Kansas Notes From Topeka and Environs
A jumble of Kansas items notes Topeka finances February 16 713.47. Bethany hospital cost 100000. highland station family weight 665 pounds. Salina plans in summer. Costa Rica trip of Jessie Lelwelling. Fort Scott convention hall 6000. Hutchinson building 100000. population counts in prisons and reform schools. Osage woman seeking husband via ad. Populist delegates totals. Miss Kate Rhea dead. Kansas flour trade with London 100000 bags. pension and injury cases. many small community updates and odd curiosities across the state.
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Topeka
Charley’ Crane
Highland ‘Station
Bethany Hospital
Kansas In
Kan
Atchison
Hools
Salina
Jessie Lelwelling
Costa Rica
Daviphan
A. Wichita
Fort Scott
Clay Center
Kate Rhea
Yates Center
Kansas
L. von Schulze
Morris & Co
Kansas State Penitentiary
Hutchinson
Asylum For
Orphan, Asylum
Kansas City
Kaw River
Ibnits
Stock Yards Company
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Gazette
University of New York
Bureau of Education
Kansas University
Lucas
Rusell Reformer
Times
Marmaton
United
Tom Duncan
Ranchaan
Garden City
Dupean
Attonwood
Garden City Sentinel
Hays City
Irrigation pioneers spark Idaho’s desert to garden land
A Boise City Idaho sketch extols Brigham Young and Mormon irrigation as the stir behind the West’s vast farming expansion. It lauds Idaho’s lava-soil fertility, abundant crops from apples to prunes, and mining towns driving growth. It notes Oregon Short Line publicity aiding homeseekers and predicts Idaho’s population boom and climate advantages.
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Belge
Idaho
Brigham Young
Little Band of Pioneers
United States
Utah
America
Nile
Italy
Spain
Europe
Vitiera
Vesuria
Alex. McPherson
Boise City
Geo. J. Ha
Mountain Home
T. I Phifer
Snake River Valley
Oregon Short Line
Salt Lake City
France
Switerland
Portugal
Union
Style in Handkerchiefs in New York Evening Sun
Readers are urged to match handkerchief color to gown to avoid gaudiness. A pale blue or fawn can complement the outfit if in harmony with the dress, or the accessory fails as mere decoration. Also includes an anecdotal testimonial about a neuralgia cure and stray notes on pig tied by legs.
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New York Evening Sun
Olot
Agg
Chieu
Wits
Chicago
Drama in the soul how to guide its mighty power
A preacher argues the dramatic impulse is a God given force in all people. He urges harnessing it for good, opposes sterile suppression, and envisions a reform of amusements under Christian influence. He cites Scripture from Judges and Job and calls for a new, expurgated dramatic institution separate from churches and theaters to channel zeal without compromising faith.
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Mra
Archie Young
Oaks Avenue
West
Superior
Wis
Swanson” Rheumatic Cure, Co
E. Lake Street
Chicago
Lyuld Klopsch
New York
Ben-Hur
Congreves
Goldsmiths
Parlor
Charades
Academies of Music
Thespis
Aeschylae
Sophocles
Euripides
Terence
Piaulus
Seneca
Congreve
Farquhar
Racine
Cornelile
Alfieri
Waterloo
Job
Eliphaz
Blildad
Zophar
Hiro
Philadelphia
Heaven
Christ
Rowlant Hil
Thomas Chalmers
Thomas Guthrie
John Knox
Robert McQheyne
Christmas Evans
George. Whitefield
Robert Hall
Robert South
Bourdalon
Fenelon
John Mason
Sehroon Lake
Bellows
United States
Liverpool Docks
Good Old Presbyterian Church
King Bear
Hunchback
Joshua Whitcomb
Sean
Lyceum
Doris
Eharades
Botne
David
Joseph
Egypt
Samuel
St. Paul
Polycarps
MeKalla
Theban
Brussels
Piedmont
Gallary
Ydiea
Hood
Unusual Snake Eats Egg With Glasslike Method
A natural history note discusses how egg eating snakes such as the dasypeltis swallow eggs larger than themselves without true teeth. It suggests membranous mouth folds cupping the shell to guide it into the esophagus, then explains how gular spines shed shell fragments to prevent fatal digestion, noting a clever adaptation.
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Madagascar
Cincinnati ‘Inquirer
Woman kills husband after years of alleged abuse in Cincinnati
Jessie Adams shot and killedCharles Adams a Union Pacific messenger agent in Cincinnati after claiming lifelong cruelty and threats. She said she acted in self defense after he assaulted her at supper then struck her, and she fired twice ending with a fatal shot to the head. Police detained Mrs Adams as colleagues noted Adams had prior surveillance for luring messenger boys.
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Cincinnati
Charles Adams
Union Pacific
Carew
Omsha
Jessie
Gertie Thurman
Gertie Hayes
Adams
Omaha
Miss Surman
Dams
Mustadaela
Horlocker Case Postponed Ready for Trial
The Horlocker case is set for trial at the district court term. Fifty seven witnesses have been subpoenaed. The defense plans to argue Miss Horlocker was insane at the time of the alleged crime aimed at Mrs. Anna Morey via arsenic dosed chocolate bonbons.
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Maat Tomate
Horlocker
Evers
Anna Morey
Double Tragedy in Bannock Montana and Local Wreck News
Reports from Bannock Montana describe a fatal shooting and a subsequent fatality as the girl's father killed the suspect and a coroner's jury found justifiable homicide. Additional notes cover bigamy arrests, a Cincinnati woman killed in a Missouri wreck, a Texas snow loss, Aguinaldo's war secretary surrender, and a Mississippi cold snap affecting fruit crops.
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Bannock
Montana
Mont
Brown
Myrtle
Lyttle
William Lyttle
Texas
Waco
Terseley Tells of Odd Fellows Hall and Beecher Kin
The fragments note Hayes Center Odd Fellows plan a commodious hall and mention deaths and kin of notable figures. It cites Sherman Peffer Jr, ex senator Peffer’s son, a Kansas City tragedy tied to despondency, plus a Toledo Centennial million dollar appropriation by the Ohio legislature. It also recalls Mary Foote Beecher Perkins and Rev. Thomas K Beecher, siblings of Henry Ward Beecher, with a separate suit by Rev A Schell D D over alleged conspiracy in a Methodist movement and related litigation.
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Odd Fellows
Hayes ‘Center
Sherman Peffer
Peffer
Kansas City
House of the
Ohio” Legislature
Toledo
Mary Foote Beecher
Perkins
Hartford
Conn
Thomas K. Beecher
Elmira
Henry Ward
A. Schell
D.D
Bosworth League
5Ersons
Reading 2 Horse at Sea and Remedies Noted
A fragmentary note describes a shipboard feeding and drinking allowance for a horse at sea and cites wireless telegraphy as a new aid to signaling danger from a lightship. It mentions Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia and its claimed effects on digestion and appetite.
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Pedra Ship
Hostetter
Fragmentary Quack Remedy Stirs Caution Over Claims
A damaged passage touts a salve or patent mixture claiming to treat salt rheum boils pimples psoriasis rheumatism malaria and more. The garbled text shows dubious medicine language and urges trial of the concoction this season.
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Iarsapariila Dow
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Winslow
Pike County
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Gregory
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Independence
Ohio
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Saller
Breltz
Paulles
Paulles, Etc., At Ite
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John Asalzerseed Co
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Canada
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