Union Pacific’s Expanding Network and Western Growth
The Union Pacific, once valued for transcontinental reach, now dominates with 4270 miles of track as of January 1, 1882. Growth from Denver South Park Pacific, Julesburg branch, and Oregon Short Line expansion drives future gains across Kansas, Nebraska, northern Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Montana, with new feeder lines and potential 7000 miles of track.
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Union Pacific Railway
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Western Territories
Plains
Texas
New Mexico
Union Pacific
Denver
South Park & Pacific
Julesburg
Oregon
Central Branch
Missouri Pacific
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Utah & Northern
Denver Mining Expositions and Local News Highlights
Denver seeks a paper mill and will send an excursion to Idaho Springs while Australia and the Black Hills will be represented at the upcoming Denver Mining Exposition. The issue reports several local incidents including arrests, deaths, and a cave accident, plus varied social notes and trivia from multiple papers.
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Australia
Denver
Black Hills
Idaho Springs
Railway Register Foresees Profitable Property Ownership
The Railway Register argues that if the company’s affairs are honestly managed, it will own one of the most profitable and valuable properties in the land, signaling strong prospects for its financial future.
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Railway Register
Value of Oatmeal as Food and Cooking Methods
Oatmeal is praised as a strong nutritious food suitable for brain work and growth. It is best eaten with milk and cooked to burst starch. Scotch oats are noted as superior. Methods described include porridge and bannock cake with step by step preparation tips.
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England
Guthrie
Kidney Wort Promoted By Drugstore Ad
It proclaims Kidney Wort as the most popular medicine with specific action on the liver, bowels and kidneys. The ad urges those with biliousness or kidney troubles to procure it and use faithfully, available in liquid or dry form from all druggists.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Elyldere Mille
Goodhue Co
Minn
Clark
Clark Johnson
Stoops
Meadow Utah Co
U. IL
George Littlewood
S.m.smith
Waterville
LeSueur Co
Atherton
Bed-Ridden Woman Recovered With Patent Medicines
Bed-ridden for seven years with four months of paralysis, Mrs. Huestis of Emporia Kansas improved after using Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription. In one week she could sit up and in three weeks walked about. From druggists.
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W. E. Huestis
Emporia
Kansas
Washington Irving Whitney Flirts With Fortune
A 48 year old man, with wife and four children, bought a one dollar Louisiana State Lottery ticket and won fifteen thousand dollars. He plans to invest in a house at 260 W. Jefferson Street and save the rest for future needs. The next drawing is scheduled for June 18 with General Beauregard and Jubal Early named as notable figures involved. Information available through M. A. Dauphin in New Orleans.
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Jefferson Street
Fort Wayne (Ltd.) Sentinel
G. T Beauregard
Louisiana
Jubal A. Early
Virginia
M. A. Dauphin
New Orléans
Rescued from Death A Somerville Man Praises Lung Balsam
William J. Coughlin of Somerville Massachusetts describes a life threatening bout with lung disease in 1876 77 noting a large hole in his lung and near death before Dr William Hall's Balsam for the Lungs restored his health He claims two bottles cured him and urges others with consumption to try the remedy Sold by druggists June 25 dead and wly
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Boswell
Laramie City
Fort Fetterman
Keizer
Burkhart
Fort Collins
Shreeve
Union Depot
Denver Tribune
William J. Coughlin
Somerville
Mass
City Hospital
Wm. Hall
Cure for Nervous Debility Promised by Dr EE
A wartime style patent remedy claims to cure hysteria dizziness convulsions nervous headache mental decay and related sexual disorders. One box costs one dollar or six boxes five dollars with a written guarantee to refund if no cure. Orders by mail to GE George W Hoyt, Druggist, Cheyenne.
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West
Geoxge
W. Hoyt
807
Cheyenne
Wye
Lanry
West's Vegetable Liver Pills Ad Offers Reward
An old advertisement promotes West's Vegetable Liver Pills claiming cure for liver and digestion ailments. It offers a $500 reward for uncurable cases, notes sugar coated 80 pills for 25 cents, and urges purchase through Druggists with a genuine makers claim and a free trial by mail for a 3 cent stamp.
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West
Joan O. West & Co
Madison St
Chicago
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Gilman
Cummins City
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Boston Transcript
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Paris
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Washington Post
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Undertakers
Mrs. Mackey
Europe
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Victoria
Ferdinand von Muller
Begole
Jesse Hinds
Kentucky
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Washington Irving
Whitney
Fortune
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St. Louis
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