Opulent New York contrasts riches and poverty in a harsh critique
The piece cites Comptroller Roberts figures on New York taxes and charity costs for 1896, salon excesses like the Bradley Martin ball, and rising paupers. It warns that wealth and charity growth widen the gulf, predicting social collapse, while praising Kansas and condemning New York’s wealth and elites. It also ridicules Nebraska and Texas railroad plans as a fantasy and attacks railroad activism as anarchic.
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New York
Roberts
Legisature
Public Charities of
Bradley-Martin
New York City
New York State
Union
Kansas
Editorial Etchings Overview of Civil War Era Politics
A sweeping page of political chatter and social commentary touches Grover Cleveland plans, McKinley budget forecasts, labor and suffrage debates, and railroads. It notes Kansas figures, Topeka campaigns, and journalistic plans while mixing personal notices, shipping critiques, and local happenings with reflections on governance and ideology.
Lincoln Township Items and Rural News
Lincoln Township notes that mumps subsided after a school reopening on Monday and Eli Marshall recovers from illness. He plans a public sale Monday the 8th to liquidate his stock. Ober traded his farm to Brooke of the Plaindealer. The editor is expected to start farming soon and will do well. Bro Broke should shell corn before planting, using no more than twenty grains per hill. I B Still runs Sunday outreach on the creel south of Sunbeam, four times weekly. Wedding bells are anticipated. The Starrits haul hay, while Joseph McGinnis feeds several carloads of cattle. Jo is candid and recognizes good cattle. John Rideway, a Lincoln settler, prepares to move to Oklahoma in days.
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Pittsburg Kansan
Peters
Punch
Congressman Peters
Eli Marshall
Iaguppe
Ober
Brooke
Plaindealer
Bro
I. B
Creel
Sunbeam
Starrit
Joseph Mcginnis
Stoi
Art
John Rideway
Lincoln Township
Oklahoma
Bin
Bradly Martin ball stirs debate in society and gas analogy
The Bradly Martin ball attracts criticism as newspapers and preachers weigh in. The author likens public reaction to a gas bubbling up from foul mud, urging dredging to cure the social issue. England’s trade balance is noted, with $750 million more imports than exports and the gold standard referenced.
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Bradly-Martin
New York Society
Crean
Dredge
Lone Elm Social Roundup of Visits and Moves
Miss Bernice Street of Hickory Grove visited Lone Elm friends over Sunday. Prairie View residents Mrs Todd and children visited near Butler Mo. Olive Douica and Nellie Ferguson of Kincaid were guests in Lone Elm. Allen Shockey of Buffalo is visiting. Mrs Archer of Glenlock visits Billa Reeve’s family. B M Franklin sold town property and moved to a farm. T C McDowell went to Garnett on business last week.
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Cook
M. E. Church
Burlington
Henry Weil
Allen Johnson
Liztown
Greive
Lone Elm
A. Babcock
Leona Hendershot
Gardner
G. W. Henders
Bernice Street
Hickory Grove
Todd
Prairie View
Butler Mo
Olive Douica
Nellie Ferguson
Kincaid
A.C. G. Shockey
Allen
Buffalo
Mrs. Archer
Glenlock
Billa Reeve
Seed Potatoes and Seed Oats Available from Stewart Leader
A car load of northern Ohio and six weeks early potatoes arrived at Stewart The Leader. Also offers the finest seed oats in the county for sale by Stewart The Leader. Plus notes on marriages, deaths, a farewell sermon by Rev Vollmar, a jail release order for Chas Linden Smith, and property purchase by L W Stillwill.
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Ohio
Stewart
Leader
Dot
Chas. Lindensmith
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