Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1871 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

> WOOXj wanted AT *J. I. PURCUPILE & CO.’S; HIGHEST PRICES PAID! Best and cheapest stationery—paper, envelopes, pens and ink- in Rensselaer, for sale at tho poet office. ®s“Look out for cheap bargains at J. I. Purcupile &’ Co.’s. They have received a new stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, and Shoes for men, women and children. NutnberTl, whole stock, quilted bottolii Plow Shoes for $2, better than has ever been sold in the place for $2.50. Call niul examine their new goods, for they ure always pleased to show them free of charge, whether purchases are made or not.

To Nebraska, California, Kansas, and the B. &M.B. B. The starting points of this Route are at Chicago and Peoria. The central point Is BURLINGTON, on tho Mississippi. It traverses Illinois and ihe whole breadth of Southern lowa. Near the Missouri, its trunk forks into three branches, for It has three western terrnluK - Its northern terminus is Council Bluffs, where, crossing to Omaha, it connects with the Union Pacific for all places on the intraoontineutal and Pacific slopes. Over-land travel and traffic choose this reliable route more and more. Its next torinlnus is Lincoln, tho Capital of Nebraska, fifty-five inilos west of the Missouri at Plattsm outh. This Is the only direct avenue to tho South Platte Country, where the sales of railroad lnivd last seasou, roso to lvaK a million. “jfe, ** Its third terminus ia at Hathhurg, and Nebraska City. At Hamburg, it makes close connections, twice a day, for St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Kansas City, and tha whole South-west. In journeying then, from the Rust to Kansas, via Burlington, you enjoy advantages you can secure on no other line. You both pass over a roacf second to no other in speed safety, or any Pullman luxury of modern travel; and while on your way, survey the fapien of Illinois and Missouri, as weli as 00,000 acres of prairie lu South-western lowa, now in market at low price* and long credit. Keep it then before people westward bound “to lake the Burlington Route-”,* „ . 3-21 »