This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1902
Page
5
The First State Bank of Garnett Kansas offers general banking services with equal attentive care for all customers, small or large, promising thorough attention to every rental or business matter.
The community page records many residents traveling to Topeka, Ottawa, and Kansas City for business and presbytery. Others report social visits, family arrivals, and ongoing local projects. Local trades expand as George DeWolf buys McAfee’s wood shop to shift to furniture making. Go to the Red Light for ice cream.
Local notes recount visits and travels in Allen county and nearby areas. Residents, including Enid Rontzong and Turner Smith family, are listed with frequent gatherings, illnesses, and community events. Funeral for Roy Mathews, closing exercises at Lane school, and a Lone Elm social fundraiser are noted with modest details and outcomes.
Letter list names residents including Cora Bartels and J. M. Hicks. Me. Jackson bought Holloway farm in Spring Branch district and is revamping the place. Thos. Roberts’s house and contents were destroyed by fire last evening. Elmer Powell visited Paola before joining Wallace's circus. Capt. L. D. Dobbs seeks 100 sugar maples and fruit trees in exchange for trees suitable for grafting.
County records list allowances for a variety of expenses including jail, pauper, poor farm, and postage. Witness fee inquiries cover multiple named individuals and ongoing cases, with notes indicating continuation next week.
Local brief listing names of officials jurors and trustees with scattered notices of meetings. Mentions include Geo Washburn plans and various names like Devoannier Moore Decannier Darall Glia Calvert Vertated trustee meetings and J & Calvert. Also records purchases, coal hires, and town upkeep related to county paupers and city hall materials.
Travel specials list several round trips with limited return dates. Kansas City from Santa Fe and Springfield Missouri, San Francisco, and Chicago routes show specific sale dates, return limits, and round trip fares. Also notes St Paul and Colorado trips with varied dates and pricing.
James Vick manager of David Landreth’s mail order dept introduces a home propagation plan for bedding plants. Seeds sown in spring in hotbeds or window boxes yield midsummer blooms. seeds priced 25 cents per dozen or 1.50 per 100. Catalog offer includes 10 percent off with paper mention.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.