Grants Forfeitable How the Public Congin Has Been Squandered
A Chicago Times summary lists railroad land grants across states that could revert to the public if laws pass, detailing acres tied to Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Missouri, Indian Territory, New Mexico, and Arizona. It estimates about 26 million acres earned and 9 million forfeitable within state grants, plus roughly 60 million earned and 50 million potentially forfeitable in direct railroad grants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Mobile and Girard Railroad
Selma, Rome
Dalton
Coosa
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Gulf and Ship Island
California, Louisiana and Texas
Florida
Atlantic and West India Transit
Florida, Atlantic and California Central Railroad
Arkansas
Little Rock
Fort Smith
Mississippi
Iron Mountain Road
Michigan
Detroit and
Milwaukee Road
Port Huron
Milwaukee
Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Company
Mchigan
Iowa
Sioux City
St. Paul
Wisconsin
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Wisconsin Central
Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota and Manitoba
Western Railroad
Hastings and Dakota Railroad
Lake Superior and Mississippi
Northern Pacific
Dakota
Northern Pacific Road
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
Oregon Central
California
Southern Pacific
Texas Pacific
Missouri
Iron Mountain
Indian Territory
Atlantic and Pacific
New Mexico
Congress
Arizona
Chicago
Mayor’s Court Comedy in Lincolnshire Drunkard Case
In Lincolnshire a mayor in court dealt with a drunk and incapable defendant who faced a final charge to pay four shillings tenpence or a month. The scene showed the mayor briefly distracted, then ordering payment as the constable escorted the prisoner out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincolnshire
Benc
Prighner
Pall Mall Gazette
Romance of a Secretary's Son and a Connecticut Bride
A family romance records a son of a New Hampshire politician and the daughter of modest Connecticut parents. Starting with a $6,000 fortune, he finances his Dartmouth years by drafts on that sum, frees himself from family ties, becomes a Concord railroad brakeman, then moves to a Western line, rises, marries the young lady, and moves west. The tale, from the N.Y. Graphic, notes the dramatic turn of events and the father’s admonitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaphie
W. E. Chandler
Navy
Esse
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth
Nomin
Chronicle
Concord Railroad
Granite State
Miss
N. ¥. Graphic
Medicine Without Drugs and the Wendell Phillips Anecdote
A piece argues that medicine should be understood beyond drugs, emphasizing life conditions and physiological facts as the true basis of healing. It notes public fixation on pills and dosage, then cites a Worcester Spy correspondent recounting Wendell Phillips defending anyone under attack and the idea of standing up for others as a core instinct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irilish Quarterly Review
Dead Chinese aboard ship ship coffins and buried kin
Cor. London Daily News describes Chinese immigrants aboard California bound steamers. Boats carry coffins and embalmment costs split among crew. Many bodies stored on deck in coffins shaped like tree trunks. Families weep at deaths, while the crew profit from the embalmment fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
California
San Francisco
Hong Kong
Bay
Golden Gate
Bank of England
Thera
Demarara
Kith
London Daily News
Appearance of Arabi Pasha as seen through an observer
The description portrays Arabi Pasha as a large, broad-shouldered, good-natured man with a massive forehead and soft eyes. While charming in conversation to Arabic speakers, his knowledge lags behind his speaking ability, leading to inconsistent yet non hypocritical discourse. He is depicted as a dutiful son and respectable husband and father, overall upright in character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arabi Pasha
Women as Journalist and Other Vignettes From Then
Joe Howard derides women as writers, while the author notes counterexamples citing women’s strong reporting work. The piece also covers a Washington scene with Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame Bonaparte, a Norse on bread, Ruskin on copies, and a Standing Bear Interior inquiry about a shop at the Rosebud agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cov
Washington
R. E. Lee
New York
New Orleans
Ruskin
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
Bonaparte
Jerome
France
Madame Bonaparte
Daniel Webster
Matthew Arnold
States
America
Standing Bear
Rosebud
Secretary of the Interior
Teller
Carlisle
Missioned deputy risks kerosene attack in Erie effort
A Springfield Missouri deputy attempted to fight Ere with kerosene but survived the act. Reports say he vows not to repeat the dangerous act. Meanwhile agents discuss transferring the revenue station from Erie to Buffalo and the revenue cutter under construction there.
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United States
Marsnaa Wun Roper
Springfield
Revenue Marine
Erie
Buffalo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Little Annico Wallace
Elly Lughes
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Ohio
Saly
Kentucky Journal
Worcester Spy
Wendell Phillips
Phillips
Oharsover
Joe’ Howard
Boston Herald
Daily Journal
Sheppard
Bennett
Oakley’s
Brussels
Madras
Cromwell
Dunkirk
O. R ‘i Oakley
Arri Lyon Bros. Palace ‘Drug Stone Dunkirk
STILE
Center Street
J. A Stapf
New
J. A. Stapf
Med
J.A. Stapf
J. Rogalsky
Gidley & Bloss
Heyl
Louis Heyl’s
Wirtner & Alling’s
Lion Street
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