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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1886
Page
8
The Atwood Advocate recalls a tale about a $50 cow suicide by potato, notes taters grow big in the Sunny South Platte. A local politician anecdote follows, highlighting a candidate mixing memory and misrecognition in village meets.
The president removes Colonel M E Benton from his post as United States district attorney for the Western District of Missouri. The action follows Benton neglecting duties to pursue political speeches, affirming that a public office is a public trust.
The New York Times notes wheat at 70 cents in Chicago leaves farmers little return and production costs dominate. If prices stay low for months acreage may drop next year, while export demand could raise returns. The era of dollar wheat in Chicago is likely over, though foreign demand may lift prices soon.
The South-west Dickinson Teachers Institute meets at Sunny Side District 76 on November 20 1886. Welcome address and sessions cover proper teacher conduct corporal punishment and discipline, effects of alcohol and narcotics, and a discussion on county textbook uniformity led by Miss Mary Merrill S M Lesher HL Sawtell and others with committee chairs named Miss Mary Lank and W E Vaughan among participants.
The Alexander Musee on the Bowery staged a mock marriage between Princess Lucy and Gen Rhine Beck. The tiny bride, 19, 27 inches tall and 23 pounds, wore white silk and lace with orange blossoms while a stout bridesmaid watched as a pastor led the ceremony amid comic spectacle.
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