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Sixteen Trans-continental Passenger Trains Daily

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Day
9
Month
July
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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Under the new train schedule wliicli the Northern Paciöc Railroad inaugurates June 15th, 18i)0, there will be sixteen trans-coutinental passenger traína moving daily on thls greiit line, eight east bound and eivht we9tbound, exclusive of 108 local, main and brancli line passenger trains runningdaily west of St. Paul Ashland and Du'uth In Wisconsin, Minnesota North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington on ita 3800 miles of track. Chas. S. Fee, General Passenger Agent of the line at St . Paul, announces thut nnder the new arrangement the first through train, the Pacilic Express, leaves St. Paul at 8:15 a. m.,daily,with a through Pullman Palace Slceplng, Car, leaving Chicago daily at 5:30 p. m. via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Eallway, running via Helena and Tacoma direct to Portland, and making closo connectlons at St. Paul witli all trains leaving St. Louis In the forenoon and Chicago in the aflernoon of the previous day, arriving at Tacoma 10:50 a. m. of the third day and Portland the same afternoon. The secoud through train, No. 1, the Pacilic Mail, leaving St. Paul at 4:15 p. m., daily, maktng close connectious with the "Fa9t Mail," and all uight trains out of Chicago, will carry athrough Pullman Palace Sleeping Car and one or more Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars leaving Chicago at 10:45 daily via the Wiscousiii Central line, running through to Portland via Helena and Tacoma. Both trains out of St. Paul will carry Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars and Dining Cars, but free colonist sleepers will be run only on train No. 1, leaviug St. Paul at 4:15 p. in. The Northern Pacific now operatej the largest equipment of dining cars of any rallroad iu the world, twenty-four, and also the longest Pullman sleeping car line in existence, namely: Chicago to Portland via Tacoma, and is the only line running these sleepers to the principal trade centres aud pleasure resorts in Northern Minnesota, North Dakota, Manitoba, Montana and Washington. The recently completed Butte Air Line of the Northern Pacific makes this the shorte8t route between Chicago and Butte by 120 miles and enables this company to announce a through Pullman Sleeping Car service between St. Paul and Tacoma and Portland via Butte, west on the 4:15 p. m. train, east from Portland on the 7.00 a. in. Atlantic Mail. 3v Pkar's Is the purest auü best Soap over made. If you sellcloth by a 35 Inch yard-stick, you will find on the day of jiidgment that it hasn't stretched any.

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