Lost Burlington Car 907 Hidden in Desert Gulch Mystery
A Burlington box car number 907 loaded with silk and wine vanished from a silk special on the Union Pacific in 1887 between Green River and Laramie. After months without clues the car was found upright in a Red Desert gulch, its seals intact, the cargo undamaged, and the mystery resolved when a rear-end derailment left the car behind unnoticed.
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Burlington
Mountain
Union Pacific
Green River
Laramie
Wyo
Burlington Road
Pacific Coast
Orient
California
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
China
Allk Special
Sierra Nevadas
Canada
Ogden
Bitter Creek
Red Desert
Laramie Plains
Green
Hitter Creek
Rawlins
Tipton
Ritter Creek Station
Sherman Hills
Perdition
Omaha
Ita
D-Bar
C. E. Wurtele
Debates on Richard Davis and Gallagher Reverberate
A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle contributor rails at Richard Davis, describing him as a target of antagenious rumor mongers and a fool in discourse. The piece recalls Davis's alleged link to the Gallagher controversy, arguing the tale is an enemy invention and praising Davis as a critic and gentleman.
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Richard Ardieg Davis
Vis
Richard
Rebecca
Davis
Gallagher
Aalur
Mr. Davis
Harding Davis
Eghoeig
Stevenson
Caine
Black
Barrie
Harley
Tim
Great Britain
Cowboys Rewarded With Gold Watch In Omaha Exchange
The superintendent ordered the conductor and his brakemen to the office to collect their time while a cowboy received a valuable gold watch and chain found in Omaha. The piece notes that cowboys in the city do not typically wear such jewelry.
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Omaha
Curious case of a fowl blood transfusion child
A Connecticut boy saved from infant death by a fowl blood transfusion grows into a twelve year old who imitates chickens. He wanders at night to the chicken house, crows and clucks, and follows yard fowls, prompting his mother to seek medical help again.
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Stonington
Conn
Boston
Odd Case Of Blood Transfusion Attributed To Mannerisms
A Boston patient is treated for a peculiar condition described as an odd impulse. Reported similar cases note an Austrian who, after a bullock blood transfusion, began to bellow and paw the ground like an angry bull. New York physicians at Stonington doubt transfusion can pass traits.
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Stephen Crane
New York Bane
Kitelawield
Lothair
Washington Post
Europe
United States
J. Selwin Taft
New York
Evening Post
Talt
Boston
Medical
Acoff
Stonington
Universal Suffrage Urges Duty Along With Rights
Elizebeth Burrill Curtis argues that universal suffrage entails both high rights and heavy duties. She asserts voting power requires sacrifice, vigilance, and integrity, condemning bribery and self serving leaders while warning against neglect of public duty.
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Seueren
Uss
Elizebeth Burrill Curtis
Reformer’s Searchlight Exposes Public Faults and Foes
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt describes a reformer wielding a powerful probe to reveal hypocrisy among presidents clerks bankers and society leaders. The sweeping beam forces ripples through railroads ministers and high society as allies and enemies alike find themselves exposed and unsettled by the moral scrutiny.
Intellectual and practical training for teachers at normal school
The article describes a model school with three study tracks besides preparatory work, emphasis on college preparation, and certificates enabling admission to top colleges. It notes thirty graduates advanced, strong art and music programs, a 300 pupil model school, sixteen teachers, extensive grounds, athletic fields, an elevator, infirmary, nurse, gymnasium, and annual cost about 43. Fall term August 3, winter term December 2, spring term March 1. Students may enter any term. Catalogue details follow.
Remarkable Remedy Cures Severe Inflammatory Rheumatism
Gladwin residents report dramatic relief from inflammatory rheumatism after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. Mrs Flynn endured months of pain and sleeplessness until the pills eased nervous distress and restored strength. Ransom Simmons and his wife also credit the remedy with calming nervous debility and renewed health. The advertisement touts Pink Pills as a universal tonic for rheumatism and related conditions, sold nationwide through physicians and dealers.
