15 Feb 1873
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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1873
Page
1
Multiple church notices list Methubist Episcopal Presby female and Charitian services across streets with sabbath times and prayer meetings. Also named county officers and city officials including judges, clerks, sheriffs, marshals, and council members.
A long description of Iola Kansas and Allen County outlines its location near Elm Creek and the Neosho River, rail access, growth, water supply, building costs, and abundant farming land. It highlights schools, health, soil types, fruit potential, stock raising, and the city’s business mix. A narrative then follows Digby and friends in Burville forming a Reform Club to aid the poor, their charitable evolution, and the club’s community impact culminating in the Parson Meekly sermon and a spirit of local philanthropy.
In Jinglejigge the once versatile Squire Sam Wiles loses a bid for office after a late night caucus ends in chaos. Tom, the drink-soaked figure, bursts into the office with a broken bottle of Congress Water, revealing Sam's temperance pledge and undermining his campaign. Consider Smith exposes the scene, and Sam withdraws, leaving private life as the only stage.
A reflective critique argues that society rests on barbarism and hidden predation. It notes that education and law fail to curb primal impulses, with people seeking escape through violence, adventure, or nature as civilization frays. The passage laments the price of culture and contemplates glimpses of ancestral innocence.
A Kansas Magazine excerpt muses on civilization, nature, and literature. It contrasts the seductions of life and the restraint of religion with a protest voiced by both patricians and commoners as they seek meaning in vast prairies mountains and lonely landscapes.
The St Louis Democrat denies Trumbull is the oldest in continuous service. Trumbull since 1855, Lumber since 1851, Wilson since 1850, Cameron called father of the Senate. The piece traces ages and terms, noting a future 1879 reaching age 80 for an unnamed Senator and long service across decades.
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