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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1871
Page
1
Public notice from J. Pever superintendent Pacax assistant superintendent outlines daily train arrivals and operations, indicating schedule details and exceptions for Sundays.
Trains depart Lawrence and Kansas City with mixed service and night and day runs. Southbound departures include Leavy Express and passenger cars from Lawrence at 10:30 pm, Baldwin, Ottawa, Garnett, Thayer, Cherryvale, and Cuffeyville with several intermediate stops. Northbound night express runs daily except Saturdays. day trains run daily except Sundays. Through freight and passenger contracts, connections at key towns, and links to Kansas Pacific and regional stages noted. M. R. Baldwin advertised as superintendent in Lawrence.
A brief note records a local effort to complete tasks with precision and resolve ongoing disputes. No further context is provided in the readable OCR segment.
A fragment from a long out of print drinking song about ale and merriment. It portrays a club of toper enthusiasts and hints at temperance critique beneath the rollicking verse. The verses describe drinking, blithe abandon, and rustic life with Old English spellings and imagery.
John Barton narrates his perilous night in Duntown where a rough town hides a robber gang. After Tip the dog alarms him, Barton shoots Moses Mullen in self defense during a midnight pursuit. Mullen dies, the gang’s leader is silenced, and Barton stays in Duntown to uphold law and order.
A New Jersey paper claims a small Caribbean island the Biamita near Trinidad contains gold. Americans hold the rights. English capitalists show interest. Five veins are worked, ore from Center ville works yields about sixty dollars per ton with limited machinery. tailings to be reprocessed.
Henry Ward Beecher praised home dancing as natural and healthful in a sermon, urging enjoyment of music and dance rather than denial. He recalls his mother’s graceful dance with his father’s violin, praising talent used for dancing and routines that unite family life.
An odd marsupial portrait describes a creature with gluttonous, sluggish traits until provoked, then a violent frenzy. It fears no guard, attacks freely, and tears flesh until life ends, repeating such profitless rages after years of experience.
In a Canadian hotel dining room Mr P engages a French Canadian at table. A linguistic mishap leads to a comic exchange about hats shoes and family terms. The New York dry goods clerk reveals the joke and Mr P abandons his study of the French Canadian character to finish breakfast.
The globe holds 1,288,000,000 people with 336,000,000 Christians and 300,000,000 Pagans. Minorities include 50,000,000 Israelites and 60,000,000 Asiatic religionists. Mortality runs 33,333,33 per year, equating to 91,554 per day, 3,530 per hour, and six deaths per minute.
A rough man confronts a man on Chat ham street, rough shouts and strikes. The aggressor accuses Jews of crucifying Jesus and vows to strike again, while the Jewish man cites history and tries to calm the situation. The exchange ends with a renewed threat.
A humorous set of ten rules governs behavior in a printing office. It urges enter softly sit down quietly subscribe for the paper avoid controversy or touching the poker keep distance from the table and hands off the paper. Gentlemen and ladies are to follow these rules, with light notes about permissible behavior and playful allowances for mischief.
A riverboat tale from the upper Mississippi during low water ends in comic mishap. A green Irishman aboard a pig lead laden craft misreads commands, tosses a pig overboard, causing the mate to fall in. The captain jokes about heaving the lead and checking water depth as the mate searches below.
A collection of quips and short anecdotes from a 19th century paper. It includes playful howlers about bets in philosophy, minor misadventures with pumps and corked bellows, theft of a pistol, and a parade of pithy maxims on knowledge, refinement, and femininity. Notable bits mention Maine, Minnesota, Georgia, Indiana, and Saratoga, with brief jokes on honesty, imagination, and social manners. The items showcase light entertainment and moral snippets typical of the era.
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