04 Jun 1881
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Newspaper
Boonville Enquirer
Location
Boonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1881
Page
1
A dated verse styled note from Mrs L C Whiton in June Wide Awake extols spring beauty and mutual aid. The speaker urges leaving something to brighten the fall and expresses affection for a “beautiful Comer.”
Reports detail the May 20 release of the Revised New Testament in England and the U S with changes such as removing the story of the woman taken in adultery and altering the Lord's Prayer. The American committee notes non doctrinal alterations like grain for corn and spelling shifts while infidels predict future revisions and mass influence on religion.
Ex President Grant writes from Mexico City to Senator Jones censuring President Garfield for his New York nominations and state appointments. He warns of party rifts and urges consultation with New York Senators and restoration of harmony amid capital dispatches and cabinet reshuffles.
The author argues rail lines raise farm land values far more than benefiting only local towns. Farms along a railway would fetch much higher prices, while towns gain only improved world access. The piece also comments on the Bible revision, deeming it unnecessary and harmful to language and sacred doctrine.
Citizens in townships along the Evansville Seymour and Bellefontaine Railroad are asked to vote on purchasing stock equal to two percent of the tax base. The appeal argues benefits include market access, freight competition lowering costs, faster grain shipments to the East, and a through line connecting Southwest producers to Northeastern ports, reducing middleman profits.
Wheat outlook shows favorable spring sown yields in Minnesota with a 25 percent acreage rise and some counties doubling, while Minnesota Nebraska and Dakota regions shift to spring wheat. Kansas Missouri Illinois Wisconsin Iowa report reduced acreages as farmers favor fall and winter sowing. winter grain share 68 to 72 percent of US total.
Rockport Indiana and Owensboro Kentucky citizens press for purchase or lease of the Rockport and Jasper road to extend the Louisville New Albany and Chicago lines. A June vote is planned on aid to the U S and B railroad in local townships. Evansville reporters note Evansville and New Albany railway company articles of association filed with directors named. Postoffice figures show national mail activity for the year with each person averaging twenty one letters.
Carter Harrison begins a second term as Chicago mayor after defeating a temperance pledge candidate and closing disreputable resorts. A Plymouth Church temperance committee meet yields sharp exchanges as Harrison defends his stance on drinking, saying he can drink moderately and that others’ abstinence would make them brutes.
Wide Awake for June highlights illustrated poems and short stories such as Lillys Hood Tree and The Original Wax Works Show with full page art. Also features Rev Hale To Day for young readers, St Butophs Town, Boy Divers in the Red Sea, serials, music by Elson, Tangles, and three prize contests. Good Company doubles with Arctic articles by Schwatka, Mildreds Caprice, Carlyle life sketch, travel pieces, and poems by Marian Douglas and Dora Read Goodale. New subscribers urged with special attractions, noting a temperance law in Nebraska and a playful etymology joke.
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