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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1873
Page
1
The Register published Saturdays lists advertising prices for cards of ten lines and various column widths. Rates include one year ten dollars plus per-line and period charges, with local notices 15 cents per line and prepayment required for regular, transient, and legal ads.
Directory lists Methodist Episcopal on Jefferson and Troadway with 10am and 7pm services and 3pm Sabbath school. Baptist on Sycamore Street with 10am and 7pm services and Thursday evening prayer. Presbyterian at Madison and Western with 10:30am and 7pm services. Christias Bible class and preaching schedule. includes numerous local officials and court names.
Admiral Porter critiques American naval power compared to Spain, warns that the United States would be at a disadvantage in war, and outlines defense plans including torpedo boats and Pacific actions. He also discusses Cuba, the Cuban republic, and U S policy toward Spain, urging firm protection of American rights and a strategic push to seize Cuba if necessary.
The dispatch describes the massacre at Santiago and the growing disgust toward Spanish Volunteers in Cuba. It notes delays in U S government reaction, the executions of Ryan and companions, and calls for swift action if Americans were killed by a drumhead court martial. It argues belligerent rights should not be recognized, and urges firm stance once facts are known.
In Elk Creek Republic County an aged wife and her sixteen year old grandson are believed to have murdered her husband. A coroner's jury reported death by unknown hands. The boy confessed he shot the man at his grandmother’s request and cut her ears and finger to feign self defense.
Said Pasha of Egypt is said to have a monthly income of over 29,000,000. Mr Butler, late US consul general at Cairo, recalls Baroreel France telling the Pasha in Paris that he wishes to visit the pyramids but cannot ride a camel. The viceroy invites travel by railway or highway. At the Suez canal opening, Empress found a desert road lit by gas with transplanted trees, a palace for repose, and a second palace to entertain her, all built for this journey. Love, writes an amorous author, is an intern transport.
The Lawrence Tribune notes that big city merchants increase newspaper ads to reach customers. They advertise prices and invite people to shop, helping circulation, profit, and trade stay lively. It warns cutting advertising during downturn hurts business and urges ongoing messages to move goods fast at small profits.
The piece recounts ancient wars driven by religious aims, noting Aztec sacrifices totaling thousands yearly to placate deities. It then covers financial news with England’s bank rate rising to nine percent due to a U S shipment of specie, and lists historic bank panics and prominent failed houses. It closes with brief items on John Heenan’s death from consumption, and a large cider mill in Goshen Indiana.
Public discussion centers on a plan to make treasury notes legal tender alongside coin, with bonds used as security. Holders could exchange bonds for notes at par, or convert notes into bonds. Interest and conversion terms stated, and a shift to end national bank notes and all bank ties.
A Texas Democrat report details alleged sightings of the Bender family near Clay county and Red River in July and August. Col. Biffle recalls questioning the old man about companions. The narrative links them to the Mud Creek area and notes lawmen’s suspicions and regional hideouts.
A wounded soldier Bradley is told he was hurt but insists the cantteen blood is only water. The doctor vows to write to his mother, the men mock bravado, and Bradley remains proud as months pass with calls to tell his mother of dying bravely. The scene ends with a lone shot and a fight.
A dated Harpers Monthly excerpt recounts a Rutgers College English class where freshmen submitted a humorously misspelled composition on the animal kingdom. The piece parodies scientific terms, naming water and land animals with deliberate misspellings and awkward phrasing, reflecting student humor of the era.
A Kansas to Vermont schoolteacher traveling through the Dominion faced a railroad official’s intrusive luggage search. The trunk was packed with clothes and books and yielded no contraband after the key was finally opened. The official raged and final remarks included a prompt to hurry. The traveler threatened Grand Trunk Railway responsibility for safe delivery.
A Democratic Salle Bulletin excerpt preserves Daniel Boone’s verbatim spelling of a survey note read at Mason county fair. The document records land described as ten acres on the southeast side of Crooked Creek, beginning at a stake near Ave and Hickory, with bearings and distances noted by Boone’s hand.
Jim King recounts a visitor in his sanctum with merrily sung lines about a Durham ram a gray alpaca a hedge and a patent plow Commodore Vanderbilt reportedly dismisses newspapers and a commentator notes such talk may be mistaken for protracted political chatter The piece reads as a quirky, gossip flavored item from the era featuring named figures and curious purchases.
A miscellany from the era reports population estimates for Kansas, local bounties in Red Oak Iowa, and odd anecdotes from London to Indiana. It notes farm sales near Milford Virginia, timber cuts in Minnesota, and fuel shortages among new Iowa settlers, with humorous quips and brief regional items.
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