Debates on Railways and Government Control
Fragment from a 1878 letter debating national railway policy. It argues government built roads at cost or private charters, warns against private buyouts, and stresses honest leadership to prevent corruption. Mentions Wisconsin Republicans and reform calls amid national political tensions. Includes obituary-like closing lines.
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New York
Depot County
Legisla Congress
Tet
Sibel
Gekers
Ajith
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Tom Scott
Van
Gomn
Acargs
National Treasury
Eegold
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Parea
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Heple
Isnoe
Belgium
Switzerland
Market Prices From Early Ledger List
Fragmentary OCR shows unit prices for various agricultural goods and livestock. Items include butter per pound cheese per dozen turnips onions beans apples cabbages dried apples per pound salt per barrel beef live per hundredweight pork live per head and lamb per head.
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Chicago
Boston
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Wolf—Brininger
New York House
Geo Wolf
William Wolfe
Elizabeth Veer Yetan
Freeport
Illinois
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Edwin Porter
Henry Prescott
Philo Riggles
David Rice
John Smeltzer
Mary Mra Sage
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Ben Smith
Augustus Waller
John Walters
John Whitinger
LF Wagner
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Siemon & Bro
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Clark Joseph D Church
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Mary Clay
Anna Foxwell Harrie T
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John Green
Martha Hillman
Hawking
Alfred Henery
Caroline Hoffman
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Samuel Bitz
Eugene Barrows
George Byington
George L Brown
Geo T Bower
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Hanmer
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Johnonson
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Kent
Charles Kimball
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Stephenson County
George Thompson
Stephenson ST
Jonathan Hay
John Q. Adams
Aster
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Cireuct
John Giftis
George Osterhout
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Joseph L. Mead
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George Mayhew
Anson Mayhew
George W. Sexmith
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R. T. Cooper
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Summer's Journal
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Studebaker Bro's
MEG, CO
South Bend, MD
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W. Barnes
Galena St
Window Hollands
the Freeport
Driving Park Association
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Messrs
Hettinger & Williams
Minonk
Chicago & Minonk Coal CO
Minonx, Ill
Blossburg
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Farmers’ Store
W. W. Robey
W.S. Gray
Geo. Thompson
D. Blanchard
Frank Miler
Queens
Robey, Thompson & Co
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A Anchard
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