Forty Niner's account of hardships on land voyage to gold
A Mormon recounts the 1850 emigrant trek toward California and Salt Lake. The diary covers brutal roads, scarce grass, water sloughs, flooded camps, and threats from Indians as the group crosses deserts, tops hills, and buries a man near the river while detailing daily miles, camps, and stock safety measures.
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Trategy
California
Mr. Ogle
Illinois
Salt Lake
Missouri
John Hill
Bear River Valley
Plight of emigrants crosses plains and nerves of travel
A fragment recounts nerves as live wires causing pain from neuralgia and a testimonial for Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills. The piece then shifts to a travel diary describing harsh plains conditions, worn-out beasts, scarce water, desolate ground, drifting sands, and fragile river sources as emigrants trek toward water and sustenance along a harsh route.
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Miles
St. Eric
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Hamilton township tax levies proposed for 1906
The trustee Jos P Duffy proposes at the Advisory Board meeting in Hamilton township Sullivan county on September 4 1906 expenditures and taxes for the year. Township expenditures 1677 tax 7 cents per 100 valuation Local tuition expenditures 33609 tax 15 cents per 100 valuation and 25 cents per poll Special school expenditures 11138 tax 46 cents per 100 valuation and 25 cents per poll Poor expenditures 3496 tax 1 cent per 100 valuation Total expenditures 16920 tax 69 cents per 100 valuation and 50 cents per poll. Signed July 30 1906.
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Haddon Township
Sullivan County
O. J. Steffy
Hamilton Township
Jos. P. Duffy
Gill Township
Geo. McNabb
Notices of 1908 Expenditures and Tax Levies for Cass Township
The Cass township trustee Charles Hale sets forth estimated expenditures for 1908 and tax levies in a notice dated August 2 1906. Total estimated expenditures 6515 dollars with 55 cents tax per hundred dollars and 100 cents per poll. Local tuition and special school taxes are detailed along with poor expenditures. The advisory board will meet September 4 1906 at 2:00 pm at School District No 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass Township
Sullivan County
Charles Hale
Trustee Proposes 1906 Tax Levy at Jefferson Township Meeting
The trustee of Jefferson township Sullivan county sets the 1906 yearly expenditures and tax levies to be discussed at the advisory board meeting in School District No. 10 on September 4 at 2 PM. Totals include township expenditures 2763 dollars with 80 cents per hundred, local tuition 1937 dollars with 20 cents, tax expenditures 2029 dollars with 21 cents, and poor expenditures 184 dollars with 2 cents. Overall expenditures reach 6918 dollars with 78 cents per hundred and 50 cents per poll. Signed Fran e Spencer, Trustee, August 3, 1906.
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Turman Township
Sullivan County
O. T. Collier
Curry Township
Ind
P. M. Hayworth
Jackson Township
Fairbanks Township
John W. Bowen
Jefferson Township
SPEN
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von Alamn
Goodby
John
States
New England
Geo. C. Porter
Broad Street
Newark
N. J
F. M. Nead
P. A. Barco
Briggs
Notary Public
Sullivan
Davis Hotel
A. E. Hazelrigg
Indiana
Giles
Chambers & Eaton
The
C. J. Stratton Loan Co
North Long & Warren
W. H. Hill, JR
WAME
Glidden
North Side
ST. Louis
Denver, Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Burlington
LIIS
W.A . Lalor
St. Louis, Mo
Shelburn
Lovelage
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