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Rail expansion and political chatter echo across states
A debated Beloit to Nebraska railroad plan stretches sixty miles with next year called leap year. Kansas crops forecast big by W E Foster, a Burlington weather expert. Lawrence is set to boost beer production, while Missouri faces pressure over polities. A Scotch farmer,Jas Kenerd, dies in a self-inflicted gun accident. engineer Smith clashes at the Rock Island depot. Belleville reports delays in Ingalls’ literary project and a political arc from 1876 to 1877.
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Rock Island
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F. VY
Newwain
Roy
Boya
Lea Moller
Vettle
Pati
Neerek
Belleville Democrat