The Bulging Basket Groceries Ad
The Bulging Basket offers a weekly basket of fresh pure groceries with substantial value for the average family. It guarantees quality and freshness and promises to win your trade after one trial.
30 Jul 1914
Page 1
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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1914
Page
1
The Bulging Basket offers a weekly basket of fresh pure groceries with substantial value for the average family. It guarantees quality and freshness and promises to win your trade after one trial.
Local notes report Mrs. T H Goodwin visiting, Okla residents Mrs W C Judd and Mrs Sam Grobecker, and Wade Hibbard harvesting 26 bushels per acre. Politically several county candidates are unlikely to be nominated. Oklahoma whiskey incidents noted near the town. Gregorys advertises forts wagons buggies and Domo cream separators with low prices and buy now deals. John Banning reports 25 bushels per acre on 31 acres after thrashing.
A miscellany of items including W. D. Pinnick as city auctioneer, Walt Sullivan’s feed yard, Roy Harvey’s auto fever, Vale Smith’s Cof f eyville visit, and local chatter on keg parties, Sunday baseball in Gale Valley, and Chicago Methodists. Notices on trades, travel plans, Wilson’s conferences, Bull Moose politics, straw stacks, thrashing, and wheat prices dominated by Dunwoody’s wheat holdings and railcar costs.
The Kansas wheat crop soars to 194 million bushels, shattering records and fueling broad prosperity. A figure of 184 million bushels is cited, with prices around sixty five cents per bushel, yielding about 120 million dollars in direct farmer income and stimulating wealth across farms, towns, and industries in the region.
Sunday school begins at 10 a m with preaching at 11 a m Union services are held at library park a b p m Prayer meeting Wednesday is at open Rev W S Smalley of the Presbyterian church of Columbus will preach at the Union service Sunday evening at the library park
City boards orders all weeds in the city limits not cut by August 7 1914 to be cut and taxed to property. Also commands closets be cleaned and lime unstacked freely thereafter once monthly during the year by order of the Board of Health.
For sale a fresh cow giving three gallons a day. Call Frisco Restaurant. Also hay by bale or ton and other horse feed. See Walt Sullivan at the feed yard. Wife entitlement remark appears in fragmentary note among sale items.
Mrs Will Glasner of Wellington Kansas is there to visit relatives and friends during a brief stay.
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