Big Kansas News Items From The State Capitol Era
The itemized Kansas digest notes W H Bishop leaving Selina in 1998 to become legal counsel to the Chinese minister in Manila, his prior role as Manila city prosecutor, and a $3500 salary. plus report of a new Arkansas Missouri Kansas railroad project from Memphis through Weir City to a Santa Fe connection. Osawatomie protest against Missouri Pacific shop moves. P K Campbell's Republican congressional nomination background. legal action against Augusta Journal editor W P Cady for contempt. Mrs Annie L Diggs travel to Europe with daughter Mabel. Peterson murder verdict near Washington. Parsons gas purchase plans. personal tax list contrasts in Wellington. Helm buys Topeka Street Railway stake for Kaw valley line. crop scare predicts 60 percent or 50 percent wheat yield. large cattle sales near Kansas City. Baker University dedicates gymnasiums to Ripley and Fogle and Whittaker. push for private charitable funding. debate over German instruction in public schools. political maneuvers in national and state scenes. various long-serving jurors and frontier anecdotes. Eureka school bonds on ballot.
Dutchman Fights Trolley Digging With Injunction
A New York suburb tale recounts Hans Geisler opposing a trolley line work crew. He stops digging by placing a plank over the hole and deputizes his wife to guard it. After workers move the plank and his wife, Geisler returns with an injunction, perplexed by the overturned plan.
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New York Mail
Hans Geisler
Hans
Geisler
Gretchen
Alretty
Baldness as an index of intellect debated by ex comptroller Fitch
Open to conjecture the excerpt records Ashbel P. Fitch suggesting baldness signals intellect. He cites a 19th century inquiry during his New York comptrollership, noting among 8,793 paupers under county care only one was bald headed, allegedly scarred by an Indian tomahawk per Youth's Companion.
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Ashbel P. Fitch
New York
Mr. Fitch
One Fare for Boston to Portland via Trunkway System
A damaged ad listing round trip Chicago to Boston and Portland dates. It notes sale for July and mentions a fare of one dollar for Chicago to Providence with travel details. Contact Geo W. Vaux at 135 Adams St Chicago for more information.
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Boston
Mass
Chicago
Portland
Providence
Geo. W. Vaux, A. G.P
T. A
Adams St
Ili
Fragmented 1900 Advertisements and Quotes Card
A collage of stray lines and ad copy includes Allen's Foot-Ease promise, a mining chant, Reverend and philanthropic notes, a La Crosse YMCA debt remark, a Kilne nerve restorer offer, Berkeley and Tennyson quotes, Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets, Piso's cough cure, and a Chicago Times-Siem brief.
Miss Laura Howard Card Is Plea For Pinkham Aid
Laura Howard of Chicago writes of eight months of perfect health using L. R. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says doctors guesswork harms women with complications and urges others to seek this remedy. The notice offers advice from Mrs. Pinkham and provides Lynn, Massachusetts address.
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Laura Howard
Chicago
L. E. Pinkham
Vegmore
Laura Howanp
Newberry Ave
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