The Regulator Coach Delivers Slow Travel Quip
A traveler asks the guard the coach name and learns it is The Regulator. He jokes that the name suits since all other coaches pass it by, implying its notably slow pace in old coaching times.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1913
Page
5
A traveler asks the guard the coach name and learns it is The Regulator. He jokes that the name suits since all other coaches pass it by, implying its notably slow pace in old coaching times.
Dialogue features Willie and Mr. Koyne with a quip about baseball and a health tip advising use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for hoarseness in children. Advertisement notes Lemmon's Pharmacy selling the remedy.
Roald Amundsen arrived in the United States and outlined a six year Arctic voyage costing about 200000 dollars. He would sail from San Francisco in August 1914, drift north of the continent, and seek a Pacific to Atlantic transit via the northern passage aboard the Fram with wireless gear for science and emergency contact.
A new electrocardiograph advancement lets doctors in distant cities view live heart activity. Johns Hopkins hosts a relay room that broadcasts beat charts and shadow pictures to Washington University, Rockefeller Institute, and others, enabling nationwide monitoring within minutes.
The rector Rev Stan ley C Slughes reports a copper and silver bell dated 1702 found under a stage at Trinity church Newport R I. The bell shows the broad arrow mark proving royal gift to American churches and predating the Liberty Bell. The item joins an earlier Queen Anne bell later repurposed for the Trinity clock bell. A mahogany chair from the old altar was recovered and given to Kay chapel.
A government edict expelling the remaining Jews from Kiev by year end causes commercial panic. Four hundred plus merchants and families face disruption as the Moscow Produce Exchange seeks finance minister relief to delay the move. The exodus risks triggering large debts and bad loans across Moscow Lodz banks and retzi trade.
German empress asks that aeroplanes and Zeppelin airships be forbidden to pass over the royal palace. She says constant engine explosions have made her nervous and fears a aircraft might fall on the palace, prompting the prohibition request.
Judge Silwold sentenced three indicted defendants this afternoon. Elsworth Anderson paid a $50 fine plus costs, and William Collet, also fined $50 with costs, must serve jail time until the fine is paid at $3.33 daily. Robert Kelly received six months in jail from December 7 for daytime larceny. the judge urged reflection and noted Kelly's appearance and prospects.
Classified want ad requests readers to contact the Journa for results of a search or sale. It invites inquiries and specifies a contact method.
A series of livestock and horse sales scheduled in Iowa counties including Wellman Kalona Washington and West Chester. Notable entries include Moody George Dave Yoder Tom O Flaherty Willets Wilson Everette Huber Fred Bartholomew and Brooks & Wright with 40 to 50 head of horses mules cattle and machinery, dates January 31 through February 21.
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