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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1885
Page
4
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A sprawling 1885 column reports on state debt raise, the Springfield wigwam for the Republican State Convention, and possible Union Army era figures. It covers Georgia bond bids, Grant’s memoir plans, a turtle with a name carved in its shell, a senatorial deadlock in Illinois, crop reports, and aging milestones. It ends with a Kansas dispatch from Great Bend about a murder mob and frontier life near Larned, including Captain Booth and local G A R hall notes.
A fragmentary note describes a mob scene linked to a crime and calls for harsher penalties for murderers and pardons rejected by lawmakers and the Governor. It mentions an unidentified man Mack being seized and buried, authorities’ swift removal, and a planned future report on land at Cheyenne bottom. The writer signs LBW and Y.S. and mentions Missouri cider at the end.
Scattered notes report two large black snakes killed after attacking a timber worker and his children, a life dispute leading to a peace bond, a charity concert, a move of a druggist to Kansas, and local civic groups. Other items mention a fire sale aftermath, a Home Protection League, travel plans, school and literary society activities, weather, and a lengthy feature on the Eads ship railway proposal with its World Cotton Centennial exhibit context and global trade implications.
The text argues for an Isthmus of Tehuantepec railway to shorten Pacific travel from San Francisco to Liverpool by about two and a half months. It describes a hydraulic lifting system, floating turn-tables, and a three-track railway across the Isthmus with a 34 mile length, claiming total cost under 50 million dollars and operation within four years. The Mexican government backs the project, seeking U.S. partnership, alongside a local store promotion for Dr Ring's New Discovery for Consumption with a free trial bottle.
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