Abilene Reflector highlights and jokes from 1887
Abilene Reflector notes Kansas legislature set to meet January 11 for a fifty day session. Santa Fe railroad expected to reach Abilene by June. Krupp’s two ton gun fires through solid iron. Logan fund nears $40,000. Skeptical pieces on teeth decay blamed on lips, and a playful jab at H C Burchard as senator candidate. Reflections on Kansas, St Louis Chicago express robbery, and Russia Sweden drink laws. Santa Fe rail boosts real estate, Abilene projected to 10k by 1888.
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Santa Fe
Krupp
Abilene
Reduce the Taxes and the Christmas Conscience
A periodical exhortation urges Congress to ease the tax burden at the start of the New Year. The piece appeals to legislators to act from self interest or justice, warning of dire consequences if taxes remain high.
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Mey
New Year reflections and a Belle Springs creamery visit
The essayist muses on January first as a time to reform and act, urging benevolence and earnest self-improvement. A correspondent visited Belle Springs creamery, describing J. E. Neisley Co. and the cooperative dairy, its whole milk system, daily milk intake, butter production, and the De Laval cream separator, predicting the fame of Belle Springs butter in regional markets.
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Christ
Mn. Eorror
Belle Springs
J. E. Neisley & Co
Sesm Hoffman
Forney
Kershey
Hoffman
Nissley
Ewt
Neisley
de Laval
Perry & Co
Denver
Col
B.S
J. WE
Abilene Brims With Wool Mill Prospects
The Topeka Capital argues Kansas is well placed to support woolen mills, boasting substantial local wool growth and cheap transport to mills. It envisions tripled output in five years if mills start, with Abilene as the best site and other factories planned in the year.
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Topeka
Kansas
New England
Abilene
Registration Notice for 1887 Abilene Kansas Elections
Poll books in Abilene Kansas open for 1887 and remain so year round except ten days before each election. Voters must register to vote. City Clerk St J C Rover notes obligation. Ordinance adds Lebold's, Fairview, and Highland additions to Abilene city limits effective after publication in the Abilene Reflector. Passed December 30 1884 and approved January 5 1887 by Mayor A W Rice.
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Abdene
Kansas
City of
Abilene
Sts
Src
Lebold
Register of Deeds
Dickinson
Kibe
Fairview
Abiléne
A. D
State of Kansas
County of
A. W. Rice
J. ©. Haven
Ineety
Notice of Public Sale in Abilene Kansas 1887
On Monday January 3 1887 at the front door of the courthouse in Abilene Dickinson Kansas the sheriff will sell to the highest bidder for cash certain lands or parcels described by lot and section numbers. The sale is at daybreak and conducted under sheriff authority of Pickinson County.
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Merney
Zeca
Bilene
Erate
Ctiock & i
Kansas
Dickinson Cot
Dickinson County
State of Kanap
Louis Pea Soe
L A. Reed and Company
William H. Townsend
Mollieville Townsend
John W. Baker
Court House
Abilene
Kanity
Sas
N. W
N. E
U. P.A. RR
Dickinson
State of
E. F. Grosser
John B. Holt
John Bensack
Trainers Insurance Company
Twit
Enna
Pickinson
Seid Chau Ren
Son
Kan
District Court
Thomas Kirby
Mark L. Baldwin
Emma S. Baldwin
A. E. Bis
Jennie Bishop
H. D. Justison
Rebecca E. Justison
Canal Bank
Elmira
New York City
National Ik
Hartford
Connecticut
Harvey Eye
Cynthia Eye
State of Kansas
Township Ofontoes
Dickinses County
W. F. Mslaughlin & CO
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L. Strothe
Hesey Lists
Strother & Litts
Washington
H. C. Burchard
United States
J. G. Blaine
Philadelphia News
Union
Fort Scott Tribone
St Louis
Chicago
Russia
Sweden
Dilaine
Pittsburg
New York
Bill Nye
W. D. Kelley
Glick
Vilas
Kelley
Cleveland
Ohio
Victor
Kansas City Times
West
The
Times
J.C. Rover
Abi i
D. J.J. Miller
Up Savery
South Water St
III
E. H. Robinson
Barnes , Northcraft
Kas
Keller & Tisdale
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