Category: general history
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Jay Gould repurchases the Union Pacific
Union Pacific Priced, A drama of the Gouldium SAMPLE Jay Gould, though consumption has first come forth into his lungs, purchases the sovereign share of Union Pacific, a railroad of indebted frailty, frailer becoming while rates decline throughout the West. His health and his wife’s, who is more ill than he, must be avowed. How…
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Jay Gould versus the Knights of Labor
Variance Part 2 – Scene 1 (mp3) At Labored Variance an historical drama by F L Light In three forcible disruptions, first in April 1885 and last in March-April 1886, the Knights of Labor assailed locomotive operations or stopped work on railroads which were controlled directly or influentially by Jay Gould. Though both Terence Powderly, the…