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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1888
Page
4
Abilene Reflector issue dated January 12 1888 notes transportation services with emphasis on passenger and freight options. Mentions Henry Litts as editor and lists a brief notice of available routes and schedules for trains or carriers serving local and regional commerce.
Editorial clippings discuss European war rumors and weather hindrances, Congressmen Russell and Holman on wool overcoat and Pacific Railroad debt, and various political opinions. Also notes a gift to Pope Leo XII, historic fire losses, Reading railroad strike fallout, and a curiously bound copy of Ben Hur to the Pope.
The Second Adventists prepare for doomsday, buying white robes and trimming lamps in Battle Creek Michigan. They sold jewels to fund efforts to convert the ungodly, while leaders fix multiple dates for the expected cataclysm. The tone criticizes their persistent yet unfulfilled predictions and mocks the movement.
160 acre farm in Cheever township seven miles from Manchester and three miles from Industry. 65 acres pasture with spring water all year, 70 acres under cultivation, 16 acres hay land, 9 acres bearing orchard with all fruit. Farm fenced with a good five room house and cellar, barn and ample shade trees. For sale cheap on easy terms. Enquire of G. C. Steel Abilene Kansas. Seton? so ree Want it x2 Sewel's.
The defense portrays the government as debtor to the railroad, arguing the road would have incurred greater costs for the state without its construction and that repayment was not anticipated. It questions the Colton letters and attributes much to Stanford’s memory, concluding desperate measures follow desperate cases.
Petition by Lewis Thayer and seventeen neighbors seeks establishing and altering a county road near Union Pacific rights of way in Dickinson County Kansas. Viewers named B J G Neumiller W A Baus and John Hoover to meet February 7 1888 for inspection per County Commissioners instructions.
Dickinson County Board of Commissioners met January 8 1888 in regular session. They issued bonds to Chicago Kansas & Nebraska Railway and apportioned sums to townships Lincoln Grant Center and Liberty. Proceedings include road orders tax refunds penalties and salary adjustments with multiple viewers appointed and bills allowed or rejected.
Dickinson County announces the opening of a county road from the northeast corner of section 4 to the township line, extending west two miles between subdivisions 15 and 16 to the county line. Viewers and the County Surveyor are to meet at the place of beginning in Holland Township on February 10, 1880, to view the route and issue orders.
Official notices from Dickinson County Kansas dated January 1888 announce road improvements with petitions from local households, hearings scheduled with viewers named by the Board of County Commissioners, and a road description beginning at a section corner. Also sheriff sale notice for January 21 1888 listing property of Joseph Weeks in Herington.
Queen Victoria will attend the forthcoming wedding of Princess Irene of Hesse to Prince Henry, the Crown Prince of Germany, noting the union between first cousins. The couple are the grandchildren of Victoria and connect the royal families of England and Germany.
A parade of lungs and breathing machinery is urged to work properly. When air passages are clogged, breathing suffers. A single remedy Boschee's German Syrup is advertised as the sure solution, sold by druggists for 75 cents.
For South travel informants urged to use Gulf Route Kansas City to Memphis New Orleans and all southern points. Full through trains with Pullman Sleeping Cars Free Reclining Chairs no car changes Kansas City to Chattanooga Knoxville and Bristol. Map and timetable requested. mail Missouri and Kansas Farmer eight page illustrated monthly. Address J. E. Lockwood G P & T A Kansas City.
A fragmentary OCR entry notes a sale listing under the name Enos B 5 and references J Beemer as an auctioneer. The readable bits suggest a local auction notice with names and a seller, but details are incomplete.
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