Methodist Episcopal Corner Ads and Church Schedules
A scanned list shows multiple churches with service times on Sabbath days, prayer meetings midweek, and Sunday schools. Pastors named include B Palmer and J W Pixsentox with additional details on locations at Jefferson Broadway Sycamore Madison Western and Christian Bible class notes. Local government officials and city staff are listed, including probate and county officers, sheriffs, judges, and council members.
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Episcopal
Jefferson Avenue
Broadway Street
Ty. B. Palmer
Iola and Allen county a thriving western rail hub
The city of Iola at the junction of Elm Creek and the Neosho River in Allen county is described as a growing county seat connected by the Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad. It lists churches, lodges, numerous businesses, schools, and abundant natural resources including water, building stone, coal and soil suitable for farming and fruit. The piece promotes land sales, health, farming lands, soil quality, stock raising, and opportunities for manufacturing and manufacturing-related sites near Iola.
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Tol
Allen County
Elm Creek
Neosho River
Lawrence
Kansas City
Leavenworth, Lawrence
Ubi
Iola
Cholera circular urges sanitation to curb epidemic spread
A memorandum from the American Public Health Association executive committee outlines urgent sanitation and disinfection measures to prevent Asiatic cholera in the United States. It details cleaning, drainage, ventilation, water purity, and specific chemical protocols for privies, clothing, and dwellings, urging widespread adoption in towns, schools, depots, hotels, and ships.
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American Public Health Association
American Public Health
Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Memphis
Nashville
Townamd
Parkdie
Great Briton
United States
Stephen Sraith
M.D
W. White
Laydouin
He Ranch
Clendenin
Ohio
Fix
Merean Morris
John W. Woodforth
U.S. Marine Hospital
Francis Bacon
Henry Hartsho
Gheel's Hospital Peopl e Helps The Disabled Heal
A narrative describes the Gheel village as a humane asylum where patients mingle with villagers. They receive care in families, share in household duties, and benefit from air, cheerfulness, and social routines. A fiddler même destroys his instrument to resist temptation, illustrating restraint. The setting shows patients living like kin, aiding children, and forming a supportive community that aids recovery.
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Ain Wnenvadtans
Hillabet
Gheel
Howl
Sal
Comforting the Insane Through Community Care in Gheel
An article describes humane treatment at the Dutch asylum of Gheel where patients are comforted by nurses and engaged in ordinary trades. It contrasts this with American state asylums, noting smaller, family-like units and the hope that humane, community-centered care will diminish violence and improve outcomes.
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Balzac
Balzack
Gheel
America
Wonderful Photographic Feat of Occident in Full Motion
A historic entrepreneur photographed Occident at full speed using Muybridge’s mechanism. After days of trials with slotted backdrops and double lenses, a precise one two hundredth second opening captured the horse in motion, yielding a perfect likeness. Nearby, Strasbourg French ladies parade in tri color, a scene noted amid occupied Germany.
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Governor Sanford
Goldsmith Maid
Muybridice
Occident
Tie
Ting
Strasburg
England’s Prince of Wales under scrutiny for irregu lar habits
English public concern grows over the Prince of Wales Albert Edward his youthful dissipation and recent health scare glimpses of reform fading as fears rise that England may face a dissolute sovereign.
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Prince of Wales
England
Albert Edward
Cheap Postage and the Case for One-Cent Letters
The article argues for extending the one-cent rate from postal cards to letters, noting the postal card’s nationwide reach and carrier delivery. It asserts the government can carry a letter of a quarter ounce for one cent as it does with cards, and urges Congress to require lower rates unless the postal card service loses money. It cites press and public support for cheap postage.
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Congress
Boiled Flank Roll and Bird Protection Notes
A home dish describes boiling a flank roll with stuffing, tied and cooked until tender then sliced. The piece warns Prussia protects many birds from boys and sportsmen, cites a tree blight threat to pears and apples, and urges civic effort, farmers boards, and prudent discipline. It also critiques ear care, references Wisconsin’s burnt district, and Punch’s nobility.
Rumor of James Gordon Bennett's London Herald expansion
A long tale claims James Gordon Bennett plans a New York Herald style paper in London with Fitzjames Stephens as editor earning $5,000 yearly. It also notes London publishers’ surprise at New York dispatch payments and reports on Barnum style advertising spending and returns.
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James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
London
the New Journal
Fitzjames Stephens
Thani
Graphics
New York
The
London Times
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the Register
Louis Walker
Tola, Kansas
Official Paper
ALLEX
Cousty
Presbyteri
Madison Avenue
Western Street
Elder Crocker
Jon
J. R. Goodin
Alohn Paxson
Vic. Thrasher
H. A. Needham
K. B. Stephenson
J. C. Murray
M. Simpson
G. DeWitt
E. C. Ameden
P. Green
Depuy
Harvilie
A. W. Howland
Xu Fisher
John Francis
J. A. Hart
N. F. Acers
A.W. Beck
J. Shannon
W. M. Hartman
J.H. Richards
B. Keith
L. L. Northrup
H. W. Talcott
J.N. Woolfames
D. Briggs
Jola Lodge
A. F. & A. Masons
Joan Francis
Jols Lodge
G&ice
L. J. Low
Secott C. Murray
Neosho Valley House
Kansas
N. T. Wenane
Elson F. Acers
Kans
D. I. Worthington
Jess, Allen Co
Tola, Allen Co
Madizom Avenue
Decis & Vaannys
8. Tozer
Scott Brothers
Zed Agents, &c
Geo. A. Bowlus
Tola
Gene&al Land Agency
East
Davis
Vannuys
Misha
Olice
Neosho Valley Register
H. Freeman
Kas
Ellite
West Side
D.f.givens
Hansas
J. N. White
Washington Ar
Locust Grove
Lloure
G. W. Covert
Carlyle
Jola
Joly
Evaniirnen
Europe
L. WU. Gorrell
Washington Avenue
Sisuxa Wacessaxr Brean
L. WH. Gorrelme
Maier
Epley
Mave
South Side
D. C. Brubaker
West Side Public Square
Mansas
WM. Newton
Hudison Avenue
Public Square
Galveston
Baptist Society
Presbyterian Church
Luick
Methodist Episcopal Society
Masonic Lodge
Odd Fellows Jula
Jula
Crain
School Beta
Chen
Faeming
noLaNet
the Prince of Wales
Prussia
Pendleina
Middle States
Fogg
du Page
Kendall
Kane Counties
Til
Farmers’ Board of Trade
Aurora
Elgin
Schence Monthly
Wisconsin
Punch
Raya
Barnum
Oregon
Vermont
W. R. McLane
Western Advocate
Advocate
Topela
Michael Quinn
Lit@de Rock
Tenn
Grant
Dix
Hiram Powers
Florence
Italy
Cincinnati Enquirer
Thomas
Craig
Ath Congressional Ditrict of
Illinois
Philadelphia
Banes ‘States
Great Britain
Tipkins
Chicago
Cro
Union Stock Yards
Stonewall Jackson
Bullock
San Francisco
Polaris
J A
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