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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1895
Page
8
The article promotes the Santa Fe Route to California with claims of owning tracks and running Pullman sleepers daily between Chicago and Los Angeles. It touts first class comfort and lower prices, plus being several hundred miles shorter and faster than competing lines.
Notice of trustee sale for real estate in Prowers County Colorado. Gustave Grau as trustor defaulted on a promissory note to The Colorado and Western Railroad or similar entity. Henry J. as trustee to Marshall will sell the southeast quarter of section 19 township 30 range 40 to satisfy principal plus interest and costs. Sale at the Tremont Street front door of the county courthouse in Denver. Notice dated July 1896.
Advertisement extols quick, safe rail connections over the Santa Fe Route to Chicago. Describes vestibuled limited expresses with Pullmans and free chair cars, straight rock ballast track, few grade crossings, and dining cars where meals are pay as ordered. Inquiries to G. T. Nicholson, G. P. A. Santa Fe Route.
The Rock Island Route emphasizes fast, safe travel with vestibuled trains dining cars sleepers and chair coaches. It lists Chicago as the eastern terminus with sub termini including Peoria and major Northwest routes to St Paul Minneapolis Watertown Sioux Falls Des Moines Davenport Omaha and Lincoln.
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