17 May 1873
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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1873
Page
1
Local notices listed with rates for ten line minion type cards, one insertion priced at $1.50, six months $7.00 and other durations. Rates show column and quarter column options up to one year. Adv advertizers pay in advance.
Directory style church listings show Methodist Episcopal Baptist Presbyterian and other churches with service times and pastors. Community officials are listed including judges, clerks, sheriffs and the Masons meeting schedule.
Allen county shows a growing Iola at the junction of Elm Creek and the Neosho River. It highlights thriving churches, lodges, and diverse businesses, with rich farming lands, pure water, good building stone, coal, and timber nearby. The piece touts health, schools, fruit growing, and stock raising as strong draws for settlers and manufacturers.
A lively, humorous recap of local politics and social life in Iola Kansas. The writer reviews visiting politicians like Thacher Phillips Kalloch and Osborn, notes on Liberal and Republican tacks, local city salary reforms, and mock praise for newspaper correspondents. The piece lampoons hopes for infrastructure and mentions a fire, church funding, and civic ambition.
Col Nathaniel J Cooling of San Joaquin California recounts a wild Atlantic voyage on the Magnolia. He traded a bogus diamond for a real gem after a bold poker spree and hotel bets, then faced a courtroom style bet with jewelers and swindlers before sailing away rich. The tale ends with a real diamond recast in his ring and cooling out with profits around eighteen thousand dollars.
A quirky true tale follows Richard Farquhar Dingle and Robert Moor and their wives from England to the United States then South America. After lost fortunes, misadventures, and a swap of wives’ photos, the two men unite, send money home, and drift toward stability as years pass.
A column praises the upcoming postal card system as a vast improvement offering one cent messages nationwide. It forecasts broad benefits for business and education, while cautioning about privacy and urging careful, compact writing to curb needless waste. It also includes a humorous aside about American letter writing and a brief, odd vignette about a Kansas district school and Indigenous pupils.
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