Railroad Timetable and War News Tidbits
Rail timetables show various express and mail services with times for the Texas Express and Topeka Express among others. Separate items report militia withdrawals in Hazleton Pa, a $500 rewards offer for train robbers near Chickasha, a freight collision near Willoughby Ohio, a peanut market corner in Virginia, a missing messenger with $10,200, and a sheriff pursuit of cattle thieves in Oregon.
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Crevetamp
Ohio
Nickel Plate
Willoughby
Charles Brown
Bellevue
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Claims Deafness Remedy
A fragmented 19th century ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure promising to cure deafness caused by catarrh. It mentions desmem Eustachian Tube and offers one hundred dollars for an uncured case, with free send for information and a price of 75 cents from Druggists.
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Hall
Fr. Cukiny & Co
Toledo
Shah and Scotch Girls A Highland Fling Attracts Persian Monarch
Glasgow narrator recalls the shah of Persia at a Paris expo and later Scotland visit. A Highland laird hosts five hundred young women in his castle for a traditional reel, danced by the shah who selects one lass to dance with. Neighborly gossip preserves the tale in St. Louis Globe-Democrat reportage.
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Persia
Malcom Duncan
Glasgow
Orient
Shah
Scotland
MacKenzie
Rizzoul
Paris
Kinton
British Isles
Fintoul
Scotia
Kintoul
St. Louis
Ncrat
Winding Hawk's Trinkets and the Hidden Eight
A Sioux chief Winding Hawk who died in 1854 was buried with $50,000 in gold beside his body. Since then prospectors have sought the site near Fort Laramie, kept secret by current explorers, claiming the grave holds a perilous treasure tied to a grave violation superstition and potential ill fortune.
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Winding Hawk
Deadwood
Black Hills
Fort Laramie
Warding Hawk
Grant's horsemanship seen by Italian officers in Milan
In Milan in spring 1878 Gen. Grant rode a difficult horse at a review before Bersaglieri. A crowded hotel corridor witnessed locals doubt the general, then cheer as he mounted with two officers' help, calming the beast. He then led troops on a two hour ride, earning admiration from his escort.
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Gove
Grant
Milan
Gen. Grant
United States
Italy
Alfred M. Fuller
McClure
Steamship Victoria Arrives With Freight Linked to Far East Trades
Tacoma dispatch reports the steamship Victoria of the Northern Pacific line arrived from China and Japan carrying ten Europeans eleven Chinese and forty three Japanese and 4000 tons of tea silk and cargo. A 64 ton consignment bound for America was withheld due to fears of discriminatory duties. Passengers spoke of a Yokohama earthquake the day before departure and widespread typhoon damage across Japan with many towns and bridges destroyed and thousands of homes flooded.
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Victorian Srings
Tacoma
Wash
Victoria
Northern Pacific Line
China
Japan
America
Yokohama
Sokio
Shindoku
Gifu
Saitama
Yeter
Korishikawa
Ushigome
Presbyterian Mission
Baptist
Toyama
Four Girls Drowned After Skiff Capsize Near Hamilton
Two Wright brothers and four girls Belle Key Lizzie Smith Mary Swearingen Elis Phillips were crossing the Bat tahatobie river in Marion county after a candy pulling when one man rocked the boat for fun causing it to capsize. The men swam to safety while the women drowned and their bodies were recovered.
Wheat Crop Totals and Varied Yields Reported
The Orange Judd Farmer estimates the year’s wheat crop at 599,040,000 bushels total with 873,530,000 winter and 215,407,000 spring bushels. The overall crop is disappointing, near 1,750,000,000 bushels, with an average yield of 247 bushels per acre.
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Orange Judd
Return train fare to St Louis on Un ion Pacific
Passengers may buy round trip tickets to St Louis at 88.70 on sale October 3 to 8 and valid for return until October 11. Tickets through Union Pacific available at Eldridge House corner J T Shanelin near U P depot. First published in The Lawrence Gazette September 40 1697.
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Louie
Union Pacific
J. P. Rosa
Eldridge House
J. T. Shanelin
U. P. Depotee
Lawrence
Uczette
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Joe Drows
New York
Castorla
Plaa
Kentucky
Old Kentucky
Aos
W. Iain St
Louisville
Topeka
Santa Fh Railroad
I. Om
Texas Express
WING
Bast. A. Fances City
CMU Redrees
Sehr Pope Betee
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Union Pacific Railway
Overtan
Iciencevesnens
Denver
Pacific Coast
Besien
Cececsersestim
Seas
Hazetton
Gutunir
Okla
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company
Chickashaw
Peanut Trust
Virginia
Mattie
Bares Crry
Ore
Kilburn End
Oslock
Pow- Ger
Shah and Scotch Girls
England
India
Kelends
Ides
Nee —Rupsbu
Alope
Himalayas
Russia
Apraxin
Iin
Caillebotte
Luxemburg
Fine Arta
Institute of France
Minister of Fine Arts
Claude Maneta
M. Dybowaki
Africa
Tey
Sapolio
Sharo
Montreal
Cen
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York
Camas
Wasminarom
Clara Bell Brown
Byron Sunderland
Talmage
First Presbyterian Church
Henry Cowden
House of Representative
Eclaire To
Dreiband
M. Jules Cambon
Indien
Drog, Ola
Ontwine Roube- Jeaux
Charles Watson
White Horse
California
San Francisco
Ste Bre
Parker
PEN Chichester
Colchester
J. I
Mange
J. K
Manuel
Srecrican
Holt
Bruprivis
Pries
Teeser Willian
John Ete
Felix LE Brun
Barber Broa Bole Agta
Lawrence Kas
South
Missouri
Fort Scott
Memphis
RE. R. Co
J. E. Lockwoop
Kansas City
Maria Stadler
Orthé
ree_ Stadler, Jr
Kansas
Mara Stadlers
Douglas
State of
Rose Stadler
Howe Stadier
Equitable Reiter
C. Rusell
E -C. H. Tucker
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