He Voted For 18 Presidents
Charles Votaw of Oxford Kansas visits his son Watson Vown in Oklahoma City. Votaw, born September 8 1819, recalls voting from William Henry Harrison to William Howard Taft. He says Civil War service would have exceeded the age limit, and recounts voting with Henry Clay in 1844 and J P Hale in 1852.
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Oklahoma City
Sucheseton
Charles Votaw
Oxford
Kan
Hie Son
Watson Vown
Western Union Telegraph Office
Wotan
William Henry Harrison
William Houts
Salt River
Henry Clay
J. P. Hale
Old Free Soil Party
Vosaw
Ohio
Indiana
Letter From Kansas on Wheat and Corn Yields
C J Schooley of Welleford Ranena writes that 200 wheat heads were threshed for 082 bushels and 215 corn heads produced 140 gathered. He notes 4,070 bushels were harvested last week worth 30 cents per bushel and comments on the renewal remittance to Castoria in prepaid terms.
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C.J. Schooley
Welleford
Ranena
Corn and land offers prompt frontier farming talk
A reader notes 70 acres still to harvest and compares corn quality with 140 acres. He mentions a $7,000 purchase price and a $212,000 offer refused. Kane is highlighted as a rising farming force. Clarence and his wife visit from Butler, subtle changes in the old neighborhood are observed, and Brother Schooley asks about a bearline while recounting feelings since November.
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Kanens
Eure
Clarenca
Uutler
Sehooley
Curious 1908 Ad and Local Notices Mix
A jumble of medical claims and odd anecdotes appears, touting Dr King’s New Life Pills, Kodol for Dyspepsia, and DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills. Local items mention a peculiar jack in James Berry’s breeding barn, a Missouri political note on Cardinal Richelieu figure Wm Joel Stone, and various patent remedies sold by C W Hess and others.
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James Berry Lont
Middletown
Berry
Missouri
Joel Stone
Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal
Stone
General Assembly
United States Senate
Sturgeon
Atlantic battleship fleet to leave Manila for home
The 14 battleships of the Atlantic Fleet will sail from Manila Bay at 8 a.m. Tuesday for Colombo and Suez, with calls at Mediterranean ports. Homeward bound, they aim for Hampton Roads or New York by February 22, after a 42 227 mile voyage since December 16, 1907.
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Manila Bay
Colombo
Ceylon
Suez
Suez Canal
Port Said
Admiral Sperry
Mediterranean
Athens
Tripoli
Ville Franche
Marseilles
Genoa
Leghorn
Malta
Naples
Algiers
Gibraltar
Hampton Roads
New York
America
United States
Hadley to Speak at Kansas Republicans Banquet
At a Kansas Day club meeting in Topeka on November 40 the executive committee chose to invite Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri to deliver the annual address at the January 23 Kansas Republicans banquet. Hadley, a Kansan native and Kansas University graduate, heads a list of speakers including O W Brown Lenexa C Hull Eldorado B 4 Grigsby Chanute J A Brown Hutchinson W D Vance Belleville and Dr J D Dykles Lebanon. B Haskins of Olathe will give the president's address.
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Hadley
Topeka
Kan
Kansas Day Club
Herbert
Missouri
Kansas
Chanute
J. A. Brown
Hutchinson
W. D. Vance
Belleville
J. D. Dykles
Lebanon
B. Haskins
Olathe
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Clay
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Kentucky
Wooton
Nebraska
Nevada
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Coali
Virginia
Washdoxton
Wisconsin
Wyoming
KU. Vashervoore
Castoria
People’s
People’s Bank
Butler, Mo
J. R. Jenkins
C. A. Lane
Wesley Denton
the Walton Trust Co
Butler, Missouri
Hates
Vernon
Tarton
Cedar
Dade
Polk Counties
Bates
Wittsane
BE. Robbins
International
State Auctioneers Association
Amoret
Cc. E. Robbins
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Worth
Dispeisang Medical Association
R. V. Pierce
M. D
Main Street
Buffalo
Dr King
Frank T Clay
C. W. Hega
C. W. Hess
DeWitt
C. W.esa
Atlantic Battleship Fleet
Manila
Solaombo
Hot Springs
Navy
Timothy L. Woodruff
New York Republican State Committee
Elihu Root
Taft
Messrs. Taft
Woodruff
Root
Platt
Graves
Jefferson City
Secretary
Dunklio County
W. W. Graves
Supreme Court
Col. C. F. Beard, Auctioneer
Beard
THE
Missouri State Bank
T. C. Boulware
B. Campbell
John Deerwester
Wm. E. Walton
Wm. M. Hardinger, C. H. Dutcher
A. B. Owen
BH. Tylor
Frank M. Voris
J. B. Walton
Wiley Adama
Lulu Brown
H. BH. Chelf
J.M. Christy
John M. Courtney
Frank Deerwester
J. A. DeArmond
John Deerweater
J. Everingham
Wm. M. Hardinger
Sam Levy
Mary B. Miller
A. A. Miller
Jobin T. Piggot
J. K. Realer
J. W. Belaner
John Steele
John E. Shut
Kate A. Tucker
Wm. W. Trigg
C. R B. Turner
W.E. Tucker
Max Welner
N.L. Whipple
H. C. Wyatt
W. C. Walden
Edith Walton
Suse Williams
James M. White
Bates County
E. A. Bennett
Homer Duvall
F. N. Drennan
Pres
W. F. Duvall
Cashier
J.J. McKee
Frank Houtano
J. W. Cavate
C. A. Hemiem
W. F. Duvann
Farmers Bank Building
Butler, Miscouri
Eame
Arthur Duvall
J. B. Duvall
W. D. Yates
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