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Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:601,920; 1 in. represents approx. 9.5 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:538,560; 1 in. represents approx. 8.5 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:1,267,200; 1 in. represents approx. 20 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:1,520,640; 1 in. represents approx. 24 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:1,013,760; 1 in. represents approx. 16 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:1,532,320; 1 in. represents approx. 24.5 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:1,013,760; 1 in. represents approx. 16 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:2,344,320; 1 in. represents approx. 37 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads. Scale ca. 1:2,344,320; 1 in. represents approx. 37 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways. Includes "Index to railroads." Scale ca. 1:1,013,760; 1 in. represents approx. 16 miles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Map of the northern and western United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns. Color coded to show "Northern Pacific Lines, Proper, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co's System, Oregon and Transcontinental Branch Lines, Lines to be constructed." Fringed lines indicate roads under construction.
Wall map showing railroads, navigable rivers, highways, and shipping routes. Relief shown by shading. Also covers Manchuria. St. Petersburg (Pulkovo) meridian. Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy rubber-stamped, annotated in red ink to show Russian railroad survey routes in Mongolia and Manchuria.
WEATHER PREDICTIONS Hie Work of the C S Weather Bureau Bruttits to Commerce and Agriculture There is no other subject in which the people throughout the civilized world are so generally interested as they are in the weather and there its noth ing that exerts a greater influence on the affairs of men Although the weather has occupied mens minds to a great extent since the earliest days of the race and much scientific research has been made it is only within a com paratively few years that any systematic attempt has been made to record and diffuse meteorological data or knowl edge Since the work was taken up by the leading commercial nations of the world great advances have been made and great benefit has accrued particu larly to navigation and agriculture and allied branches The early Egyptians studied meteor ology as a branch of astronomy and Aristotle compiled a comprehensive work on the weather from their writ ings and his own observations He dis cussed prognostics of rain wind storms and fair weather but made no attempt to explain any of the phenomena Cicero Virgil and others wrote on the subject but they added little to the knowledge
Literary News and Notes Holman Day the well known Maine author is getting out a new book en tilled King Spruce which is to be published by Harper Bros The story w liich is appearing serially in the New England Magazine is a most interest ing one and deals with life and doings in the Maine wools and in the opinion of the writer is the best sustained and the highest iu literary quality of any of Mr Days novels The December issue of the Atlantic is a peculiarly interesting magazine There are seven important articles each very brilliant of its kind The leader is entitled The Future of our Navigable Waters and is written by John L Mathews who has been mak iug a special study of the subject An Art Museum for the People by Frank Jewett Mather treats of the best practical arrangement of exhibi tions for public use Agnes Deans Cameron writes on Wheat the Wiz ard of the North a striking article telling of the enormous immigration to the newly utilized fields of western Canada There is abundant fiction of the usual high Atlantic standard and the poetry is of a strictly Christmas character One
That German Submarine Suspicious Craft Explained as Ol Gramp a Fixed Institution In These Waters boston Globe J Castine Me Aug 18 The Oakum Club which meets every afternoon on the shady side of Spurlings fishhouse and peruses fractional parts of the met ropolitan journals that Sam Strout picks up around the big hotel where he is night watchman has passed informal resolu tions that there has been so much foolish ness printed about German submarines being round Penotscot Bay that it is incumbent upon the club to set the public right ldunno remarked Capt Eph Simp son these newspaper fellers or least wise all I ever run afoul of cant never git nothin right Last week I got out my old chart and showed one of em jest what the perils of navigation was that lay tween Monhegan and Cape Rozier way and how slim the chances of them furriners in a craft that was travelin down close to the bottom and steerin by squintin around the corners of a stove pipe thing that stuck up through the deck of makin White Head to say nothin of the Muscle Ridge channel and all the rocks an bars and sich
Tsffi Free Press A G RussrLl Sr Editor UTOBLISHHD WEEKLY aT POPLARVILLE MISS ffbvrsday May 6 1897 ON L DOLLAR IN_ADVANCE iNTSUKD AT TIIK POST office at POPLAHVIhLK MISS AS SKC oNu class Mail Mattkh Greece ha a new cabinet The streets of Hannibal Mo are now navigated by lioatN The cotton acreage of Texas tins season will he the largest on record Eleven thousand acres of Ala Hiauia gold lands hate been sold to a 8 ndieute for 117000 MG A veroff the Greek million aire of furls France lias subscrib ed 80 000000 to the War fund ot hs country A lire at Newport News on the 17th tilt destroyed 82000000 worth of property Eight persons were injured Levi A nlentine tor many years a Citizen of Enterprise aged 85 years died suddenly a few days ago While enjoying his tinner At Barcelnnia 20 anarchists in addition to those already sentenced have been condemned to heal It lur the bomb outrage June 7th last Fiy hundred houses were swept away and twice as many people rendered homeless by tiie recent lood ot I lie Cottonwood river in Oklahoma Mr Oliver VV Patchings son of Representative T 0 latchings
Geo W Jdn kins editor of the inta Mat ia Timncs Cal in speak ing of the various ailments of chil dren said When my children have croup there is only one patent medicine thit I over use and that is Chamberluins Cough Remedy It lugsegses some medical properties that relieve the little sufferers im mediately It is in my opinion the best cough medicine in the market If this remedy is freely given as soon asthe croupy conch appears it will prevent the attack It is also an ideal remedy for whooping cough There is no danger in giving it to children as it contains nothing inju jionq For sale by R Hl Mills Drug Co Limited Valuable Plantation for Sale In one of the most fertile regions of the Parish 280 arpeuts of improved land beautifully situated with a front of 7 arpents on Bayou Tigre by a depth of 40 arpents located partly in Ver milion and Iberiaparishes within two miles from a railroad depot and bordering on a navigable stream Iwhich affords water transportation o gulf ports This land is suited for cotton sugar cane corn and sweet potatoes a portion of it is adapted to
Geo W Jk as editor of the Santa Maria Ti me8 Cal in speak ing of the various ailments of chil dren said When my children have croup there is only one patcnt medicine that I over use and that is Chamberlains Cough Remedy It possesses some medical properties that relieve the little sufferers im mediately It is in my opinion the best cough medicine in the market If this remedy is freely given as soon asthe croupy cough appears it will prevent the attack It is also an ideal remedy for whooping cough There is no danger in giving it to children as it contains nothing iriju For salc by R H Mills Drug Co Limited Valuable Plantation for Sale In one of the most fertile regions of the Parish 280 arpeuts of improved land beautifully situated with a front of 7 arpents on Bayou Tigre by a depth of 40 arpenis located partly in Ver milion and Iberisparishes within two miles from a railroad depot and bordering on a navigable stream which affords water transportation to gulf ports This land is muited for cotton sugar cane corn and sweet potatoes a portion of it is adapted to cattle