Kansas Farmers Have Much Cash Stock in All Enterprises
Special to The Sun from Topper Kansas, June 5, describes farmers in interior Kansas as cash rich and eager buyers of new ventures. Promoters push stock in mines, oil refineries, and railroad schemes while fence machines and cement molds attract farmer capital, aided by mail order clothing and widespread automobile purchases. Banks in small towns show confidence with limited currency, yet investors fund rail surveys, machinery, and land deals, boosting farm prosperity and local bank dividends.
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Fence Machine
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High Plains
Middlewest
Garden City
Woman Goes Daintily Shod Reflects Fashion Footwear Trends
An era of extravagant women’s footwear is described as skirts shorten and styles shift. The New York Sun notes rising spending on high grade shoes and hosiery, the move from practical walking shoes, and the rise of French and Cuban heels shaping narrow toe profiles.
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New York Sun
U S Known For Lighthouses And Ocean Aids
New York June 5. A survey of American navigation lore highlights historic lighthouses Minots Ledge Spectacle Reef and Tillamook Rock. It notes 42 steam tenders 49 lightships 11 reliefs and the Diamond Shoals dangers off Cape Hatteras while praising Fresnel lenses and oil lamps over electricity.
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Cape Hatteras
Naval
Eels
Hatteras
Atlantic
Fresnel
Ptacek Catches Up After Sleep-Deprived Mail Run
In Omaha on June 5 E F Ptacek a railway mail clerk averaged only two hours sleep in 24 for 18 months due to a poorly arranged mail run and extra duties. He was near collapse but given better hours after the headquarters learned of the situation.
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Neb
E. F. Ptacek
Ptacek
Mothers Demand Arrest Over Train Deaths At Veanangost Cross
Fifty mothers with a petition of 500 signers marched to Coroner Jer mon in Philadelphia demanding the arrest of President George F. Baer of the Philadelphia and Reading railway for contributory negligence in the death of William Johnson and his 8 year old son struck at the death trap grade crossing at Veanangost. The march, from Rising Sun village, followed indignation meetings after the accident a week earlier with threats to tear up Reading tracks if officials do not act.
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Jermon
George F. Baer
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
William Johnson
Reading
Venangost
Rising Sun
Porch Furniture And Awnings For The Season
This piece advises selecting sturdy porch rugs and furniture from Wisconsin, warns against fading and cheap Japanese blinds, and cautions buyers about expensive awnings and unreliable patterns. It urges choosing durable, guaranteed rugs and weather resistant awning designs that last two seasons.
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Wisconsin
The Younger Man or the Older Man Confession
A humorous exchange features a younger man claiming women cannot throw straight and an older man replying that his wife flirted with another man yet still “caught” him in a misfire of romance.
Austrian drug scatro to beat hay fever in advance
New York June 4 Former hay fever sufferers report relief by ascatco, a new Austrian remedy also used for asthma and bronchitis. If begun weeks before the season, the disease passes with no symptoms. An experimental supply of ascatco can be mailed free by the Austrian Dispensary, 32 W Twenty fifth St New York. Have you seen Harrod's Studio advertisements.
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New York
W. Twenty-fifth St
New York City
Public Trysting Places Proposed To Aid Youth
Milwaukee article reports Aldermanic committee reviewing causes of delinquency receives proposals from a Sheboygan writer Bona Fite for public supervised trysting places where boys and girls may meet. Suggests purge of immoral dens, use schoolhouses for supervised recreation with music dancing waiters and games. Critics include Miss Agnes Fahsel who opposes clubs outside home arguing children should be kept at home.
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Puige
Agnes Fahsel
Misa E. H. Thomas
Social Democratic Party
Wisconsin
Socialist Leader Critiques Settlement Work and Child Clubs
One of the country s leading women Socialists, a former New York settlement worker, argues settlement work produced no results and doubts clubs for children. Judge A C Brazee of the criminal court notes lack of proper instruction misguides youths and says better education could prevent crime. He cites 25 years of cases and urges more educational programs.
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New York
A. C. Brazee
Criminal Court
Woman earns Medal of Honor for daring railroad rescue
Miss Mary Guinan of Middletown New York is the first woman to receive the Medal of Honor under the law enacted two years ago. She saved John Runyon 74 at the Montgomery street Erie crossing by grabbing him as two trains passed, an act witnessed by several onlookers. Carnegie hero fund backers seek a monetary reward for her.
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Carnegie Hero Fund
Montgomery-st
Erie Railroad
Runyon
Mr. Runyon
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