Burlington Excursion Highlights Open Cattle Route to Wyoming
A Cheyenne to Newcastle excursion by the Burlington showcased a new cattle shipping route to north eastern Wyoming. Governor Warren and others toured Alliance Crawford and Newcastle, visited coal mines, and enjoyed a grand banquet. The trip featured ornate cars, expert catering, and a return run to Cheyenne with visits to ranches of G B Goodell and F E Warren.
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Burlington
Cheyenne
Newcastle
Wyo
Wyoming
Nebraska
John A Egler
C. A. Johnson
Chicago
Mendota
F. E. Warren
H. G. Hay
Charles F. Miller
G. B. Goodell
H. B. Ijams
T. J. Swan
E. A. Slack
A.S. Mercer
Abe Idelman
Harry Bush
J. E. Rugg
Russel Thorp
J H. Barron
George Bissell
R. M
Dr. Yeasel
Mr. Paul
John Chase
G. M. Kepler
Holyoke
Holdredge
Hastings
Grand Island
Alliance
Box Butte
Burlington Generomity
Burlington Railway Company
Scott Bluffs
Phelan
Newcastle Board of Trade
Viands
R. H. Vosburgh
Mandell
Vosburgh
Warren
A. B. Smith
H. BE. Hay
the Plains
J. H. Hardin
W. R. Sapp
Mercer
R. Dorris
Meyer Frank
M. B. Camplin
H. B
Frank McLaughlin
Dudley
Nebraska Vieltore
F. BE
Warren Live Stock Company
Inter Ocean Hotel
Special Train Carries Burlington Officials and Nebraska Guests Eastward
At nine o clock a halt was called and a special train began its eastward journey carrying Burlington officials and visiting Nebraska guests. The event marked a formal departure after a period of cordial exchanges and planned ceremonies.
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Burlington
Nebraska
Peculiar Warfare Against Indians Reveals Harsh Realities
General Wesley Merritt argues in Harper's Magazine that fighting Indians requires locating them in vast, unmapped frontiers rather than conventional battles. He notes Indians know few historical loyalties, see acts of kindness as weakness, and avoid assaults on frontier forts, making campaigns uniquely difficult.
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Wyomin
Dakota
Indian Territory
Texas
Arizona
New England
New York
Armer
Wesley Merritt
Harper's Magazine
Interior Decorations By Ordinary Materials Impress Designers
A discussion notes how artists can transform spaces with home materials. It cites a city architecture firm with lavish offices and describes their bagging walls framed by cherry molding. It recalls Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Hartford summer residence where brown butcher paper walls contrasted with cherrywood dado and frescoed frieze.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Hartford
Ship Canal to Berlin Aims to Link City with Baltic
The German government plans a ship canal to connect Berlin with the Baltic Sea. Construction is expected to start within a few months and streamline trade and military movement.
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Berlin
Baltic
Memorandum of Deaths in Historic Wars Cited by Sloane
Boston resident Thomas Sloane cites a memorandum listing battle deaths since 1456. Wars referenced include Crimean 750,000. Italian 46,000. American Civil War 800,000. Franco-German 146,000 Franco-German totals. Turko-Russian, Afghan, Mexican expeditions, and Bulgarian Severnian events.
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Thomas Sloane
Boston
France
Germaeny
Cheyenne Press Extends Ties with United Telegraphic Report
The Buesing Tritane bound to keep in the awim. It has completed arrangements for the United Telegraphic press report. The Zvidwue is alive, alert and progressive, and we congratulate our evening contemporary and its many readers. This move signals Cheyenne’s ongoing prosperity.
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United Telegraphic Press
Zvidwue Ie
Cheyenne Ie
Pleasures of Baldness in the Age of Witty Mockery
A London Saturday Review piece ponders baldness among the elderly, doctors, and poets. It lampoons vanity, hair tonics, and advertisements while noting public figures and classic verses on shaving, beards, and premature wisdom.
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Cesar
London Saturday Review
Sons of Mars
Shakspeare
C. Lacinius Calvus
South Africa
Hell
Bob Sawyer
Benjamin Allen
Gray
Shelby
Ronsard
Byron
Old-Time Reporters and the Rise of News
A reflection on press history notes Liberty and license in early journalism. It cites Ben Jonson's 1625 portrait of editors and newswriters, describing the duties of a gentlemanly writer for the newspaper press and the fading line between fact and fabrication.
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Jonson
News Letters then and now in the press
The piece compares early seventeenth century news letters and modern dailies noting how newspaper history repeats. It cites Puritan Protestant and Catholic news catalogues and remarks that news writers resemble Shakespeare era dramatists in style and critique.
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Felix Grundy
Pallas
Jove
Shakspeare
Humorous and Lingering Moral Tale on Portieres
A fragment from a New York Courier column recounts a comic tale of two women on an elevated train discussing Persian portieres. One narrator manipulates devotion to the drapery, causing a thwarted marriage plot. The scene shifts to a social exchange where a man proposes to a woman, revealing a marriage to another, leaving Mrs. Blank shocked and vengeful.
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Crewe
Persia
Fay
Portie
Portieres
Reai
N. Y. Sam
The Valuable Associate Judge
In Perry County two Associate Judges granted every liquor license application and one licensed himself despite neighbors remonstrance. An Associate sat with the late Judge Ben Wade in Ohio and recounted their work, recalling Wade asking for his input only when the case stretched the day.
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Perry County
Ben Wade
Ohio
Mysterious Masked Visitor Sparks Town Gossip
In a small town two private houses host a masked guest who the hostess believes is a gentleman from her earlier event. To mislead him, she asks if he attended Mrs Blank’s masque party, but he denies and hints Mrs Blank dislikes him, creating consternation among locals.
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Mrs. Blank
Chance
Gornlene
Mn Blank
Kate
Tom
Alwot
Arete Tesen
Boston
Rat Port
Ivory raiding in Africa drives brutal slave trade spreads devastation
A long letter in Parliament paper recounts ivory raiding across forests east of the Upper Congo. Bands of up to 600 slaves and ivory hunters, armed by Zanzibari Arabs, strike plantations, seize captives, and force communities to surrender valuables, leaving tribes devastated and regions depopulated.
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Oni Somer
Herve G
Africa
Garro
England
Upper Congo
Alvo
Ugar
Buna Gon
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Crawford
Fort Robinson
Governor Warren
Russell Thorp
Burlington and Northwestern
Palmer
Frank Mordell
Wm. H. Kilpatrick
Warren Street
H.S. Hay
Canon
W.H. Kilpatrick
Dakota Springs
Tae Sun
Stanley
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