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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1874
Page
1
A fragmented 19th century collage notes a five year old apprentice learning the alphabet at a master’s knee, a scattered tax reform text amending multiple sections in 1874, and diverse items from currency policy to paper flour barrels and literary notices. The long clipping blends poetry, legal edits, and local commerce.
Directory listing county and city officials including Hon J R Goodin district judge John Paxson probate judge Wa Phrasher treasurer HL A Needham county clerk G M Brown register of deeds J C Murray county attorney CLM Simpson clerk district court G DeWitt superintendent of public schools 5 1 Wooden sheriff deputy sheriff Lyman Rhoades surveyor Ly Horville 1 A W Howland 7 commissioners Tiane Bonebrake 1 W C Jones mayor L L Lowe police judge John Paxson 8 J Stauber 4 M Simpson L Walker E N Yates L Northrup treasurer H W Talcott attorney J N Woollames marshal C D Briggs assist marshal councilmen
The column lists Methodist Episcopal Baptist Presbyterian and Christian churches with service times on Sundays mornings and evenings. It notes Sabbath school and prayer meetings led by pastors B Palmer C Froyp J W Pinkentos Elder Crocker and locations at Jefferson Avenue Sycamore Street Madison Avenue and Western Street.
The text outlines amendments to several sections of a Kansas act on tax collection. It details payment options for the first and second halves of taxes, penalties for late payments, rebates for early full payment, and the placement of penalties on tax rolls. It also covers sales of delinquent lands, duties of the County Treasurer in listing lands subject to sale, and procedures for public auctions.
The president returns Senate bill 617 with no approval. He expresses regret at not approving a measure backed by lawmakers chosen to craft laws, cites concerns over currency expansion and reserve requirements, and notes potential contraction risks from limits on bank reserves and interest on balances. He notes the bill would place a $100,000,000 circulation limit and questions its practical effects on the paper money supply.
President Grant discusses bank-note circulation, urging cautious expansion. He notes $4,000,000 of authorized circulation remains for states under quota and an option of $25,000,000 more from states above quota. He says further currency should wait until specie payments are restored. Dated April 22, 1874.
Harper's Magazine closes its forty eighth volume with richly illustrated content. It features Corianna's Going a Maying with E A Abbey engravings, Schweinfordth Africa explorations, Flower Mission by Ellis Gray, Fur Seal of Alaska by Elliott, Ilkey reminiscences by Conway, John of Barneveld review by Stoddard, and two illustrated poems. Also includes poems by Thompson and Spofford, serials by Craik Mille, and stories by Woolson Benedict. Mortality statistics by Samuel, defective classes appeal by Deshler, and a Philadelphian German writer’s closing remark.
Scribner's May issue continues The Mystery Island by Jules Verne and begins a new volume. Edward King presents Great South chapters with illustrated mountains across Tennessee Georgia and South Carolina. Henry James Jr. starts Adina to finish in June. Other pieces cover The Doctor's Wife in sketches, New Homes of New York and flat living, Tennyson, race coeducation, South American Silver Desert, Katheerine Esrle illustration, Star Lecturing temperance morality and The Old Cabinet lines.
The article argues for cremation over burial, noting air and water cleanliness, lower costs for shrouds coffins and funerals, and cemetery plots. It describes a furnace like system to burn bodies and reduce remains to ashes and minerals. Steps are already underway in New York to form a society promoting cremation with influential people pledging to wills.
grain totals across Chicago Milwaukee New York and Canada shown by official returns outline weekly and year to date changes. Wheat corn oats rye barley and malt stocks listed for each location with a six port export snapshot detailing barrels and bushels across wheat corn rye pork lard bacon and more.
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