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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1871
Page
2
The Indianapolis Journal notes severe crop losses and odd local items, while Leavenworth papers dissolve partnerships. It mentions Pennsylvanian school book limits, Kansas fruit prospects, tax and treaty talk in Washington, divorce law changes, and a stepped up census project with partial volumes and extracts forthcoming.
The editor reports on the M. E. & T. Railroad excursion and warns that Col. Goss seeks a line from Neosho Falls to Montrose, cutting Fort Scott from St. Louis to Colorado. A 150 mile reduction in round trips could make Fort Scott a leading junction, with M. K. & Te plans to cut off via Neosho Falls and Montimee. The piece urges deliberate consideration by the company and city to avoid missed opportunities and to shape railway history in Kansas.
President Grant issues a public proclamation enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment across the United States. He warns public officers and citizens to abstain from prohibited acts, pledges to use executive power when necessary, and calls for peaceful, lawful protection of equal rights for all citizens amid postwar tensions. The proclamation emphasizes national peace, obedience to laws, and enforcement to restore civil harmony.
A slate quarry is found in Coffey county. Ottawa hosts a New York society. A. K. Allen, Lawrence pioneer, is dead. Wyandotte builds a new Catholic church. Michigin colony advances to Abilene. Collegiate Institute established at Garnett. Concordia votes 5000 dollars for a schoolhouse. Kaw Reservation fate linked to Western Revival colony. California immigration to Southern Kansas grows. Thayer sees 5.5 million pounds freight in April. Wilbur of Lawrence grows trees from two-year seeds. Wyandotte’s growth praised, Topeka papers poke fun at a man’s elephantine figure. State Dental Society formed in Lawrence. Topeka meet planned. A six-year-old Atkins boy is poisoned by sheep sorrel. Montgomery county to build four iron bridges. Lawrence to get a street railway starting at Kansas Pacific depot. Lawrence leads in wooden pavement and street machinery. Independence Republican notes talks to build Springfield, Cartridge, Oswego and Independence Railroad by Atlantic & Pacific Company.
A garbled digest of varied items mentions Olive Logan’s age, Pittsburgh population, Italian Senate actions, Joint High Commission, counterfirers in Pittsburgh, Ku Klux enforcement, Rhode Island divorces, Iowa rail mileage, Republican demonstrations, planetary notes, Library sizes, New York Legislature activity, Mississippi river ships, Brooklyn mission tracts, Mt Helen marriage report, English ocean postage vote, Florida alligators, ex mayor in prison, woman suffrage defeat, Alsace annexation debate, heavy peach harvests, Savannah school enrollment, diet pen production, Austria religious policy, a private library Menielwohn Bartholdy manuscript, German governor remarks on consumption, and Strasbourg library reopening.
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