27 Dec 1873
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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1873
Page
1
The Register lists advertising rates: ten lines minion type one inch yes 10.00 for a single insertion. six months 7.08. three months 5.00. each subsequent insertion 0.75. One column per year 100.00. six months 94.00. three months 55.06. One half column yearly 60.00. six months 40.00. three months 3? Local spaces 0.04 per line. regular advertisers 0.10. Transient and legal ads prepaid.
Directory lists Methodist Episcopal and Baptist churches with service times and pastors on Sycamore and Jefferson Broadway, Presbyterian schedule, and Christian Bible class. Includes district judges, probate, county offices, school superintendant, sheriff, surveyor, and city officers with names such as John Paxson and Win. Thrasher, and mayor John Francis.
The reminiscence recalls Zack Taylor a worn frontier character in Plumas and Lassen counties. After years of poverty he lived on local charity in Susanville, where a story of his “inexhaustible stock” of luxuries spurred a notorious episode: a destitute woman and five children received aid from Zack, ending the town’s spate of petty theft. The tale extends to Zack’s own river-edge poker night on North Fork of the Feather, where he played bar keeper, tricked seven debtors, and earned ninety seven dollars while masking his ruse with pitch on his hands.
Louis Agassiz, born 1807 in Motier Switzerland, renowned naturalist, Harvard professor, explorer of Lake Superior and Brazil, champion of evolution debates, died in Boston. His career spanned studies in Munich Zurich Basel and Paris, with major works on freshwater fishes and echinoderms, shaping American science and coalescing with coast survey explorations.
Correspondence from Pyisen describes Baraine as a prisoner who rises at six, takes coffee, walks the garden, and fences with a master from Versailles for an hour daily. Since May 1872 he has maintained this regimen, even when the master leaves, and spends hours later on papers about his case. His head suffers from the court’s documentary evidence refusals, forcing memory to supply facts and dates. By nine his advocate arrives from Paris and the marshal then works with him for two hours. At eleven Maitre Lachaud joins from Paris to continue discussions.
The Democrat reports the death of Judge Fredrick Dent in Washington late Monday night at age eighty eight after a long illness. Born 1785 near Washington City, he served in the War of 1812, later moved to Pittsburgh and St. Louis, a farmer and stock owner, with ties to General Grant. He was a bank director and school commissioner, mourned by many. funeral set for Friday at the Executive Mansion with notable pallbearers.
A humorous portrait of Chubb who claims perpetual satisfaction with any weather. He greets extreme heat or cold with exaggerated gusto, insisting on dry conditions and dry humor, while others debate climate and its effects on life and commerce.
A man named Chubb, fond of violent weather, vows rain and storms bring life and joy. A tornado on his roof breaks his leg, yet he jokes immortal powers and longs for raging skies, claiming such weather suits him best.
Kansas Chief reports a House committee proposal to move all franking bills to a subcommittee and craft three provisions: free circulation of Congress printed material, free weekly newspapers in their counties, and a free newspaper exchange list. The piece urges country papers nationwide to press Congress to pass the reform, arguing city monopolies seek to preserve current postage. The author calls for unity among country papers to influence constituents and lawmakers.
A lone traveler on the Grand Trunk line between Island Pond station and Canticook in Canada faces a wolf pack as twenty wolves encircle him in autumn shadows. He hurls rocks to deter them, shouting to keep them at bay while exhausted and pursued, until a sudden interruption ends the danger.
A hunter, exhausted and near collapse, guarded against advancing assailants as a distant train approached. He cried out for help and the train engineer paused the engine, allowing the hunter to stagger into the cab. He fainted but survived, later recounting the terrifying ordeal.
The text describes a bill introduced by Benator Crozier on the 11th seeking to empower the Attorney General to file suits in the Kansas district against Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Rail Road Company and Missouri Kansas and Texas Rail Company. It aims to cancel patents issued to aid railroad grants from 1863 and 1866, with appeals to the Supreme Court if essential, and allows settlers to name attorneys at US expense with limited liability for compensation.
A Sumner county Press correspondent details the state’s food served to wards of the penitentiary. Breakfast includes meat hash with bones boiled for dinner, coffee, and bread. dinners feature bean or beef soup, boiled beef, and corn or wheat bread. suppers mix corn meal mush, molasses, rice or bread. Bread and water provided at all meals, with occasional pork, onions, lettuce, and cucumbers.
In a tale recounted at home, James Ives sketches lines on the floor with a burnt stick while his wife tends a recovering home. He lights to burn his feet, then envisions a loom like device. He proclaims a future fortune from his drawing, suggesting the name Spinning Jenny.
A fragmentary tale describes the hand spinning workers resisting a machine before Richard Arkwright, a barber by trade, developed the spinning system and profited greatly. He earned wealth amounting to about half a million sterling and was knighted, while his son died as England’s wealthiest commoner.
The New York World accused radical Iowa officeholders of multi thousand dollar thefts in 1856. The Des Moines Register counters with Democratic ties to the losses and calls out partisan bias. Gov Osborn appoints W. P. Wilson regent of the state university to fill a vacancy. Short anecdotes on social mocks, travel notes, and local oddities follow.
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