Travels by Train to Cuba Through Blue Grass to Havana
Ambrose, a regular army soldier stationed in Cuba, writes home about a long journey from St. Louis on June 11 8 45 p m. He details scenic mountains Kentucky Virginia and West Virginia, encounters with log houses and coal towns, crowded train cars, and busy Norfolk shipyards on the way to Newport Jamestown and Cuba. He describes weather seas seasickness none and sights at Fort Monroe the battleships firing salutes and the Maine harbor in Havana on June 23 with quarantines and a plan to depart for Carbrane summer weather and family letters awaited.
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Ilavana
Cuba
St. Louis
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Allegheny Mountains
West Virginia
Virginia
Washington County
C. and C
Richmond
Jamestown
Gordonville
Newport
Ft. Monroe
Fifty-eighth Coast Artillery
Chesapeake Bay
Bay
Florida
Havana Harbor
St. John’s
Havana
Carbiene
Carbarien
Washington
Betsy Ross Topic Sparks Public Conversation
Citizens discuss Betsy Ross as a subject of local chatter with many weighing in on her role and symbolism. Debates touch on historical interpretation and national memory.
Complaints Filed Claim Iowa Shippers Suffer Rate Inequities
The Corn Belt Meat Producers Association filed before the Interstate Commerce Commission a complaint against nineteen Iowa railroads led by the Chicago Burlington & Quincy and the Great Western. It alleges unjust, unreason able intrastate and interstate rates harming Iowa shippers of cattle and hogs, cites 25 to 50 percent higher charges than Illinois farmers, and seeks a ten mile distance tariff extended beyond Iowa. Clifford Thorne of Washington IA represents the association with H C Wallace of Des Moines as secretary.
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Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Assn
Clifford Thorne
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Register and Leader
Illinois
Nebraska
Southwest
Corn Belt Meat Producers Association
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Great Western
Northwestern
Rock Island
Illinois Central
St. Paul
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association
Chicago
Corn Belt Association
State Commission
Batavia
Vermont
Waterloo
Stanley
Oelwein
Cedar Falls
Kansas City
State Line
Ilinois
Iowa Line
Washington
H. C. Wallace
Des Moines
Beautiful Bagdad to Play Three Days in Portable Theater
Arrangements are complete for the three day and night engagement of Beautiful Bagdad. J A Darnaby brings a large company with a fifty foot stage to Third St Smouse’s lot using a portable theater seating 2500. Seats go on sale Monday at Lemmon's pharmacy with prices 25 35 and 50 cents.
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Chicago
Bagdad
Germantown
Anne Saunders
Peerless
Dever Brothers
Fortuni Sisters
Queens of Song
Topsichore
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Third St
Smouse’s Lot
America
Neque Opera Maker
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Ambrose Hout
Louis
Sam Hout
Ambrose
Johnie
Betsy Ross
Corn Belt
Merce Commission
North Pole
Work & Meek
Bagdade
All Star
J. Allen Carnaby
Music By
On Third Street
Lemmon’s
John J. McKeone
Guy Water Work
St. P
Roardeuss
Phoee
Washington National Bank
Washington, Iowa
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