26 Jul 1873
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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1873
Page
1
Rates listed for cards of ten lines or less with minion type, including yearly and short-term options. One column rates, half and quarter column rates, local notices at 15 cents per line, regular advertisers at 10 cents, and transient legal ads require advance payment. Includes prices for one insertion and subsequent insertions, with various month spans and column widths.
Directory lists Methodist Episcopal and Baptist service times on Sabbath and Thursday prayer meetings, Presbyterian and Christian meetings, local judiciary and county officials including Judge Godwin and Sheriff, city offices, and Masons meeting schedules with names of officers and addresses.
Ace Sens reports deposits received and states interest is allowed on time deposits as per agreement. The notice confirms funds credited and adheres to the contract terms governing time deposits and accrued interest.
Iola sits near Elm Creek and the Neosho River eighty miles south of Lawrence and near Kansas City with the Leavenworth Lawrence Galveston railroad. The city hosts churches, lodges, and multiple businesses with growing population around sixteen hundred. it offers water supply, coal, stone, and timber for early manufacturing, plus fertile farming lands and stock raising opportunities.
The Boston Journal recounts Horace F. Clark’s death at fifty nine after a lifetime of relentless work across New Haven, Harlem, Hudson, Central, Northwestern, and Western Union, and as a leader in Lake Shore and Union Pacific interests. It contrasts his fevered pace with stoic magnates like Vanderbilt, Moses Taylor, and Scott, Strong & Co, noting their healthful restraint and longer lives while criticizing young financiers who mimic Clark’s frenzied style. The piece ends with a warning from Bishop Jones about the dangers of overwork.
A critical analysis of Commodore Vanderbilt's rise to control over 2150 miles of railway and extensive telegraph lines. The piece warns of concentrated power across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and New York, noting $215,000,000 in securities and a 45 million dollar annual income, while questioning the impact on travel costs and state legislation.
An essay warns that railroad expansion enriches stockholders while harming travelers with dirty cars and bad stations. It predicts rising opposition through legislatures and courts as monopolies grow, citing Central and Hudson River interests, and notes tax and constitutional challenges ahead. A voiced Texan frontier narrator recalls preachers, whiskey, and old days, threatening emigration to Mexico.
Lawrence writer John Speer recounts meeting a rugged Texan who blamed railroads and Sunday schools for Texas’s decline, warns of the lost “happy days,” and derides temple gatherings. The piece weaves in humorous telegraph office anecdotes from Bangor and a German postcard joke, ending with a Harper's Magazine note.
A Cincinnati Commercial note recounts a Trinity River tale about wiggle-tail water hearty in Texas. An old settler mocks New York snobbery over water quality while recalling a Kentucky family seeking high style and Kentucky water, warning that fuss over wiggle-tails ruined many prospects.
A COR contains works by Charles L Brace Elizabeth Stuart Phelps James Freeman Clarke John Savage Charles Reade Charles Nordhoff Mrs Lucia G Kunkle William Blaikie Benson J Lossing Augusta Larned Bayache lor Emilio Castellar Mrs M Pratt Doctor Samuel Ozgood and Spencer F Baird. It highlights Brace on child labor in New York City and features illustrations and telegraph imagery.
A Brooklyn style summary notes Chicago with 1870 population of 300,000 and large debts totaling 95.6 million, plus 5.4 million revenue. Mayor Medill claims a flourishing financial condition as city funds fund water pipes sewerage and schools. Reports on Pacific Hotel, Illinois canal work, central sewer, river tunnels, and rising expositions stir mixed sentiment with international satire and comic vignettes.
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