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Newspaper
Kansas State Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1870
Page
2
A longtime call to farmers to attract youth by making farms pleasant and stylish. The author urges redefining farming from hard toil to a noble, cultured living, with tasteful homes, lawns, trees, and gardens to draw energetic, artistic, and ambitious people back from cities.
The city appropriated funds to aid a survey by Col. Chapman, who reports the Fort Scott to Neosho Falls route via Lola as the most practicable. The grade should average twenty five feet, with fifty mile distance linking Fort Scott and Neosho Falls, forming the Laashelley link between M. K. & T. branches. Officials expect M. E. & T. A. R. to adopt the line and begin construction. Subscriptions total 325,000 across Bourbon, Allen, Woodson counties, Bourbon’s share delayed by a county commission issue.
A fragmented item notes George Francis Train’s speculative trip to the Franco Prussian scene. It reports a rumor of his disappearance, purported assassination, and a French jail stay, mixed with satire about blobule theory and public cynicism. It also mentions railway expansion and Jenny Lind Goldschmidt’s upcoming American tour.
The State Sunday School Convention met in Ottawa with gospel focus and lectures. Delegates from Lawrence Leavenworth Humboldt Fort Scott and many towns discussed the object of Sunday Schools and methods like Blackbeard exercises, with addresses by Paxson Ward Kincaid and Stratton. The gathering highlighted youth training, church work, and plans to meet again in Lawrence in 1871.
A Chicago mapmaker released a bold advertising map showing a world circuit from Chicago to San Francisco by rail car, to Hong Kong by sea, then via India, Africa, Europe back to New York. The 23,686 mile journey would take about 78 days with fares under 16,000 currency. The chart highlights major cities across Japan, China, Egypt, Italy, Spain, France and England, encouraging winter travel from Chicago.
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