Chicago and Northwestern Railway Lines Overview
The Chicago and Northwestern Railway presents a unified route network linking Chicago with Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and California. It highlights lines to La Crosse Madison Duluth Rochester Owatonna Green Bay Marquette and the Lake Superior region and promotes connections to Freeport Elgin and other points via multiple branches.
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Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Great Trunk H Railway
West
Northwest
Wisconsin
Igan
Minnesota
Towa
California
Western Territories
Ita
Chicago
Elgin
Rock
Ford
Freeport
Chicago and Milwatker
Accommodation schedule notices and travel connections
Fragmentary timetable notes list a morning departure around 30 a.m and an evening train to Des Moines with connections through Keokuk and South West routes. Mentions ticket agent W. Nelson and superintendent J. J. Smart, with references to South-West Keokuk for intercity travel and connections.
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C. R. SP
Keokuk
Lanaia
Heart and Harp in the November Poesy Pages
Contentment and song blend as prose and verse from the November magazines highlight Harper’s presence. Readers encounter a celebratory tone noting joy in singing and poetic display.
Echoes of a Distant Ocean in Silent Landscape
A fragmentary lyric describes distant mountains and a fading river, the wind’s gentle touch, and longing for sight and sound. The speaker laments denial and hunger for sense as the landscape stretches into mist and silence.
See How I Help Readers in a Rhyme Fragment
A fragmented verse notes a man boasting how he helps while Reapers reap the grain. His talk ends as others harvest the field rapidly, and a mouse scurries to its hole. The passage mentions Pulvit and St. Nicholaa in unclear context.
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St. Nicholaa
Fragmented Reverie on Indian Summer by Edgar Fawcett
A fragmentary meditation on Indian Summer images, describing hazy horizons, damp woodlands, and a decayed landscape. The prose evokes ghosts of a blurred world seen through a bleak, thorny setting.
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Edgar Fawcett
Atlantic
Sleep After Death Poem Fragment in Galaxy Verse
A verse meditation by Mary Ainge De Vere on death and rest. The speaker asks for oblivion rather than waking to sorrow, hoping for dreamless sleep as a final release. The poem contrasts earthly memories with the peace of silent graves as a beloved sleep.
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Mary Ainge de Vere
Galaxy
Poet Richard Watson Gilder Reflects on Beatrice and Sacred Hymns
An excerpt from Scribner quotes Shakespeare Milton and Dante as a lost friend attains a syllable of wit across three centuries. The lines recall Beatrice and the heavenly hill while invoking enduring literary voices.
The Dream Of It Theresa
A fragment recounts Theresa hearing a strange woman declaring she bears flaming straw and water. The figure says she will quench hell and burn heaven to make men love God forever. The excerpt ends with a quotation attributed to Epes Sargent.
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Theresa
Epes Sargent
The Rose's Secret. Four Lessons in the Darwin Theory
The poem by Will Wallace Harney from Appleton explores how a rose holds and reveals secrets of affection. It compares a maiden's blush and the flower's musk to the concealment and disclosure of love in twilight.
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R Will Wallace Harney
Appleton
The Best Gift Poem Fragment
A fragmented poem speaks of gifts to a newborn, naming Love and Death as figures. It hints at eternal light, a crown of genius, and a life that gleams briefly before fading like a star. The verse contemplates mortality and the promise of lasting beauty beyond mortality.
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Sar Cie
Loaning a Lover Ends in a Tragic Matrimonial Web
A poor family at Lowbridge faces a scheme of marriage to a wealthy heiress Patricia. Gertrude pretends to help, enticing the suitor Gage Redmond with her own plan to marry him. Patricia ends up eloping with Clyde Sherrington, while Gertrude accepts Redmond, learning too late that lending a lover risks heartache and ruin.
