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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1874
Page
1
Rates list for small display cards and column ads with prices for ten lines, six months, and yearly spans. Local notices and regular advertisers require advance payment. Denominational service times and a roster of local officials and church leaders follow.
A City Times report covers Mrs. Young's audience reception in Kansas City as she recounts her Mormon life, polygamy, and departure from Brigham Young. It details endowment rites, the Bee Hive and Lion House, and Young’s favored wife Amelia Folsom with a costly future home, outlining personal trials and public controversy surrounding Utah Mormonism.
An Amherst carriage encounter features an inquisitive woman sizing up a young lady with Middlemarch, asking if she is a book agent or a student, noting wedding fineries and a husband’s fortune in a tense, witty exchange amid the train car’s chatter.
In a midnight visit, Peter McCabe plots a fake will by posing as the dying man’s heir, bribing Corney to forge a testament bequeathing a small plot to Con Cregan. The scene unfolds with neighbors, lauded rites, and a sly, final twist that makes Cor’s Acre a lasting memory.
The Danbury Newsman recounts a Sunday chimney fire at Frazer’s house on Nelson Street. Mr Frazer and a boarding house guest battled the blaze with water while Mrs Frazer and her father fled to the street. A clothesline mishap injures the father, and Frazer’s antics in the fireplace amuse the boarder, ending with the family learning a lesson about church attendance.
The piece urges daily full-body bathing in tepid water when possible, with thorough rubbing and proper clothing for warmth. It condemns heavy foods, promotes temperance, open-air activity, and a life of charity. It links beauty to virtue, urging moral living, almsgiving, and faith in God to achieve true loveliness. Based on a New York Tribune quotation.
Squire Johnson, a renowned lawyer at twenty eight, uses a ruse to collect fees. Jane rushes in claiming cobbler Smith sued her for five dollars. Johnson tells Smith he will bill ten dollars to discourage the suit, then covers Smith’s claim and withdraws the case. Jones applauds the tactic and pledges future business.
The paper notes the Grange growth from about six thousand charters in eleven months toward seven thousand by year end. At $15 per charter and $0.10 per member for 000 members, projected 1873 receipts to the National Grange treasury reach about $165,000, with likely increases next year.
A letter to the New York World describes a sea creature resembling a giant devil fish captured offshore near St Johns. The report notes a body eight feet in circumference with a parrot like head and two long parts extending from it, while questions about the creature’s size and nature linger amid unclear references to dates and names.
Senator Ingalls in the US Senate directs inquiry into whether certain vegetation could be planted under last March's act. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska introduces a bill to extend to 160 acres for qualified citizens with eight years to claim, plus staged planting and care requirements, aiming to improve the present law and address land office rulings with Kansas having strong interest.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters in New York resolved to raise 100000 dollars to detect convict and punish arsonists. The executive committee, meeting May 11 1873, opened subscriptions. The move aims to curb losses from arson which amount to about a third of total fire losses nationwide, potentially saving millions annually.
A gentleman explains a method to age horses past nine years by wrinkles at the upper corner of the lower eyelid. Each year over nine adds one wrinkle, so a horse with twelve or thirteen years shows three or four wrinkles respectively. If true, many horse dentients may abandon their trade.
The article notes rising peanut production and oil use against olive oil as a fuel for cattle feed residue valued from pressing. It cites Kansas climate as ideal for peanuts. It also references Harry Walker the boy pianist, Boston reception for a Beethoven rendering, and an anecdote about a toothache remedy using ammonia.
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