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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
2
Baxter Springs paper led by editor and owner Chas L. Smith reports local developments and notices from the Baxter Springs area, highlighting community events, civic meetings, and district updates affecting residents.
The piece argues for better training of domestic workers while recounting the rise of temperance, noting Dr. Billy James Clark's 1808 society and the 1826 start of broader temperance effort. It also describes a bronze John W. Mackay statue at the University of Nevada Reno honoring the Comstock lode legacy and honoring miners.
A New York man seeking an amusement license disclosed earnings from Ferris wheels at North Beach Caney Inland and Fort George about $300 weekly and $1,200 from merry-go rounds with a Fort George scenic railway earning $40,000 last year raising concerns that many will enter the amusement business. John Heathker Heaton lauded in England for pushing lower ocean postage to the U S, while Eitha Burritt of Connecticut is noted for cheap postage efforts.
A humorous narrative from a trip across the state includes hotel life at Spoonsbury and encounters with hotel clerks, travelers, and a band of performers. The piece blends comic hotel chatter, stagecraft, and late 19th to early 20th century venue humor with side gags and social bits from a traveling insurance man.
A paint dealer warned a customer about safety while measuring naphtha then lit and threw away a cigar, joking that familiarity with danger breeds carelessness as he argued the risks of explosive fluids. The encounter highlighted hazardous handling and the customer’s alarm.
The piece weighs the mission's role in aiding the homeless as religiously charged, noting meal and bed tickets draw the down and outs toward charity yet risk turning aid into dependency. It questions whether salvation efforts align with enduring faith-based conversion and warns against trivializing salvation with mere meals.
A testimonial describes a patient near death from kidney troubles whose limbs swelled and health failed until taking Dean's Kidney Pills, which allegedly saved the user. The ad claims bold branding by dealers and pricing at 60 cents a box through Foster-Milburn Co of Buffalo, N.Y.
The speaker recounts a failed attempt at shooting a canary bird while joking about a toy bear named Billy Block A Teddy Bear and expressing frustration over bad luck.
A West Philadelphia porch scene shows a girl playing with a friend as grandparents chat. The child muses on family names and the remark reveals a light family humor about matching grandparents.
The ship doctor told an Irish steward that a man died in stateroom 45 and gave burial orders. Hours later the doctor found the body missing and the Irishman explained he went to room 26 by mistake, discovering a bunkmate alive and saying he was nearly dead before the other was buried.
A five year old daughter of a Brooklyn man, versed in dolls, examines a real baby brought home. She judges it with a critical eye saying it is nice but the head is loose. The remark echoes a humorous note from Lippincott's.
A reader recalls years of pale, weak health traced to daily coffee. After abandoning coffee and trying Postum, health improved within a week and headaches diminished, with overall better sleep and appetite in months. The account highlights caffeine in coffee as the main cause and endorses Postum as a remedy.
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