Completion of the Great Transcontinental Railway Celebration
Dispatches from Promontory Utah May 10 describe the formal union of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines. Governors Stanford and Durant led ceremonies with dignitaries, Chinese and Caucasian laborers, and the last spike driven amid orations, prayers, and celebratory salutes marking the continental railway’s completion.
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Promontory BumMrn
Utah
Great
Trans-Continental Railway
Stanford
Pacific Coast
Union Pacific
Durant
Duff and Dillon
Casement
W. Coe
The
Pacific
Union Express Company
Cogswell
F. D. Richards
Procs
OC. West
Apostle
Ogden
Lorin Farr
H. Stenhouse
Salt Lake Telegraph
Mra
B. Reed
Annie Reed
EP. North
United States Infantry
Union
Atlantic
Canada
Mexico
Ito
Wasatch
Sea
America
Perna
Grant
Promontory
Popit
U. S. Grant
United States
Pacific Railroad
Leland Stanford
Central Pacific R. R
Colfax
Promontory Summit
India
Doba
Joan Dou
San Francisco
Fort Point
Golden Gate
Arizona
Pi Safford
Arizonia
General Casement
Union Pacific Railroad
Velocipede feats and races across early cities
A series of bicycle stunts and races described across multiple locales. August Siegbert rode a velocipede on a 220 foot rope over San Francisco’s lake, despite wind, with a successful second crossing after a fall. In Boston a Velocipede rink saw John Reardon ride while Harry M. Stevens performed trapeze feats. In Toledo a velocipede race against a horse ended with the bicycle winning by two minutes, about 150 dollars changing hands. A Hornellsville buyer lost 216 dollars after breaking a window and damaging the velocipede in a crash.
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Siegbert
City Gardens
San Francisco
Boston
John Reardon
Harry M. Stevens
Toledo
Ohio
Wm. B. Joslyn
Fred. P. Beaver
Hornellsville
Steuben County
Temperance Society forms at Cedar Falls Iowa
A Temperance Society is organized in Cedar Falls Iowa on a new plan. Each member pledges not to urge friends to drink or drink with a friend but may abstain from spirits when alone or due to illness. Massachusetts Legislature committee supports amending the Constitution to remove the word male from the suffrage clause.
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Congress
Missouri River
Pacific Ocean
Chicago
California
East
Grenville M. Dodge
Union ‘Pacific Railroad Company
West Longitide
Valley of the Platte
Nevada Possitory
Secretary of the Treasury
Rocky
Sierra Nevada Mountains
United States
Central Pacific Railroad Company of
San Francisco
Union Pacific
Iowa
Cedar Falls
Massachusetts
Patent Well Pumps Promising Durable American Invention
An advertisement extols a Patent Well Pump as revolutionary for wells and cisterns, claiming wood pumps fail soon while this iron and timber design lasts a lifetime. It describes a smooth iron cylinder, removable top components, and a durable iron handle assembly. Agents are sought and endorsements from Malt House and L. John S. millis note long use and zero repairs, praising efficiency and price accessibility.
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Whiti
Wwe
Stephenson County
Stanting
Dee
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Sreeport
Enitor and Proprietor
H. Stenbridge
Central Pacific
Sacramento
John Corning
Far East
Thos. O. Duran
Union Pacific 2
R.he Telegraph
J. W. E. Fredericks
Western Union
Toad
Pittsfield
Jesus Christ
Laurel
Harkness
State of
H. W. Harkness
Atlantic and Pacific
Venice
A. Tritle
Nevada
Dodge
General Dodge
Union' Pacific
Benton
Columbus
Rocky Mountains
Ooe
Pacific Union
Edgar Miles
Atlantic ‘and Pacific
Union Pacific Road
Loway
Missouri
Kansas
Omaha
Nebraska City
Lincoln
Missouri Valley
Iowa & Nebraska Road
Chicago’ & ‘Northwestern
Rock Island& Pacific
John A. Dix
Horas C. Durant
New York
Fremont
H. W. Hoxie
Hundredth
Credit Mobilier
T.C. Durant
Sidney Dillon
Seth Hale
Promontory Point
North Platte
Laramie Plains
Cheyenna
Julesburg
Bs Ck Ge
Unionariel Dental” Padhid
Sn Tiany
Union !Pacific
Ijunetioh
California’ Division
Ita
Dlkall
Salt Lake
West
Sierra Nevada
Daily Telegraphic
Evada
Hettinger
Howard
Stephenson Street
Freeport
Joran
Prine
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