Dudley Dynagraph Car Demonstrates Automatic Track Surveying
The Springfield Republican describes PY H Dudleys dynagraph car a fully automatic track surveying system. It records rail alignment gauge curve elevation speed and track condition on a continuous paper record with multiple pens and a delayed mile post check. Dudley lives aboard the car while traveling and interprets the results to map deflections and suggest roadbed improvements.
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Springfield Republican
PY. H. Dudley
Boston and
Albany
Dudley
Mr. Dudley
Vanderbilt fortunes fade as bonds move to son under loss claims
A dramatic portrait of William H Vanderbilt and son William K Vanderbilt notes a year of heavy withdrawals from government bonds and large family spending. It reports a major drop in Vanderbilt securities and suggests family losses in Wall Street ventures while detailing lavish earlier expenditures and public receptions.
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Vanderbilt
Vanes
Do Ae Road
William K
William H
Wall Street
Vanderbilt Pere
Guadalajara Described By A Returning American Visitor
A New York Times reporter notes Guadalajara's population and past numbers, climate, beauty, and air quality. He praises the cathedral and opera house, details the square, water supply, lighting, and telephony, and calls the city the Mexican Boston as a center of learning and revolutionary history.
Pittsburg Iron Industry Slumps After Panic Era
AP dispatches report a deepening low mood in Pittsburg iron, with many mills closed since the panic of 1873 and others slowed by depleted orders. About 7,000 workers fewer are needed to do the same work as last year.
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Associated Press
Pittsburg
Wheat price outlook for Colorado farmers in 1884
In a letter from Greeley dated August 11 1884 full of price forecasts the writer argues that Colorado wheat likely faces very low prices due to a record US crop. He suggests higher freight eastward or feeding stock to sustain values and notes railroad rates may stay low for westbound grain.
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Colorado Farmer
Kansas
Utah
United States
Colorado
Chicago
Greeley
Davip Boyp
Irrigation Patent Promises Land Value Revolution Says Ex-Editor
Wellsville veteran ex-editor A N Cole claims a new irrigation system will transform land values. He describes fruits grown to peach size and vegetables vastly enlarged, with a thousand bushels of pea pods per acre. The method allegedly uses hillside trenches to store water and deliver even underground flow to crops.
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Wellsville
A. N. Cole
Atlantic
Acre
Blaine and the Plume Market
The Boston Herald reports a campaign opening effect on ostrich feathers with prices up 33 percent since Blaine’s nomination. Imitations rise to meet demand as fashion pivots on Ingersoll’s 1876 phrase about a plumed knight.
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Rochester Herald
Blaine
Bob Ingersoll
Cincinnati
James G. Blaine
American Congress
Union Pacific Oregon line near completion meets Huntington
The Union Pacific line to Oregon and the Pacific coast near Portland nears completion. The Oregon Short Line needs 2.5 miles to Huntington, Oregon, 40 miles west of Granger, Wyoming. The Oregon Railway and Navigation Co plans to meet at Huntington within 77 miles, grading done by September. Portland to Huntington runs about 410 miles, Omaha to Portland 1,827 miles, Chicago to Portland 2,319 miles, nearly matching the St. Paul and Northern Pacific route. Competition between Union Pacific and Northern Pacific is likely to begin soon, though tempered by prior amicable understandings.
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Union Pacific
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Portland
Huntington
Granger
Wyo
Omaha
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
Chicago
St. Paul
Northern Pacific
Union
Horticultural Hall Nears Completion as New Orleans Set
Horticultural Hall is nearly finished and will become New Orleans’ permanent property after the Exposition ends next May. The roof is metal and glass, the green house is 250 feet long, and the main hall spans 600 feet without pillars. A 50 foot high fountain will rise under the glass tower, with a 12 feet deep masonry reservoir. Plants and trees from abroad are being brought for display, promising the finest forestry and arboriculture exhibit in America. The note mentions Little Joker as the best smoking tobacco.
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Hugh R. Wilson
United States District Attorney
Old Mexico
New York Times
Guadalajara
United States
Cosmopolita
Post Ofice and Telegraph
Cathedral
Bank of England
Spain
Opera House
Academy of Music
Boston
Mexico
Horticultural Hall
New Orleans
Green House
America
Dr Bosanko Cough and Lung Syrup Ad
Dr Bosanko's name is familiar nationwide as the originator of the Dr Bosanko Cough and Lung Syrup. It is touted as a favorite remedy for coughs colds consumption and throat and lung affections. Price 50 cents and 1 Sold by Pearson Peach.
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DR. Bosanko
United States
Pearson & Peach
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