01 Jan 1886
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Newspaper
Republic County Chief
Location
Narka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1886
Page
1
Veteran turfman Major Peter C. Fox died in Danville Kentucky on Sunday. Reports mix with assorted notes including indictments for adultery, gifts to Hawaiian leper children, a monument to General Grant, and various unrelated items from politics to accidents and local curiosities.
A poem on maternity praises a newborn as a divine gift and marks the beauty of motherhood. The text shifts to an epitaph noting a printer named Duke whose last proof is corrected and a symbolic frame of death opens as an oblique memorial.
Judge Crozier of Leavenworth ruled against the defendants in the liquor injunction suit brought by the attorney general, upholding the prohibitory act and related amendments. The decision follows trials over forgery, a murder at Oberlin, and a wave of other criminal and public safety actions across Kansas towns.
Notes from the department of agriculture show Maine sweet corn packing this fall at about half the two year total with Portland Packing and Burnham Morrill leading districts. Reports cover kaolin in Colorado, soapstone beds, giant potatoes near Los Angeles, Peruvian crops in Australia, cattle and sheep shifts in Australia, dill and daffodil handling, Texas livestock assessments, and curious horticultural experiments in Michigan and Wisconsin.
The New York Times presents a reckoning of $200 million in linear, area, and volume terms. If in silver dollars, the stack would stretch 4675 miles and rise 335 miles high, cover nearly 60 acres, weigh 7160 tons, and require a two and a half mile long train with 12 to 20 locomotives. In one hundred dollar bills the length would reach 23674 miles, height twelve miles, cover 780 acres, and need a safe 28 by 22 by 20 feet.
A fragmented verse appears quoted, noting many cate with many lives many bees with many hives and many old maids gone to seed, attributed to Garhey Ae Mountaineer and read as a literary snippet rather than news.
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