08 Feb 1873
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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1873
Page
1
A fragmented 19th century notice lists Methodist Baptist Presbyterian and Christian services by location and time, church leaders, and a long roster of local public officials including judges district officers sheriff deputies clerks and city leaders. The document preserves multiple street corners and hours for Sabbath services and church meetings alongside names of county officers and council members.
Iola sits at Elm Creek and the Neosho River eighty miles south of Lawrence and one hundred miles southwest of Kansas City. The Lawrence Leavenworth and Galveston Railroad runs through town, aiding growth as a county seat with about sixteen hundred people. The area features ample churches, lodges, and a variety of businesses and crafts, plus pure water, building stone, and nearby coal. Allen County, with about twelve thousand inhabitants, emphasizes health, good schools, farm lands, and fruit growing, noting rich bottom lands and uplands suited to crops, vegetables, and cattle, urging newcomers to visit before settling.
Senator York delivers a dramatic confession in Topeka alleging payment to secure support for Samuel C. Pomeroy. He recounts meetings, cash exchanges totaling 8000 dollars, and vows to expose corruption to restore Kansas’ honor and purge bribery from state politics.
A Kansas man Juha James Ingalls chosen yesterday to succeed 8. C. Pomroy in the United States Senate. He is a Williams College graduate (1855) who moved to Kansas in 1858 and settled at Summer then Atchigan. Known as a literary force, he contributed to Knickerbocker and Atlantic Monthly, with praised works like Blue Gauss and Catish Aristocrat. He is described as a radical Republican, outspoken and principled, with a history in the Wyandotte convention and Kansas politics. The report also notes ongoing severe snow drifts on the Union Pacific railroad, depth up to sixteen feet in places.
A long critique argues that excessive dress and vanity waste time money and health. It cites Lucretia and Portia as ideal figures and calls for reform, urging women to use talents for mental and social progress rather than fashion. It includes a Revolutionary era anecdote and ends with a call to reader reflection.
A Scientific American correspondent argues mankind must decide whether the continent will retain its luxuriance and health or suffer decline. He notes rapid forest loss and interior dryness, citing examples from Sardinia, Sicily, and Uraguay, where deforestation cooled the rains. He cites Mohammed Ali's planting program in Cairo as a counterexample showing increased rainfall with more trees.
A Boston man tells of his son who buys a dog for a quarter and resells it to the milkman for a dollar, then buys four more dogs with the dollar. The father hoped to spare the boy, but the moral tale ends with the boy boasting of his sharp bargain.
The Nile is described as a constant force shaping Egypt, with a bed that acts like a savings bank storing 4,000 years of deposits, sustaining agriculture through cambered canals and gardens, feeding Egypt’s gifts. A Saline County man Major J B McLaughlin’s body was found near Ellix, leading to murder speculation. The origin of the word brick is traced to an ancient Spartan king in a fragmentary note.
A list of recently elected U S senators who will succeed themselves across multiple states including Missouri Pennsylvania Wisconsin New York Louisiana Alabama Arkansas North Carolina South Carolina and Kansas is reported. The piece also recounts a parrot incident during a Southern church sermon causing panic with a taunting phrase all hands below.
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