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Patricia
Lowbrie
Fragel
Bess
Amy
Bes
Fairhaven
Sisten
Abel
Lowbridge
Betty
Aunt Betty
Ocey
Luke
Mother
Somael
Twins
Hermitage
Clyte Sherrington
Gertrude
Gage Redmond
Gen
de . Redmond
Mamma
Redmond
Patty
de Lacy
Mr. Redmond
Tenens
Mr. Sherrington
Sadie
Clyde
1Oe
Raymond
Sherrington
Hudson
Rose Cottage
Posey
Clyde Sherri
Gage
Measures in Congress Seek Geneva Award Settlement
Abstracts of bills introduced in Congress cover distribution of the Geneva award remaining to claimants, creation of a Court of Claims, and a dedicated adjudication process. Other measures include a bounty equalization bill, a gambling ban for officers, long savings bonds, silver dollar coinage proposals, and a goloid currency plan with large bond issuance. The record lists sponsors Senators Ker nan Ingalls Wallace Jones Plumb and others, plus related policy notes and public notices.
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Senator Kernan
New York
Court of Claims
Ingalls
Kansas
Sermce Act
Withers
Virginia
United States
Plumb
Dunn
Wallace
Secretary of the Treasury
Jones
Nevada
Pennsylvania
W. W. Hubbell
Treasury
Treasury Department
Edmunds
Nasby Relives Campaign Hustle and Labor War
The writer Nasby recounts his Ohio election visit to Toledo on October 15 1877. He aided Democratic turnout and laments a labor vote surge that swept the county by about two thousand, threatening his post office prospects and exposing tensions between workingmen and office seekers in a midterm campaign.
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Kentucky
Gilelis Richard Bishop
Toledo
Ohio
Evenin
Menny
Republikin
Nez Perces Losses at Big Hole Battle Described
The Helena based Chicago Times article praises Nez Perces conduct amid the Big Hole fighting. It notes 112 enemies and 1 burial party tallies, with whites and Indians exhumed by wolves and a focus on Gen Gibbon and Gen Miles’s roles.
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Helena
Mont
Col
Chicago Times
Cians
United States
Gate
Idaho
Montana
British America
Gibbon
Miles
Big Hole
Nez Perces
Howard
Capt. Logan
Fort Shaw
Buri
Stoutland Pigeon Roost Threat to Camden County News
A large annual pigeon roost on the Auglaize river near Camden camp-ground in Camden County Missouri disturbs residents. Millions of pigeons darken the air and damage trees while shotgun volleys sweep the birds, yet the pigeons now drive commerce as a commodity with large yearly yields.
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Europe
Auglaize
Et Camp-Ground
Camden County
Louis Roa
Britain shifts arable acres to pasture amid import surge
Over the past decade nearly a million acres in Great Britain moved from grain crops to pasture as meat production rose. The Trade report notes a slowdown in this land conversion due to a large influx of American imports.
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Great Britain
Heat and hazard of deep shaft mining described
A fragment describes the extreme heat and steam in deep mine shafts where workers emerge drenched and nearly naked. It notes temperatures near 157 degrees Fahrenheit below the surface and the conditions forcing gloves and careful handling, with vivid imagery of oppressive heat and suffocating air.
An Apologue of the East Duel Fencers Learn Feint Wisdom
Two young duelists heed fencing master advice to treat the fight as feint not fatal clash. After twenty minutes of desperate thrusting the seconds intervene and the combatants, urged by pity, end the bout with an embrace and breakfast.
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Cmbetante
Printing office promises neat work fast and cheap
The establishment offers up to date type and materials with prompt dispatch for all orders. Legal blanks are kept in stock and they claim to perform as good work at prices rivaling any printing office in the state.
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Perroleum
Fitz William and the Unknown Grave Tale
Fragmentary verse tale recounts a doomed romance between Fitz William and a poor lover. A mariner party brings a death and a disputed fate while the house and its window stand as mute witnesses. The narrator notes a lack of clear conclusion and hints at repairs and forgotten names.
