Transcontinental rail plan sparks vast travel and wealth hopes
Extensive discussion champions the Union Pacific Railroad linking Omaha to California. It argues the line will stimulate massive passenger and freight transit, boost mining and agriculture, justify bonds, and transform the economy, while noting government backing and projected completion around 1870.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Jess Postly
Mirenuri
Frontier
Nto
Sybere
Pacific Coast
Ronn
Omaha
Nebraska
Uaron Riese
Union Pacific Tan
Roan
Mississippi Valley
California
Atlantic and Pacific
Europe
America
Nevada Range
Ocean
Middle States
Baltimore & Ohio A. R
Erie & Ohio Railroad
Rocky Mountains
Feat Point
Continent
Bridger’s Pass
Platte
Humboldt
Platte River
Ousio
Montana
Idaho
Nevada
Asia
John F. Cisco, Esq
New York
Atlantic and
Anniversary of Ruppe Island Baptist Sunday School Convention
The twenty seventh anniversary of the Ruppe Island Baptist Sunday School Convention was held with the Bristol Baptist Church and Sunday School. Professor J. B. Lincoln of Brown University served as President and R. A. Guild was Secretary. An address of welcome, a hymn, and reports from the schools highlighted revival numbers including five hundred baptisms. The afternoon featured essays by Rev. Dennison and remarks by multiple ministers, with Brown University President Sears delivering an influential address. The event closed with thanks and plans to meet in Valley Falls in June 1868.
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Ruppe Island
J.J. Peck
Lincoln
Mr Paxton
American Sunday School Union
Paxton
Mr. Osborne
Congregational Church
Baptist House of Worship
Dennison
Westerly
Howard
Richardson
Puck
Duffin
Hackett
Sears
Brown
Valley Falls
Friends of Religion
Bristol
Rise of Music Culture in American Society Foretold
The essay argues that music has become essential in homes and public life, replacing opulence with accessibility. It highlights rising instrument manufacture, expanded education, and the growth of concerts and schools as signs of refined national taste and future cultural progress. It notes American pianos at the Paris exposition and predicts widespread cultural progress as musical facilities become as common as public schooling.
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Baen
Stora
Europe
Argtio
Arctic
C. D. Page
Smithso Institute
Washington
Bankrupts retain household goods and farm stock under $400
The Bankfort Lazy allows bankrupts to keep essential items and a limited farm herd and produce including cattle and sheep, hogs, grain, and sewing and household goods. A fishing party report notes a capsized boat near Fisher's Island with one boy drowning and several captains surviving after a long sea struggle.
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Fisher's Island
Ragars
James Fish
Strong Holt
Coddington Fish
Carl Beckwith
Wera
New London
Emigration, crimes and curious notices across the nation
A regional clipping notes varied items: a Sunday School held in Utica railroad cars, rapid cooperative associations forming nationwide, a Meriden post office in a blacksmith shop, and Surrratt to be tried for murder. Other items cover harvest prospects in California, prison fairs in Massachusetts, deaths in Fall River and Newburyport, a four-child birth in Portland, and local fiscal acts in Springfield and Bangor.
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Tur
Meriden
Miss
Russia
Paris
Excursionists Tour New York to Boston Rail Line Cars
An excursion party largely from the Boston and Providence and Providence Warren and Bristol Rail Roads visited the town on Wednesday. They inspected the new Wharf and Pepot buildings, then toured several major streets before returning to Boston in the afternoon.
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Brayton
Bristol
New York
Benjamin Brayton
Providence
Benjamin M. Simmons
Boston
Boston & Providence
Providence, Warren & Bristol
Pepot
Dr Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry Heals Coughs
An ad touts Dr Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry claiming it cures coughs colds and lung bleeding and arrests consumption. It promises dramatic results from a single bottle priced at one dollar and asserts it satisfies doubters seeking relief.
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Wistar
Trial of Jeff Davis Ends Amid Smoke at Local Cigar Store
A Providence cigar shop at 29 Market Square declares the conclusion of Jeff. Davis trial with smoke and sales of cigars of all grades. The ad stresses tobacco products and a bustling shop atmosphere at Rice Campbell's.
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Jeff. Davis
Rice
Campbell's Cigar Store
Market Square
Providence
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Parisian
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Block Island
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Gordon H. Hoxie
Indian School
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Lewis Pairbrother
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Benoni Carpenter
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C. A. Greene
Fall River
Warren and Bristol
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John A. Appleton
Aldes de Camp
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Milk Street
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St Michael's Church
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Richmond Manufacturing Co
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Trn City Council
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Charles F. Herreshoff
Hope Street
Atreets
R. I. Baptist Sunday School Convention
Friends of Sabbath Schools
Bay Queen
Newport
Bradford Durfie
City of
Warren
Benjamin T. Weaver
Swansea
Daniel Wilcox
Ottawa
Helmbold
H. T. Helmbold
Broadway
South 10Th Street
Philadelphia
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