Iola July Fourth Exercises Adorned By Kalloch Visit
A crowded Fourth of July in Iola opened with a lengthy program despite rain and floods. Hon I S Kalloch rode from Lawrence to address townsfolk as Rev E A Graham led prayers and H M Burleigh read the Declaration. The crowd enjoyed music by the Glee Club and Cornet Band before a festive spread, and local officials announced Galveston railroad progress with a reorganized board and renewed resolve to push the project forward.
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H.M. Burleigh
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Iola
Grand Army of Patriots
Ian
Railroad manners praised by Kansas Pacific official
A Kansas Pacific Railway superintendent is praised for policies toward passengers and baggage handling. Baggage must be handed carefully and not tossed, with penalties for rough handling. Employees are urged to be civil and helpful to all travelers. The piece also notes local visits by Sidney Clark John Spoor and Gen T Hoyt, along with various notices about papers and officials.
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Tenat
Kanass
Pacitts
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Vic
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Garefalito
Sidney. Clark
John ‘Spoor
Gen. T. Hoyt
Crawford
Lion
Clark
Speer
Apis
Oura
Train chaos and floods plague Kansas early rails
A chaotic report notes raids by Cheyenne Indians near Sheridan, floods affecting the Solomon river system, a 600 foot long railroad cut near Fort Scott, and widespread damage to crops and tracks on the Kansas Pacific line. It mentions a drowning at Hayes City and a shooting near Hayes City, plus a freight train from Chicago arriving at Lawrence.
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Solomon
Junction City
Missouri River
Ft.Scott
Galf R. R
Pela
Mound City
Hell's Bend
Quarrel Over Batter Salts Sparks Wisconsin Divorce
A Wisconsin couple quarrels over saleratus in flapjacks and apply for divorce. The bizarre note recalls other 19th century gaps and oddities including a Vermont horse trader and Byron’s granddaughter marriage. A miscellany of curious items follows, from a St Louis editor heading to Paris to a Quebec chimney escape and a Georgia temperance quirk.
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Anne Isabella Noel King Noel
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War Department
Geo. Washington
Quebec
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Paris
Georgia
Pumpkin Creek
Handiog Arouad Pion
Columbus
Ohio
Aspall
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Francisco
Borkes
Fragmented Victorian Comic Snippet Confuses Reader
A garbled antique prose fragment references an Irishman’s life sketch, a diary misread by a head of state, and a fatal ice lamp accident verdict. It blends dialogue about law, morality, and maritime memory with scattered phrases about the Constitution and a Dutchman, creating a collage of historical curiosities.
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Johnson
Jaé Dutchman
Gonsva Kansas Town of 1869 with Academy and Church
Emporia June 28 1869 eight miles from Lots ten from Leroy on the Neosho east side lies Gonsva in Allen county one of the old Kansas towns. Three stores eight blacksmith and wagon shops port office run by J M Mattoon daily mail from Carlisto and Neosho Falls. Geneva academy under Presbyterian auspices used as church house of worship. Congregationalists built a stone church with services. District school has thirty six scholars. Farms nearby cultivated with good houses and barns. A severe wind storm soon after approaching town.
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