All Go to School New York Central Air Brake Car
A Dewitt sidetrack hosts a New York Central air brake instruction car to train railroad workers in stopping and starting trains. Instructor W G Barry leads daily sessions for engineers, conductors, brakemen, and others with equipment for 24 freight cars, 15 passenger cars, a locomotive, and spare brake parts. The program, spanning Lyons to Buffalo routes, emphasizes hands on learning and regular attendance, with a central air brake plant at Dewitt supporting the effort.
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Dewitt
New York Central
Saya
Syracuse Herald
Dewitt 19
G. Barry
Barry
Lyons
Rochester
Laftala
New York
Entralas
Iate
fitvStories
Addiion
le Marines
Foreman’s Trial in the Roundhouse Role
An old master of the mechanical department explains the foreman in a roundhouse faces harsh demands. With locomotives in need of repair and dispatchers demanding more power, the two shifts must coordinate. The roundhouse foreman rises to the master mechanic rank on a railroad division.
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Vastimaster
Kring
Feunt
Taster
Hmit
Railroads of the World on January 1 1906
The world’s total railway length was 563 771.7 miles or 906 695 kilometers, with the United States at 316 713.39 miles (451 508 kilometers), leading Europe by about 23 500 miles. The American continent’s mileage is estimated to exceed half of the world total. German statistics in Consular Reports.
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United States
Europe
Humor a Philosophy Then and Now
A humorous column mixes quips on time, wisdom, and manners with sketches like Grandpa Adam’s vast claim to the earth and a quip about a woman eyeing millinery. Vignettes cover weather mood shifts and a laundress joke about stockings, reflecting early 20th century wit and social flippancy.
Comforting Words On Kidney Pills And Tales From Town
An article cites a Mr. Dobensky of Moimersburg praising Dean's Kidney Pills for backache and urinary issues after a year of pain. It promotes the cure, lists drugstore availability, and notes Foster Milburn Co as U S agents. A second piece recalls Benjamin Disraeli in a cheeky Lord story about a grim pun and a lordly scene.
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Mstherville
Francis Bo Dobensky
Moimersburg
Dean
Reatherville
Williams & Anderson's
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Dean’ S
Castoria and Kitchen Lore Echo Through An Old Recipe
An archival clipping blends product placement and a cooking school anecdote about eighteenth century bakers and pipe smoking. It then touches on patent medicines with claims of kidney remedy relief and references Johnston & Co, illustrating varied era advertisements and notes within a single fragment.
Early Italian Surgery by Benvenuto Cellini
The account recounts an early Italian surgery where a chipped steel piece lodged in Cellini’s eye risked losing sight. A surgeon performed a risky procedure, using pigeons to bleed to the eye, relieving pressure. Within two days the steel fragment emerged and vision substantially improved.
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Benvenuto Cellini
Nurses Training Series on Combating Diseases
In a period-focused report, a nurses training series covers contagious diseases and public health measures. The article highlights practical lessons, classroom demonstrations, and the role of nurses in safeguarding community health.
Ad Note Claims Niney Refunding Drug Gist
An advertisement asserts that all druggists are authorized to refund ninety if Foley’s Honky and Pat fail to cure your cough or Gold. It promises cough relief, lung healing, and pneumonia prevention with no opiates. The genuine product comes in a yellow package by Jay Johnston & Co.
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Yoley
Pat
Jay Jolnaton & Co
You can't miss it by giving our new jeweler your watch to fix
An odd mix of ads and quotations appears, featuring Jay Johnston & Co as a jeweler, broken phrases about beauty and faces, and a dated reminiscence from Youth's Companion. The text also advertises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Yeast and a line from H. Williams.
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Jay Johnston & Co
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
H. Williams
Headache Relief and Barber’s Massage Delights Bentley
Bentley, after a late night at a bridge game, seeks relief from a head pounding morning. He compliments massage while barber Karl works on his head and face, joking about a device to drain the pains inside the head. The exchange ends with Harper’s Weekly style whimsy.
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Bentley
Bridge
Karl
Harper's Weekly
New Life Pilly Claims to Regulate Digestive Health
An advertisement extols Dr Kints New Life Pilly as superior to all pills for stomach liver kidneys nerves and blood, claiming cures for constipation dyspepsia biliousness jaundice headaches chills and malaria and urging a 8 1 2 cent sample from S H Williams drug store.
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Dr. Kint
S. H. Williams
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W.A. Staggs, M.D
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Black Hawk
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James Empere
Emmet County Land and Abstract Company
Owa
Andy
Mamet Co
Ofrion
Esthierville
Mr. Hammond
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Pomp
Marie Hammond
Marie Huuimond
Poup
Barber
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