Catalpa Timber Drives Rail Ties Boom and New York Depot
Rail interests plant 200000 catalpa trees on a thousand acres near Carney Kansas to supply cross ties for lines including Louisville and Nashville. Pennsylvania completes tunnels and digs for Grand Central station with 60 million dollars plus 10 million in land. Walschaert valve gear aims to speed trains at Elkhart. Bacchus specials planned by Lancashire and Yorkshire for holiday revelers to ride after main traffic ends.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Carney
Als
Nashville Special Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Alabama
Louisville
Nashville
Arkansas Valley
Kansas
Santa Fe
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Catalpa
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Louisville and Nashville
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York City
Grand Central
Karl Decker
Success Magazine
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Manhattan Island
Long Island
East
United States
Elkhart
Lake Shore
Cincinnati Enquirer
Walschaert
Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail Way Company
London
St. Louis
New York Central Builds Special Auto Transport Cars
The New York Central railroad plans two cars designed to carry automobiles on passenger trains. The round topped cars will feature a seven foot wide and high door and will be placed at the end of the train.
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The
New York Central Railroad
Young James Ray Hero Of Harrodsburg Fort Siege
In 1777 during a Harrodsburg siege a 16 year old hunter named James Ray risked his life to bring in game and later escaped a crossfire. After being blocked from the fort gates he hid behind a stump for four hours while Indians fired nearby then urged the garrison to dig a hole under the cabin wall and be admitted inside.
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Harrodsburg
James Ray
General Ray
Ray
Ile
Imagination Test Sparks Illness Trick
A Philadelphia Telegraph anecdote recounts a physician claiming a friend’s imagination is powerful. The doctor gives a cigar of a mild strength and the friend feels sick, proving imagination can affect perception. The joke ends with the friend recovering and the doctor smiling.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Millionaire’s Car Kills Dog in France Then Finds Skeleton
An American millionaire hits a dog in France and offers a bank note to a nearby peasant who is not the owner. The driver and car are gone, but the peasant does not keep the money. Months later the motorist finds the dog’s skeleton by the roadside with the note and a penciled reminder.
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France
Treatment of rheumatism by colored people in old slavery days
A colored man recounts how enslaved people managed rheumatism through mechanical manipulation. Rubbing, pummeling, and pressure with hands or compresses formed a self taught system. When one method failed they tried others and believed persistent use brought relief and permanent cure.
The Bee and the Chick
A historical note on chick growth and egg weight. An egg weighs about two ounces with fifty grains shell. A chick weighs one to one and a half ounces. At six months the clearment is one third more than the bone. Some cases show weight near the egg minus shell when under a hen. A chick should gain three ounces weekly after week six if well fed.
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Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Chickamauga National Park
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisville & Nashville
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Louisville & Nashville R. R. J
HW. Minnikken
Louisville
F. D. Buss
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Cincinnati
J. E. Davenport
St. Louis
H. C. Bailey
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P. A
ChiCaGo
Mark Twain Dry Dock Joke Recalled by Boston Herald
The Boston Herald recounts a humorous remark by Mark Twain after a young acquaintance asked what a dry dock means. Twain quips that it is a thirsty physician in a brief exchange highlighting his witty wordplay.
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Mark Twain
Mr. Clemens
Boston Herald
Johnny and Father Debate Old Craft in Evening Lesson
A father answers his son’s question about tanning hides with bark. The exchange ends with a warning that further questions will be met with a slipper, underscoring a strict lesson in a rustic home scene.
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Johnny
Undertaker Surpasses All in Final Overtake
In this brief line from a Philadelphia Bulletin snippet the figure dubbed the undertaker is described as finally overtaking everyone else, marking a dramatic close to an unnamed event. The phrasing emphasizes inevitability and finality.
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Undertaker
Philadelphia Bulletin
Bank to go into liquidation after postal fraud ruling
St Louis bank directors vote to liquidate following United States Judge Van Deventer ruling denying injunction against fraud order enforcement. Meanwhile Judge McElhinney appoints a temporary receiver for the People's United States Bank, with Frederick Essen named as receiver before appeals are filed.
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St. Louis
United States Clieuit
van Deventer
People’s United States Bank
McElhinney
Hadley
Missouri
Frederick Essen
St. Louis County
Kasen
Mellhinney
Girl’s Adventure with a Snake in Gettysburg Va
Miss Margaret Deardort found a large black snake under a pillow and the reptile coiled around her right arm and then her left wrist. Her brother tried to help, but could not strike, until he cut off the head with a knife in the garden.
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Gettysburg
Margaret Deardort
Deardorf
Factory Inspectors in Council Opens Convention
Detroit Mich Aug 16 The annual convention of the International Association of the Factory Inspectors opened here. President Edgar T Davies of Chicago presided. Addresses were read by W L Bodine of Chicago on The Competitive Life and by Mrs Sarah K R Crowley deputy inspector of Illinois on Our Purpose and Duty.
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Etroit, Mich
International Association of the
Edgar T. Davies
Chicago
About Vies
W.L. Bodine
Sarah KR. Crowley
Ilinois
Progress of the Bakers' Strike Reaches Tentative Accord
Twenty nine of the 250 boss makers of kosher bread sign an agreement granting eight dollars weekly to striking foremen and a graded scale for other bake shop workers for a ten hour day with union recognition. Bakeries are promptly supplied with union men.
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New York
Weather forecast summary for Midwest states
The forecast covers Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin with partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures. Local rains expected in Michigan with fresh to brisk northeast winds shifting to southerly. Iowa sees fair conditions with southerly winds.
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Iinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Markets Report Chicago Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Estimated receipts hogs 28 000 with ranges 5 80 to 6 30 for pigs light 6 00 to 6 35 for light rough packing 5 80 to 6 35 for mixed and heavy 5 00 to 6 30 for packing and shipping. Cattle receipts 7 000 with steers 5 50 to 6 00. fat cows and heifers 2 40 to 4 85. bulls and stags 2 15 to 4 25. western range steers 3 10 to 4 50. veal calves 5 00 to 6 75. Sheep receipts 12 000 with wethers 5 00 to 5 40. range ewes 4 75 to 5 40. yearlings 5 40 to 7 75. lambs 6 50 to 7 40. East Buffalo market slow to steady hogs 6 00 to 6 05. cattle 6 50 to 6 60 for best. sheep and lambs best 7 00 to 7 25, fair to good 6 50 to 6 75. years 6 75 to 7 00, fair 6 00 to 6 50.
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East Buffalo
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
N. Y
Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
The remedy is praised for prompt relief and pleasant taste in letters from W T Taylor of Winslow Alabama. It is cited as useful for diarrhoea and colic and is available at Stewart's Pharmacy and Cook and Sherman.
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W. T. Taylor
Winslow
Ala
Stewart’s Pharmacy
Cook & Sherman
Money to Loan on Farm Land at 5 Percent
Notice states a loan of 850000 on farm land at 5 percent and 25000 at 44 percent placed for loan by W H Butterfield. These figures specify amounts and rates for prospective lenders or borrowers seeking funding.
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Rept
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Pacific Coast
J. E. Kunath
Munn & Co
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All Newadea Munn & Co
NAWYC
F St
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W. H. Butterfield
Journal
John Sebastian
Rock Island System
TS la Salle Station
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