Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1893 — Reasons Why World’s Fair Visitors Should Purchase Their Tickets Over the Pennsylvania Short Line. [ARTICLE]

Reasons Why World’s Fair Visitors Should Purchase Their Tickets Over the Pennsylvania Short Line.

It Is the shorte t route and an excellent line In every way. It furnishes the best possible accommodations for passengers. It has a reputation for reliability which Is beyond queslion. It runs throngh trains Into Chicago Union Passenger Station via GRAND CROWING, within view of and only a short distance from the World's Fair Grout ds. and stops them at Grand C'ossing for the express purpose of allowing vassengers to disembark at that point, enabling them to reach the great Columbian Exposition and the hotels and boarding houses adjacent thereto. In » ride of only ten minutes by train of Illinois Central Railroad or by electric street ear line—fare by either only five cents. Tickets to Chicago and return, good until October 31st, are now on stle at a reduction of twenty-five per cent, at all ticket offices of the Pennsylvania Short Lines. Your nearest Ticket 1 Agent of these lines will promptly answer all inquiries for detailed Information. It is interesting and somewhat disquieting to note how much more identification it takes to cash a check than it does to get lynched.

The value of farming lands in this country is greatest in New Jersey. In 1888 it averaged: New Jersey. $64; Massachusetts, SSO; Ohio, $46; New York, $44; Vermont, $36; Maryland, s32;Wisconsin, $23, and in some Western States less than $5 per acre. In the early days of Virginia a law was made punishing with death the man who killed a hog, sheep or goat. This was done to provide for the increase of these animals.