Through Car Line Connects Major Midwest Routes
The Through Car Line links east and west via Canches and Parlor Cars with recliners, smoking cars, and palace sleeping cars. It runs daily to Kansas City Chicago Council Bluffs and Des Moines with through cars between Chicago and St Joseph Topeka and Chapel Bluffs via Peoria connecting at Union Depots.
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Chicago
Rock Island & Pacifica’y
Joliet
Peoria
Ottawa
le Sallie
Ceneseo
Moline
Rock Island
Hainois
Davenport
Muscatine
Ashington
Keokuk
Knoxville
Oskaloosa
Fairfield
Des Moines
West Liberty
Iowa City
Atlantic
Avoca
Audubon
Harlan
Duthrie Center
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Ca2hatin
Trenton
Cameron
Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenworth
Atchison
Kansas
Great Rock Island
Chicaco
Missouri River
Minneapolis
ST. Paul
Albert Lea
Seneca
Kankakee
Newport News
Richmond
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
la Fayette
United States
Canada
R. R. Cable
E. ST. John
T & Gen
Gen'l T
Gen'l T’k’t & Pass’t Ag’t, Chigacs
St. Louis
Hannibal
Quincy
Burlington
Cedarge
St. Jans
Ottumwa
Desk
Sy Iona
Lincoln
Nebraska
Denver
Colorado
Prest
Goa
Perceval Lowell
Gen
Pass
Ag’t
Lapayette
Bloominington & Munergk
Lake Erie & Louisville Railways
Cleveland
Buffalo
Pittsburg
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
Westinghouse
Miller
Union
Lake Erie & Western Ry
Register
Tank Line Company
Cady
Fort Dodge
James Wright
Bloomfield ‘Republican
Wright
Bloomfield
Capt. Hull
Indiana
J. A
Harvey
Delaware County
Montana
Iowa News Items Highlight Local Quirks and Politics
A sweeping Iowa roundup notes diverse items from Dubuque factory troubles to Cedar Rapids school enrollment and a county telephone boom. It cites political nominations in Cerro Gordo and Scott counties, notable deaths, a Keokuk cutlery incorporation, and a Davenport physician’s conference appointment.
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Council Bluffs
Samuel McCormick
Cass County
Jennie McCowan
Davenport
Sherman
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Louisville
Cruise of the Yantic Report on Greenland voyage and wrecks
Commander Frank Wilds reports the Yantic swept the western Greenland coast last summer as reserve for the Greeley relief expedition. Records at Corey Islands Cairn Littleton Island and Pandora Harbor detail the Proteus wreck the Garlington and Pike parties and a rescue near Upernavik. The officer urges Arctic voyage readiness and winter provisions and gear.
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Secretary of the Navy
Frank Wilds
United States
Greenland
Greeley
Garlington
Corey Islands
Coney Island
Pike
Jad
Yantte
Sophia
Cape York
Wilds
Proteus
Upernavik
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Pandora Marbor
Littleton Island
Multiple Disasters and Deaths Reported Worldwide
A wide array of incidents is sketched including Havana yellow fever toll, fires in Paris Illinois Chicago and Casey and Brownwood Texas with heavy losses. Attacks in Mexico and Russia turmoil, and a planned inland quarantine. Also floods in Minnesota and snow in Michigan. Executive moves in the army, rail disasters, and a variety of political and maritime events are noted with numerous casualties and inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Hermosillo
Mexico
Pope
Department of Missouri
Sheridan
Missouri
Missouri Department
Dakota
Texas
The
Platte
Talmadge
Ohio
John Bull
Sherman
Municipal population and tax figures from 1856 to 1883 in Iowa cities
Data shows population numbers and tax-related notes for Iowa cities including Muscatine Oskaloosa Burlington Cedar Rapids Des Moines and Clinton from 1856 through 1883. Figures list year by year counts and monetary values or assessments with occasional garbled OCR text.
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Mebibenaeieaads
Cocker
Cies
Burlingtom
Burlington
Berlingen
Cedar Rapids
Ccccesseeee
Sissies
Des Moines
Fragmented overheard quotes from a church scene and family remarks
A cached portion recounts a colored preacher urging a morning collection amid a joke about stolen turkeys. An onlooker recalls a church crowd reacting to misheard words, while a wife mourns a lost spouse and a mother insists on her daughter’s youth. A polite elder notes a surprising resemblance between daughter and sister.
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Pat
Stanley urges Congo protectorate plan to British scientists
A letter from Henry M. Stanley read to the British Association urged Britain to proclaim a protectorate over the Congo region. Ireland faces rumors of government bans on Parnellite meetings amid mass gatherings planned in America. Disturbances trigger police action in Clare and Limerick as crowds protest. Reports claim Parnell wounded in Dublin with varying accounts. A Dungannon dispatch notes a covered car linked to the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Feeney
John A. Feeney
Buffalo
Canada
Edmund Prentiss
Tombs
Dublin
Kilmainham
Toronto
Paris
China
Prench
Pekin
Marquis Tseng
Times
France
Waldeck Rosseau
Savoy
Salvation Army
Germennia on-the-Rhine
Strassburg
Place de la Concorde
Henry M. Stanley
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Great Britain
Congo
Irish National League
America
Clare
Limerick
Clair
Milltown
Malbay
County Clair
Ireland
London“Daily Chronicle
Parnell
Dungannon
County Tyrone
Rebellion in the Harems In Constantinople
A Constantinople letter reports the government struggles with defense against cholera and a crusade against women. City nights see many ladies in carriages amid admiring youths. police order protests night driving, provoking claims of equal rights and a clash with traditional Turkish norms.
