Cactus City Tale of Navarro Platt in New York Bureau
Navarro and Platt of Cactus City, Texas, visit New York to buy stock from Zizzbaum & Son. Platt wooes model Miss Asher while learning bluntly that salesgirls resist con games. A sharp blow and a ring reveal the mismatch between Texan buyers and city fashion, ending with Asher planning a departure to Caracas after the encounter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8. S. M.clure Co
Cactus City
Tex
Navarro & Platt
Navarro & Pratt
New York
John
Platt
San Antono
Texas
Zizzbaum & Son
Broadway
Zizzbaum
Pecos County
Zitzbaum
el Paso
Rio Grande
Son
Abey
Mr. Platt
Hotel Astor
Asher
Miss Asher
Pratt
Helen
Diana
Caracas
Venezuela
Gleanings on industry science and hunting safety
The world’s annual match bill is 185 million dollars. Champagne grapes are pressed six times yielding varied wine quality. German coal prices rise above 1900 levels, with rail rates offsetting local output costs. Engineers note that divers in caissons benefit from compressed air, with physicians testing this claim. In Maine no one was killed in deer hunting this season for the first time in twelve years. three fatalities occurred from accidental gun discharges by companions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Maine
The Royal Box Banquet Jewels and Royal Postcards
At a recent English visit the German empress wore jewels valued at 1.25 million dollars. The English king buys no cigars while the czar sends a cabinet of 10,000 Havana cigars. Alfonso in London laughed at an old lady's quip about his future heir. Saxon royal women partner with a Dresden publisher to sell postcards of royal paintings, with proceeds to a consumptive care institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Germany
Alfonso
Tussaud’s
London
Royal House of
Saxony
Dresden
Memorial rock at Sherman eclipsed by useful invention
The Sherman monument to Oakes Ames, founder of the Union Pacific, is dwarfed by his real legacy. Ames designed the Ames shovel No 2 and a tamping device still used in railroads today. True immortality lies in useful deeds that help others rather than stone and bronze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Sherman
Oakes Ames
Ames
Luxor
Mesopotamia
Thebes
Sires and Sons and Notable Public Figures
A collection of brief profiles and anecdotes from public life. It notes Secretary Taft inheriting a $25,000 legacy, brothers Fulton of Oregon and Oklahoma, Edmund Provot a 19 year old Esperanto scholar, Frye’s long Senate presidency, Newlands as a friendly Nevadan, Joseph Pulitzer buying a steam yacht, Captain William Dix’s health and pie prowess, John Snow’s pie contest boast, and Postmaster General Meyer standing at a high desk rebuilt from the Massachusetts House chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
United States
Fulton
Oregon
Oklahoma
Edmund Provat
Geneva
William P. Frye
Maine
Senate
Newlands
Nevada
Congress
Joseph Pulitzer
Leith
American
William Dix
West Tremont
Dix
John Snow
North Brookfield Mass
Mr. Snow
George V. L Meyer
House of Representatives
Massachusetts Statehouse
Nationalized Japanese Railways Change October 1
The Kwansas and Sangu railways were purchased and transferred to the Japanese government completing nationalization. Revised freight and passenger traffic took effect. A funeral car on an elevated railway marks an innovation, with surface lines already using such cars and a Chicago L line reporting strong demand.
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New York
Berlin
Paris
London
Kwansas and Sangu
Railways of
Japan
Chicago
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the Royal Box
Sires and Sons
the Citizens Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Dr. D. Arthaud
Osteopath
Kirksville
Dr. W. M. Terry
West Washington Street
Ray H. Dean
Cook & Sherman's
Austin Sutherland
Wagshington
Iowa JR
D. G. Knottnerus
North Side Square
Washington
Iowa
Falty
Sun
Weiland Express
California Special
Daily Mail
Daily Pass
Prgu
Sun Washington
G. B
Milwaukee
East Bound Pass
Southwest Limited
Iowa Central
Brighton
St.Paul
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Kansas City
Mason City Mail
Twin Cities Limited
Peoria Express
Bisspm
Peoria Limited
A.B. Cutts
Minn
Clifford Thorne
Court House
J. J. Kellogg
Squtm Side Square
W. M. Butterfield
Eicher & Livingston
Charles A. Dewey
Lawyer
Notary
Fpublic
Office
J. Wilson
C. Wilson
Wilson & Wilson Lawyers
Washington County Savings Bank
W. M. Keeley
E. D. Morrison
P. J. Hanley
J. R. Crail
BANKS
Farmers & Merchants
State Bank
S. A. Wurrr
Sam'l Thompson
RK. L. Covurer
A. Wurrr
E. C. Rupp
Flowa
Tony
Casey’s
Colense
Macon
Kieer
Lowe
Chichester
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