Canal to Link St Paul and Lake Winnipeg Proposed
A proposed canal of about three fourths of a mile would connect Big Stone Lake to Lake Traverse, enabling steamers from St Paul to navigate the Minnesota and Red rivers to Lake Winnipeg. The route would extend the inland waterway to Edmonton House near the Rockies, about 5,000 miles from New Orleans. A Senate bill calls for funding the canal's construction.
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Big Stone Lake
Lake Traverse
St. Paul
Minnesota River
Red River
Lake Winnipeg
Lake Ontario
Saskatch-a-wan River Is Nee Ee Point (Edmonton House) Near the Rocky Mountains
Lake Winnips
Fraser River
British Columbia
New Orleans
Edmonton House
Senate
Extenuating Circumstances in France and Crime Notes
A European note discusses how French juries add extenuating circumstances to verdicts, making harsh crimes harder to punish. It cites a case of a son who killed his parents and was found guilty with such reasons, that he was an orphan. The piece also mentions New York City debt figures without full context.
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San Antonio
Tex
England
Texas
Mexico
Maximilian
Boston
Paris
Congress
Tuebright Worcester Preas
India
Jefferson
Fiji Islands
Joan Luppeck
Russia
Germany
France
Stonenaut Jackson
Ireland
J. W. Krovey
Alden
Iowa
Wuewn Acle
Europe
Straits of Dover
Harvard
Escn
Wenprret
Barowenn
Whaley
Mass
United States
Canada
Norristown Herald
London
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Jon Watts
Ames
Story County
Rainbolt & Barnel
New York House
Cyrus E. Turner
Ttorney
Eal
F. D. Thompson
T.C. McCall
Mpson
McCall & Thorw
M’carthy
Stevens & Underwood
Bradley & Templeton
Town
West’s Hotel
U.S
Fairchild
G. A. Meredith
Zfedeysician
Tilden & MeLain’s
N. H. Granger
Bradley’s
Bank
Owa
Peterman
Clark’s Grocery
Onondaga St
A. Bain
J. A. Fitchpatrick
Nevada Town
Lewis Schooler
Sheldak
J. N. Scott
Nichols & Maxwell, Ivery and Feed Stable
Destines
Baylies
Great Maresville College
Mississippi
Miller
Arnes
W. F P
Joan Barnes
Rockford
Winnebavo Co
Ill
ABORN
Comer Ark Street
Court Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa
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Capitol
G. B. Brown
Co & I
Omaha and
Aa Bekten
Colorado
Evada
Ifornia
Australia
LA Crosse
Winoka
ST. Peter
Inona
Rochester
Owatennia
A Peter
New
South Central
M Feta
Green Bay
Marquette
Janesville
Mordensounden
Green Bevanabe
Negaunee
Rquette
Houghton, Hancock
Lake Superior Country
Dubequt
Ncie
Milwaukee
Pullman Palace
Minneapolis
Chilcago
Winioa
Bay
State Street
Omaha
Farnham Street
San Francisco
Montgomery Street
Clark Street
Ander Sherman Houce
Canal Street
Maison Birest
Kinize and Coustreeta
Wells Street
Wells and
Kinize Street
H. Stennett
Marvin Hughitt
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Gigicago
D. BM
Des Moines
Crattraim
Clinton
Marehalltown
V.i.dunc
M. Grand Jane
W. Nelson
J. J. Smart
Heart and
Emis
Hharper
Do Taeen
Ales
Sol Wesel
Mr. Benefit
Thad
Shah
New England
Alabama
Iowa Supreme Court
Union
NASBY
Offis Uy
Stoutland
Jorsmsa
Wates
Vilas
Dahon
Elaine Anion
Avery
the Job Printing Department of
Glem Head
Brit Barter
Valine
Jealiony
Fitz- William
Fitz-William
Tia
Mariner
McCorkie
New York City
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