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Library of Congress1890

Map showing the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana, Idaho, and in part of North Dakota, and in part of eastern Washington, reaching from Dickinson, North Dakota, to Ritzville, eastern Washington

Relief shown by hachures. Panel title: Preserve this Montana map, it shows the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana and Idaho, and in part of North Dakota, and in part of eastern Washington. Inset: Map showing Northern Pacific Railroad system. Text, railroad information, and ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 32-82.

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Library of Congress1873

Map of the United States and territories showing the extent of public surveys, Indian and military reservations, land grant R.R.; rail roads, canals, and other details

Detailed map of the continental United States showing drainage, state boundaries, cities and towns, canals, land grant railroads, completed railroads, railroads in progress of completion, and projected lines. Major lines are named along their routes. Indian and military reservation are shown; land offices and lighthouses are also indicated. [From published bibliography]

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Library of Congress1905

Image 2 of The Colfax chronicle (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.), June 3, 1905

The Chronicle COLFAX LOUISIANA Women in Business The pronouncement comes from Chl eago that the new woman is dead commercially speaking that prominent employers of that city have decla ed that they do not want women and that some have declared unequivocally that they will hire no more women Variou3 treen are given for this policy but Dmon that has not always existed and wlil not always exist asserts the In dianapolis News We have heard so much in recent years abxout the prog res of women in the business world their succeess their adaptibility their loyalty their good habits and what not which made them superior to men that this announcement from our most strenuous center of commerce comes with a good deal of a shock How much force really lies behind it is doubt tul That women are now employed in many places in preference to men is un questionable that they will continue to be employed in such places is altogether probable Affairs of this kind with women as well as with men have reached the utilitarian basis Where work and women are not suited the women must drop out There is a sur Vival of the

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Library of Congress1907

Image 2 of The Colfax chronicle (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.), April 27, 1907

The Chronicle COLFAX LOUISIANA Inpure Air The importance of ventilation and of i constant supply of fresh air in liv Ingrooms and wherever man abides whether sleeping or waking has often peen mentioned in these columns Without air life is impossible and un lets that air be moderately pure health cannot be maintained although it is astonishing and a proof of the wonderful adaptation of living beings to their environment to note how great an amount of impure air can be endured with seeming impunity There are two forms of impurity in the air gaseous and solid The gases those resulting from the exhalations from the lungs and in city houses from the little unnoticed leaks from the gas pipes and from defective plumbing are the most injurious For the removal of these says New York Weekly free ventilation from open winodwn and open fireplaces s most efficacious but it is of little service in the removal of the other kind of impurity that is to say the solid particles of matter Justwhich are always floating in the air of houses as well as in that of the streets A beam of sunlight entering through a halfclosed shutter makes visible

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Library of Congress1890

Official map of the County of Solano, California : showing Mexican grants, United States government and swamp land surveys, present private land ownerships, roads and railroads

Relief shown by shading. Includes "Table of official distances from court house," and list of county officers, and verbal description of Sanitary and Supervisor districts. Cadastral map showing land ownership. Also shows township boundaries. LC Land ownership maps, no. 43. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1895

Township and sectional map of Mobile County, State of Alabama : compiled and drawn from the most reliable and recent data : showing the railroads, public roads, school houses, Old Spanish & other grants, etc., etc

Black line print. "Also showing the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, and including parts of Baldwin and Washington counties, Alabama, and Jackson and Green counties, Mississippi. Includes election precincts information. LC Land ownership maps, 5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1873

Maps showing the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad and leased lines

Special map shows the main line and land grant in Missouri and includes iron and lead regions; general map covers United States showing the railroad network with the main lines distinguished by color; created by Act of Congress, July 27, 1866, with a land grant of 42 million acres; entry 329 shows extent of land grant in Arizona and New Mexico.

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Library of Congress1951

Image 1 of St. Ignatius post (St. Ignatius, Mont.), June 14, 1951

mstikt eonr Judie Albert Besafimm taMsts ion of court in Polson Tuesday June sth 1951 and the following proceedings were had The actions for damages Annie Hatt and Lomay Matt vs Jorgen K Hanson and Mrs Jorgen K Hanson were dismissed by the court with prejudice as fully sett led Vivian Jewison was granted an absolute decree of divorce from Harry Jewison on the grounds of wilful desertion The plaintiff was also awarded custody of the one minor child A property settlement was agreed upon by the parties John Wagner was granted a de cree of divorce from Tillie M Wag ner on the larounds of extreme cruelty A decree of absolute divorce was granted to D D Caffrey from Jessie L Caffrey on the grounds of extreme cruelty The defendant was awarded permission to resume her former name of Jessie L Wood worth In the matter of the petition of he Board of Commissioners of the Mission Irrigation district for confirmation of the validity of pro ceedings had relative to the Amend story repayment contract between the Mission Irrigation District and the United States of America the motion for additional time to file bill of exception was refused by

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Library of Congress1865

Map of Kansas and Nebraska

Township map showing drainage, cities and towns, location of the land grant railroads and indicating the 10-, 20-, & 25-mile limits of grants. Shows land offices and the Surveyor General's office.

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Library of Congress1884

How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations

On sheet below map "We believe that the public lands ought, as far as possible, to be kept as homesteads for actual settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to the public domain; and that no more grants of land shall be made to corporations, or be allowed to fall into the ownership of alien absentees. Democratic platform, 1884." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Conserved; 003273.103 1977 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda Exhibition: Maps for an Emerging Nation: Commercial Cartography in Nineteenth-century America, Aug. 8-Oct. 20, 1977 .

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