Local Attorneys and Offices Listed in Batten MEads Directory
A fragmented directory segment lists multiple law firms and offices in Batkens MEANS and nearby districts. Names include Snell, Lawrence National Bank area attorneys, Norton, Perkins, Baner and Son Abstracts, and physician Keith. Entries mention office locations, building names, and general services with partial contact hints.
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Tis Mabsach Dpets
Batkens Means
Opera
George Lu Dayie
Lawrence National
Hank Muliciay
Lew
Nevieun
Roosevelt Presses Peace Talks as Russia Visit Looms
President Roosevelt intensifies efforts to salvage the Portsmouth peace conference. Baron Rosen travels to Oyster Bay to confer, while Russia and Japan press toward concessions on indemnity and Sakhalin. Paris, London, and Tokyo weigh responses as diplomats seek a negotiated end to the crisis.
Russian ambassador Bar on to visit Oyster Bay
Portsmouth N H Aug 19 Bar on Rosen the Russian ambassador who had been in Portsmouth this morning started for Oyster Bay and was expected to confer with the president during the afternoon today.
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Portsmouth
N.H
Conditions Are Better Trade Prospects Across Cities
Dispatches show improving trade and industry with brighter prospects boosting confidence across major markets. Philadelphia manufacturing remains active, Baltimore outside buyers rise, and Nashville Cincinnati Atlanta St Louis and Chicago report favorable conditions and improving collections. Clearing houses indicate higher weekly business, with 2 217 283 in fourteen cities and fewer failures than last year or prior weeks.
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New York
Aus
Moston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Baltimore
Nashville
Cincinnati
Atlanta
St. Louis
Kansas City
Indianapolis
Chicago
United States
Canada
Inmate counts from State Board of Control figures
The 1920s notice lists inmate totals across state facilities. Inmates at Topeka Reform School, Minded Youth at Winfield, Osawatomie State Hospital, Parsons State Hospital, and Topeka State Hospital are given, with summer and winter variations. The report notes two inmates in state charitable institutions and a rise in winter totals for Kansas City and nearby facilities.
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Topeka
Aux
Boards of
Controc
Charitilie
Deut and Dumb Asylum
Ulathe
Tie School For
Kansas City
Retorm Sehool
Topuka
DIED IN HIS CELL AS DEATH ROW MAN COMMITS SUICIDE
Lam bert Niehaus, sentenced to be hanged next Monday for killing his brother in law, killed himself in his city jail cell by stabbing abdomen with a pen knife. Guards found him dead after dawn rounds as they moved to the next cell of Henry Treusneck, who faces execution the same day.
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St. Louis
Lambert Niehaus
gul+ elde
Dle
Jafier Dawson
Niehaus
Automobile Run Wild at Kenilworth Park Race
West Jay of Cleveland likely fatally injured in a three quarters of the fourth mile at Kenilworth Park. His car crashed through a fence into a fifteen foot embankment into a pond of water. Cause unknown but believed to be dust blindness. He was driving about a mile a minute when the accident occurred.
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Butta
West Jay
Cleveland
Kenilworth Park
Jay
Japanese Ready for General Advance, Says Army
Pekiy China Aug 19 The Japanese army has fully prepared for a general advance and will likely engage with its full strength as soon as the country dries. The army remains in peak condition, ready to move if Peace Hezenations fall.
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Pekiy
China
Autocracy Proclamation Reveals Russian Parliament Mechanics
St Petersburg Aug 19 The document constituting a Russian parliament shows features of a constitutional government with safeguards against autocratic power. Members are elected for five years, but paragraph 3 allows dissolution by the emperor before term end, triggering elections by imperial ukase.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Bold Chicago Robbery in Broad Daylight
In Chicago Illinois two men robbed M H G Hoard assistant treasurer of the Press and Sign company of 1270 from him as he carried the payroll from the bank to the police. Hoard was accosted by two well dressed men one flashed a revolver and the other struck him, leaving Hoard injured on the ground.
