Washington Letter Reflects on Fire Risk and Postal Decay
The Washington Letter details the United States Hotel disaster killing five and injuring many, critiques city building safety and the inspectorate, and rails at postal system woes. It notes the Blue Book volumes show 50,000 postmasters with salaries from nine cents to $8,000, many under $10, and comments on the inefficiency of quarterly reports and political excesses including ex-Speaker Kiefer’s fall from favor.
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Washington
D. C
United States
Buchanan
Congress
Post Office Department
Redalia
N. C
New York City
Uncle Sam
North Carolina
Kiefer
Mren
Springfield
Ohio
Dom Pepro
Progress and costs in the Panama Canal project
The Panama Canal faces enormous earth and rock removal and steep costs. Engineers estimate 79 million cubic meters of material must be disposed of with completion before 1893, though 1888 targets were optimistic. Original costs of 600 million francs are swelling after one third paid and extensive ancillary works. Despite doubts about profit to stockholders, the canal promises faster voyages and cheaper South American and Pacific goods, benefiting shipping and the Panama railroad.
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M. de Lesseps
Suez Canal
Mount Denis
St. Gothard
Hoosac
Horn
Panama Railroad
Railway World
B and M Locomotives Increase to One Hundred Seventeen
The Plattsmouth Journal notes the total B and M engines now stand at 117 with ten more on order to arrive this fall. It recalls that years ago the railroad had 26 locomotives and proportional rolling stock, and once the new locomotives arrive, the seven year increase will reach exactly one hundred.
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Plattsmouth Journal
Quote on wifes virtue prompts local application
Owen Enxizaneru of Roumania is credited with a remark on a wife's virtue. The speaker questions whether Elizabeth intended to apply the statement locally and consider its relevance to current conditions.
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Owen Enxizaneru
Roumania
Europe
Elizabeth
Severe contusion describes a black eye with bruising
The text defines a black eye as a severe contusion of the integuments under the orbit with extensive blood leakage and ecchymosis in surrounding tissue, in a ramified state.
Te Cumseh Attorney Calls for Violent Justice in Court
A Tecumseh attorney in a justice court denounces a man suing a widow as utterly mean and declares he wishes the court would appoint him to kick him to death by a jackass, reflecting stark courtroom rhetoric of the day.
Statues and monuments at the capital costly accumulations
The article lists costs for numerous Washington DC statues and monuments including Marshall, Greenough, Freedom on the dome, emancipation group, McPherson pedestal, Farragut, Scott, Thomas, Jackson, Washington at Georgetown, Rawlins, Scott at the soldiers home, Greene in East Washington, Bartholdi fountain, and the Capitol. It notes the Washington Monument and state, war and navy building costs and mentions a Philadelphia tale of sunken galleons and a New Jersey governor’s rescue of a drowning woman, plus cholera era tobacconist deaths and arsenical postal notes.
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Marshall
Washington City
Greenough
Washington
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
Freedom
Lincoln Park
Gen. McPherson
Arlington Hotel
Vinnie Kream
Farragut
Gen. Scott
Don Cameron
Gen. Thomas
Andrew Jackson
White House
Georgetown
Gen. Rawlins
Soldiers
Gen. Greene
East
Bartholdi
Botanical Gardens
Washington Monument
Murderer Stokks Attends New York Independence Meeting
The article notes Stokks, labeled a red handed murderer, being present at a recent independence meeting in New York City. Curtis is portrayed as entering refined moral society, considered dangerous and hypocritical.
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Stokks
New York City
Curtis
Mother Hubbard Triumphs Over Nebraska Court Battle
The Omaha Republican reports Mother Hubbard won her clash with the state of Nebraska finishing with strong results and a clear victory.
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The
Omaha Republican
Hubbard
Nebraska
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Business Directory
United States Land Office
McCook, Nebraska
F. Babsock
G. L. Laws
Register
J. KE. Cochran
Attorney AT Law
McCoqe
Red Willow County
Nes
State
Kansas
Government Land Office
Land Department
Jennings & Starbuck
Attorneys AT Law
Depot
North Green's Drug Store
Page T. Francis
Hitchcock Land District
L. Lee Johnson, M. D
Graduate Medical Department University
Tribune
Jefferson and
Madison Streets
T. B. Stutzman, M. D
Trravne
A. J. Willey
B. & M. Railroad
B. & M. Pharmacy
A. T. Gatewood
Mccook Hotel
John F. Collins
Dennison St
McCook Mouse
C. L. Nettleton
Superintendent Public Instruction
Indianola
W. M.sanderson
William McIntyre
Hinman & Co.p
Ainters
McCook
Jackson Tubbs
West Dennison Street
Neb
A. C. Towne
8. L. Green
L. Green
Panama Canal
Philadelphia
Vigo Bay
Spain
Governor Assett
New Jersey
Long Branch
Abbott
New York
Luria Horst
W. C. Latourette
Big AX
Lytle Bros
General Dealers
Citizen's Bank
B.&%& M. Pharmacy
America
Nccook
the Citizen's Bank OF
First National Bank
Lincoln, Neb
Chase National Bank
J. W. Dolan
W. Franklin
W. F. Wallace
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