Pleasant yet hard times mark Kansas trip report
Evitor reports a winter journey through Rooks County Kansas via B and M railroads. He notes snow, fuel shortages, prairie fires, and varying roads from heavy snow in Cuba to dry streets in Webster. Prohibition grows, religious meetings thrive, and debt burdens weigh on households as farming outlooks brighten for 1888.
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Cuba
Kans
Rooks Co
Stockton
Webster
Rooks_Co
Kangasin
Notice of Attachment in Yoder Bros vs James Burch
Public notice from Farmington Township Justice A C Kiff states an order of attachment for seven dollars and fifty cents plus costs was issued January 3 1888 against James Burch. The case will be heard February 8 1893 at 10 o clock. Attest ALC Kiff J P Yoder Bros Plaintiffs.
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Yoder Bros
A. C. Kiff
Farmington
James Burch Public Co
of the
ALC
Kiff, J. P
Reform Needed at David's Island Recruiting Post
A letter condemns David's Island near New York as a large recruiting depot where soldiers are kept for three months and then deployed. It claims most recruits drink after paydays due to an on-site beer license, leading to arrests and disgraceful scenes. The author urges the War Department to shut alcohol outlets and seek religious services for trafficked troops.
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David’s Island
New York
New Rochelle
U. of New York State
War Department
Iti
War. Départment
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Nana
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Armen
Concordia
Baptist Church
Tablera
Mrs Angeling Allison
H.G. McDnald
Pitot Office
H. G. ‘McDonald
Roe Or
Agent Republic. ‘Co
Pilotoffic
Joans
West
A. L. Stualbrox
Roy ‘Ackson
Hasty 104Th Street
N. Y
Goeller Bros
St. Joseph
Champaign
County
Ilinois
H. G. McDoxazp
Vata
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