Frisco System reports new observation train program
The Frisco System markets through chair car and Pullman Sleeper service from Saint Louis and Kansas City with large library observation cars and electric comforts. The trains run daily, offering newspapers and periodicals, and are managed under Fred Harvey. A separate note describes a Northeast Tarbary wedding mishap where a veil loosened briefly but was readjusted at the altar. The groom and minister continued as the ceremony resumed without halt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarbary
Perjars
Kenncheo_ Journal
Frisco
Saint Louis
Kansas City
Fred Harvey
Southwest Colonial Excursions and daily life snippets
Advertising and notices mix with humorous quotes and medical claims. It lists low fares to Indian Territory and Texas on select Tuesdays, plus a railway agent contact in St. Louis. Scattered lines include a boarding house prompt, a courtroom style joke, medical patent medicines, rent and land notes, and a carpet dye ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kangay
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Texas
James Arker
L Pass
Wainwright Bldg
St. Louis
President Ingalls on trusts and national duty in crisis
An editorial adapts Mr. Ingalls's views from the Social Service Magazine to urge sober national reflection as the new century opens. It stresses the dangers from capital and labor conflict, the reach of trusts, and the need for virtue, small landholders, and fair taxation to sustain a government of the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Social Service Magazine
United States
Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Ingalls
Evon
Tke Mr. Ingalls
Jess
Comerce
Cay
Orient
North
South
Mr. Ingalls
Cats Negie
Republic
England
Turkey
Language learning with daily word goals inspires fluency
A Globe-Democrat piece recounts a man who learned multiple languages by a simple plan. He vowed not to retire for the day without learning three Spanish words, totaling about 90 daily terms and 1,000 in a year, enabling conversation and Spanish correspondence in nine months. The method centers on speaking intelligibly and understanding replies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Mexico
Europe beet sugar crop and US industrial output
The article cites projected 1903 beet sugar crop at about 6,000,000 tons and notes government purchases of 1,735 pounds of California prunes for distribution to Indians. It compares Pacific coast hydro power to 300,000,000 tons of coal yearly, quotes steel capacity at 24,000,000 tons annually after plants finish, reports US Steel Corp produced 51 percent of 13,000,000 tons last year, and mentions a four year contract for 851,000,000 stamped envelopes awarded to Hartford Manufacturing, the largest in post office history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
California
Pacific
United States Steel Corporation
United States
Hartford Manufacturing Company
Post Office Department
Advances in Railways and Steel Wheels Redefine Freight Cars
Article notes rail operations in Canada need 600 snow plows yearly. Japanese railways plan to employ women in Licket service. French railway workers mostly earn under 174 dollars monthly with long hours. Bethlehem steel tests a steel freight car wheel process to replace costly cast iron wheels, signaling a major shift in rolling stock if successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Licket
Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel Works
Irish and British Isles curious notes and statistics
A Cork dealer advertises two thousand Irish copkeys. London seized unjust weights totaling 63 950 in 1901. Two giant vegetables grown in Cambridgeshire weighed 23 pounds 4 ounces and 15 pounds. The Thamnes has tides rising 20 feet in spring and 17 feet at neaps, and is a navigable river. It is claimed more Irish in London than Dublin, more Scots in Edinburgh, half of Soho French, and all of Saffron Hill Italian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cork
London
Foulmere
Cambridgeshire
England
Dublin
Edinburg
Soho
Saffron Hill
Defined Fiat failures dismissed janitors
A quirky item lists roles from a directory style puzzle or catalog. It mentions men of figures, bookkeepers, a winner with the goubler alias, a man of powerful fee and sickness, and a doctor. It also notes a man of address who is the directory publisher.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tate
Cara
Beryl
Ethel
Sibyl
Baltimore Herald
Atno
Brooklyn
August Koenig
Hamburg
Cholly
Indianapolis News
N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
Chicago Daily News
Parma
Bal Fcropuli
Mulhall
Slowx City
ST. Jacobs
Windpe
Big Four Railway
Loneville Counter-Journal
Assouante
Egypt
British Isles
JHE Markets
Corton
Evans
Corton- Middling
Orleans
Joe
Carter
Walter
Orden
Furl Genera
Montgomery
Wak & Co
AT. WA Music
X. Brosdway
St- Louis
Pabba
Ted Fanning
Orenee Aatra
Bears
Castoria
Pepsin Syrup CO
Monticello
Mls
Ee, Eira
UiRnot
Dubuque
Waterloo
Albert Les
I. CR. Re
A. H. Hahegh
G. Ps Ae
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