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Atchison Local Life and Military Funeral Notes
A miscellany from Atchison includes social snapshots and anecdotes about residents like Jim Curtis and Henry Miller at bridge parties, Leo Jacobs’ clever window displays, and a jelly with love-notes on a car steering wheel. Major General Harry A. Smith’s funeral in Omaha is described in detail, with processions, regimental honors, and burial arrangements in Atchison, Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Curtis
Henry Miller
Atchison
Leo Jacobs
Joe Mic-Crum
Simpson
Harvey
Bill Sanders
Sporting Goods
John Doyle
Violet Ray - Broyd
Spain
John Katt
Roy Eberly
Will Miller
Atchison Drug Store
Atchison Jelly
H. H. Hackney
Omaha World-Herald
Harry A. Smith
Seventh Corps
Omaha
First Presbyterian Church
Frank A. Hésmer
Smith
Seventeenth Infantry Regiment
Fort Crook
Farnem
Seventeenth Infantry
Farnam
Tenth Streets
Union Station
Missouri Pacific
Atchison Kans
Burjal
Reveille
Fort Omaha
Zimmerman
R. E. Miller
Schappler
Hugh Sidey
Jacobs-Henderson
Henry Wnestler
Raepler
Katherine
Concordia
Eugene Thule
St. Joe
Cawker City