The Greeley Colony Lessons and Legacy
The Greeley colony showed eastern civic leaders and investors ready to cooperate in arid region irrigation despite miscalculations in canal costs and harsh realities of soil and climate. It produced a resilient economy centered on potatoes, strong civic institutions, and moral standards, even through 1893’s panic, offering lessons for arid America.
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Greeley Colony
Meeker
W. G. Smythe
Greeley
Union Colony
America
Trainmen and rails asides and a Horace Mann quote
The passage touts Texas Central top track work and a plan to rescue the Silverton California railroad buried by snow. It notes Wagner Palace Car company conductors and porters to wear service stripes and reports a planned ladies auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. It also mentions tool boxes on the Philadelphia division for engineers and urges kindness to birds with Mann’s quotation on spring shade.
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Silverton
California
Wagner Palace Car Company
Tur
Brotherhood of Railway
Brotherhood
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Advice for brides and patent medicine ads in old Atlanta piece
A fragmented clump of 19th century editorials and ads urges choosing a husband with judgment, promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for nervous debility and uterine troubles, and touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for lung diseases. It notes a $45,000 cost for an Atlanta negro exhibit and a sheriff closing a New York Casino, plus a Delaware yawning dislocation and a Trilby boarding house in Atlanta.
All About Nicaragua Rich Resources and Struggling Finances
An 1880s overview outlines Nicaragua as rich in natural resources including mahogany woods and cattle, with exports to the United States and imports from England. It notes a small population of about 310,000, capital Managua at 18,000, and Leon at 25,000, plus a constitutional republic, a 39-member congress, and an active army of 2,000 with 10,000 in reserve. The piece also covers geography, volcanoes, railways, telegraphs, education, and fiscal instability driven by monopolies and duties. It mentions President Santos Zelaya elected last year, and highlights mining with American investment and extensive forests and fauna.
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Republic of Nicaragua
New York Sun
Managua
Leon
Corinto
Pacific
Nicaragua
England
United States
Coseguina
Senate
House of Representatives
Santos Zelaya
Granada
Susan and the Painter Scrimmage in the Clearin
Cuthbert Miles recalls Susan a ten year old girl who faced two roaring painters in a Pennsylvanian woodlands clearing. Susan sets her pawpaw rifle, shoots, and brings the wounded painters into the cabin, saving the skins and keeping her family safe. The tale ends with Miles praising Susan as astoundin'.
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Susan
Cuthbert Miles
Indian Run
York State
Pennsylvany
Cortland County
Moses
Chenango Forks
Meerd
Hull
Hay
Miles
N. Y. Sun
After All We Reach The Sweet Haven At Last
A reflective verse from F L Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution speaks of ending a testing journey. Faith sustained the travelers through darkness and tempests guiding them toward a final, tranquil haven free of earthly cares. The poem acknowledges memories of autumn joys while embracing hopeful closure.
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F. L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Hood's Sarsaparilla Advertising Claim
An advertisement touts REAL MERIT as Hood's Sarsaparilla's hallmark and claims the remedy cures after other preparations fail, urging customers to choose Hood's exclusively.
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Hood
Escapes and Indictments From A Missouri College Hunt
Ex congressman Heard recounts Steve Elkins escape after a hunting trip near Columbia. Elkins fled thirty miles to Jefferson City after an indictment for stealing chickens. his graduation speech is upstaged by a chicken released in the hall. A Albany autopsy lists hair pins needles nails screws and odds and ends swallowed by a woman with pica.
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West Virginia
John T. Heard
Missouri
Steve Elkins
Missouri State University
Columbia
Elkins
Steve
Heard
Jefferson City
Noile
Ile
Albany
N. Y
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Texas Central
Lone Star State
Horace Mann
New York
Br. Pierce's
Golden Golden Medical Discovery
Atlanta
John Wenstronm
Gen
Susan and
Til
Panthers
B. Elkins
W. VA
Blue Ridge Works
Allentown
Bradfield
J. M. Johnson
Malvern
Ark
Bradfield Regulator CO
W.L. Dove
Cordovan
French
Elluself
the Celluloid Company
Broadway
Our Mat! Order Department
Brilliantines
SE Deere 'T
Boggs & Buhl
Allegheny, PA
U. S
Washington
Addrega
C.A
Snow Zco
Washington, D.C
U. B
Coultrap
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