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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1886
Page
4
A commemorative address recalls the Alamo defenders Travis Bowie Crockett and their brutal deaths. It links their sacrifice to Texas independence, laments forgetting their names, and urges honoring their memory as essential to the state’s national standing and prosperity.
A long-brush collection notes Brigadier General Alfred N Terry’s promotion to Major General after Hancock’s death, plus editorials criticizing politics, temperance, and lawmakers. It mentions Ottumwa election results, Knights of Labor growth, and Meadeville temperance rhetoric. It also attacks Rev Wake’s letter and Garite Me Too controversy with satirical asides.
The Kansas Gazette criticizes the approach to whiskey trials and questions Rev Philip Krohn a temperance leader and editor. The Times notes the editor’s conviction on prohibitory law violations and mocks the paper’s moral posture while local items mention a brewery contact, a murder case interest, and a Sunday service announcement in the K C Times game.
The piece argues that high tariff rates hurt labor and western farmers while Republicans resist Democrat efforts to cut tariffs. It asserts the Democratic party favors the people and pledges tariff reduction. Lists proposed duties on luxuries such as silk and champagne and on necessaries including wool, sugar, iron, and cotton cloths with varied percentage tiers.
The essay recalls the 1836 siege of the Alamo from February 23 to March 6, highlighting William Barrett Travis and Davy Crockett as heroic figures and noting Irish American pride in the event. It describes Santa Anna’s vastly superior force and the Texans’ stubborn defense, with 12 days of bombardment and hard fighting leading to the fall.
Mrs. Joan W. Boxson argues for a home orchard with varied apple varieties to provide a continuous supply from July through July. She lists fifty trees including Early Harvest Carolina Red June Red Astrachan Coopers Early White Hightop Sweet Lowell Maidens Blush Benoni Heswick Codlin Wine Grimes Golden Talman Sweet Jonathan Missouri Pippin Ben Davis Dominic Rawles Genet Wine Sap Gilpin and notes overlap across seasons ensuring cellar stock year round.
A Highland Farmington joint Teachers Institute evening featured a lively discussion on the question That nature teaches more clearly the existence of a God than the Bible. Speakers from both towns argued affirmatively and negatively with thoughtful remarks and music ending with a positive sense of value in attendance.
Program for a Teacher's Institute at Baker school house district No 107 on March 20 1886 at 10 am. Topics include Primary Reading Moral and Intellectual education oral arithmetic and how to secure uniformity of text in relation to school with discussions led by H Lowrie D Hornady and committees on music and organization. Participants include M Light Anna Sanborn Emma Davidson R Morrison Jones Belie Simmers Emma Davidson J G Engle H M Ligur and Eliza Baker.
The teachers of southwest Dickinson will meet at the Carlton school house in Carlton Kansas on March 27 1886 to discuss the Saree program and incentives for study. Participants include John Watt L Delitz J H Niestey geography Simmers and J H Sawtell.
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