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Domestic items cover murder sentencing in Mannford Oklahoma, a Missouri Pacific collision in Iola Kansas, a rail and post looting in Arkansas, and military gear updates. Other notes include a Swedish officer in Leavenworth, Alaska? No, Kansas. a new Star paper in Chickasha Oklahoma, railroad receiverships, and a 16 hour law suit with Erie. A mix of weather, crime, industry and politics with multiple named places and people.
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Robert Walker
Fred Evans
Mannford
Missouri Pacific
Iola
Kan
Leavenworth
McKinley Traction System
Jefferson City
Rock Island
Hurlburt
Ark
Ordinance Department
Devonian
Boston
Ireland
Lincoln County
Salina, Tipton & Northern Interurban
Chickasha
The
Star
Central Iron and Steel Company
Harrisburg
Kansas Health
State Board of Health
Rich Hill
Erie Railroad
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Rasco
Missouri Supreme Court
Oda Hubbell
Guilford
Chicago
Nebraska
Charles Lexow
Mitchell
Ill
New York
Chas. A. Frank
Lincolnn
Neb
St. Joseph & Grand Island
Niagara Falls
Missouri
Los Angeles
B. H. Connors
Hall of Records
Topeka
Elgin
Illinois
Axpayers’ Protective Association
Kansas City
Wichita
Record Prices Set for Kansas Pasture Head?
Pasture in Chase county Kansas brings a record six dollars and fifty cents per head for the coming grazing season. A Columbus musical comedy diverted Sunday receipts to charity due to closing laws. Glasco endures another incendiary fire destroying a livery barn and damaging a lumber yard. The cold wave halts street and steam cars across Kansas and the central west. Lorimer trial stenographer jailed for contempt after denouncing witness notes as fake. Robert Baughman admits supplying dynamite and guns found in Lansing federal penitentiary. Kansas City to Excelsior Springs electric line equipment contracts awarded. Grand jury on 1910 St Louis election finds no fraud.
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Chase County
Kansas
Columbus
Kan
Glasco
Central West
Lorimer
Doctors Said Health Gone From Peruna Claims
In letters from Mc Minnville and Hochheim Texas readers describe throat trouble and asthma relief after using Peruna. One ex sheriff claims complete cure after one bottle. another farmer reports eight months of illness followed by recovery after six bottles of Peruna plus Lacupia and Manalia enabling him to work again.
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Gustav Himmelreich
Hochheim
Texas
Manalia
Height Beyond My Reach
A humorous dialogue excerpt features Mrs. Stoutly lamenting lost closeness with John Stoutly while he apologizes that some things are beyond his reach. The excerpt precedes a line about cheerful givers who hand out lemons, signaling a light, witty aside.
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Mrs. Stoutly
John
Stoutly
Harper’s Weekly
The Careless Grocer Blunder That Brought Blessing
A Michigan home received the wrong package from a grocer and the recipient found Grape Nuts resolved long standing stomach distress and nervous weakness. After trying the cereal meals, the narrator reports sustained appetite, easier digestion, and improved health.
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Michigan
Game Warden Too Industrious in Prohibition Case
Pittsburg Kansas. Dencil W. Jones a former state deputy game warden was convicted of first degree robbery and given an indeterminate sentence of 10 to 20 years. While on duty last fall he sought to enforce prohibition in Crawford county and searched a home of two miners’ wives taking money and bottles of grape juice.
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Gomez
Cuba
Ishim
Liberia
Juarez
el Paso
Tex
Germany
London
Kansas
Garden City
Holden
Earl Doty
King George
Queen Mary
India
U. S
Lemequet
Versailles
France
Winston Churchill
John Redmond
Belfast
Ireland
Chang Kuai Gai
Imperial Forces
Sup Yat Sen
Pittsburg
Kan
W. Jones
Jones
Crawford County
Dynamite case trials planned with fast schedule
Indianapolis plans for the trials of over 40 men indicted in a dynamite conspiracy move toward quick handling. After a March 12 arraignment before Judge A B Anderson, hearings may occur in May and aim to finish before summer. In Oklahoma a naked wild man roaming near McAlester is captured with bloodhounds. believed to be a Shawnee railroad shopman missing weeks.
