Daniels Proposes Practical Flood Solution From 1898 Records
Senator Burton is urged to discuss flood and drought relief with no data, while General Percy Daniels of Girard, ex lieutenant governor, published a plain plan in the Kansas City Times. The full details appeared in the Congressional Record of July 7, 1898, and Daniels is credited with originating the Pop scheme.
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Burton
Kansas
National Irrigation Congress
Percy Daniels
Girard
Kansas City Times
Times
Congressional Record
Daniels
Special Session In Kansas Offers No Aid For Bridges
The Kansas legislature meets in special session to address rebuilding and repairing bridges but is expected to take no action. Victims who lost everything may receive no assistance. Some “wise men” claim public funds for this would be unconstitutional. Governor Bailey does not urge an appropriation. For real sufferers, the session may be pointless.
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Kansas
Bailey
Grover Cleveland Denies 1904 Presidential Bid
A dispatch claimed Grover Cleveland would not seek the 1904 presidency but he quickly denounced the report as a misquote. Democrats opposing the Cleveland-Hill-German faction in the next convention face a wake‑up in 1904.
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Grover Cleveland
Grover
Global steel trust talks alarm Europe steel firms
The United States leads a plan to form a world steel trust by negotiating with major European manufacturers. The aim is to raise steel prices worldwide, described as a possible socialist education by critics.
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Big Steel Trust
United States
Europe
Gold Democrats Win Out At Town Convention
Town Democrats held their state convention amid a lively scrap. The gold crowd prevailed after the resolutions committee voted 7 to 4 against endorsing the Kansas City platform.
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Resolutions Committee
Kansas City
Fusion in Germany and the American party realignment
A vintage editorial compares Germany's party fusion to anticipated U S realignment. It argues the old German parties unite to defeat socialists and predicts a similar fusion among American parties in the future, urging readers to watch developments.
Wealth and privilege in Topeka jail greet Dewey and two cowboys
The Berry family killers, Cramncry Dewey and two companions, are confined in Topeka jail in comfort, with beds and visitors from society, bouquets sent to Dewey. The author argues wealth shields crime from poverty’s harsh fate, noting the contrast with a poor thief who would be jailed and ignored.
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Cramncry Dewey
Berry
Kansas
Topeka
Dewey
Cloud burst in Servia kills forty two in a day
A cloud burst at Knyajevatz Servia Monday killed forty two people. A heavy hail storm hit northern Missouri Sunday night destroying grain and fruit. A large glass factory Summitville near Mun cie Ind was destroyed by fire Monday morn ing. Toss $150000. Philip H. Adair arrested after hugging five society women on a Kansas City street Monday. Sanford Northrop a St Louis businessman shot himself Sunday. Financial troubles caused the death by own action. Farther details from around the world include drownings in San Francisco and a temple fire in Ping Ta China with 150 lives lost.
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Knyajevatz
Servia
Missouri
Summitville
Muncie
Ind
Philip H. Adair
Kansas City
Sanford Northrop
St. Louis
Sunday
San Francisco
Priscilla
Joseph Bardsley
Brooklyn
Gertrude Smith
China
Kwangsi
Lowell
Mass
Budapest
Constantinople
Bristow Named by Ledger as Roosevelts Running Mate
The Philadelphia Public Ledger says Josurn L. Barstow as fourth assistant postmaster general has a strong record and would make good political sense as Roosevelt's vice president pick.
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Josurn L. Barstow
Philadelphia Public Ledger
the Ledger
Bristow
Roosevelt
English Garden City and Old Age Pensions in Cosmopolitan
Mrs Annie L Diggs writes on an English Garden City and Edward Everett Hale discusses Old Age Pensions in the June Cosmopolitan. The issue praises both articles as worth a year’s subscription to the magazine.
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Annie L. Diggs
Edward Everett Hale
Wreck on Frisco Road Near Cherryvale Kills Engineer
A Wednesday morning wreck on the Frisco road near Cherryvale left the engineer dead and injured the fireman. Two coal cars escaped yards at Cherryvale and crashed into the east bound passenger train, causing the fatal and injurious collision.
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Missouri Pacific
Cole's Junction
Jefferson City
Frisco Road
Cherryvale
Mark Hanna Declines Roosevelt Vice Presidential Offer
Mark Hanna is mentioned as a potential running mate for Roosevelt but states he would not serve as vice president and would decline the nomination if offered.
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Mark Hanna
Roosevelt
Fat at the Red Light best in town
A brief note proclaims a local eatery known as Fat at the Red Light as the town’s best place in a casual caption. No further details on location or dates are provided.
We do not believe in anarchic economy in The Vanguard
Herbert Caisson writes that they reject industrial anarchy and seek a just orderly economy through collective ownership and practical, systematic methods. He argues against confiscation, paternalism, and loss of property rights while urging workers to resist parasitism and preserve individualism and family stability.
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Herbert Caisson
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Shanghai
Ping Ta
Great Northern Railway
Spokane
Wash
Berlin
Glowitz
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Iantence
Alfred Mathew
Theodore Barber
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