New Low Fares Offered for Lincoln to Chicago Route
Through cars run from B and M points in Southern Nebraska to Chicago with a ten minute connection at Pacific Junction. At Chicago connections reach the East Southeast and North. Sleeping car berths reserved at Lincoln offices by telegraph or mail. Pullman sleepers operate from Lincoln and Missouri River to St. Louis.
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St. Louis -Charta
St. Louis
Palace
Horton
Senate
United States
Canada
Nebraska
Chicago
Pacific Junction
Lincoln
Missouri River
St.louis
Burlington
St Louis
Population shifts and licenses across Nebraska towns in 1882
Merrick county families move toward Wyoming while Bloomington and North Bend report growth. Cambridge plans May bond vote for a new school house. Firth grants a liquor license. Alma and Geneva regions discuss bridges, court buildings, and legal actions. Floods and infrastructure updates plus local crime and court cases populate a broad weekly snapshot.
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Cambridge
Firth
Central City
W. J. Holladay
Ord
North Bend
Alma
Geneva
C. H. Folden
Shickley
Joseph Story
Folden
Old
Sioux County Stock Association
Wyoming Stock Association
Female Voter Registration and Participation in Massachusetts
Official statistics show 8,464 registered female voters in Massachusetts in 1879 with 2,291 voting, and 4,566 registered in 1880 with 1,967 voting. The text notes women show indifference to the ballot after gaining it, worse than many men, and questions whether women care much about voting.
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Massachusetts
English Government Faces 21000 Cost From Prosecution
A Maltese paper claims for fifty five English girls imported for marriage only one has been freed so far. Summer suit patterns show elaborately trimmed skirts with drapery and basques of plainness while sleeves adopt a coat style.
Eviction Resistance Threat Looms Over Farm Removals
Dillon warns wholesale evictions cannot proceed without armed resistance and vows to suspend eviction and sale of farms for a year. A New Palla eviction attempt drew 500 police as a mob of 500 jeered and stoned officers, delaying sheriffs. A second eviction is planned shortly amid Catholic clergy backing a land league report and calls for assessees.
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Dillon
Gladstone
Forster
New Palla
Land League
Nihilists executed and riots spark wide unrest across empires
Reports describe a czarist execution and flogging of an executioner for a prior hanging, with further arrests tied to nihilist press activity. Grand Duke Nicholas receives life imprisonment. riots in Elizabethgrad erupt over Passover rites. International notes warn of potential China Japan war and a sinking near Otago with eighty drowned.
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Michaloff
St. Petersburg
Nihhilist
Will of the People
Czar
Nicholas
Elizabethgrad
Kherson
China
Japan
Senate Proceedings and Accidental Actions in the Era
The Senate grants leave to study bankruptcy, votes on executive session, and corrects a misvote. Senator Morgan pushes a canal and transport resolution. Dawes objects over House concurrence. Butler attacks Mahone amid accusations of bargains, with a list of evidences cited. Adjournment follows with a call for attorney general reports.
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Dawes
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Committee On Foreign Relations
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Senate
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Orham
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Virginia
Miller
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Washington notes The Star Route Steal
A New York Times correspondent outlines star route mail fraud led by Gen Brady and the Dorsey Gilmer Salisbury rings. It details bids, overcharges, implicated agents, and payouts across Louisiana Arizona and other routes, plus bankruptcy talk and political maneuvering in Congress.
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Star Route Mall
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Stesl
Dorsey Gang
Gilmer
Salisbury
Ewinde
J. W. Dorsey
J. M. Peck
J. R. Miner
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T. A. McDevitt
A. 8. Patrick
Luke Voortees
Geo. H. Platt
O. J. Salisbury
Patrick & Brown
A. Hi. Brown
G. V. Menserose
C. A. Cosgrove
W. A. Giedings
C. D
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J. H. Pearson
Pearson
Yarmouth Ring
Chas. Andrews
Post Office Department
Jewell
John A. Walsh
Prescott
Santa Fe
Arizona
New Orleans
Internal Revenue
Prominent Pittsburgh Doctor Jokes On Healing Advice
A physician told a lady patient to try Hop Bitters for her persistent illness. She used the bitters and recovered, then laughed at the joke, while the doctor regrets losing a good patient. The anecdote appears in Harrisburg Packet.
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Lessing
Pittsburgh
Herrisberg
Markets at Chicago and St Louis summarize grain and live stock prices
Market notes show Wheat No 2 prices around 1.00 to 1.03 dollars with bids for May June July. Corn No 2 quoted near 42 to 44 cents with bids for May July August. Oats No 2 around 36 to 37 cents with May June July bids. Rye about 1.14 dollars cash and May bids. Park soy and lard prices given. Live stock ranges noted for cattle and sheep with mixed quality, hogs and whiskey prices also listed. Saint Louis figures echo wheat and corn tones with bid quotes and year data.
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Louis
Propoues
Crystalized eggs to curb prices and waste in markets
A National Agriculturist piece notes U S egg trade reaching about eight million dollars in New York and eighteen million nationwide with firms moving large sums. It describes crystalizing as a method to preserve eggs, transport anywhere, and stabilize year round supply, as well as pricing differences and production remarks.
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United States
Uast
Cincinnati
America
Madagaascar
Equator
Poles
St. Louis
New York
England
France
Lima
Peru
Wild sheep of the Sierra dive from precipices
John Muir recalls a stockraiser near Sheep Rock observing wild sheep that plunge from a 150 foot Java headland. The animals leap from the brink, land on their feet, and continue as if the drop were normal, proving the sure-footedness of four legged beasts.
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John Muir
The
Sierra
Gentlemen and Wit Clash in Irish Courtroom Sharps
Two Irish barristers sparred in court, their sarcasm rising to billingsgate. In a heated moment one declared a bid to force decorum while the other defiantly challenged the claim, revealing how wit can backfire when misused.
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Billinsgate
Portrait of Murderer Identified After Victim’s Sign
A Chicago shooting victim, unable to speak, drew a photograph from his pocket to indicate his killer. Police identified the man based on this sign, while theater casting notes discuss Anna Dickinson’s engagement and physique comparisons for characters Pauline and Claude.
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Philadelhia
Clarule Melnotle
Pauline
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Miss Dickinson
Miss Stewart
Ihe
Mary Anderson
Claudes
Romeos Shetter
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