Nixie Markham Hero at Parkertown Station
In a sweltering July afternoon at Parkertown in northern New England a 15 year old telegraph operator, Nixie Markham, foils two armed men wrecking a down train. She signals Stratford, stops the danger, saves passengers, and later receives gratitude and a promotion for her courage and quick action.
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Parkertown
New England
Nixie
Stratford
Eunice Markham
Nick
L. Railroad Company
Parkerstown
Markham
Pacts of History and a Garfield Scheme in 1880s
A Chicago Evening Journal correspondent recounts the 1880 Republican crisis after Maine’s fusion victory. Garfield plots to save the party by a Wall Street funding scheme tied to a Thurman act and a potential Supreme Court appointment, with Gould, Reid, Morton, and others named in the contest. The piece weaves political intrigue with a digression on the mockery of the term professor.
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Chicago Evening Journal
Maine
Hancock
Garfield
Ohio
Indiana
Republican Committee
Jewell
General Garfield
Levi P. Morton
House of Morton, Bliss & Co
Whitelaw Reid
Jay Gould
Wall Street
Thurman
Pacific Railway
Supreme Court
Gould
Ohid
Inhara
Supreme Bench
Neraliarfield
Heald
W Reid
Ohie
Baron Fisco at Homp. A Tale of Hypocrisy and Pride
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a narrator railing against hypocrisy trading worldly gains for self interest. He recalls professing virtue while pocketing pride and deceit, criticizing those who praise Truth, Honor, Justice, and Duty yet act sinfully. He reflects on being misunderstood and the urge to do right.
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Yan Ee
Jy of Am Movement
A Wonderful Cotton
A Macon Georgia Telegraph notice touts a hybrid cotton from A A Subers claiming to revolutionize gin work. It describes a two foot plant with okra like stalk and magnolia like bloom producing a boll without seeds, yielding 1.5 to 2 pounds of long staple lint per boll and no ginning needed. Subers invites stamped reply information.
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A. A. Subers
East Macon
Mr. Suber
Caloosahatchie
Florida
Subhers
Macon
Missouri Pacific Rhy Starting From Texas to St Louis and Beyond
Missouri Pacific Railway offers no change of cars and daily trains linking Houston Dallas Denison San Antonio Fort Worth Sedalia Hannibal St Louis Kansas City and other points with direct routes via Union Depots. Five Pullman sleeping cars and day coaches with toilet rooms modern ventilations and colored attendants complete the fleet.
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Texas
Indian Territory
Kansas
Missouri
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Hannibal
Kansas City
Union
United States
Missouri Pacific Railway
Houston
Dallas
Sedalia
Fort Scott
Denison
St- Louis
San Antonio
Austin
Fort Worth
St. Joseph
Pullman
Chicago
Ree Ey Daily
SRO Ce Ag
Medalia and Missouri Pacific Railway
Denison and Missouri Pacific Railway
Via
Missouri Pacific R'y First-Class Railway Features
The Missouri Pacific Railway proclaims a steel track Miller platform and improved automatic air brake on all passenger cars. It promises maps timetables and engaging reading matter about Missouri Pacific and its connections, mailed free from officials in St. Louis and Dallas Texas.
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Missouri Pacific
Ther
Chandler
Gen
C. B. Kinnan
St. Louis
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Andy
Brownsvile Sie
Yellow Jack
Senate
Gen. A. 8. Grant
Congress
Pwaw
Galveston
Alabama
Ninth District
Waco
BR. Q. Mills
Hugh Buchanan
Judge Buchsan
Georgia
Groesbeck
R. Q. Mills
Alside
Aspi
Ronan
Profes
Mr. D
Roves
C. B. Pend
Tans
Baron Fisco
R’y
The
Texas & Pacific Railway
New Mexico
California
Pullman Palace
Dallas, FT. Worth, EL Paso and Deming, N. M
Longview
Micneola
Houston, Galveston, Austin, San Antonio and Laredo
B. W. McCunnovan
T. Marshall
Tex
F. Chandler
H. M. Hoxie
Texas Central
State of
Kansas City, Hannibal
New Orleans
Lins
Houston & New Orleans
Europe
Great Britain
Continent
Houston and
Texas Central B’y
New York
Lloyd
White Star
Inman
Rotterdam
Mississippi & Dominion and
Generale Transatlantique
J. Waldo
Oen
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