24 May 1873
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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1873
Page
1
Rates detailed for cards of ten lines and one wei, various durations and sizes. Values include one insertion 1.50, monthly rates, yearly totals, and a quarter column at 355 per year with six month and three month options. Local notices priced at 15 cents per line. Regular advertisers pay 10 cents per line. transient and legal ads require advance payment.
A compact listing of church services across denominations in Jefferson Avenue Broadway Sycamore Street and Madison Avenue with times for Sundays and midweek prayer meetings. Included are a roster of city officers such as Mayor John Francis Police Judge J A Hart Clerk C B Keith Treasurer J L Northrup Attorney H W Talcott Marshal J N Woollbines and councilmen.
Iola, county seat of Allen County, sits near Elm Creek and the Neosho River, eighty miles south of Lawrence. The city, with about 1600 residents, hosts churches, lodges, and a thriving mix of businesses including dry goods, furniture, groceries, and mills. Abundant water, building stone, and coal support growth, while farming lands, soil varieties, and fruit potential attract settlers and manufacturers alike.
A veteran thief, jailed in the State Prison, rode a Portland railway where a detective posed as a jailer to trap him. Confusion grew as bystanders accused a real detective of theft, threatening violence until the thief intervened to keep order. The train reached New York with the detective safe.
The dispatches report the death of John Stuart Mill born May 26 1806 in London. He championed greatest happiness for the greatest number and sought equitable distribution of wealth. Mill urged education for the masses cooperative industry and gender equality in his writings and public life.
A Topeka dispatch reports the Kin Bridge Company cannot sell its bonds and will cancel its contract to build the Missouri river bridge at Topeka, allowing the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company to bid the project. The King Company urges prompt new lettings and vigorous work, noting prior contractor issues.
A charity tale shows an old man reading illustrated papers on a bed, finding joy in pictures and memory. The doctor notes the transformation from dullness to sprightliness after receiving donated material. The piece urges travelers to mail books and journals to institutions and readers to share discarded items to aid the needy.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens a new office at 700 Chestnut Street Philadelphia with novel features. Travelers can buy tickets and check baggage, access a daily newspaper reading room, and send telegrams through Local Telegraph and American District Telegraph services. Special messengers are available to run errands at any hour, making the office highly convenient for citizens and travelers.
A Victorian style reflection condemns sowing wild oats as a devilish maxim. It argues any such acts yield harsh consequences with long, tough roots that will reappear despite effort. The piece laments moral folly and urges thorough reformation before life's end.
Narrative recounts the drowning of fisherman Grizzle and a later discovery of his body full of eels. A local man, Mr Smith, informs Grizzle's widow and jokes about the find. The tale blends a grim event with odd humor and a classroom aside about prayers and misheard words.
A young writer recalls sending a four page piece to a local editor who advised condensing it. After edits and further trimming the article later appeared in the paper. The piece emphasizes brevity and clarity, urging writers to be concise and to the point.
A reflective piece urges savoring present joy rather than deferring happiness. It argues many miss daily blessings while planning for distant futures and warns that health and life may falter despite riches. The author cites a New York Tribune prompt and stresses finding a thousand paths to happiness with skill and desire.
A fragmentary voice mocks dialect and asks why Latin roots fail English pronunciation. The New York Times critique praises the local paper as vital, read from table to table, urging public support for high standards. A prison anecdote ends with a pun about two sheriffs being “both drank.”
A Philadelphia reverend doctor who mocked a stuffed owl’s taxidermy learns a lesson in humility. While critiquing the exhibit with a companion, the owl feigned life by blinking and lifting a foot, silencing the critic for the rest of the afternoon.
An exchange notes the temperance cause in Kentucky is setback by a man who finds the body of a neighbor four years missing at the bottom of his well. It suggests many locals will stick to whisky and ignore moral improvement.
A compact sketch traces several Bacons from English history Roger Baton a Franciscan friar born 1214 died 1292 famed as a learned mathematician and reputed gunpowder inventor Sir Nicholas Bacon lord keeper of the great seal born 1510 a jurist father of Francis Bacon Viscount St Alban and Baron Verulam Then the philosopher born 1561 at Trinity College Cambridge and the father of English sculpture John Bacon born 1740 died 1799 The article also notes sleep phenomena and a series of brief anecdotes and quaint tales from various eras.
A collage of short items touches on Henry Clay, a cavalry regiment for Indian service at Junction City, and a milk condensing factory in Elgin Illinois. It cites cotton seed planting in Montgomery County, Missouri, and trade notes from Pittsburgh and Omaha reservations. Miscellany includes quips, a dairy queen, an English cow, rail subsidies versus waterways, and a school catechism joke.
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