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Constantinople
Romazan
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Prlington
Cage, Burlinston & Quincy Railroad
R. Gaines
K.H. Kirkpatrick
Jordan Block
West Side of Square
F Airfield
Gaines & Kirkpatrick
Charter Oak
Jefferson County
Hawkeye
Jordan Buock
West Side
H.C. Rowntree
Robert Kaestner
1St West St
Wilkins & Tilson
W. C. Lewis
Cody
Paul
Glaire
Turkey
Lake Erie & Western
R’y
Ove
G. W. Smith
LaFayette
Ind
ST. Paul GR
Rtaneapolis
D. N. Pickering
Eek Kw. S. McMurray
Sup
T & Treas
Marshalltown
Manaiey
Fasatrey
Low A
Bright & Ion
East Side Park, Fairfield
C. Clarke
G. D. Clarke
C. S. Clarke & Son
Nothwest Cory
Town
North Side
W. H. Jones & Brother
Parsons College
Fairfield, Iowa
T. D. Ewing
D. D
A. McCalla
Thomas Bell
Holesale and Retail
Northwest Corner Park
Gho. A. Wells
G. A. Garrettson
Wells & Garrettson
Bankers
North Side Park
Samuel C. Farmer & Sons
South Side Park
BEOK
J. F. Wilson
Geo. D. Temple
Southeast Corner Park
Eris Air Batsam
at_ Parker
Parker
Mnilcox & CO
William St
Dubuque
Guthrie County Fair
Cerro Gordo County
N. Densmere
Emma Walker
Albert
Wm. Hensington
Cedar Falls
Mr. Bright
Independence
McCormick
Scott County
Wm. O. Schmidt
Whittaker M. Grant
Keokuk Cutlery Company of
Iowa Falls
L’erley Martin
J. W. Finley
Finley Hospital
Webster City
John Sanford
Mr. Hammond
Iowa Institution For the Deaf and Dumb
Stephen Nyere
Louis Kossuth
Geo. G. Haddock
Bishop Simpson
Corey Smith
Clinton
Curtis Smith
Corey
Curtis
Fred. Nantz
B. L. Snow
Snow
Smith
Mason City
Tillie Flemming
Monticello
Hugh Carnahan
Stevenson
Streeper
Albert Doring
le Mars
Miss Butstricksty
John Schwetz
Kelsey
Poison
Des Moines & Northern
Thomas Hardin
Corning
Nellie McCarty
Third
Iowa Cavalry
Seventh
Missouri Cavalry
Second
Iowa Infantry
Fourteenth
Missouri Infantry
Fifty-First
Fort Donnellson
Belknap
Hermann Rininsland
Wilton
Rininsland
Weekly Review
Havana
Cuba
Sulieman Pasha
East Loudan
Casey
Brownwood
Lewis Evans
Idaho
Lake Huron
Connelleville
Fred P. Jenks
Michigan
Minnesota
R. S. Strader
Lexington
Bradford Foster
Strader
Yuma
Sternberg
N. Y
Haley
E. M. Slosson
Deadwood
Fair Haven
Conn
Pond & Soper
Blumber
New York, Erie & Western Railway
Port Jervis
Davis
San Domingo
Navy
Harber
Siberia
Jeanette
DeLong
Dr. Ambler
Jerome Collins
Irkoutsk
Big Creek
Sadler
Tipton
Gray
Grays
McLeansboro
Spirit Lake
Wymore
Neb
Postoffice Deparment
Ordway
Territorial
Bismarck
Gov
Edgerton
Woodward Shaft
Lackawanna Coal Co
Kingston Pa
Geo. Burg
Thos. J. Davis
Edward Phillips
Isaac Bevan
Bristol
R. I
Burnside Monument
Arthur
Brewster
Colt
Is Way
Monroe
Sitting Bull
Fort Yates
Morty
Wabash
Louis & Pacific Railway
Marysville
Creston
John Small
Pittsburgh
Green Horse
Polka Dot
Thomas Rogers
Kalamazoo
W. L. Small
Maud R
J. S. Duston
Ellites
Rusia
Nowomoskowosk
Germany
Neiderwald
Rudesheim
William
Frederick William
Guaymas
Sonora
Mazatlan
Mex
Nogales
Rance
England
O’donnell
London
Poland
Carey
O'Donnell
Sullivan
James Tarixh
Melrose
Thomas Jones
Cape Town
Port Elizabeth
O’ Donnell
Africa
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