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TitlePioneer furnace
Date1886-12-04
SubjectFurnaces
DescriptionArticle about the Pioneer Furnace in Negaunee, Michigan.
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TitleMr. McDougall's horses
Date1886-12-04
SubjectHorses
DescriptionMr. McDougall's horses and mules arrived here Thursday to begin work on the Monday.
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TitleDepot platform edict
Date1886-12-04
SubjectRailroad stations
DescriptionMarshall Cunningham rigidly enforces the edict that boys having no business on the depot platform sh...
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TitleAnother party gone
Date1886-12-04
SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company
DescriptionArticle describing the surveying crew preparing to begin work on building the Duluth, South Shore, a...
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TitleLumbering standpoint
Date1886-12-04
SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company
DescriptionArticle about the effect of the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway extension on the lumber i...
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TitleSouth Shore Road
Date1886-12-09
SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company
DescriptionArticle describing the history of the railway line connecting Duluth, Minnesota, with Sault Ste. Mar...
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TitleOur railway relations
Date1886-12-11
SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company
DescriptionArticle about the effect of the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway extension on the railroad...
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TitleSouth Shore Road 2 pages)
Date1886-12-10
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionThe Duluth News gives this interesting history of the project to connect Duluth with Sault Ste. Mari...
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TitleCommencing the transfer
Date1886-12-11
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionJohn Hornby, general manager of the MH&O and Andrew Watson, of the DM&M on Monday morning met James ...
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TitleFor the Montreal river
Date1886-12-11
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionN.F. Comstock, J.J. Reynolds and J.W. James, engineers in the employ of the DSS&A, started from this...
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TitleAgent of the DSS&A recently spent several days in Bayfield
Date1886-12-11
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionAn agent for the DSS&A recently spent several days in Bayfield, purchasing dog teams to be used in h...
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TitleNewberry News says
Date1886-12-11
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionThe Newberry News says that building operations have been commenced at Sage Jct., and that a large f...
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TitleKilled at St Ignace
Date1886-12-11
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionMonday morning Toussaint Sharkey was run over by the cars at St. Ignace and killed. August, as he w...
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TitleDuluth and Wisconsin railroad
Date1886-12-11
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionThis company notice of whose incorporation was given in the Duluth News some days ago was formed to ...
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TitleTo begin work immediately
Date1886-12-11
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionSunday evening Col. W. M. Rexford, of Rexford Brothers and Hodge, the contractors for the Sault bran...
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TitleConnection of the DSS&A
Date1886-12-20
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionOn Tuesday the first train over the Duluth & Iron Range railorad entered Duluth. This line connects ...
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TitleArticles of consolidation (4 pages)
Date1886-12-22
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionArticles of Confederation of the Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette Railway Company, the Mackinaw and Ma...
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TitleDSS&A Railroad employee listing
Date1887-01-10
SubjectRailroads -- Cost of operation
DescriptionDSS&A Employee Listing of Engineers, Brakeman, Fireman, Conductor and Section Man. Including 1 brea...
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TitleDSS&A Railroad rates of pay
Date1887-01-10
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionDSS&A Railroad Rates of Pay for 1887 which includes Freight and Passenger.
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TitleProgress of the Survey
Date1887-01-08
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionCorps for the survey of the line for the DSS&A is now fully organized and work is progressing all al...
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TitleOn Arch street
Date1887-01-08
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionMr. J.A. Latcha, chief engineer and superintendent of construction for the DSS&A, has leased Mr. E.W...
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TitleIsadore Dox resident engineer
Date1887-01-15
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionIsadore Dox, resident engineer of the Summit division of the DSS&A and George A. Marab, resident eng...
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TitleIshpeming
Date1887-01-22
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionIshpeming - Just now the northern peninsula is reaping the fruit of the boom in railroad constructio...
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TitleHistory of the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railroad Company and its predecessors (2 pages)
Date1887-01-29
SubjectRailroads
DescriptionThe Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad Company, (hereinafter called the South Shore), is a co...
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TitleNegaunee a surveyor's party
Date1887-01-29
SubjectRailroad Engineering
DescriptionNegaunee A surveyor's party went to Nestoria Tuesday, and will commence on the line of the DSS&A, wo...
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