Transportation's rise fifty years of the Pennsylvania Railroad
A retrospective review traces Pennsylvania transportation from canal networks and canal era to the founding of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846 50 years of rapid growth. It highlights canals first then the Portage road and the shift to locomotive power under J Edgar Thomason, with milestones across states and rival routes, and notes evolving travel times and freight rates.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Times
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union
Philadelphia
Interior
West
Schuylkill
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Susquehanna
Chesapeake and Delaware
John Stevens
Columbia
New York
Juniata
Cincinnati
Portage
Huntingdon
Johnstown
Alleghenies
Pittsburg
Broad and Vine Streets
Groad Street
Columbia Bridge
Harrisburg
Charles Dickens
Columbia Railroad
Arger
America
Sipes
Hollidaysburg
Ahenselven
Sunbury and Erie
Charles L. Schlatter
Conemaugh
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cumberland
Shank
Pemesey
Georgia
J. Edgar Thomason
Delaware County
John Thomzon
Lewistown
Thomson
Great
Allegheny Mountains
Lewiston
Tyrone
Altoona
Great Tunnel
Youngstown
Ashtabula
Toledo
Walhonding Valley
Ohio
Little Miami
Goveland
Pittsburgh
Michigan
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Trinois
Toledo, Peoria
Western
Mississippi
Baltimore
Northern Central
Baltimore and Potomac
Wilmington
Atlanta
Florida
Pennsylvania Central
Public Works
New Jersey
Pennnsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia
Indiana
Imnois
Kentucky
Thomas A. Boot
George B. Roth
Salls Dr. Egle
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania Canal
Harrisburg and
Lancaster
Middletown
Good Fork
John Bull
Chicago
Alexandria
Wyoming
Wilkes-Darre
Luzerne
Loyal Dog Brings Comfort in Grief
A speaker laments a lost world and finds solace in a dog's loyal affection. The dog rests his head on the speaker, offers a lingering lick, and calms deep sorrow with quiet closeness. The poem concludes on a note of simple happiness found in canine loyalty.
Pattison Seen as Democratic Presidential Hope in Chicago Convention
The piece surveys Robert E Pattison as a leading Democratic presidential prospect. It notes his youth in politics, reform record as Governor of Pennsylvania, wide support across states including New Jersey Delaware Maryland and California, and backing from party leaders like William F Harrity. It highlights Pattison’s domestic life and character, and references past interactions with Grover Cleveland and party strategy for Chicago.
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Philadelphia
New York Herald
Robert Emory Pattison
Am Great State
Seare
Pattison
Grover Cleveland
James A. Beaver
Pennsylvania
Ngain
Keystone State
Philadelplia
Chestnut Stret National Bank
The
Treasury
Cleveland
Pacific Railroad
Sterling
Jeremiah 8. Black
Samuel J. Randall
Allentown
D Pennsylvannia
William F. Harrity
Democratic National Committee
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
California
North Carolina
Chicago
Harrity
Mr. Pattison
Overbrook
Pennsylvania Railroad
Montgomery County
Banking and Insurance Company
Chestnut Street
Broad Street
Misa Anna B. Simith
Lavinia Russell Pattison
Robert Emory Pattison Jr
Littl
Robert
Robert Henry Pattison
Methodist Episcopal Church
Quantico
Church of the Covenant
Eighteenth Street
Spruce
Bible Union
International Reson
General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Ecumenical Council
Washington, D. C
Dickinson College
New York
Pattigon
Willam L. B Scott
Erie
Holy Sepulchre Visit Echoes Sacred Ruins and Prayer
The narrator describes entering Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre area through dim halls crowded with pilgrims from many nations. He notes the mingling of relics and ruins, the throng of worshippers, guards, and bells, and reflects on faith, reverence, and the human impulse to seek meaning in sacred spaces.
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Figaro
Holy Sepulchre
Jerusalem
Orient
Holy City
Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre
Mohammedan Jerusalem
el Komamah
Mary
Magdalen
Chapel of Saint Helena
Christ
Chapel of
St. Helena
West
Tim
Origin of money to burn phrase in colonial tobacco era
The phrase money to burn derives from a period when tobacco served as currency in the American colonies. In trading towns, farmers and traders accepted tobacco as a quasi money, circulating widely and sometimes valued like cash before coinage and paper money became standard.
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York
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
Pittsburg and Steubenville
Panhandle
Cincinnati and
St. Louia
Columbus
Indiana Central
Pittsboro
St. Louis
Cincinnat
Muskingum Valley
Vandalia
Terre Haute and
Indianapolis
United Railroads of New Jersey
Pennasylvania Company
Setah
Das
Thad
Randall
John Wanamaker
Garrett A. Tlobart
George C. Perkins
William R. Moore
Tennesnee
George Lloyd Lownde
George Bradley
Chicago Times Herald
H. If. Kohlsaat
Pierre Loti
Ellver Larons