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Chicago
Ills
H. G. Hoard
Thet Press and Sign Company
Olice
Heard
Half breeds fear steam danger on Alaska steamer
Two half breed sons of Henry Detrich, agent for Alaska Commercial at Hethel, and four natives perished after leaping from a small steamboat on the Kuskokwim river. Inexperienced aboard, they were driven to jump by the safety valve steam, fearing an explosion in the swift current.
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Seattle
Wast
Aug. l
Henry Detrich
Alaska Commercial Company
Hethel
Kuskokwit River
Thei
Kuskok
Telegraphers Strike Called Off at Wilfase Night
The Great Northern telegraphers vote to return to work after a close meeting. Northern Pacific telegraphers weigh continuation of the strike with late guidance still undecided. Official notice: strike declared off at 10 oclock today by President H. S. Perham.
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St. Paul
Aus
Great Northern
Lve
Northern Pacific
EH. 8
Perham Howeer
Passenger Hurt in Rock Island Wreck Near South McAlester
A Chicago Rock Island and Pacific train wrecked near South McAlester on August 19 due to a misplaced switch. Four passengers were seriously injured and several others suffered injuries. Mail clerks W. J. Maloey and Albert Liskey were dangerously hurt. News from Chicago reports widespread construction shutdowns on the Union tunnels project ordered by Mayor Donn to protect office buildings and streets. In Pueblo, Frank Ward, foreman at the steel works yard, caused the death of his 16 year old daughter Frances by forcing poison and then died by suicide.
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South McAlester
W. T
Chicago
Ineis Tunnel Company
Donn
Poblo
Colo
Frank Ward
Pueblo
Frances
Ward
Wichita agitator mobbed at Kansas gathering
Mrs Myra McHenry of Wichita a Carrie Nation supporter attacked a street audience in Natchison injuring H W Cox and drawing volleys of eggs from women supporters. She fled after jeers and bullets, following visits to Grand Army of the Republic events and campaigns against rumors.
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Natchinson
Kans
Myra McHenry
Wichita
Carrie Nation
Plevna
Sir Henry
Burned to death in Kansas gasoline blast
Miss Winnie Gatey of Thorton Kansas, aged years, was buried to death in a gasoline explosion about 7 o clock last night. Neighbors rushed to the house upon hearing her screams and found her insensible with her clothing in flames. She kept house for her widowed father who was alone at the time of the accident.
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Wichita
Kang
P A. Fie
Thorton
Kans
Miss Winnie Gatey
Nelwivars
Miss Gates
German ambassador’s brother shoots woman poacher by mistake
Aug 19 in New Catteraleben Count von der Sculuuburg’s preserves sees baron Sternberg shoot a woman poacher at midnight. The woman dies. Sternberg surrenders and is granted bail. In St Louis Aug 10 a rescue attempt ends tragically as Miss Lyella McMullen drowns and Frederick Churchill dies after wading to safety.
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Rerilh
Huron Speck von Sternberg
Washington
Count von der Sculuuburg
New Catteraleben
Baron Sternberg
St .Louis
Frederickhurchill
Lyella McMullen
Festus
Churchill
Lands Reserved Washington withdrawal for irrigation project
The Interior Secretary orders withdrawal from entry of 160000 acres in the LaGrande Oregon land district due to the Amarius Irrigation project. Memphis notes three African American murderers were hanged here for killing women of their own race.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
LaGrande, Ore, Land
Memphis
James Noj'! Beet
John Champion
General Bone
Portland Hotel Fire Claims Two Dead In Fortland
A blaze at the State Room inn near the exposition grounds in Fortland Oregon today destroyed the hotel. Two unknown men perished, while four women and two men suffered injuries. Police and fire crews fought the flames through the day.
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Fortland
Ore
Exposition Grounds
Chicago murder suspect Manshag still unidentified
Did Not Know the Man reports Chicago authorities have failed to identify George W. Manshag, the man sought in the Bates murder, leaving investigators with no new leads at this time. The note appears alongside an advertisement for Wiedemann's brown bread ice cream.
