Grand Excursion, Wednesday, August 10th, Peoria, Ill. to NIAGARA FALLS and return for only $10.00 for the round trip. Come and be with us on this wonderful excursion trip.
Thus read placards posted in stations of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R. R. 50 years ago last week. Some 750 people from Peoria and nearby towns made reservations. A train dispatcher took along his bride. A superintendent of the T. P. & W. attached his private car, invited a party of friends. Sixteen coaches hauled by two locomotives were necessary to accommodate the crowd....
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