.
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Ik. &, Gonner & Co
Pleasant and Hamnibns Era: One Minute Cough Cure Ad
An old advertisement extols One Minute Cough Cure to treat coughs, croup, and whooping cough by drawing out inflammation and soothing the throat. The product is sold by ER H Miller.
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ER. H. Miller
Dr King's New Discovery Promises Relief for Coughs
An advertisement touts Dr King's New Discovery as a sure cure for consumption pneumonia sore throat bronchitis and colds. J W McKinnon of Talladega Springs Alabama reports relief after using the medicine and the blurb offers a guaranteed remedy with prices and a free bottle offer through TL Miller Drugstore.
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Kore
TL. Miller
Price
De Witts Witch Hazel Salve Endorsed for Piles and Burns
J L Tucker of the Harmonizer Centre Arg writes I have used De Witt s Witch Hazel Salve for piles cuts and burns It is the best salve on the market Every family should keep it on hand Sold by R H Miller.
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de Witt
J. L. Tucker
The
Harmonizer
Centre
Arg
R. H. Miller
The Colonel’s Waterloo Cure-All Letter
A Texas man from Haney Grove writes that after failing to improve with his family doctor he used a bottle of your Electric Bitters, claiming it cured dyspepsia biliousness and kidney disease. Sold and guaranteed by RH Miller Druggist at 50 cents a bottle.
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John M. Faber
Haney Grove
Texas
Waterloo
Rh’ Miller
Women and Kidney Health in Targeted Cure Claim
The article notes women suffer kidney disorders more often than men but misattribute symptoms to female illnesses while kidneys may be deranged. Nervousness headaches dark circles under eyes back pain are warnings. Toly's Kidney Cure claims to restore health for many women, stop irregularities, and strengthen urinary organs, with sale by B E Conner & Co.
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Toly
B.E. Conner & Co
Eeer Co
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Claims Healing
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a premier kidney remedy, describing kidneys as blood purifiers and linking kidney trouble to numerous diseases. It promises quick relief, notes universal sale by druggists, and offers a free sample bottle and pamphlet by mail from Kilmer & Co.
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Swamp Root
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Newport News
St. Clas E, Gildersleeve
Swift Specific Company
Atlanta, Ga
Illinois Central
R. R
Hot Springs
Ark
Florida
Memphis
Loutaville
Dixie Hyer
T. Louis
Tacksomlle
Nashville
Chatnooga
Atlanta
Llnois Central RY
Louikiana
Gna
Ryen Iberia
Antonia
Texs
Hanson
Apt
G. Pa. Dubuqua
Howehold Necessity
Lhomas
Geile
Troy
Sallie
Willie
Troy Times
Den
John
Railway Mail Service
Tas
United States Army
Famous
America
Chidren
Scranton
C. R. Morris
Spencer
Belek
Trent
Paris
Thistign Rovers
Independent
Kansas
Tebeka
Colorado
B. A. McAllaster
Land Com
Omaha
Neb
Merttlon
Solid Financial
Monon Block
Columbia
U30
Monon
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