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Pismouth
Mass
Chicago
George W. Manshag
Bates
Railroads Face Contempt Over Unlawful Rebates
Contempt filings issued against Chicago and Alton, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, Santa Fe, and others alleging rebates violating interstate commerce rules. Suit seeks citation for contempt. hearings set for September 18 before U S District Judge John F. Philips. Names tied to International Harvester interests and pretended joint tariffs are cited in the charges.
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Kansas City
John F. Philips
United States District Court
Chicago & Alton
Chicago
Hurlington &Quincey
Missouri Pacific
Rock Island & Pacific
Atchison Topeka Santa Fe
Chicano & Alton
International Harvester Company
Leerfox Harvester Company
McCormick Harvester Company
Pan Harvester Company
South Chicago Furnace Company
Indois Northern Railroad Company
Chicago & Alten
Alta Northern Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri River
Aiton
Hurlington Railroad
Alton
Missouri Pacffc
Rock Island
Santana
Fhutehilson
Kansas
Sin Eelkaden
Ther
Salt c Campany
Hyattt Company
A. S. van Valkenburg
United States
Western District of
Missouri
Purdy
Yellow Fever Update From New Orleans Campaign
New Orleans reports new yellow fever cases up to noon and deaths today as of last evening. Health officials, led by Beverly Warner, say the outbreak is under control and the danger of a serious epidemic is diminishing, though not entirely gone.
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New Orleans
Beverly Warner
River Running Up Stream Amid Burst Floods Near Independence
A cloud burst in Drum Creek Valley northeast of Independence last night sent the Veretuin River streaming upstream, flooding the chamber and backing the river. In Topeka officials weigh appointments after Judge Cunningham’s death, while Lyman Kallopy announces for the state supreme bench and Judge Graves is viewed as a likely nominee. In New York, jealousy cited as motive as Mrs Beatrice Young fatally wounds Mrs Catherine Morgan at the Hotel Imperial, causing panic and hotel diners to flee.
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Independence, Kans
Aus
Drum
Creek Valley
Veretuin
Topeka
Xovernor
Cunningham
Supreme Court
Boulder
Col
Emporia
Kang
New York
N. Y
Aug. l
Baatrice Young
Wm. Co
Dynamiters injure and threaten Saratoga area
An explosion in two Saratoga sections damaged buildings and caused alarm. Crude notes warning readers appeared later in local corridors, urging caution as authorities investigated the dynamite attacks and sought those responsible.
Receiver Appointed for Denver Savings Bank
Depositors requested a receiver for the Denver Savings bank. The institution with about 4,000 depositors held roughly 1.4 million dollars in savings, and had lent 350,000 to Leonard B. Imboden and associates on securities of doubtful value. A run on August 3 precipitated the action.
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Denver, Coo
Aug. I
Denver Savings Bank
Leonard B. Imboden
Unusted Shates hotel stakes result at Saratoga
In the 310000 race over six furlongs at Saratoga, Hurgomatser won at 3 to 1, Pegasus finished second, Irmon Dale third. Time recorded 1 13 46.
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Saratoga
Aus
Hurgomatser
Land
Pegasus
Irmondale
Bicycle Fad Mirrors English Revival of Cycling
English factories burn day and night to churn out cycle machines while Americans chase automobiles. The craze for cars drives people to mortgage homes for new vehicles, while the public’s preference leans toward mechanical power over personal exercise.
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England
Wisconsin Women Vote For School Bonds In Madison
In Madison Wisconsin women participated in an election where bonds for a new high school were proposed. Men opposed bonds by 13 percent, but women supported by a 42 to 1 margin, yielding an overall 244 vote majority. Opponents will challenge, claiming women cannot vote on bond issues though they may on school board members.
