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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1887
Page
4
The Abilene Reflector reports political jabs about Fred Grant and remarks on female suffragists lacking a Presidential candidate. It notes a New York landslide burying Henry George and jokes about the American church funding a rectory, plus quail eater Paul aiming at English sparrows. Continental rulers endure illnesses as court doctors toil.
A Buckskin Gulch sight amazed old miners as surface gravel vanished revealing a 100 foot jagged bedrock cut filled with glittering gold. Charles Dudley collected about a pint of nuggets valued 20 to 50 dollars per weight while twenty pounds had already been sent to the bank. No large pieces found yet, the largest under three ounces. Cleanup may take two to three days and could tally about fifty pounds or roughly nine thousand dollars, the largest ever for the camp.
Ex Senator McDonald of Indiana resists government control of private enterprise, arguing against a postal telegraph. The piece notes Morse's 1844 government–built line, later privatized due to cost, and cites a postmaster general warning that such powerful tools must be kept under legal restraint.
A compilation contrasts Republican presses with Southern and Northern views on post election sentiment. It highlights fears of continued sectional tension, debates over negro rights and regional power, and observations from papers like the Emporia Democrat and Philadelphia Record on economic and political shifts shaping the 1880s.
A Brook lyn advertising chief notes ads must be original to grab attention. He recounts shifts from text only to pictorial layouts and multiple ad departments, urging first to spark reader interest before stating prices. The piece highlights evolving strategies and the enduring belief in newspaper ads and mail campaigns.
An abstract notes party performance in New York across years 1872 through 1886. It cites Grant and Cleveland victories, governors Cornell Hill and Peckham, Garfield and Hancock votes, and rising Prohibition totals, ending with a pro-Democrat flavor and a patent medicines advertisement.
A compilation of brief returns and visits in Abilene Kansas includes T. J. Moss of Muscatine Iowa dining at the Stanton House, Mrs. Brown of Industry visiting daughter Mrs. S. A. Cooper, and numerous locals traveling to nearby towns for business, family, and legal matters. The paragraph also lists real estate sale notices, hotel visits, and local professional movements among residents and visitors.
A catalog lists fourteen head of horses and ponies including two brood mares with a foal from a full blooded Norman stallion, four work horses, two driving horses, one Norman mare four years old, one Norman gelding four years old, a one day filly three years old, two Norman colts two years old, and a sucking colt.
A historical inventory lists Randolph header McCormick self binder grain tools corn cultivators and plows. It includes barrows corn planter rander checker rower mower grake wagons buggies corn drill stalk cutter fanning mill shelter header boxes hay racks feed cutter and troughs harness sets. Numerous useful farm articles are noted.
All sums of ten dollars and under are cash loans with no interest if paid when due. Over ten dollars a year with approved security will bear interest. If not paid on time interest at twelve percent from due date until payment plus a seven percent discount off for no property may be removed from the place of sale until be for.
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