How He Loved His Mother in the Sierra and Paris
A Detroit Free Press reader recalls Mackay and his rise from ore shoveler to mine boss and financier. The tale describes his early poverty, bold gambles in mining stocks, and eventual wealth used to sending money home to Ireland. It also details his bold bank dealings in Virginia City and his public persona in California.
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Detroit Free Press
Russell House
Mackay
Johnny Crapeaus
Myself
White Pine
Phebe
Virginia City
Ireland
Gould & Curry
Flood
Fair
O’brien
Frisco
O'Brien
Ralston
California Bank
California
Virginia
Carson
State
Paris
Curry
Pacific Slope
Comstock
Advantages of flax seed for farmers in the West
The article outlines flax seed benefits including yield rivaling wheat, lower seed costs of sixteen to twenty quarts per acre, and earlier harvest by a week to ten days. It notes flax as good wheat crop preparation, boosting next crop yields, and that straw and chaff feed stock well when properly stored. It also highlights Russian seed suited to the Northwest, possible late sowing, and strong returns on new breaking.
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Western
Northwest
Minnesota
Dakota
Stop-Over Privilege for Emigrants to California
General Passenger Agent Morse outlines a ten day stop over option for emigrants with immigrant or third class tickets to California. Passengers may inspect lands on the way to their destination, with baggage checked to the final route and receipts issued at each stop. The policy applies across stations between Truckee and San Francisco.
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Morse
Union Pacific Railway
Central Pacific Railway
California
Truckee
San Francisco
The Pawnee Ditch settlement near Sterling Colorado
Editor James highlights the Pawnee lands along the Union Pacific line near Sterling, a 35000 acre irrigated tract fed by a 28 mile canal from the Platte River. Weld county hosts premier farming towns and the Iliff cattle ranch as Colorado irrigation advancement expands settlement and prosperity. Local notes from Platteville mention growth, road ticket issues to Washington, and various town enterprises and prices at Gale and Lee’s store.
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Sterling Colony
James
New West
Henry
Kansas
Pawnee Ditch
Sterling
Colorado
Pawnee Lands
Union Pacific Railway
Denver
Julesburg
Pawnee
Platte River
Weld County
Greeley
Arcadia
Rocky Mountains
Evans
Lupton
Morgan
Iliff Cattle Ranch
L. F
Weld
Rose Meeker Sells Choice Home Canned Fruits and Jellies
Rose Meeker offers home canned fruits jams jellies marmalades and spiced pickles in glass jars. The varieties include marmalade jams jellies preserves and pickles for sale.
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Rose Meeker
Rhoads Crackers Ad Promotes Shiloh's Vitalizer Cure
An advertisement urges readers to ask for Rhoads Crackers and claim Shiloh's Vitalizer will cure dystpsia and liver complaint, sold by J F Fezer. The tone mimics a period sales pitch highlighting a health remedy and vendor.
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Shiloh
J.F. Fezer
One Bottle Suffices Parker's Hair Balsam Miracle
A gentleman recalls fever illness and alarming hair loss then credits Parker's Hair Balsam with restoring color after using only one bottle. The ad promises a clean fragrant non oily formula not a dye. It also promotes Shiloh's Cure for a hacking cough with a guarantee and mentions J F Fezer as the seller.
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Parker
Shiloh
J. F. Fezer
Satisfactory Evidence On Dr Hall Balsam for Lungs
J W Graham a wholesale druggist from Austin Texas reports Dr Hall Balsam for the Lungs is highly salable for coughs colds and consumption and requests a fresh supply of another gross to continue meeting demand.
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J. W. Graham
Austin
Texas
Piles Remedies and Patent Medicines Advertised
A page of medical patent medicine notices describes Bosanko’s Pile Remedy for moist itchy bleeding piles with a 50 cent price tag. It also lists Shiloah’s Cure for croup and whooping cough, and various schemes, including “Rough on Rats” and Wells’ Health Renewer cures with prices and mail offers.
Superior Coal Advertises Heat and Economy in Greeley
A local coal dealer promotes Superior coal as the best in the market with more heat and less slate than any coal except Wyoming’s Rock Spring. He claims customers never complain and notes availability of Rob Roy Jackson coal and Welch coal. Yard prices listed as four dollars to four dollars and fifty cents.
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Greeley
Rock Spring
Wyoming
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Gipson
Ab. Baker
Baker
Travelers’ Insurance Company
Fort Morgan
Fort Morgan Times
Fort Morgan Canal
Times
Fort Morgan Irrigation Company
Fort Morgan Company
G. W. Warner
A.S. Baker
Banko Financiers
Axel
Platteville
Lucan Brothers
N. B. Dearborn
James Stanton
Jos. Coykendall
John Lines
Anton Heim
Lester
George Pease
Messrs
Jones
Long
Dex
Washington
B.&o
Mason & Kyle’s
Dr. Bosanko
Freeman’s
Free Smith
Mason & Kyle
Opera House
G. F. Marsh
A. E. Mead & Co
A. E. Mead & Co’s
J. Max Clark
Gale & Lee’s
Mexico
Gare & Ler
Charles A. Vogeler Co
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
Cooper Bros., Contractors and
Greeley, Colo
Rhoads
East India
W. A. Noyes
Power's Block
Rochester
New York
Missouri River
Gaths & Hngle
Oasis
Maple Street
Jackson
Superior, Welch
Greenlee J. & CO
Denver, Colorado
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