Junction City to Emporia Railroad Mustered Travel Notes
A fragmented station log lists many towns including Junction City Council Grove Topeka Emporia Horton Osage City Arvonia Reading Wakarusa and Burlingame. It records arrival notes for Chtoha Ventesa Norta Topeka and other stops with times and line references, plus daily schedule lines and a signature of the superintendent.
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Leave
Norta
Topeka
Topeka O
Cottonwand Grove
Wakarun
Carbondale
Burlingame
Peterton Ovage City
Arvonia Reading Horton
Ahrive Atemporia
Indian Country Trains From Lawrence and Kansas City Schedule
Indian Territory era timetable shows passenger and freight trains from Lawrence and Kansas City with multiple stops including Baldwin Ottawa Garnett Coffeyville and Lawrence. Night and express services listed with arrival and departure times and daily operation notes. Connections across towns and routes to Garnett Tioga Cherryvale and fostered links to Neosho Valley and the Osage Reservation are outlined. Through freight and passenger contracts offered via Baldwin and connections to various stage lines and destinations across southern Kansas and the Indian Territory.
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Hanea City
Wih
Fapt
Noch
Kawrepee
Raneae Pacific
Barton Weer
Iitamwe
Queneme
Lynflan
Oe City
Paola
Burtington
Adjuvant Pe
Garnett
Etsgee
Leroy
Kona
Stiges
Neosho Falls
Purlanecteu
Tioga
Thes Marat
Pace
Fone
Cheteyet
Eodecka
Parker
Prodonis
Kansas
Indian Territory
Altberryvare
Independence
Elk City
Elk Fall
Grcvenfield
Winfield
Douglas
Arkansas City
J . Aura Melville
Neosho Valley
Urace
Freich
Parser
Ars
Baldwin
C. B. Peck. G. F
Cheerfulness as a path to happiness and success
The piece argues that cheerfulness and diligent effort sustain happiness amid adversity. It cites Lamb, Johnson, and Smiles on optimism, warns against irritability from business strains, and stresses regular sleep, rest, and temperate living as essential to health and morale. It urges cultivating a positive outlook, valuing virtue in others, and balancing work with recreation.
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Charles Lamb
Dr. Johnson
Samuel
Bishop Hall
Going the Rounds satire of a castor oil prank
A press exchange recaps a tale of a young woman who unknowingly drank castor oil in soda water. The incident started when a clerk offered a sip to explain the taste and the woman mistook the drink for herself aid for her mother. The episode spread from one city to another, drawing sharp commentary.
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Troy Times
Troy
Castor oil soda tale travels across cities ends in Baltimore
A Baltimore paper describes a young woman who has wandered the country in pursuit of castor oil soda cocktails, visiting Cincinnati Washington Richmond Detroit Louisville Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Memphis Milwaukee and New Orleans. She travels daily to take doses while reports speculate on the danger to her mother and the mother’s death. A reporter intercepts her in Baltimore as she plans more doses before the next paper hits the streets.
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Fourth and Chestnut Streets
New York
St. Louis
Loniside
Cincinnati
Atlantic Express
Sas City
F. Cuaypien
Gen Watager
Baltimore
Washington
Richmond
Detroit
Louisville
Medical
Chicago
Indianapolis
Memphis
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Leavenworth
Vers
Renlle
Dess
Kansas
Local Press Urges Support For Newspapers And Advertising
The New York Tribune piece argues readers should fund newspapers not as charity but as a public duty. A thriving paper boosts neighborhood property values and local reputation, while newspapers serve as a public convenience and community power.
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New York Tribune
New York
Washington
The Remarkable Vigor of Lord John Russell
Describes Lord John Russell as a small, pale, aged figure with a shrunken frame yet with surprising vitality. He is famed for dramatic pre-speech nasal blasts and spasmodic body movements. When seated, he hides under a broad-brimmed hat and adopts a resigned posture, while the author notes great minds stay steady in prosperity and adversity.
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Lord John
Russell
A caution on stomach work and daily meals
A 19th century voice warns that the stomach is taxed by up to fifteen hours of work daily when meals occur every few hours. It argues against eight hour work myths for others and stresses rest after sleep, avoiding constant eating between meals to prevent dyspepsia and long term health decline. It emphasizes parental instruction to youths about these health habits.
