War talk and reform calls in Kansas agrarian press
The Garnett KS issue reprints Eugene Ware’s Topeka flag raising speech praising war and attacking socialism and anarchy. It condemns money power political manipulation, argues for a new party for farmers, and critiques Redeemer governance, tax sales in Cloud County, and Kansas political factions advocating free coinage and silver.
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Topeka
Eugene Ware
United States
Ware
Webster
King of shreds and patches farmer tale in verse
A long poem recounts the farmer turned king of shreds and patches his life from thriving rural days to debt and worry as rains fall and crops fail, ending with a plea for honest independence and fair treatment by moneylenders. Also included are clipped 19th century social notes on marriage rates among college women and reflections from Women's Tribune and Halstead on women and modern society.
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Witt
Hairsy Waren
A JUST TRIBUTE TO A GOOD MAN
A tribute praising John M St Johns administration as governor. The piece notes vast public spending on buildings with no misappropriation charges and a record of progress, while criticizing reformers and citing political shifts in Kansas. It mentions White police board changes and a sixty thousand dollar remodeling, plus election dynamics in Franklin county and nationwide party moves.
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Bro. T
Nerina
The
Eagle
Pal
Redeemers
Jobusii
Matarial
Party Connell
Trigg
Pandora’s Box
Evita
Rey
John M St. John
Kansas
Gazette
St. John’s
Kansas City
Fragmented Poem Fragment on Inheritance and Freedom
Fragmentary public domain verse fragment laments the right of a free soul to defy unjust inheritance norms. It references liberty, biblical imagery, and social duties, with scattered archaic spellings and garbled lines. The piece evokes nationhood and moral accountability through disrupted rhetoric and interrupted cadence.
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Garnett
Privakx
Orange Judd
Cloud County
Kansas Notes
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Cleal County
Anderson County
Topeka Mall
Breeve
Eeys
Kansan
Ghetty
P. P.farge
Congress
House
Dent
Bany” Leiwrow
Overnac
Lina Jrutchese
Ottawa Herald
Will
Ik Uetawa
Morill
Ueralit
Dorothy's Department
the King OF
Huck
Jamestown
Plymouth Rock
Ellen Spencer Murry
John Adams
Abraham Lincoln
Abigail Adams
General Howe
Howe
Philadelphia
Woman’s Tribune
Halstead! Independent
Civic Review
Los Angeles
Cal
Franklin County
GG. Wharton
Ottawa
Teme
Hlack
Tom Watson
Trath
Grergia
Watson
Tre Ogden
Cutab
Mise Coomela Vanderbilt
Duke of Marlborough
Dowensne Sv
Joux
Iowa
Indlanarolis
Song OF
Frre
Pepe Princ ‘Ciples
Abe
Daniel Webater
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Croinipel
Atlene
Fu Leiter
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