31 Dec 1886
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Newspaper
Scandia Independent
Location
Narka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1886
Page
1
Fragmentary calendar notes from 1887 listing observances and ritual days. The readable lines reference February entries and events around the 18th to 26th, with garbled abbreviations for specific ceremonies and locations. The text is incomplete but suggests a church or community schedule.
The readable text shows scattered numbers and month abbreviations and a jumble of characters. No coherent events, names, or actions can be established from the legible portions.
Mr Blaine plans a Europe visit next fall while collecting material for a history of the War of 1812. Galesburg Illinois raises 50000 dollars for a right of way for the Atchison extension to Chicago. Numerous notices follow on impeachments, rail and banking matters, crimes, and civic events across the nation.
Reports from Carcano and Kansas City detail the arrest of Jim Cummings and two accomplices in a house of ill repute. About $20,000 in cash was seized, with Pinkerton detectives shadowing suspects for weeks. Cascar Cook, linked to the St. Louis and San Francisco robbery near St. Louis, was detained in a gambling house. a St. Louis paper with robbery accounts was found in his trunk.
Socialists react furiously to P powderly circular ordering withdrawal of aid to condemned anarchists. George Schilling calls the edict unconstitutional and urges loyalty to a member in good standing. March of indignation grows as assemblies denounce the verdict and a Christmas pardon unfolds from Missouri.
Washington reports outline Senate action December 20 to 22 with petitions on oleomargarine tax relief and railroad receivership powers. Bills passed include relief for Bessie Gilmore, Missouri militia claims, and Jesmut survivors. Pension increases for severely injured soldiers discussed. adjournments noted.
In Washington the House introduced and referred bills on treasury policy stock market operations and bank deposits. Debates covered Arctic survivors pension relief, Indian appropriations, foreign affairs, and transportation rights. Adjournments noted for late December and early January.
Secretary of the Treasury names Samuel Wallis of Louisiana to a micro scopist position under the oleomargarine law amid a probe into conspiracy and torcery in Union County Indiana. B Perkins, subpoenaed as a witness, refuses to testify. Commissioner Van Bur en imprisons him for contempt for ninety days. Perkins, a road boss and son of a late Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice, is seen as key to exposing conspirators. Je Hinton, noted actress, dies in Philadelphia after a dance.
A poem titled The Dying Year appears alongside Sayings by Bob Ingersoll about wealth and social justice. The column discusses Ingersoll’s Chickering Hall speech to about a thousand guests and includes various local notes on fires, floods, and weather across Kansas towns and incidents.
A Georgia farmer wards off predatory birds by mounting a sharpened scythe blade on a pole at a forty five degree angle. He claims birds of prey attack the blade and injure their feet, preventing them from carrying off his chickens.
Charles A. Green in New York Tribune argues seeding to clover and timothy and repeated mowing for three or four years is easier than digging and baking ground as previously attempted.
A reader argues against ice slips and hoof wear myths. The letter criticizes improper shoe fit and careless farriery, recounting a mare that failed on ice and horses that grew tender feet from poorly fitted or left shoes, urging proper shoeing practices.
A fragment from Burlingame Independent mentions books sold by J. HL Whitebeck to raise funds. Details are scant but indicate a sale event with quantities phrased in odd measurements.
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