Source: The Delta
Gladstone, Mi.
December 24, 1887
Saturday
The M&N has built to Champion, connecting there with the DSS&A, there gaining an entrance to all the thriving towns in the upper peninsula, and giving that section of the country a direct line to Milwaukee. With the completion of the "Soo" road there is no reason why Detroit should get a dollar's worth of the peninsula's business. It belongs to Milwaukee, and if the Milwaukee merchants will but look to it they will get it. The M&N has made this possible by commendal enterprise which at present, is better appreciated up North than it is here.
-Milwaukee Sentinel
Milwaukee must get a "move on herself." Three years from January 1,1888, Gladstone will do the "Peninsula business" herself. She is nearer the Peninsula than either Milwaukee or Detroit.
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