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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1873
Page
1
Local notices and legal advertisements must be prepaid. The Register lists prices for card sizes from ten lines to one column and various time frames with a mix of typographical errors. Rates include one year ten dollars and eight cents for a card, month fees, and discounts for longer runs.
The snippet lists Methodist and Presbyterian service times on Sabbath, prayer meetings, and church meetings. It includes a Christian Bible class, district judge Crocker, probate judge Paxson, county officials, sheriff and deputies, surveyor, commissioners, mayor, police judge, and city council members with roles and titles.
An American visitor recounts a near fatal fall in St Paul’s Cathedral London. While seeking entry he is lowered inside by a caretaker after a perilous suspension, nearly plummeting to the floor. He survives, reflects on prayer and duty, and pledges to remember the episode as a moral reminder.
A historical account accuses Cuban volunteers and Spanish officials of brutal rule, mass killings, and lawlessness. It describes 1869 Cafe La Marina bloodshed, Puerto Principe murder of Arango, and widespread pillage by volunteer bands allied with Spanish authorities.
Frederick Douglass spoke in Washington on Wednesday detailing his personal ties to John Brown’s raid into Virginia. He described Brown’s government draft created at Douglass’s Rochester home and a night spent with Brown and Shields in a quarry to deter the venture. He notes Brown’s plan foreseeing a nationwide insurrection and mentions the widow of Old Ossawatomie, living in Red Bluff, California, keeping debt free, with three educated daughters and possible southern teaching roles.
An extended advertisement and sampler page lists Scribner & Co. offerings for children including What Michi Have Been Expected by Frank B. Stockton, Nimpo's Troubles, Jack-in-the-Pulpit tales, and Little Children Crying for St. Nicholas. It notes Virginian settings, upcoming January serials, and the publisher’s goal of reaching 100,000 young readers with a Christmas issue priced at $3.00 per year.
A Western cotemporary describes a plan to bypass editors by using violent interrupters. An editor is confronted with armed men asking for him and flees after a chaotic confrontation. A court-martial president in Fat’s tale recounts a bold Irish recruit’s Bible moment. A Napoleonic anecdote contrasts accident and misfortune through Prince Napoleon.
A comic scene by the Norristown river recounts Jones describing a “most extraordinary phenomenon” as he and Miz Pennybacker observe the moon, gaze at the water, and debate its meaning while Jones is guided home to bed. The piece ends noting congressional salaries and pay practices beginning monthly in Washington.
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