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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
1
Hudson the Big Chief property manager has plans drawn for a mill to justify development. The community buzzes about growth while local notices invite readers to an ice cream service and other town happenings. A luxury of local life is mirrored in ads for tailoring and farm safety signs as Feb approaches and space expansion is planned for the News.
T W Kitchen new manager signs 1000 inches of advertising with the News to be used within six months. Other merchants urged to follow. The M E T will resume operations next Monday. Wanted mule or horse about 1200 pounds by John Banning. Mrs Frank Dillaway has returned from Boston and plans to return in about two months.
Local report details a plotted robbery of the Frisco Meteor near Miami involving Baxter Springs residents John and Robert Poe accused of taking part with others. A third man William Keeling aided investigators, with three more suspects sought. dynamite sticks found. bond set at $1000. alleged ransom and bank heist scheme tied to Wells Fargo cargo.
Cherokee County to introduce forty three Columbian Voting Machine Company units with fifty keys and seven party tickets. Experts will train judges and clerks. repairs for ten years. Cost 32250 dollars financed by warrants from 1909 to 1928 at five percent interest. Commission says machines may cost more but will count all voters’ ballots and reduce special ballots. Machines to be used at the next election in Cherokee County.
Local reports detail raids by tin horn gamblers who have swindled several residents, including a recent Indian man who lost about five hundred dollars and a new arrival who lost around one hundred. Marshal Horton vows to net the players and reveal names to the public, as the city braces for more sensational developments.
A garbled notice from March promotes business sale and a new Conorel in Betaihe of B'Tad. It hints Pie Meath and Mia as the best in town while suggesting a grand opening and remaining optimistic about Ramee City prospects.
Frank Van Gundy of Kansas visits his sister Mrs L D Brewster in the city. Miss Ermine Clinkinbeard of Windsor Missouri is here to visit her brother F J Clinkinbeard. John Hopkins, accused in the Lena Cnng case near Peoria, claims personal safety issues prevent pleading guilty and plans a trial to burden taxpayers. Ottawa County residents discuss the implications as hearings loom.
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