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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1874
Page
1
Rates of advertising listed for various card sizes and durations. One column a year 100 dollars six months 60 three months 35. One half column yearly 60 six months 40 three months 25. One quarter column yearly 35 six months 25 three months 15. Local notices five cents a line. Regular advertisers 18 cents. Transient and legal ads must be paid in advance.
Directory lists county officials including Judge Paxson Clerk Needham and Sheriff Wooden. Also notes commissioners, mayor and councilmen. Denomina tions covered include Methodist Baptist Presbyterian Christian with service times and pastors.
Beevet Societies IOLA LODGE No 38 F and A Masons meet on the first wodl thirf Saturdays each month. Brethren in good standing invited to attend. 2 KM deMurs VW M J.N. Wire, Sec'y.
Advertisement touts Missouri Pacific routes from West to East via Kansas City and St. Louis. Highlights Miller Platform air brake Pullman sleepers reclining chairs and safe fast travel. Through tickets available at West offices or from G Baxter Kansas City and E A Ford St Louis.
Eastbound travelers urged to use the St Louis Kansas City and Northern Short Line. Six fast express trains between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Modern cars with reclining chairs, dressing rooms, and toilet conveniences. Safety features include day and night watchmen and extensive track upgrades. Ticket agents in St Louis and Kansas City provide through tickets and time cards.
The completion of the great iron bridge over the Missouri river at Boonville enables this line to offer better facilities for business between the Northeast and Southwest. Two daily trains run Hannibal to Nesosha Valley and to Southern Kansas, with through Pullman palace sleepers from Chicago Quincy Hannibal and St Louis to Galveston. Address Thomas Darwin Sedalia Mo for maps, timetables, and fares.
The Leavenworth line announces Nov 6 1873 service changes with daily trains to Kansas City Lawrence Ottawa Cabins Thayer Cherryvale and Coffeyville and return trips including day exp and accommodation trains. Connections link Ottawa to Pomona Lyndon Osage City and other points. The firm offers 500000 acres for sale in Neosho and Ke tributaries valleys.
A Music Hall gathering in Boston honored Charles Sumner with a dignified, emotion filled oration. Speakers lauded his moral courage and anti slavery leadership, contrasting him with Webster and Clay as crowds applauded and reflected on the era’s political battles.
A group of wagons carrying women and goods moves through the town from the south ward. They claim Lincoln and Brown counties in Kansas are rough while Missouri and Davis County residents offer aid. Interactions reveal regional tensions and a jesting farewell as the exchange ends.
A mother found her seven month old baby dead after a hog in the lot mutilated the child at a rural DeKalb county home on Monday afternoon. Mrs Stivers had stepped away for about twenty minutes when the tragedy occurred, shocking the neighborhood as the hog continued to feed on the corpse. Mr Stivers was away and returned to news of the loss.
The leading points of the new constitution limit special legislation to curb corruption. It narrows bribery risks for citizens, municipalities, and corporations. It aims for general laws, longer Supreme Court terms, fixed salaries, uniform election laws, open pardons, debt limits, and Governor veto power over general appropriations.
A Scotchman in Kauwaka township faced poverty and illness as his family moved to Kansas. One night his feet froze while he slept in a shell cabin, and a doctor did not treat him. Fearing mortification, he cut off his feet with a razor, and Dr. Wilder may reamputate at the knees. A second vignette shows a man asking an auctioneer if he may bid, then bids him good night.
A critical view argues against currency expansion, claiming it would ruin purchasing power and force repudiation of debts. The piece cites rising prices, scarce paper money since the war, and West vs. East capital dynamics, insisting expansion would ease Western debt without harming creditors. It defends a currency that matches the debt issued, condemning Western misfortune as engineered by financial elites.
An odd Green Bay Advocate item recounts a boy who harmed a cat with a hatchet and faced a humorous domestic consequence, followed by a note on a patent for trousers with a novel adjustable strap and buckle design.
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