04 Jun 1873
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Newspaper
Belleville Republic
Location
Belleville, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1873
Page
1
A. B. Wiper reports a Kansas writers and publishers gathering at St. Joe for the Rail road Centre celebration with tours of Hanover and Lincoln. describes the Opera House at St. Joe, the grand ball, and the Canby family sketch detailing Gen Canby’s lineage and misadventures.
The clipping traces Canby lineage from Mason county with Gen Canby birth confusion and West Point service, notes Benjamin Canby’s son Israel, and references Major Pratt. It shifts to a Kansas City piece describing a tall agitated female detective from Grand Island Nebraska who posed at Union Depot, clashed with Officer Moore, and claimed to hunt thieves once called Mrs Sender, then challenged the reporter.
A sketch traces Captain Hall of Massachusetts who settled in Cincinnati in 1850 died during his third Arctic voyage in 1871 leaving a wife two children and a Cincinnati link through Ben True and D Cantwell. He helped pioneer ocean telegram printing and ran the Occasions and Cincinnati Express papers. The piece also notes a wild boy and other local curiosities and a Lancaster Orphan Home bequest plan.
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