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Newspaper

The Abilene Reflector

Location

Abilene, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Aug 14, 1884

Page

3

Honoring the Arctic Heroes at Portsmouth NH Reception

Thousands gathered for a city reception honoring Lieutenant Greely and his relief party from the Greely Arctic expedition. Marines, civic groups, and Navy crews lined Portmouth streets while ceremonies at Navy Landing and Music Hall paid tribute. Speakers including Secretary Chandler and Mayor Treat praised the rescuers and remembered the martyrs of 1884.

Portsworth N. H Portsmouth Jamestown DeWitt Clinton Newburyport Greely John Bear Alert Schley Coffin Emery Navy Yard Hewitt Clinton Knight Greely Sweet Home Tigers Lieutenant Greely Anne Lang Syne Templars Admira Music Hall Randlail Loup F. Butler Schiey Butler Congress Man Robinson Brookyn Robeson Governorale Chaudier Hazen Lace Frank Jones Mitchell United States McGinley Aldex Treat H. EB. Hovey Portmouth Chandler Cabe Sabine Wenderness Greelyn America Arctic Pole Charles A. Nesmiti Kendall Hale

Prohibition Ruling Limits Justice Jurisdiction in Iowa

Judge Hatch of Iowa's Seventh District rules Justices of the Peace lack authority beyond preliminary trials in new prohibition cases. He holds penalties for first offenses exceed JP powers, dismissing all such liquor cases locally. Pfeffer petition for habeas corpus seeks release. case to appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court.

Ige Moratrog Iowa Hatch Iowa Judicial District Justices of the Peace Supreme Court Pfeffer Muscatine County Justice of the Peace Hayes Asis Hays

Bartholdi statue cornerstone laid amid storm at Bedloe's Island

A large ceremony on Bedloe's Island for the pedestal of Bartholdi's statue faced a drenching rain. About five hundred officials and guests attended as the cornerstone was laid after a long wait, with guards, music, a benediction, and a salute.

Bedloe Island New York Bartholdi Bedloe’s Island Fifth Artillery U.S. A Grant New York City Grand Lodge of Old Fort Wood Graad Lawrence Columbia Albert Lefevre Europe William Allen Butler Henry C. Patton Lefevre Washington Cyrus W. Field

Market reports and Provisions from St Louis and Chicago

Market notes show unsettled wheat and corn values with No 2 red and No 2 soft weak in Chicago and Kansas City. Packers report quieter pork and beef cut values with steady eggs and dairy, while cattle, sheep, and lamb markets vary by region and quality across St Louis and Minnesota markets.

Minnesota Macon Colorado Texas Yorke Hicago Gars—Duill and Lower Bakley Téye Ewsier Ixalie Ots Smt Shipcia Grass Kansas City Fie Gye Denman Geet Irs S&c Butchene Siverk

Dunmow Bacon Gig Causes Royal Twist in Tale

A London Times item recounts the Dunmow custom of gifting a bacon flitch to married couples who swear to fidelity. A yeoman declares his true identity as Sir Reginald Fitzwalter, lord of the manor, vowing lands in return for the prior blessing and a yearly bacon flitch for couples proving long-continued wedded love.

Bishop's Stortford Colchester Great Dunmow Chelmer Dunmow Henry II Harold Hardrada Hest Reginald Fitzwalter N. S. Times

Buffalo bones us farm labor supply a grim relic

A Boston Transcript corresp describes a Northern Pacific freight scene where a wagon unloads bones from buffalo, destined for fertilizer in St Louis. The abrupt trade shows how, once rulers of the plains, the buffalo leave bones for profit as crews haul loads toward snowbound grinding yards.

Buffalo Pacific St. Louis Bismarck Lord of

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