Burlington route offered as best path to the West
Rail promotional piece extols the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line joined with the Boston and Maine via an iron bridge at Burlington Iowa as the leading route to California and a shorter Nebraska crossing. It highlights the Burling ton route for scenery and notes thousands of land buyers and homesteaders connected to the B and M and Lincoln land office.
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Indianapolis
Burlington
Omaha
California
Nebraska
Plattamouth
Antone
Lincoln
George Harris
B. & M. Railroad
Iowa
Lincoln Land Office
Sam
West Route Quickest for Omaha Bound Passengers
The Pacific Express offers through coaches and Pullman sleepers to Omaha with a through sleeper from Burlington to Kansas City. The mail train also runs through to Omaha and St Joseph without change. This West route promises the quickest travel and saves time and money by avoiding alternatives.
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Burlington
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Pacific
Steee
Celta
Monmouth
Burlington Ry
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Des Moines
Wangy
Ottumwe
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Chariton
Creston
Hopking
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M.A.R.R
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Hamburg
Nebraska
Council Blue
Plattamouth
Lincoln
Ucmagne Y
Train Schedules Through Bushnell and Peoria
Trains pass Bushnell east and west with times at 7 33 a m and 2 0 a m 10 41 p m 18 p m. Rose leaves Peoria at a m 1 34 a m 2 33 a m. Westbound timetable shows connections to Cincinnati Indianapolis Louisville Columbus Pittsburgh Philadelphia Baltimore New York. Townsend, Gen. Ticket & Pay.
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Rose
Peoria
Bushnell
Wil Peoria
Main Palace
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Louisville
Ton Columbus Pittsburgh, Philadel
Baltimore
New York
Townsend
Gen. Treket & Pah
Monmouth Council Actions December 2 1872
City council meets at 8 30 am with Mayor Buffington in chair. Remittance request for Wilson Andrews denied after vote. Reports from street supervisors Weeks and Turner filed. Corrections on Reed’s report returned. Later, orders issued to Turner for half due, and purchase of 600 feet hose funded by 900 dollars from fire tax. Auditors approve 488.28 in bills. Mayor Buffington and Clerk Surru sign.
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Monmouth
Ald
Reed
J. M. Turner
Ald. Robinson
G. W. Savage
T. C. Weeks
WM. M. Buffington
C. K. Surru
Western Patents and Nearby Notices for Nov 12 1872
The weekly patent list includes multiple Illinois and Midwest inventors with items such as a sifter pulverizer printer telegraph instrument portable fence harvester and more from Chicago St Louis Bloomington and other towns. A Warren County teachers association meeting is announced in Monmouth with a long schedule of essays readings and discussions on December 23 and 24, 1872, plus state association dates in Springfield.
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W. C. Brusen
Chicago
E. Gray
Jos
J. McMahen
Middletown
C. G. Udell
Harvester
Wm. R. Low
Sandwich
R. T. Crane
Gerriet Dickson
Friends of Education
State Teachers’ Association
Springfield
J.B. Donnell
Packer complains of unprofitable hog packing in St Joseph
The St. Louis Democrat reprints a St Joseph pork packer's note that current prices cause about a dollar loss per hog. With no export demand and ample supply, sellers in St Joseph are settling or re selling at a loss. Without price relief or higher production, packing profits look poor or activity will be light this year.
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St. Louis Democrat
St. Joseph
Death of John Coventry a Green county landholder dies in Medora
A Carlinville Democrat correspondent reports the death of John Coventry in Medora. Once a New York native, he settled north of Carrollton and owned about two thousand acres in Green and Macoupin counties. His money, bonds, and certificates of deposit valued up to $100000 were scattered, with $40000 in U.S. bonds. He left two brothers in Igwa and New Orleans to manage his estate. He had lived in poverty in Summerville, relying on a single room for years.
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Macoupin
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David Pierson
Igwa
New Orleans
Days Without Night In Stockholm As Solstice Narrated
Dr Baird’s conference observations describe endless daylight in Stockholm during June including reading by moonlight and towns empty at midnight. He notes the poleward sun’s behavior near the Bothnia coast and at North Cape, with long hours of daylight and shifting sleep patterns.
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Rpeelace
Sweden
Stockholm
Gottenburg
North Pole
Dry Baird
Bothnia
North Cape
Bairdy
Baird
Stokholm
Reminiscences of Horace Greeley and the Cincinnati Canvass
The account recalls Horace Greeley, the Cincinnati nomination, and the Fifth Avenue conference. It portrays Greeley’s evolving stance, the coalition dynamics, and personal tensions with Schurz White and Tilton. The author reflects on Greeley’s health, hopes, and the political epoch, ending with a sober, candid appraisal of a complex career.
Be just and fear not motto for self reliance and virtue
A manifesto urging self reliance and strength of character. It promotes honesty, industry, perseverance, civility, and kindness, urging readers to steer their own life, strive for virtue, study, and love country while obeying laws.
Dance and family figures from a lively old court scene
A garbled памят text recalls a dance led by elders with mothers and sons and daughters, sisters with brothers, uncles with nieces, and a few husbands with wives. The piece mentions a jolly grand and a bridegroom, with a brief aside about a writer’s complaint on American women’s legs and a note about an epizootic.
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Grandame
Many World Notes From The Times Of Old
A long collage shows Sunnyside sale for 5700 dollars and other oddities. Stories include a London street preacher’s fatal dispute, Garibaldi leading animal protection in Turin, New York disappearances, and a Fitchburg arrestee’s decline. Notables: Tweed indictment, Gough’s testimonial drive, and 700 women in postal service.
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Garibaldi
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
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Indiana
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