Passenger and freight rail notices for Forest City division
Fragmented OCR shows train passenger and freight allocations with numbers and times. Mentions Rock Island tickets and schedules, with references to Sundays and daily service windows.
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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1903
Page
3
Fragmented OCR shows train passenger and freight allocations with numbers and times. Mentions Rock Island tickets and schedules, with references to Sundays and daily service windows.
A fragmented timetable lists passenger and local freight numbers with going south and north directions. Mentions Minneapolis St Louis lines, various passenger numbers, times around 4:00 p.m. and 1:08 a.m., and notes on daily service with exceptions, dated November 30.
Directory fragment lists local officials and council members, church and fraternal lodge schedules, and lodge numbers. It includes names like Mack Groves N. Elegarrat Ringhaw Morse Myhre councilmen, treasurers, clerks, county officials, and multiple lodge meeting times for Estherville and surrounding communities.
Special correspondence notes Secretary Shaw back in Washington after western leave as Osier named assistant secretary of war. A final eighth grade exam question prompts a student joke on District of Columbia government. Naval Academy class largest ever, liquor zoning near Union Station contested. Athletic training becomes daily for troops, and civil service rules erase age limits for labor positions. Pension law expansions and veterans’ payouts outlined, with agency rotations. Minnesota politics reference and a Deadwood stagecoach incident in Washington notes. Uniform discipline for cadets amid a caution on improper footwear.
Thompson Hros. and Fred Bolter are erecting a large barn on the Eastman stock farm southwest of town. The barn spans twoOxARC feet with eighteen font posts and will cost about 82500. Bolter laid the foundation last week and the framework is rising.
Advertises excursion tickets from Minneapolis to Portland via Seattle Tacoma Victoria and Vancouver at 45 for the round trip. Limited return validity and dates August 1 to 4. Mentions agents for more information and a cautional medical note about cholera infantum and diarrhea with a product endorsement for Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry.
In a Rome printing office a strange mix of notices appears as a man inserts an ad claiming his wife left their bed and beard warning readers not to trust her. A novice runs three weeks, then a new ad by the wife appears announcing she has money to loan.
An old advertisement promotes Kodal as a cure for indigestion and digestive disorders sold by Williams & Anderson. It also touts a August Kalithe Mow St. sale of refunded excursion tickets to San Francisco or Los Angeles, via a special Minneapolis route with Pullman sleepers, and directs to ticket agents for details.
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