Burlington Route Promises Fast Western Access via O B Q and B M Lines
An 19th century guide extols the Burlington Route as the best link to the West from Chicago or Indianapolis, via the O and B Q tied to the B M at Burlington. It details middle and branch lines through Nebraska to Lincoln and Omaha, with a shortcut across the continent and notes settlers and land agents promoting emigration and land sales along the Burlington network.
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Chicago
Indianapolia
Trau Bridge
Burlington
Omaha
California
Nebraska
Plattsmouth
Lincoln
Ihelatate
George Harris
Bh. & M Railroad
Iowa
Steaders
Cairs
Lincoln and Office
Sam
Pacific Express Train Service Description
The article describes the Pacific Express train with through coaches and sleepers to Omaha, with connections at Burlington or Kansas City. Through service to Omaha and St Joseph offers convenience, but passengers lose time and money when seeking faster routes elsewhere.
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Umaha
Trains Schedule Through Bushnell and Peoria Routes
Trains pass Bushnell eastbound at 7 33 a m and 10 41 p m and westbound at 5 02 a m and 2 18 pm. Peoria departures include 11 28 am 10 34 am 2 32 am and 1 20 am. The 10 41 pm Bushnell to 1 20 am Peoria East run offers a Pullman palace car through to Columbus, with service to Cincinnati Indianapolis Louisville Dayton Columbus Pittsburgh Philadelphia Baltimore and New York. Through tickets available and baggage checked through. 85 H C Townsend Gen Ticket Fgt Agt.
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Bapress, Exprese Arlingten
Sgutown Ti Zu & Ry Oo
Bot
Ou Ie Gaville
Monmouth
Cde
Jaiteron Galesburg iv Ou
Madite
Hicago
Night Pacific Galesh
Lusburg
Fagstown
Eastw
Daleburg
Cameron
Young Americ
Biggslile
Lacetown
Galesburg
Cameron Monmouth
Young Americ Taz
Ji Ao Biggsville
Ears Sagedown
Burtington
Oma Freight
Pases Monmouth
Goin
Wea
Peoria
Passag
Puxville
Buda
Rushville
Gaaly Ak Ieirisbl Ku
Galopa
L . E Burlington
Quincy
Burlington
Hurlington & Reokak
Kingtoh
Mendota
Illinoi
Galva
Rock Island
Cedar Ad
Rapds Coud
Iowa
Minnesota
United States
Canadas
J.D. Arms
Bushnell
Columbus
Selection of a West Point candidate in the old fourt district
The War Secretary nominates a West Point candidate from the old fourt district comprising Rock Island Mercer Warren Henderson Hancock and Adams counties. The candidate must be 17 to 22, or up to 24 with war service, and meet reading writing arithmetic geography and history requirements. Examination set for January 22, 1873 at Monmouth, with a board including D A Wallace, Dr. Gregg, and Col m Marshall.
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Monmouth
Warren County
D. A. Wallace
D. D
Monmouth College
Gregg
Rock Island
Col . m. Marshall
Joan B. Vaney
Western Patents Issued in Week End Nov 26 1872
United States Patent Office announces patents granted for the week ending November 26 1872. Inventors and cities listed include M Church Chicago Harrow L T Davis Altona Samuel Kyle Hyde Park along with many others from Illinois Iowa and Missouri for items such as a lap board fire shovel combined clamp and wrench corn harvester show case for ribbons hot air furnace grain drier fire proof building trace buckle cutter head can opener combined ladder and scaffold fence car coupling door for grain cars plow stead etc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Patent Office
W. B. Bionards
Galesburg
Illinois
M. Church
Chicago
L. T. Davis
O. Beagle
Altona
Samuel Kyle
Hyde Park
Ephraim Maguire
Princeton
Theodore Merrell
Dix
John Grose
Aaron Ruth
Decatur
W. K. Manning
Charles R. Coe
Bloomington
Geo. H. Johnson
E. R. Hall
Trace Buckle
Jno
Lindsley
Litchfield
Thos. Long
Cerro Gordo
Walter Thomas
Geneseo
Robt
L. Upebureh
Pana
Negro control of state government condemned in verdict
A harsh abolition era critique denounces Black dominance in state offices from the Senate to the Clerk of the House and Congress, claiming widespread ignorance and brutality among Black officials while noting a few whites as associates. The author asserts most officers are Black and labels the body as indecent and criminally touched.
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Senate
House
Congress
Webster
The Beautiful Snow Letter From 1872
A 1872 dated note to the St Louis Charleston police describes a separated husband complaining his wife left with another man. The writer vows not to pay debts and asks the chief to notify to return his wife. Lawyer Vandike is referenced seeking correction of errors in the letter.
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St. Louis
Charleston
Ill
Kaintac
Vandike
Moore
Poiruus J. Sxow
Strange Birds in Australia and Their Remarkable Mounds
Australian fauna features the cipoz, a mound-building bird pair that constructs enormous leaf and grass mounds, generates heat through decay, digs a top hole for each egg, and incubates without the parent on the nest, displaying precise propagation behavior. A New Jersey paper laments rising drunkenness while praising local whisky.
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Australia
Cipoz
New Jersey
Jersey
Probe into Credit Mobilier letters and congressional stock deals
Washington report outlines expected findings from the Committee inquiry into Credit Mobilier. It suggests Ames's letters are genuine and detail offers of stock to members of Congress, some accepting while others refused. It notes manipulation of price and dividends to reimburse purchasers.
