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...House, to them it matters not, and if one wants to gaze down upon them through a length of stove pipe...
...made her motor useless, had stopped railway passenger service to Newton, her next stop. She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails. Overtaken by a freight train, she and her party hustled the handcar off the tracks clambered into the caboose, huddled around a small wood-stove with the conductor and brakeman until they trundled into Newton...
When No. 9, the first Pullman car, left Bloomington, Ill., for Chicago on the evening of Sept. 1, 1859, it carried four passengers. They slept in wooden bunks, were warmed by a wood-burning stove. A brakeman attended to the duties which have since devolved upon the porter. Last year Pullman Co. operated 9,248 luxuriously equipped Pullmans, carried 33,923,920 passengers who were waited upon by 12,000 porters and maids. From its traveling dormitories, Pullman profited to the extent of more than...
...Mode here; the first is reckon'd rude, and the other may rub off the Paint." At 78, his great task accomplished, he sailed for home, kept himself occupied on the voyage by writing two treatises: The Causes & Cures of Smoky Chimneys, Description of a New Stove for Burning of Pitcoal and Consuming All Its Smoke. In 1790, at the age of 84, he died...
...being an old man's darling, she tried a young Canadian, but his respectable family frightened her away again. Most people thought Giff was crazy; her relatives had her locked up, but she got out and told fortunes for a living. One night fumes from the oil stove asphyxiated...