Directory listing of churches and officials
Directory page lists Methodist Episcopal on Jefferson Avenue and Broadway with Sabbath times and pastors, Baptist on Sycamore Street with services and meetings, Presbyterian at Madison and Western with service times, Christian class and monthly third Sabbath preaching, plus a long slate of local officials including judges, county officers, deputies, clerks, sheriffs, surveyors, commissioners, and council members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal
Jefferson Avenue
Broadway Street
B. Patvern
Baptist
Sycamore Street
U. S
Crank
Iola and Allen County A Growing Western Frontier City
Iola sits at Elm Creek and Neosho confluence eighty miles south of Lawrence and near Kansas railway lines. It lists population around sixteen hundred with thriving churches, lodges, hotels, and multiple shops and factories. Allen County holds about twelve thousand people with widespread schools, fertile farming lands, pure water, building stone, and coal nearby, making it a promising site for health, farming, fruit growing, and stock raising rewards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texa
Allen County
Elm Creek
Neosho River
Lawrence
Kansanty
Iola
Caspar Hauser and the mystery of his life
A condensed account of Caspar Hauser, the secluded youth whose unknown childhood and sudden public life prompted centuries of debate. The narrative covers his appearance in 1828 in Nuremberg, his strange upbringing, later assaults, and his death in 1833, highlighting how his case challenged ideas on perception and knowledge. The piece notes prior cases like Peter the Wild Boy and Mitchell, and emphasizes the enduring historical significance of Hauser’s story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter the Wild Boy
Mitchell
Chesiden
Casparanser
Caspar Hauser
Nuremberg
Bavaria
Nuremburg
Carol Hauser
Arson
Hauser
Eis
Cage
Jagper
Professor Daumer
Casper Hauser
Earl Stanhope
Caspar
Anspach
Hanser
Sue
Lord Stanhope
Feasibility of a Winter Lecture Course Discussed
The Atchison paper argues for a local homegrown lecture program over distant speakers from Boston or England. It condemns high prices for poor talks, praises capable local lecturers, and calls for literary societies to hire top local talent while rejecting the lecture bureau system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Boston
England
Old Egland
Bayard Tylor
Anna Dickinson
Wendell Phillips
Robert Collyer
Justin McCarthy
Henry Vincent
Starrett
Mae
Lectures vs Local Library Value and Fair Prices
A historical argument favors funding a city library with ten lectures at standard rates. It criticizes high lecture fees charged by figures like Frederick Douglass and Bayard Taylor, suggesting reasonable prices would provide daily knowledge and entertainment locally without risk of paying foreign pretenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Douglass
Bayard Taylor
Anna Dickison
Lawrence Triee
Attorney General Declares Private Enterprise Bonds Void
Osage county treasurer L. Marshall asked if taxes should cover the bonds for private enterprises. Attorney General Williams replies that all such bonds are void and that money raised to pay them is robbery. The Topeka Commonwealth notes the sharp ruling and cites controversy over repudiation and taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E.q
Osage County
Ecc
Wilder
Williams
Toprea
D. W. Wilder
Dillon
A. L. Williams
Topeka Commonwealth
Warning to the Danbury humorist from Salina friend
A Salina Herald observer warns the Danbury man about publishing a book of jokes. The note recalls past humorists such as Prentice and Nasby and cautions that a full book of jests becomes a dreary read. The piece admires the Danbury man yet urges restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salina
Danburyens
Bailey
Wallace
Danbury
Henry Neal
George D. Prentice
John Phenix
Artemus Ward
Orpheus Co
Sten
Mr. Danbury
Drink Cistern Water Instigates Public Health Debate