Borrowing Books and the Duty to Return Them
A discussion on the improper habit of taking books without returning them. The piece condemns keeping or damaging loaned volumes, notes the discomfort of owners, and urges borrowers to return books promptly in neat condition, encouraging lending to careful readers.
Betting on Rain Induces Calcutta Merchants’ Idle Gambits
Calcutta merchants adopt a new pastime betting on rain. Crowds wager on when rain will begin, watching spouts for the first drop. If no drizzle appears, the bettors who predicted no rain win, though chaos and accusations often follow. A Wisconsin girl swallowed forty percussion caps, prompting parental worry over fireworks risks.
What Becomes of the Coin In the reign of Darius to the present
A paper read before the Polytechnic Association by Dr. Stephens estimates where gold and silver go each year. Fifteen percent melts into manufacture, thirty-five percent goes to Europe, twenty-five percent to Cuba, fifteen to Brazil, five percent directly to Japan and the Indies, leaving five percent for U S circulation. Much of the Cuban and Brazilian gold ends up in Europe, then India, with much absorbed and not returned. Eastern hoarding and accumulation are noted as historic, with reflections on savings versus spending and a polemic against Democrats lingering through questions and accusations about political leaders and crimes.
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Darius
Plato
Polytechnic Association
Stephens
Europe
Cuba
Brazil
Japan
China
The
Indies
West Indies
India
Morocco
Pliny
Getting Mighty Short on the Little Miami Express
A passenger on the Little Miami Railroad tells of a tall African man asking if he is on the right track to Cincinnati and Fort Gibson. He displays a fragment of a through ticket and notes the journey is getting mighty short before reaching his destination. The exchange provokes laughter aboard the train.
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Miami
Fort Gibson
Atkinson
Cincennati
Cincinnati
Washington City
Brave traits and bold business plans in old notices
A quote praises courage to avoid mean acts and fulfill duty amid dangers. A wry line compares business without advertising to winking at a pretty girl through green goggles, implying hidden risks. The text notes San Francisco residents forming a company with $5,000,000 capital to develop Aleutian coal beds.
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San Francisco i
Aleutian Islands
Woman in Oberlin Sells Help for Bonnet Fund
A woman in Oberlin Ohio collected money intended for soldiers and orphans then used it to buy a bonnet. She argued orphans could endure with less bread once accustomed, but a woman still needs a bonnet.
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Oberlin
Ohio
Framed display frames kansas fruit exhibit
The Cincinnati Times notes that Our older States aims for a national gold medal in pomological display for a second consecutive year. The motto By their fruits ye shall know them echoes the framing of the exhibit and its national prestige.
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Kansas
Gjincinnati Times
Bride Gives Away Daughter Amid Speechless Sorrow
A wedding scene unfolds with a parent’s sorrowful air as he publicly dresses the bride for departure. The line between joy and strain hints at a decade of uneasy family tension and unresolved resentment.
Wheels worn out after 160000 miles on Pullman car set
A set of paper car wheels on a Pullman car bound for Jersey City wore out after 160000 miles of track. The steel tires were replaced and the ordinary wheels normally last about 60000 miles.
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Jersey City
Disconsolate groom weds twice in one day in Lowell
A Lowell man who had just secured a marriage certificate learned the bride was drunk and, in a rush of whim, proposed to a younger woman ten years his junior. He was married to both on the same day, provoking laughter at his impulsive double ceremony. Also notes maple sugar from molasses idea and a quip about bone from cod liver oil.
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Lowell
Bay
Yahkee
New Orleans
Peculation Plague on New York Horse Cars
Describes widespread corruption in New York horse car operations where an honest conductor cannot serve. Drivers thwart fare collection by following closely to avoid detection, while conductors are pressured to "knock down" five dollars daily and divide spoils with the motorman and others.
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New York
Poszen
Pers
Control of Tongue and Mind Warns Against Profanity
A admonition argues that a single vulgar word reveals a foul mind and that resisting such language prevents soul corruption. It urges avoiding any utterance one would fear speaking before refined or religious listeners, linking tongue discipline to mental restraint. It emphasizes smothering bad thoughts and keeping speech pure to protect the soul.
