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Descriptions of Lincoln Properties.
J.B. McMurtry, Evans Laundry Company, Hardy & Pitcher—Furniture, The P...

Lincoln Daily Call, January 1, 1891

Exterior and Interior Views of the New Dining Cars on the "Great Rock Island" Route
Models of Beauty, Comfort and Luxury—Possessing Novel and Disctinctive...

Lincoln Daily Call, January 1, 1891

Food for Reflection.
Pertinent Questions Easily Answered.

Lincoln Daily Call, January 1, 1891

Manufacturing.
A City of Whirling Wheels and Busy Workmen.

Lincoln Daily Call, January 1, 1891

Public Improvements.
The Year's Expenditures Aggregate $300,000.

Lincoln Daily Call, January 1, 1891

The Wholesale Trade.
Lincoln's Resistless March Upon the Jobbing Field.

Lincoln Daily Call, January 1, 1891

Higher Education.
As an Educational Center Lincoln Has No Rival.

Lincoln Daily Call, January 3, 1891

Blow in the Dark
John Sheedy the Victim of a Cowardly Assault.

The Nebraska State Journal, January 12, 1891

The Gamblers are Fools
Pat Sheedy Says So and His Word Must Stand

The Nebraska State Journal, January 12, 1891

Will Prove a Murder.
John Sheedy Again Waylaid and Murderously attacked.

Lincoln Daily Call, January 12, 1891

The Blow Was Fatal.
The Assasin's Blow Ends John Sheedy's Life.

Lincoln Daily Call, January 13, 1891

From the State Capital
The Police Trying to Run Down the Assasin of John Sheedy

Omaha Bee (Morning Edition), January 14, 1891

A Murderous Assault

Lincoln Weekly News, January 15, 1891

The Sheedy Inquest

Omaha Bee (Morning Edition), January 15, 1891

Tuesday
Death Believes Him

Lincoln Weekly News, January 15, 1891

After Life's Fitful Fever
John Sheedy Dies Of His Injuries

Semi Weekly State Journal, January 16, 1891 (Transcription)

After Life's Fitful Fever
John Sheedy Dies of His Injuries

Semi Weekly State Journal, January 16, 1891

From the State Capital
A Revengeful Witness Tries to Send an Innocent Person to Jail

Omaha Bee (Morning Edition), January 16, 1891

A Blow in the Dark
John Sheedy Dies at the Hands of an Assasin

Lincoln Herald, January 17, 1891

A Suspect in Limbo.
Monday McFarland in Custody for Sheedy's Murder.

Lincoln Daily Call, January 18, 1891

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