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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1873
Page
2
The Register notes W S Groissecx declines Ohio governor nomination. Kansas City wealth and trade figures cited. Butler County backs United States Senator candidate S R Kingman. J Q Page withdraws suit over alleged bribe money, Sparks over Grant third term talk. Danbury News items widely copied with local amusement then and now.
A contemplation on the frequent fires that devastate property in large cities, the danger from tornadoes, and epidemics that claim many lives. The piece muses on natural laws, human ignorance, and the fragile balance between life and adversity amid widespread misfortunes.
The writer notes fires, wind storms, railroad accidents, collapses, and epidemics as uncontrollable events that fill the news. Such shocks lead many to view life as random and prosperity as mere luck, framing daily reading as a ruinous tally of misfortune and chance.
The article argues Kansas as a stock-raising state, highlighting Allen County as ideal with eastern grass lands near Elm Rock Deer and Osage creeks. It advocates small capital start, spring fattening, and profits from cattle and hogs, noting lower Kansas costs versus eastern lands and potential markets in Kansas City St Louis Chicago. It also discusses agricultural economy, dairy practices, and farming sociability within the Grange movement.
Delegates from Kansas Granges convened in Lawrence to organize a state body while Minnesota lecturer T A Thompson urged farmers to embrace association. He praised the Patrons of Husbandry as essential to modern farming and urged closer ties between producers and consumers, balancing railroads, banks, and middlemen.
Readers are told Kalida will gain a saw and grist mill as a new mill is planned for Grasshopper Falls and a water mill with five run of stone at Salina, while Ottawa borings strike a saltwater vein.
At a Woodson County Agricultural Society meeting the fair was rescheduled to October 1 2 and 3 to avoid clashing with Allen County fair in Iola on October 9 10 and 11. The board calls the change judicious and financially beneficial to the society.
News of the week notes the Shah offered £30,000 for three English ladies but failed to secure them. Memphis shows little support for a planned West Tennessee state. Two men die in a fire damp accident near St Joseph Missouri with a third barely escaping. The Graphic previews a Paul de Musset translation by Ida L. Greenley. Cholera rages in Vienna with 30 deaths and troops sent to a nearby town. Shah’s reply to religious liberty emphasizes tolerance. Sioux City reports grasshoppers in the air, potential disaster if they settle. Kidder Missouri sees widespread cattle losses across every household owning cows.
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