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barter-Herald
Gladwin
Gladwin County
Michigan
William Flynn
Courier-Herald
Ransom Simsmons
Detroit
Dr. Williams
Dr. Wil Medicine Company
Schenectady
N.Y
Scranton City Directory Fragments List Local Businesses
A dense list of Scranton area merchants and trades from a partial directory. Entries include banks such as Lackawanna and West Side, bedding and carpets, china and glassware, toys and confectionery, feed and grain, farm goods, dry goods, plumbing, groceries, wines and liquors, flour and dairy, engines and boilers, furniture, hardware, hotels, watchmakers, boots and shoes, undertakers, druggists, carriages, pawnbrokers, and more with street addresses on Lackawanna Avenue, Main, Linden, Spruce, and Washington.
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World OF Letters
Robert Louis Stevenson
Poe
Pepe
John Watson
Ian Maclaren
Yale
Tom Meteyard
Elkin Mathews
Olive Holland
Norway
W. L. Alden
New York Times
London
Ier
Paris
The
Longmans
Thomas N. Orchard
Morris
England
Uc Sears
Harold
Prederte
Cecil Rhodes
South Africa
Anthony Hoow
D. Appleton & Co
James Payn
Cornhill
Crockett
Holland
Acher
Windsor
Virail
Theocritus
Aratus
Pisander
Ennius
Lucretius
Acclus
Homer
Theritish
Ennans
Carte James
Bret Harte
Moncure Conwartrude Atherton
W ‘. Astor
Poultney Bigelow
Sarah Jeannette Duncan
Everin Coates
Elisabeth Pennell
Burnett
Barrett Browning
Browning
Venice
Pblishers
Bookman
Enteren
Thomas Hughes
Chica
Bunker Hill Monument
Lowell
Beaton
Connecticut
New York World
American Woman Suffrage Association
Cape
Pease Bo
Phelps Dawson
Philadelphia Bulletin
Mansfield State Normal School
St. Denis
Broadway
Eleventh St
Grace Church
William Taylor
Mich
Prom
the Quarter-Herald
Saginaw, Mich
Drdin
Matthews Bros
John H. Phelps
Scranton
Aotice
Tribune
Wanne Trust and Safe Deposit Co
Hante’ and Mechanics
Lackners’ Ni
Lackawanna
Weat Side Bank
N. Main
Scranton Savings
Wyoming
the Scranton Bedding Co
Lacka
Inson
H. Bons
N. Seventh
Bison Son
Mina
Cedar
Cor
Alder
Rupprecht
Louis
Penn
Toys and
Williams
J. D
Bro
H. Lacka
Matthews
C. c
Law
Monumental Works
Owens Bros
Agame Avenue
Branton Dairy Co
Penn and Linden
Dickson Manufacturing Co
Lackawanna Avenue
Howley, P. F
M. T
Kelly, T. J. & Co
Memaraemnet
Franklin Avenue
Porter
Mand
Lackawee
Levy & Go
Condell
W. P. Pate
Dale & Stevens
Cleveland, A. 8
Kawanna
Keller
Harness
Frits G. W
Keller & Harris
Wajan, Edward J
Williama
Samuel
Boots and Anced
Goldainitn Nh
Packawanne
Oranton Candy Co
Goranton Supply and Mach, Co
M Furniture
Hill & Connell
Washington
Blume, Wm. & Bon
Scranton House
Depot
Brown
Florey, C. M
Gunster & Forsyth
Pean
Cowles
W. C
Rogers, A. B
Boots and Shoes
Goodman's Shoe Store
Barbour
Inglis
J. Scott
N. Fe
Joberthell Bs
Alphas Les
Snook
8, Ma Olyphant
Winke
J. C
PHA, Coffer and Spice Grand Union Tes Co
Main
Clark, G. R. & Co
Caterer
Huntington, D. C
Pirie
J. J
A. A
Spruce
McGarrah & Thomas
Lorenza
Linden & Wash
Main and Market
Bloes
An Davies
John J
Bimwell, V. A
Linden
Grean
Joseph
Crockery and Glassware
Harding, J. L
Radin Bros
Fancy Gooda
Eresky
Creamery
Ozone Bros
BTC
Parker, E. R
Caryl
Benjamin & Benjamin, Franklin & Spruce
Roberts
J. W
Stelle
J. Lawrence
Mulley
Ambross
Triple Stores
Providemon
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