A Piano Contest to Select Most Popular Lady in Anderson County
A&P announces a free piano contest in Garnett to award one of the finest pianos. Each dollar paid on subscription advertising or job work counts as 100 votes. They seek a candidate in every township and invite responses from patrons across the county.
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Anderson County
Garnett
Beef Trust Exposed in West Market Price Collusion
Hearst’s Chicago American reports a thorough investigation into the beef trust, detailing a centralized poultry and egg department system across Armour Swift and Morris. It claims secret price lists, universal price parity, and shared profits at farmers’ expense, with Armour’s department alone yielding 3,000,000 dollars in profits last year.
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Hearst
Chicago American
Beef Trust
Central West
Department of Commerce and Labor
Swift, Armour and Morris
Armour Swift
Morris
Armour
Swift
Armonts
Armont's
Beer Trust
Morris, Swift
Chicago
Not gold but only man makes nations strong
Poem ponders what builds a nation’s strength beyond swords and pride. It laments fallen empires and declares that true greatness comes from people who endure for truth and honor, standing fast and suffering long.
Wild oats plea and modern folly in McDill's musings
JO McDILL'S MUSINGS attacks the wild oats plea as a Devil's argument and calls for self restraint and high ideals. He cites George Meredith and The Ordeal of Richard Peversel to argue that the sins of fathers are magnified in sons and laments greed and boodling in public life.
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Philosphy
George Meredith
Richard Pevesel
Councilmen
Congress
The Twin Devils of Society Versus a Wise People
An editorial argues that greed corruption and drinking ruin a civilized people. It condemns boodling drunkenness and sexual vice as inherited dangers and urges society to protect unborn children by barring moral lepers from propagating disease and depravity.
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Hades
Hell
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West
William Ralph Emerson
JO McDill
Aaron Burr
Ndertaking
Vaughn
Residence