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Oakes Ames
Credit Mobilier
Congress
Fattening Practices Across Africa and Asia
Bruce describes a controversial fattening ritual where girls are confined and fed to reach a desired weight for marriage. The process uses deough seeds, with some women dying from extreme fatness. Wealthier suitors drive the practice among higher social classes as a status display.
Corn as Fuel Offering Economy and Local Benefit
The piece touts corn as an effective substitute for wood and coal with a price of 17 cents per bushel. It claims a ton of corn equals a cord of hardwood and three tons of corn equal the heat of one ton of coal, while promoting national self sufficiency by keeping money in the local economy.
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Pennsylvania
Golden Mottoes and a Tale of Two Women
A witty moral about money and character contrasts vainglory with thrift revealing a New York bride wearing diamonds at her wedding versus a Louisville sewing woman supporting a large family by sewing pantaloons for four dollars a week. The two women are not the same person.
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New York
Louisville
Moonlit kiss raises questions of guilt and shame
A speaker reflects on a coerced kiss by a man not known to her, lamenting sin versus impulse. She wonders about male shame and anticipates another visit, insisting she bears some responsibility yet seeking penance for a minor act with lasting impact.
Runaway teams terrorize streets in chaotic town scenes
A milk dealer and two hired men crash a hand-cart as cows scare the team and they race down Franklin Street. A Swede on a red wheelbarrow bolts through Spring Street, a gate crashes, and a wheelbarrow is wrecked on KE.P. Hall’s sewing machine rooms. An old farmer’s two ponies pull a wagon loaded with pumpkins and produce, causing multiple collisions. A noble livery horse halts another runaway, while a pig butchery child’s carriage is upset by a kiss. A grandfather horse bolts, injuring two horses and breaking his own leg, ending with a grim shooting to end the suffering.
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Pumpferker
Pumpjer
Pleasantville Road
Spring Street
Monroe Street
Parshall House
Spring
Perry
Ke.p. Hall
W. T. Andrews
William
Washington Street
John Macgudgeon
Cabine Avenue
Martin Street
Dark-Bay
Grolcer
Titusville Manufacturing
Ferguson
Boston
Pleasantville
Invisible Vegetation in Air and Health Risks
A historical note explains that green mould in cheese and on exposed food consists of invisible vegetable growth. Tiny spores travel through air, lodge in lungs, and may cause irritation, inflammation, and possibly fatal consumption. Breathing clean air and well ventilated rooms reduce risk.
Nast Faces Backlash Over Cartoons of Horace Greeley
A fiery editorial condemns Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly caricatures of Horace Greeley and calls on Nast and Harper’s to seek pardon. It urges gratitude to the late patriot’s children and criticizes Curtis for distributing the “detestable trash.”
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Horace Greeley
Thomas Nast
Harper’s Weekly
Nast
Harpers
George William Curtis
Woman Found On Tracks Faces County Court In Iowa
A distressed woman with an eight to ten month old child was found on railroad tracks near Sagetown and brought to the county seat. She is deemed of unsound mind and, after appearing before a county court, was sent to the county farm. She identifies as Mrs. James Wilson of Primrose Iowa and wishes to return home by wagon. Judge Richey has contacted Primrose to verify her identity.
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Sagetown
James Wilson
Primrose
Iowa
Richey
Fragmented 19th Century Notes Mix Politics and Odd Tales
The column surveys political figures like J L Orr tied to South Carolina and Andrew Curtin, mixes with satirical notes on Montreal servant girls, a New Orleans printer mispronouncing vowels, a Hudson River death chained with contraband, and a Wyoming jury scene where a mother brings her baby to court.
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Railroads
Galington AG Ts
Kansas
Acme
Matl Express
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
RB. E
Burlingto
Saan
Arciye Fairfield
Des Moines Valley
R. R
Ottumwa
Wes
Pp . B
Ottum
Albia
Hopkin
Dj Windeau
Pasibam
Seelee
Arcive Ilamburg
Arcive Souranna City
Béva
Arcive Cogncil
Arsive
Rock
Old, Ri& St. L. Railroad
Louis Wim
Youngstown
Swan Creek
Roseville
Malta
Alexandria
Henderson
Amc Cc
Eta
Sterling
Pra
Freight Freight
Rosewll Lee
Barhoell
Vermont
Beardetow
Chapin
St Louis
Toledo
Warsaw
Eekly
West Point
John B. Haley
Job
Jeremiah
Zachariah
Isaiah
R. J. Apcock
France
Germany
Italy
Paris
Tion
Jate
Western Patents
Edward M. Crandal
Marshalltown
Flower
Kickapoo City
Kan
F. Graves
Hickory
Fico Vidang
Leo Wesee
Rotary Steamne
Chas. Grotz D. B
Bassler
D. A. Morrison
J. B. Morrison
Fort Madison
Lows
Wheeling Register
South Carolina
The
New York Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Africa
Asia
Colonel Keating
Tunis
Bruce
Council Bluffs
Giolden
Titusville
Pa.) Prees
Shepherd's Hotel
Cairo
Indies
Woodhull
Tilton
J. .L. Orr
South Crolina
Orr
Washington
House of Representatives
Grant
Andrew Curtin
St. Petersburg
Cincinnati Enquirer
Quantrille
Moseby
Montreal
Thornep E’s
New Orleans
Hudson River
Newburg
Liebreich
Mlle Liebhardt
Rubinstein
New York Herald
Steinway Hall
Gray
Liebhardt
Mr. Grau
Himmel
Wyoming
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