Railroads at Corinne Meeting Sparks Utah Tensions
The Corinne Reporter notes a meeting of officers from two Pacific railroads and Government Commissioners with several proposals rejected. The U P offered Corinne Ogden passage under current tariffs with fixed transfer points and shared freight use, passenger trains given priority. The piece also comments Salt Lake City’s Gentile exclusion via Mormon cooperative dominance and Brigham Young’s push to keep profits within Mormon hands, plus bleak Territory-wide business outlook and dour Salt Lake excursionist impressions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corinne
Pacific
Dornier
Fonnstool
U. P
C. P
Ogden
U.P
Chinese Laborers in Rural New Yorker View
The Rural New Yorker argues for Chinese laborers, saying room and work exist for all if industrious and skilled. It claims ten thousand newcomers expand production and drive urban poor to the countryside, with implications of needing five million Celestinks to support growing paupers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
Sickles Seeks Withdrawal After Cuba Note Fright
London reports Minister Sickles fears the Cuba note outcome and asks for leave to withdraw it while dispatching for Washington for further instructions. The text misreads as marriage signals in Denmark Sweden. Crown lineage explains succession rules after the King’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sickles
Cuba
Washington
Denmark
Eugene de Bownharnals
Sweden
Oscar
General items and social notes from 1860s newspapers
A compact roundup of assorted items: items and fashions, hints about interest rates, entertainment notes, and various quotes. Tom Thumb performs in San Francisco and Boston, Mark Twain and Massachusetts laws on ice water, hunger in English counties, new fashion trends, a Maiden Massachusetts clergyman’s expenditure critique, a wreck used as kindling, and a German family’s birth notice from Cologne.
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Tom Thumb
San Francisco
Mark Twain
Parker Ilouse
Boston
Massachusetts
London
Reed
Maiden
Maes
Julie
Lattmann
Cologne
Edward Fou
Western Items from the Mining West and Rail Debates
The column surveys western prospecting near Austin and North California rail projects while noting a cattle plague rumor in southern counties. It mentions a Grass Valley sale of a Mongolian woman for 540, a freight haul at Elko, and 20 000 dollars in passenger tickets sold at Auburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Valley
Austin
Iduaho Stefesneum
Oregon Stage Company
Colfax
Porthind
Oroville
Si-Sing
Grass Valley
Elko
Auburn
Notable Figures and Rumors Reach Across Nations
The piece lists varied figures from Jef Davis in Glasgow to Horatio Seymour in Wisconsin and John Chinn as a rising political figure. It notes President Lincoln returning to the White House, Dr. Marion Sims in New York, and Henry Biow arriving in Rio Janeiro. It mentions Mrs. Lacey Morehead Porter becoming Louisville post mistress, Senator Sprague’s wage hikes, a rumored Davenport to Muscatine railroad, Col Ryan’s assault on a betrayer in New York, and Don Cameron’s political rise. It also cites Prince Arthur dancing with women, a Western query about Mary Livermore, and Times Paris correspondence on the Emperor’s recovery amid Propress and Prince Napoleon debates, plus Genoa’s duke linked to Spain.
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Jef, Davis
Glasgow
Horatio Seymour
Wisconsin
John Chinn
Mung
White House
Henry T. Biow
United States
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Lacey Morehead Porter
Covington
Louisville
Speed
Senator Sprague
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Davenport
Muscatine
Col. Ryan
Ralph J. Horma
New Bedford
New York
Don Cameron
Pennsylvania
Simon
Wigwig
Vanity and vanity praise women in reform movement satire
The piece mocks a women’s reform society described as vain and sensational. It portrays their meetings at a Bureau as sanctimonious and hostile to editors and reporters, with injurious epithets and public denouncements. The tone is scathing about their claimed virtue and public image.
