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When steam came to be used, these scruples were re-enforced by the alleged danger that the new system of travel would do away with the market for oats and for horses, and that stage-drivers would seek wages in vain. The first trip by a locomotive was in 1828, over the Carbondale and Honesdale route in Pennsylvania. The engine was of English make, and run by Mr. Horatio Allen, who had had it built.
In 1831 different denominational elements gathered together and began Sunday-school and church life in Carbondale, Pa. The Congregational Church there has been a steady factor of religious life ever since, first among the Welsh exclusively, but later among all classes. "In similar manner churches were organized all over the anthracite district.
There were not many people there, but they began to come very soon, and kept coming until the room was nearly full. Finally, there was a puffing of a locomotive out on the track, and a ringing of an engine bell, and the door-keeper called out: "All aboard for Pittston, Scranton, and Carbondale!"
"A five-legged rabbit has been born in Carbondale, Southern Illinois," she announced. Mr. Scobell cursed the five-legged rabbit. "Never mind about your rabbits. I want to hear that piece you read before. The one about the Prince of Monaco. Will you listen, Marion!" "The Prince of Monaco, dear? Yes. He has caught another fish or something of that sort, I think. Yes.
I was born in Carbondale, Illinois, but that doesn't matter I'm an English countess, doing barefoot dancing to work off the mortgage on the ancestral castle, and they eat me. Take it from me, Claire, I'm a riot. Well, that's that. What I am really writing about is to tell you that you have got to come over here. I've taken a house at Brookport, on Long Island, for the summer.
" 15 *Honesdale, Pa. " 31 Mankato, Kan. " 16 Carbondale, Pa. En route to next date on " 17 Montrose, Pa. circuit. " 18 Tunkhannock, Pa. Aug. 3 Westfield, Pa. " 19 Nanticoke, Pa. " 4 Galston, Pa. " 20 Stroudsburg, Pa. " 5 Port Alleghany, Pa. " 21 Newton, N. J. " 6 Wellsville, N. Y. " 22 *Newton, N. J. " 7 Bath, N. Y. " 23 Hackettstown, N. J. " 8 *Bath, N. Y. " 24 New Hope, Pa.
We play Avondale Schedule, you know." "Oh yes," said Mr. Wrenn, timorously.... He had once heard of Carbondale in New Jersey or Pennsylvania or somewhere but that didn't seem to help much. "Well, you see, you either make or go back," continued Tom. "Plus and minus, you know. Joker is high, then right bower, left, and ace. Then uh let's see; high bid takes the cat widdie, you know and discards.
When a man has got the drop on me I don't aim to argue with him. Not none. Tim Harrigan had notions. Different here. I've done some rough-housin'. When a guy puts up his dukes I'm there. Onct down in Sonora I slammed a fellow so hard he woke up among strangers. Fact. I don't make claims, but up at Carbondale they say I'm some rip-snorter when I get goin' good. I'm quiet.
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