This is a newspaper published in Nebraska.

Global railway earnings across the USA, for the year 1893-1894 :

  • gross earnings of $950M
  • about 1/3 passengers, 2/3 freight
  • net earnings $300M (about 1/3 of gross earnings), down from the year before

A train robbery in Texas on the 8th of December :

And now this peculiarly aggressive advertisement :