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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1874
Page
1
The notice lists ad rates for tan-line cards and various column widths. One year in minijon type costs 910.003, six months 7.08, with 1.50 per insert and 0.75 for subsequent inserts. One column yearly 100.00, six months 60.00, three months 35.00. Half column yearly 60, six months 40, three months 25. Local notices are 0.15 per line. Transient and legal ads must be prepaid.
Honorables and officials named: Paxson, Needham, Brown, Murray, Thrasher, Goodin, DeWitt, Wooden, Horville, Hoixland, Bonebrake, Fores, Laws, Sisipson, Northrup, Talcott, Woollames, Briggs. Churches named: Methodist Episcopal corner Jefferson Avenue, Baptist on Sycamore, Presbyterian at Madison and Western. Service times listed with pastors Mary, Flonp, Pisgerron.
The St Louis Kansas City and Northern Short Line touts faster service with six through Express trains between Missouri and Mississippi, modern rails, broad ties, deluxe reclining chair coaches, and no extra charge for comforts. It invites travelers East via St Louis or Chicago and provides agents and contact info for tickets, maps, and schedules. Constantinople diary notes a Turkish bath fantasy, then dives into an intimate, humorous narrative of women in a private bathhouse.
Completion of the iron bridge over the Missouri River at Boonville enables expanded service between the Northeast and Southwest. Two daily trains run Hannibal to Neosho valley and St. Louis to Southern Kansas, with reduced rates and through Pullman sleeping cars from Chicago Quiner Hannibal and St. Louis. Contact Thomas Darwin, Sedalia, Mo., for schedules and maps.
In the era of railroad competition the Missouri Porte Through Line from the West to the East offers unmatched speed and convenience via Kansas City and St. Louis. Miller Platform, Westinghouse Air Brake, Pullman Sleepers, and Reclining Chair Coaches ensure a safe pleasant trip. Express trains from Kansas City, Leavenworth, and Atchison land travelers in St. Louis in time to connect with lines to the North East and South. Information with maps and timetables available at Through Ticket offices or from G Baxter Kansas City and E A Ford St Louis.
Hope outlines first class accommodation and reduced freight to attract patrons as trains begin in 1873. The timetable lists GOING SOUTH and GOING NORTH day schedules from Leavenworth to Independence and back, plus special accommodations and connections at Ottawa Garnett Chanute Humboldt Cherryvale Coffeyville and Kansas City with stages to Pomona Quenemo Lyndon Osage City Eureka Eldorado Augusta Douglas Parsons Neodesha Elk City Winfield and Arkansas City.
A Washington correspondent reports the finance bill amend ment to remove reserve requirements for national banks and set a one third reserve on coin interest, with bonds 5-20 funding. The centennial bill, sewing machine patents and franking rights loom, while Western Southern Pennsylvania bloc seeks a St Louis convention on cheap transport currency and river improvements. The White House social scene centers on Nellie Grant Sartoris wedding cards and Europe plans. Judge Lowe reportedly not seeking re election, Cobb poised for bid.
The Kansaz Farmer argues for moving the National Grange headquarters to St. Louis for central geographic position and benefit to western and southern Granges. It contends Washington or New York miss the center of gravity and urges action at the next National Grange meeting.
The Washington reporter for the St. Louis Republican describes a prank at the National Grange offices where a general order promised free express delivery of public documents and seeds. The joke backfires on senators like Ingalls of Kansas, who faces about 400 letters and rising, with others including Chandler, Logan, Pratt, Wright, Carpenter, and Windom also receiving unsolicited orders. The episode amuses many but burdens officials with reply duty and express charges.
New York adopts a compulsory education law requiring children eight to fifteen to receive fourteen weeks of annual instruction in reading writing arithmetic grammar and geography. The law bans child employment during school terms and assigns district school officers to enforce compliance. Bayard Taylor reports on English usage abroad while noting linguistic trends.
A Chicago Tribune article draws a parallel between the ancient Sabellius heresy trial at Alexandria and a modern presbytery case involving Prof. Swing. It notes reusable charges, clerical roles, philosophical ties, and predicts a long wait for a verdict, likening the outcome to historical timelines and urging caution about theological liberalism.
A reader recalls a startling incident in Salt Creek Valley where Mrs. Chapman of Pleasant Ridge suddenly lost speech after entering a pasture to fetch a horse. Relatives believe a fright or fit caused the spell, with the cause still unknown. The report also cites a Harvard collection of Sumner's library and notes on various rare manuscripts.
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