Christmas Holiday Excursion Fares to Buffalo
Nickel Plate Road offers round trip fares for Chicago to Buffalo on select dates in 1904 and 1906 with good return options. Three express trains daily to Wayne Findlay Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York Boston and all stations. Through sleepers and dining service with club meals from 35 cents to 1 dollar, no extra fare from Chicago depot. Tickets at 114 Adams St Auditorium Annex John Y Calahan General Agent 113 Adams St Roow 298.
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Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
Buffalo
Fu Wayne
Findlay
Cleveland
Erie
New York
Boston
All Camera Polita
Pullman
Axceticat
Individus Club
Aleo
Lacarte
Chiasgo Depot
van Buren and
Ta Balle St. City
Adama
Auditorium Annex
John Y. Calaban
Adams St. Roow
Scott’s Emulsion Ad Promises Fat Babies Health
An old advertising label for Scott’s Emulsion touts fat babies as happy and well nourished. It claims fat reserves cushion nerves and protect bones, urging parents to use the product to fatten their scrawny infants. A free sample offer and wrapper label instruction accompany the pitch.
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Scott
Eye Nose Throat Specialist Dr W A Staggs Advocate
Dr W A Staggs specializes in diseases of the eye ear nose and throat and has established a strong local practice. The ad notes his long tenure and high patient satisfaction as proof of skill and reliability. Also mentions DeWitt's Little Early Risers laxative and revival meetings led by Rev J W Kelly at Free Methodist Church with services nightly at 7 30.
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Bes
W. A. Staggs
Graaf Block
Free Methodiat Church
J. W. Kelly
Kentucky
Keily
John Sutton
Woman Chadwick and thefts loom in Estherville report
A lengthy Estherville column portrays Mrs Connie L Chadwick as unworthy of sympathy, recounting past forgery and fraud cases and linking her to various schemes. It also details a later incident where a young man was robbed by three inebriated men on Fifth Street, with one identified as a suspected accomplice in robbery and vice. The piece also notes Rathbone lodge officers elected for the coming year and includes local notices about Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy testimonials and regional land activity drawing settlers to Nebraska and Kansas.
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Connie L. Chadwick
Chadwick
Georges Ade
Ade
Ohio
William McKinley
Hadwick
Moses
Vindicator
Republican
Fifth Street
Dreamland
Estherville
States Prison
Ashburnham
Ontario
Chumberlain
Kennedy
Ashourobaw
St. Lube's Church
Chamberlain's
Jay Joheston & Co
Williams & Anderson
Bronze Morning Glory Molded From Tomato Can
A Scribner's excerpt describes a novice worker learning to craft a bronze morning glory from a tomato can. The craft sequence includes punching a hole, fitting the blossom stem, gilding the can, and baking, then burying the flower in sand and finally pouring molten metal to reveal a bronze bloom after several attempts.
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Toran
Scribner's
Friendship demands serious duties of intimate ties
Mrs Henry Graham contends that true friendship carries heavy burdens. She warns that deep bonds require giving one’s real self and cannot be easily ended, noting that separate male and female circles still allow genuine ties in neutral spaces.
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Henry Graham
Paradise
Why They Are Dotted And The Origin Of I And J
A discussion tracing the dotting of I and J from eleventh century accents to medieval scripts and printing, noting changes through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the shift of I to J as a separate letter. Also reports a London Telegraph note on King Alfonso and Senor Rivera exchanging gifts after a pigeon shooting match near Madrid.
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London Telegraph
Alfonso
Spain
Xeres
Benor Rivera
Casa de Campo
Madrid
Senor Rivero
Senor Rivera
Senor
Royal
Exchange
London
Mare's Nest and Miscellaneous Sayings
A compact note explains the phrase mare's nest from folklore about a Saxon demon Mara that sits on sleepers to guard imagined treasure. It adds historical examples of misuse of discovery and a joke exchange about a clerk position. The text also includes brief cartoons of social queries and a remark on tact arising from kindness.
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A. J. Cummings
Maomboer
Minneapolis Chamber Commerce
A. M. Nelson
Iawa
C. E. Ingwall
N. 6Th Street
United States
Canada
Adem
the Selden Pen Mfg CO
Nassau St
Hocking
Trenton
S. 6Th St
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
DeWit
de Witt
Williame & Anderson
Quammen & Walden
Wallingford
Thedford
Right
Rathbone Lodge
Geo
Bale EK. S
Frank Godfrey E. J
C. Alt Myr
Thos
Brandt
W. M. Fpeshler
G. K. Allen
J. C Lovell O
ST. Luke's
Nebraska
J. C. Lund
Mergo
1St Ave
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Fle
Kent
Lund
Kansas
Nébresta
Tu le
Mara
Mare
Fim
Philadelphia Press
Brooklyn Life
Engymion
B. Soprr
Webb Vincent
J. P. Birby
Cashier
Esthervilla
IODA
MO. Montgomery
J. B. Boper
Webb Vincent H
QNAAF
R. J. Sandros
M. K. Yhrlan
Neville
L. C. Boolittle
Frisco System
Eastern
Ilinois
R. R
Frisco
St. Louis
LaSalle Street
Union Sta
Mercker
Fiotepge
Bran
C. M. Brown
THE
Iowa Savings Bank
Iowa
K. J
Mack J Groves
Frank P. Woods
W. Converse
Acelemnot
Carhier
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