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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1887
Page
8
A patchwork of comments on Kansas politics, national figures, and editorials covers topics from Dickinson county loyalty to local candidates to national figures like Grant and Gould. The piece discusses party shifts, protectionism, and foreign policy while noting humorous asides about editors and cultural figures.
Judge Thurman denounces the growing surplus in federal treasury funds as wasteful and corrupting. He argues accumulating $100,000,000 annually amounts to taxation without use and risks corrupt schemes in Congress, warning of imminent loss of honest tax legislation.
A San Antonio Express comment lauds an editor as a pale unknown but honest benefactor of the universe. It praises his tireless work amid duns, cockroaches, crime, and printers while condemning pretenders and charlatans. The piece imagines his heavenly rewards contrasted with his earthly struggles.
The summary notes Marshall county stock, Northern Kansas potatoes, and statewide wheat vigor. It cites 15 000 carp placement in Kansas streams under government auspices, Paola glass works debut, Great Western Glass move from St Louis, and a Pennsylvania coal syndicate buying 10 000 acres in Cherokee county with two coal veins. It recalls Cherokee county’s historic state output and Kansas statehood context.
Sheriff Miller announces a sheriff sale under a Dickinson County district court order. The premises include Lots 14 and 16 in Block 22 in Enterprise city, Abilene, with sale to the highest cash bidder at 1 AM on December 17 1887 at the courthouse. The notice also covers estate matters of John Loy deceased with notice to all interested parties.
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