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America
Aithoiny-stanton Mutual Admiration Society
Tow Dueh
New York
Salt Lake City Visit Recalled in Omaha Letter
A correspondent from Salt Lake City writes the Omaha Journal discussing Salt Lake's attractions. She notes Annie Wiredebwrnied his at the the niite hast tight do the phiay law, presides with family links to President Young, and mentions tuberamacl big organ hot autopur springs and other sights that have transformed a desert into a fruitful landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Jerald
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Annie
Young
Gold Transfers Stalled as San Francisco Banks Refuse Sales
Telegraphic reports from San Francisco on September 25 note banks refuse gold sales by telegraph, charging five percent to transport. New York banks also refuse, fueling a run as gold prices and stock market volatility rise. concerns of bank failures and a looming panic spread through financial districts.
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San Francisco
Express Compiuny
New York
California
Pacific Mail Company
Europe
Cincinnati Commercial Party
Red Stockings
Recreation Grounds
San Francisco Eagles
Eagles
St. Albans
Bonner
Dexter
Avondale
Solomon Muller
Greenpoint
Tenth National
Gold Exchange Bank
Cdlelh Plousea
Worterday
Penth National Bank
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W. W. Vorleit
Whitehead & Corlett Attorneys
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Offica
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Adjoin- Beety Hall
Cheyenne
Edward M. Lee
Wyoming
Cheyeuns
W. T. Jeotr
Ren Howe
Steele, Howe & Steele
Attorneys At Law
Eddy Stow
Keyenne
Whitehend
George W. Ford
Rogers & Co
Hank
Cheyenne, Wa
I. W. Cook
Set Door Enat of the
Court House
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J. 8. Chord
Bisteenth Street
Kay Kendall
Talent
MW. Mille
J. Street
Miller & Street
Dakota
Adams
South Side
Seventeenth Street
Wee
J. B. Wilson
Cialbruth
Sixteenth Street
Daily Leader
The
Exceit
U. N. A. Bakeie
Ferguson Street
Cheyenne Daily Evening
Fe-Leader
Brighamin
H. Garbanati
Krapers
Hank. Judty
L. Campre Campbell
J. A. Rouselaux
First Nathonal Bank
Laws
Wil
Contiien Hal. Elbei
G. W. Corry
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Kiruwist Hospital
Themes Street
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Bet
F. A. Hall
Sicvet Brothers
Tove
AIN Oyer
Hotels
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Pormerly
Cornel Sevesteesti
Wyatt
HK. Bell
Wyoming House
Moore House
Tremont House
Chicago
Illinois
W.ann LB
Vaake
St. Louis
L M
Turner
Milian
G. EB. Thompson
Boot & Shoe Maker
Hilliard
Asuiguec
Aifuaton
Ferguson Ae
Khnown
Mole Mt
U Leggoun Agininati O12
JM. Pyper Sentate
White Pine
Central Pacific Company
North California
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Oregon
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Nevada
St. Joseph
Marion Sims
Empress Eugenie
Prince Arthur
Dominion
Shedive
Mary Livermore
Chicago Woman's Rights Agitator
Livyerapere
Paris
Times
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Genoa
Turin
Florence
Victor Emanuel
Garitte Dbs
Free Stateel
State St
Cor, Ningsbaary & Superior Sta
Chicago, Ill
Chee, Wybot
Corres
Hidebee
Dewey, Trimble & Coq
Mariano Etewet
AMA
Sweltwater Rey
Airbis
Fire Arms
Freund & Brother
Eduy Street
Koyean
Pioneer
Winchester
Lee Fire-Arms Comp’y
Milwaukee
Wis
Ky Defense Agulos
E. L. Dupont’s & DeNemour
Ws Ero
Waranl
Atepresitieod
Wdobee
Laramie City
R.R
Cheyenne Cigar Factory
J. R. Markle
Ikers and Tobacco
Orner Sixteenth
Eddy Streets
Kountay Broa, & Co
St. Louk
Orion
Tony
Ellie
OXON
Dhavereentiv
Ana Bf
Fiat
Diag Foields
Tor Pirkoe Liat
E. FP
Stearns’ New Temple of Fashion
Mear Sith
Maui
THEO
W. Poole & UO
Alebund Etal Draggieta
Cheyennne
Goode Wold
Wihhelmule
Ohepor
Handy Drug Howse
Keim
Hibbard & Sp Spencer
Nichigan Avenue
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