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Indianapolis
Ind
A. B. Anderson
Charles W. Miller
McAlester
Oklahoma
Here
Shawnee
Topeka Sees New Wichita Line From Rock Island Route
Topeka railroad men see a new Wichita line forming a western Kansas route. The Wichita Kinsley Scott City and Denver Air line would shorten travel from Colorado to the South and open new territory.
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Rock Island
Topeka
Kansas
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Colorado
Wichita, Kinsley, Scott City & Denver
Canada Looks to Bar U S Potatoes Over Wart Fears
Washington officials warn Canada may impose potato imports quarantine to prevent wart infected tubers from entering via American ports. The article notes the wart disease is not present here and cites agriculture department authorities.
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Washington, D .C
Canada
United States
Department of Agriculture
Europe
American
Frisco Plans $30,000 Freight Depot Expansion
E. Carter division freight agent for the Frisco reports in Wichita that a $30,000 improvement is planned for this year. The present station will be moved when the new terminal is completed, and an addition will be built to the freight depot.
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Frisco
Wichita
Kansas
Boy Refuses Reward in Diamond Ring Return
Elliott Conroy, 15, found a valuable diamond ring in a Hammond theater and returned it to the owner but declined a $100 reward returned by the theater. Local authorities confirmed the honest act and noted the gesture.
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Hammond
Indiana
Elliott Conroy
Woman on Supreme Bench Suggested for Taft Vacancy
President Taft’s contemplation of filling the supreme court vacancy is briefly interrupted by a note from the Woman Suffrage Association of the District of Columbia. They urge appointing a woman, citing suffrage progress, naming Ellen Spencer Massey Emma M. Gillett and Belya A. Lockwood as candidates.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Supreme Court
Woman Suffrage Association of the
District of Columbo
Ellen Spencer Massey
Emma M. Gillett
Belya A. Lockwood
Springfield Man Admits Dixon Postoffice Robbery
James Nearns of Springfield was held for trial by the U S commissioner on charges of breaking into and robbing the Dixon Missouri postoffice. Postoffice inspector J W Rose says Nearns admits the robbery.
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Springfield
Missouri
James 4H
Nearns
United States
Dixon
J. W. Rose
Fortune to Rejected Heir
In New York Edwin Hawley railroad owner and builder dies without a valid will. His nephew, estranged over a love affair, will contest to claim a portion of the 40 million dollar estate despite relatives' failure to locate a valid will.
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New York
N. Y
Edwin Hawley
Pawned Gems for 38.75 Dollars in Kansas
In Atchison Kansas Charles Bill a chauffeur aged years confessed to stealing diamonds worth 600 from Harch. He pawned the gems for 8.76 dollars. The case centers on the burglary and pawn transaction.
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Atchiaon
Kansas
Harch
Charles Bill
Resinol Ointment Promoted For Cracked Hands In Ad
An old advertisement highlights Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap as effective for cracked hands and skin eruptions. A testimonial from Mrs Mattie R Short of Somerville Massachusetts praises relief after trial of the product. The copy notes sizes of fifty cents and one dollar and offers a free sample by writing to Resinol Chemical Co Baltimore Md.
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Mattip R. Short
Somerville
Mass
Department 89
Resinol Chemical Co
Baltimore
Deep Sea Version and Pessimist Theme
A playful dialogue contrasts a young Tommy Cod with his father about pessimism and hooks in worms. The passage mix features a sea life pun and Shakespearean line about life as a stage where all people are players and kickers.
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Tommy Cod
Puck
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John C. Seaton
Atchison
Seaton Foundry Company
Muskogee
She
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Joplin
Dorothy Coates
Spokane
Wash
Myron T. Herrick
Ohio
Aft
Senate
Hin Wong
Missouri University
Milton Blumenberg
Lorimer Investigating Committee
Harry Lindsley
Milwaukee
Helen Taylor
Missouri Capitol Commission
Gov
Stubbs
Col. Roosevelt
H. N. Waterfall
Kansas’ Labor
Owen Doyle
Mr. B. W. D. Barnes
Clarence
Cholly
Baid
Supreme Bench
Harlan
Gerald
Geraldine
Samuel Pitcher
Centaur Company
Bears
Castoria the Centaur Company
Hostetter
Carter
Brown
Jonnx L. Brown & Son
Automobile Showy
West
Shei
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