Cadwallader plots and CP fights a coast line rise
Alfred Vincent pursues Stella as Central Pacific crews clash with rival interests. A web of wire tapping plots, government pressure, and railroad finance unfolds across Sacramento, San Francisco, and the Sierra as Phineas Cadwallader faces exposure and the CP gains leverage.
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Letary
Erland Mel
Bily” Dades
Alfred Viswent
Yeas Cadwallader
Mass
Anthony
Stella Anthony
Weed
Wien Rath
Stella
Han
Lutor & Bernard
Daighteer
Vincent
Ainiete
Nelve Ots
Central Pacific Railroad
Sevneta
Eas
Central Pacific
Gideon
Pla
Billy
Rakeman Alfred Vincent
Union Pacific
United States
Gregory
San Francisco
Central Pacific Company
Sacramento Valley
Freeport
McLane
Placerville
Iron Horse
Stanford
Fiml
Flora
C. P
Kingdom Come
Phineas
Cadwallader
Gov
Calirfornia
Sacramento Valley Railroad
Pacific Coast
San Francisco & Washoe
Sacramento
Sierras
James Sackett
Nature Faker Spars Over Shark Story
A journalist calls a daily paper a nature faker for a shark tale where a shark drags a man from a raft and eats him. The reporter defends the piece, and the editor jokes about retracting the scene with a redo and an alligator to resolve the outcome.
Puzzle asks which hobby is wife and which is automobile
The riddle contrasts two hobbies with yearly costs 2000 and 600, one air cooled and naturally cooled, one taken out at night and the other goes out alone, one with a single spark and the other with several, one cranky and the other self cranky, both inconsistent and unreliable. It asks which matches the wife and which the car in Puck style.
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Stella
Alfred
Viola
Puck
Capuchine remedy aids women relief claims advertisement
An advertisement touts Hicke Capuchine as curing periodic pains backache nervousness and headaches with immediate relief and nature assistance. It claims physician prescribed with best results and offers trial bottles. A fragment notes a dumb waiter being an unspeakable nuisance.
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Life Saving Claim
A Manning Iowa woman writes that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her life after years of female health issues and costly medicines. The letter touts proven cures for displacements ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and pain, inviting other sick women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia Pinkham
T. C. Willadsen
Manning
Town
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jay
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