Preparing a Big Circus for the Road Season
Kansas City area hosts winter quarters where a full circus via a 200-strong menagerie, coaches, and staff gears up for the road. Animals are bathed and scrubbed, horses groomed with resin, wagons painted, and crews rehearse grand entries while cooks feed hundreds daily and all departments finalize before departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Star
Dodson
Kansan City
Cireus
Seanon
Mister Monk
Pachydrem
Atendania
UK Circus
Kansas City
Harry Gray
Capitol
West Fair Street
Jring
Pumber
Circus m
Ax Koon
Ithin
Tt le
A Record Kansas Family Near Garnet in Anderson County
A Kansas family near Garnet in Anderson County numbers seventy nine members. Frank Lichteig, a German farmer born on the Rhine in 1530, heads the clan. He came to America in 1855, lived in Louisville and Chicago before returning to Germany to marry Katrina Knaub, then settled in Kansas with six sons and six daughters. The eldest daughter died in 1878, and there has been no death in the family since. All speak German and English.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garnet
Anderson County
Kansas
Frank Lichtelg
Frank Lichteig
Rhine
Germany
America
Louisville
Chicago
Katrina Knaub
Everyon
Frontiersman Tour Through Moriarty Territory in 1880s
The narrator travels from Westport to Egsinela, Moriarty, and Stanley, noting free homesteads taken, a thriving two story store building worth about 10000 dollars, and town growth. He describes Santa Fe land offices, distances to Albuquerque and San Pedro copper mines, 6000 feet elevation, clean air and water, and land prices ranging from 12 to 18 dollars per acre with recent entries selling up to 1900 dollars for relinquishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport
Ind
Egsinela
Isixteen
Moriarty
Stanley
Santa Fe
Territory
Albuquerque
San Pedro
United States Land Office
Colorado
Forbidden on railroads to haul dead bodies in transport
A North Dakota case reveals railroad and office rules forbidding handling deceased passengers. An undertaker sought to ship a body to St Paul after the passenger’s death, facing enforcement actions by Great Northern officials and higher authorities. The division superintendent and local officials debated the proper adherence to policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ron Jaskige
Great Northern
James J. Hun
North Dakota
Great Norther
St. Paul
Tealy
Apy
Divisin
Mtr
HIN Wak
Vietinathana
Tate
Hill
Daily Dingbat prints cracked dialogue on crime rumor
A chaotic mock newsroom scene unfolds with mangled English and Germanic slang as reporters and editors trade jabs. characters like Max Zweibelkuchen and references to a fire, a corn shredder, and creditors illustrate a spoof about sensational misreporting.
Lummis Enduring Rambler and Western Editor of Note
Charles F. Lummis, famed tramp turned Los Angeles settler and militant western editor, survived paralysis and extensive travels. After collapsing from a brain clot he learned to ride again and even drove a mule team with one arm. His later explorations revived the Apache myth and reshaped his literary voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ulyases
Charles F Lummie
Bummin
Shank
Ohio
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
Pocotlempo
Lummis
Harvard
New England
Southwest
Plymouthy Rock
Frank Cushing
He Low
Zant
Charles F Lum
New Mexico
Asamelie
Mexico
Kept Private Prisons and Self Imposed Punishment
A historical account discusses private detention schemes in Europe, noting Herr Muller of Vienna and a Birmingham inmate as private jailers who used imprisonment as discipline. It describes a Bavarian case of a husband jailed by a wife, and a Foggia landowner who built a private cell for self punishment after escaping custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tit-Tits
London
Herr Muller
Vienna
Muller
Birmingham
Yithili
William Beckford
Julia
Foggia
Mali
Hlm
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Hill
Adolf
der Daily Dingbat
Max Zweibelkuchen
GhAe
Bradfiord Regulator Co
Montezuma Trust CO
Gaeyor
the Bank of Commerce of
Solomon Luna
W. 8. Strickler
V. P. and
Cashier
W. Johnson
Asst. Cashier
Wm. McIntosh
J. C. Baldridge
A. M. Blackwell
Geo
Arnot
O. E. Cromwell
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fery
First National Bank
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Joshua 8. Raynolds
M. W. Flournoy
Frank McKee
R. A. Frost
F. Raynolds
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
State National Bank
Gross, Kelly & Co., Inc
Wool, Hide and Pelt Dealers
Las Vegas
RIO Grande Lumber CO
Marquette
L. B. Putney
Railroad Avenue
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