A St Louis Globe writer urges cistern water for drinking to reduce intestinal epidemics. He cites 1833 cholera in Lexington Kentucky with only two families safe due to cistern use and claims Mississippi plantations with cisterns had no cholera, while Natchez saw outbreaks tied to spring water. He stresses cisterns must stay pure. In Royalton Wisconsin a burglary scare ends with the sisters arming themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe
Lexington
Mississippi River
Cairo
Natchez
Oil Springs Prospect in Paola County Shows Rich Readily Tapable Oil
The Paola Spirit notes rapid exploration of an oil spring in Miami County with crude coal oil found under a thin water bed layer. Visitors report rock saturated with oil and several barrels recovered. a specimen was sent to the paper and to international contacts. A St Louis investigator praised the quality and offered 10000 for forty acres, with terms pending. local capitalists are urged to investigate for promising returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paola Spirit
Miami County
Christman
St.uis
Spri
St. Louis
Mosquitoes Declared United, A Curious Song of Insects
Danbury Nets humorously calls mosquitoes immigrants to this country in a mocked fable of birds and fowls. The piece playfully praises their tiny “songs” and nocturnal serenades while warning against those who dislike their music. The tone is comic and affectionate toward the buzzing insects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danbury Nets
The Pay of Monarchs and Other Oddities
A compilation notes royal incomes in Europe with annual and daily figures for Alexander II of Russia, Francis Joseph of Austria, the German emperor, and Queen Victoria. The piece shifts to regalia descriptions for a farming officer, a tobacco-chewing mule near Portsmouth, a Nebraska town health anecdote, Congress, and a medical tip about stopping nosebleeds with pressure along the jaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander II
Russia
Francis Joseph
Austria
Germany
Inustria
Victoria
London
Various oddities and notices from a 19th century issue
A collage of curiosities and brief items including surprising statistics, colorful anecdotes, minor crimes, sparked by a New World miscellany. Topics touch on fire safety history, royal coronations, animal quirks, industry outputs, price notes, weather and travel quips, odd quotes, and local happenings. This snapshot blends tall tales with everyday dents in 1870s American life.
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the Register
Walker
Orrictal
Elder Crocker
J. R. Goodin
John Paxson
Wm. Thrasher
H. A. Needham
R. B. Stephenson
J.C. Murray
C. M. Simpson
G. DeWitt
E. C. Amsden
D. BP. Grees
John Francis
J. A. Hart
N. F. Acers
A. W. Beck
J. Shomon
W. M. Hartman
J.H. Richards
C. B. Keith
J. L. Northrup
H. W. Talcott
J. N. Woollames
C. D. Briggs
Iola Lodge
Sohn Francis
W. M. All. Down
See
I. D. of Odd Fellows
Hell
Hotels
Neosho Valley House
Kasbas
N. T. Winans
Sattorneys
Neleon
F. Acers
Tola
Kans
D. I. Worthington
Iola, Allen Co
Kana
Pretetet
H. W.‘Talcott
Tola, Allen Co
Tozer
Sora
Scott Brother
Geo. A. Bowlus
Kansas
Dors
General Land Agency
Cottzore Benys
Madison Avenue
East Davis & Vannuys
Grea
B. H. Freeman
Lola
Bite
D. F. Givens
Iols
J.N. White
Washington
Locust Grove Houe
Esras.uazep
Revansumen
L. .L. Northrup
Jan &Ber
Europa
United States
ScHoo
L. H. Gorrell
Washington Avenue
Irriia
Maier
Epley
South Side
D. ¢. Brubaker
West Side Public Square
Mansas
The
Baptist Society
Presbyterian Church
Methodist Episcopal Society
Masonic Lodge
Odd Fellows
Sponerbie
Neosho
Jas. Hanway
BC Yas
Hive
Beltmaemea
Abe Ae
Flolr, WY Chvice Family
Daumer
Phaeta
Wma
Newton
Madisor Avenue
Public Square
Carlyle
Eupostas
Reese
Plauer
WU. W. Covert
Danbury Funny Graphist
Royalton
Waupaca County
Wig
Strack Oil
Norfolk Journal
Nebraska
Congress
Long Branch
Liverpool
Kankakee
Ill
Oscar
Sweden
Norway
New York
Idaho
Norwich
Conn
Washington Territory
Texas
Patagonia
South America
Napa
Lake Cos
Cal
Vermont
Franklin Steele
Minnehaha Falls
Minn
Rhode Island
Buckland
Mass
Paris
Illinois Central
Iowa
Harrent
Michigan
Minnesota
Joshua Billings
Lynn
Salem
Cincinnati
Dacotah
Yona
Ida Moriene
Pi Orene
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