Trains and fares advertised for Pacific coast travel
A vivid railway notice lists routes from Minneapolis to Saint Paul and beyond with multiple northern and southern terminals. It touts elegant vestibule Pullman sleeping cars, daily service, and specific departure times. The piece advertises reduced one way fares to California Oregon and other western states from Minneapolis and St Louis Railroad, with contact to A B CUTS G P T A A and A B Dutta G P A Minniapella Minnesota.
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A. BE
G. P
TAA
Minneapolis
Minn
Pacific Coast
Sminneapelia & St Louis Railroad
Qalifornia
Oregon
Washington
Molumbie
Uigh
Mootans
Idaho
Callon
A. B. Dutta
F. A. Minniapella
Magazine club offer with Vindicator and Republican
The notice promotes special magazine combinations at reduced prices with the Vindicator and Republican. Offers include Cosmopolitan with World Today at 2.55, Cosmopolitan with Harper's Bazaar at 2.55, and Cosmopolitan with Review of Reviews at 4.40, among others. Reading appeals emphasize winter reading and discounts for subscribers. An accompanying testimonial from Mrs. Nancy M. Hanson mentions Dr Thomas Kelectric Oil for a burned child.
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Vindicator
Republican
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Cosmopolitan
Harper's Bazaar
Woman's Home Companion
Womans Home Companion
Homas
Nancy M. Hanson
Hamburg, N. Y
Last Excursion to Twin Cities by Minneapolis and St Louis
The Minneapolis and St Louis Railway offers a round trip excursion to Minneapolis and St Paul, leaving from Katharville Saturday morning and returning Monday morning. Fare around 8 dollars. Tickets available via excursion flyers and agents.
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Twin Cities
Excursion tickets offered weekly to wide U S and Canada
The Minneapolia St Louis R R will sell round trip excursion tickets every Tuesday to Minnesota Iowa the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Canadian Northwest and on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to South Southeast and West with rate one fare plus $2 and liberal limits and stopover privileges. Nickel Plate routes Chicago to Buffalo and return by October 20th with first class dining service aboard. The Weekly Iowa State Register and Farmer offers subscription from Des Moines at 50 cents. include ad for Dean's Regulats laxative.
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Minneapolia
St. Louis R
Buffalo
Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
Qelober
City Ticket
Adams St
For Sale or Exchange in Wadena County Minnesota
Several thousands of acres of land offered at 165 dollars per acre in Wadena county Minnesota. Payment terms: half cash and remaining balance at 6 percent interest. Trade accepted for good payments. Options include dividing into 40 80 120 820 400 acre parcels. Numerous other exchanges available through M. H. SonLopMaAN.
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Wadena County
Minnesota
Balange
M. H. Sonlopmaan
The Crested Hat and Other Curious Observations
A fragmentary column surveys quirks of language and nature. It quotes Horace Bushnell on play and balance, critiques common phrases, parodies King James Bible phrasing, explains a dock mishap wording, and details the Crested Hat rat of East Africa with notes on its appearance, skull, habitat, and diet.
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East Africa
Ita
Curious tomb of Lady Grimston with tree growth
An English tomb tale centers on Lady Anne Grimston of the Thanet line. She died an atheist and reportedly doubted resurrection while predicting a tree would sprout from her coffin. An oak and a sycamore grew through the brick and granite vault, enveloping the grave in Tewin churchyard.
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Curioun
England
Anne Grimston
Earl of Thanet
Tewin
Eged
When Everything In Poisonous Eggs and Substances
A trench investigator injected powdered yolk from a duck egg treated with 20 percent salt into an animal’s veins until death. Fifty five grams per pound killed a rabbit. Egg yolk varies by species. turtle yolk more poisonous than duck. egg albumen also poisonous.
Far Enough Readings and Misread Lines in Class
A fragmented OCR passage recalls a college classroom moment with William M. Varis and a Virgil reading. It questions grumbling’s health impact, a misread pill joke, and a student’s definition of a fan, all framed by reflections on aging and folly in schooling.
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William M. [Varis
President Hayes
Virgil
Eivarts
Veritan's Gigantic 320 Foot Harp Predicts Weather
The 1787 colossal harp by Veritan of Burkli near Basel stretched 320 feet with fifteen wires of varying thickness. The open-lot instrument, angled to catch wind tones, aimed to foretell weather by the tones produced as wind passed through it.
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Veritan
Burkli
Basel
Switzerland
M. Veritan
Veritnn
As You Please Riddle Teaches Life’s Choice
A tale tells of a wise man who answers a tricky question about a captive bird. A clever captor asks if the bird in his hand is alive or dead. The sage replies it is “as you please,” meaning each person holds life as a choice, blessing or bane.
Pressed to Death in Historic English Court Sentence
A court sentenced a woman to imprisonment for refusing to speak at trial. The article recalls the old punishment of pressing to death, describing the brutal method of confinement with limbs stretched, iron and stone laid upon the body, and a grueling diet until death.
Great Discovery and the Winchester Borrowing Demand
The Kansas editor recalls borrowing a Winchester to return it to its owner, provoking angry demand from delinquent subscribers. One man paid a decade old debt in response. On returning to the office he found hay, corn, potatoes, wood, and a barrel of turnips delivered. The piece ends with a tongue in cheek note about borrowing a Winchester from Lonle Post-Dispatch.
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Kansas
Winchester
Lonle
A Visitor Finds Health Disadvantage in East End
A caller to the poor of London's east end hears Mrs. B describe a large family and abundant sickness. When asked about the children she replies they are well while noting they eat a great deal when they are well, illustrating hardship and strain on health.
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East End
London
Population Density and Rice Fields on Java Island
The passage notes Java’s thick population and farming reaching high up the hills. It describes Lelea’s plain in July as a sea of ripe golden rice with scattered thatch roof villages among coconut trees. White sugar mill chimneys emerge amid vast sugarcane fields inland.
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Java
Lelea
Sugar Milla
Fire and Water in a Daring Domestic Dialog
A quirky excerpt discusses how water quenches fire by cooling flames below ignition. It then shifts to a domestic scene where Mrs Dove-Henry debates cooking and a teasing exchange reveals tension over economy and marital prospects.
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