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Kay
Boston Case Upholds Passenger Ticket Rights on Couped Route
In a Boston Superior Court decision of interest to travelers, John A. Coleman of Boston sued the New York and New Haven Railroad over a coupon ticket valid New Haven to New York but invalid in the reverse direction. Coleman was denied passage, forced off the train, and sustained injuries. After multiple trials, he was awarded 23,200 damages.
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Gay
Boston
John A. Coleman
New ‘York
New Haven
New York
New York and New Haven Railroad Company
Coleman
President in Trouble Over Horse Incident
A Chicago Post item recounts President Grant facing mock outrage as horses roam near the executive residence. It cites a chain of newspapers lampooning the President, the pound keeper, and Lafayette Square, while predicting angry copies from the Times and Milwaukee Sentinel and jeers from Jefferson Davis’s followers.
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Gam
Catiff
Grantis
Times
Milwaukee
Zimes
Washington
Lafayette Square
Clark Mill
Jefferson ‘Davis
Sentinal
Howl
Chisago Post
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Business Directory
Iola Lodge
A. F. & A. Masons
J. F.culborn
W. MC. Gurimas
ODD Tellows
PotGikee
J. W. Glark
N.d
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Lee's
A. WW. Palcott
Tiorney & Counsellor AT Law
FM Jura
Allen County
Wee Wpee
Burleigh & Kingsbury
Jeurneys Atlaw
Anders JA
Fope
Humbaldt
Will Geen
Loeb
S. Ditriet
Je. Murmay
Ctouney AT Law
Towa
Public Square
Emperia
Lola
Kaueas Hall
Tmiagton
AP Law
Tols
É Kanez
Wally
Abe Sryte
Guileche
Fant Ag and Land Agents, &E
Geo. A. Bowlus
Iola, Kansas
Tola Bank
East Side Public Square
Jon Francis
Conivey
Joven Sears
Guerife
Amaw
Tula
Rangis
Ines
Tates
Idc
Comet Noure
J. Rhoades
Toln
Lhysicians
W. 5. Hendricks
Siclan
Tenslera
Munson Avenue
Er Gulatian
Pr Sicean
Citizens of
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Washington Avenue
Lola Mouse
Y. W. Mans
Way Siday
Nearh Valley House
Hotels
Temperance House
H Bangroft
Ic Square
Ola
N. I. Winans
aXatchmakers
Hy Freeman
YY Stuarr
SIVER
Amyth
Tola
Xrsp
Omice
D. F.givens
Watcumaker, Jeweler
Iola
Kanwar
S. Tozer
Scott Brother
T. J. Curry
Chas
Edward Smith
Achitect Asp
J. N. White
Arpenter
West Street
C. E. Conner & CO
Main Street
Kansas City
Missouri
Lawrence
G. W. Covert
Carly
Junction City
Council Grove
Kuiporia
Stirlington le Ray
Humbebde
Chtopa
Lreate Chetopa
Ewer Laberte
Ilumbeltt
Newelis Falls
Leray Burlington
Ecup Ee Wat
Neosho
Divisi
Uaneniel
Wortowaud
Pusacainer. de
Akuey
AL Junction City
Kansas Pacific Railway
Emporia
Burlington
Humboldt
Chictopa
Southern
Ros Stevens
Gea'l
F.C. White
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Ferr
North Topeka
Traviston
TJ. Peter
Wee W. Facan
Yarbalia
Leavenworth Lawrence, and Galveston
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Laroc
Ottawa
Iarnelt
iHumboldt
Thayer
Don Cheryvale
Ahe
Coffeyville
Cherryvale
Do Tioga
Expres Gorth
Chuforria
St. Joseph & Council
Blas
Great Union
Central Pacific
San Francisco
Leavenworth, Atchison, Saint Joseph
Nebraska City
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Salt Lake City
Sacramento
Pacific
Denver
Point
Hamburg
B.& Mur. R
East
Dra Moines
Iowa City
Keokuk
Dublque
Grinell
Iowa
Sioux
Mountains
Bale Lake City
Pacific Coast
Union Depot
Missouri River
St. Joseph
Pullman Palace
Fick
L. Hopes
Gen’ Paw
the Local Press
Lord John Russell
Calcutta
Wisconsin
Congress
United States
Democratic
North
Sor. Miller
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