Brainerd Dispatch4y
A bridge to Brainerd’s past: Kicking off the city’s sesquicentennial
It’s a bridge, both literally and figuratively. Completed March 8, 1871, The railroad bridge across the Mississippi River in Brainerd connected the Great Lakes to the western portion of the U.S ...
The New York Times6y
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.; PROVISIONS OF THE BILL BEFORE THE SENATE--FAIR PROSPECTS FOR ITS PASSAGE--ALL INTERESTED SATISFIED.
WASHINGTON, April 22,--The bill to extend the time for the construction and completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which came up in the Senate to-day, appears to be satisfactory to all the ...