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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
8
A patchwork of ads and notices notes sales prices and arrivals. Items include shoes and garden posts for sale, a malarial fever recovery, a new baby, a farmer’s flood losses, a college alumni meeting in Joplin, and local council changes plus land leases and river flood impacts.
In Baxter Springs several residents outline new walk projects along Millary street toward the south city limits. Property listings advertise 10 lots each 50 by 142 feet with fruit trees and a five room house priced at $800, while local editors announce the Cherokee Democrat replacing the Columbus Enterprise.
Community notes praise new sidewalks and the push for curb line parking while reporting on local events. Bax ter Telephone Company reward for vandalism evidence and local shoptalk about train fares and cattle shipments to Colorado add to the week’s Baxter Springs happenings. Col Wm B Young visits from Indianapolis and Bill Adler arrives on transit to Claremore for baths amid his troubled past.
The Galena Aerie of Eagles will build a fine new home as fruit yields rise in the region. E.K. Brown departed Sunday for Eldora Iowa to visit his parents and the new primary ballot is expected to be about ten feet long and wide.
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