Richest People and Objects Parade in New York History
The piece lists the richest baby John Nicholas Bown the richest bachelor James Henry Smith the richest boy William Ziegler Jr the richest spinster Miss Stickney and the richest widow and others in New York within a broad claim. It notes P M Hervey and Company buying old tags and scrap iron at about 60 cents per hundred with office at 330 Massachusetts Street and prompt phone service. It also mentions a ten year old boy scaling the Wetterhorn in Switzerland on the last day of May.
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New York
John Nicholas Bown
James Henry Smith
William Ziegler,Jr
Miss Stickney
Rockefeller
P.M. Hervey & Company
Masaschusetts Street
Switzerland
China Will Stop Boycott If Exclusion Pact Talks Pause
Aug 19 Pekin reports the American government has told China negotiations for a new convention to discuss the Chinese exclusion act will halt until the anti American boycott ends. China will be held responsible for losses caused by the boycott and will take energetic steps to curb unlawful activities but cannot stop the boycott.
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Pekin
China
iChina
Telegraph Brevities Cover Nevada and Kansas Appointments
Last night in Nevada Missouri John C McKinley spoke to veterans at the Interstate Grand Army reunion. In Kansas the US National Bank of Denver was approved as reserve agent for First National Bank of Hoxie. New postmasters named in Indian Territory including Crowder district 12 George L Lonsbury and Owl district 15 Lafayette P Barnhill. Rural mail routes in Kansas appoint Marvin route 2 Roy Lorimer carrier Loy Lorimer substitute Stockton route 3 James Hubbard carrier Charles C Hubbard substitute.
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Hutchinson
Hernard Kelly
John C. McKinley
Kansas
C. M. Smith
Owl
Lafayette P. Barnhill
N. L. Barnhill
Karses Navel
Marvin
Roy. E.lorimer
Loy Lorimer
Stockton
James Hubbard
Charles C. Hubbard
Troops Ordered on Constantinople and Kansas City Convention
Aug. 19 dispatches report three more battalions of Redifs called to service in Macedonia amid revolutionary band activities. In Portland Kansas City was chosen unanimously by the Trans Misssissippi Commercial Congress as the convention site, though the text is incomplete.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Macedonia
Portland
Ore
Kansas City
Trans
Emperor of Japan to receive British decoration, Prince of Wales to carry it
The shah of Persia has been the sole Oriental ruler to receive the Order of the Garter. Soon the emperor of Japan is expected to be honored. The Prince and Princess of Wales plan to sail to Japan aboard a warship bearing the insignia. A recent volunteer operation in Scotland halted a supposed battle after partial action.
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Persia
Japan
Great Britain
Prince
Princess of Wales
India
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Jegrant Balding
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Lawiente
Raven
AML
Teorg
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Musk
Suarme
Hublet
Cella
Srsorwice
Francisco & Sons
Gand Mackingz Lawhence
St. i Seley Deme
Alfred Whitman
Boccessur Tsi & Whitman
Weal Estate. Loans
Gillham Blacksmith
Shee Figsee
Fabber Pads
Vermont Strea
A. L.selig’s
Insurance Agency
Belletie
Ssrance
Medean
Lawrence Pantatorium
West Warren Btrest
Talsee
Roosevelt
Washinton
Fussain
Witte
Srussia
Sakhalin
Tokio
France
Oyster Bay
Jill
Baron Kaneke
Hoston
Dently
State Board of Control
Posse
Virginia Young Man
Huntington
W. Way
William Elis
Logan
Robert Murphy
Sherif
Hero
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Murphy
Ina Rock
Derman Baron
Wiedemann’s
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Juage County
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Harley Vee
Mita
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Frack
ASW
Artmasitong
Elale Armatrong Philpowas
Livya
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Jo. Watuin
Lawrence Rational Bank
HL. Moore
F. A. Batley
Bartolites
J-H.glathart
A. Benley
Williace
Bert
W.e.atnbba
J.D. Bowersock
C. Bowersuca
Paul K. Brouss
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L. Moory
B. Henson
Aus't Cashion
Safety Depots
Horasee
Strean
Graves
Dynamiters St Work
Saratowa
N.Y
Reading Hutal
J. B. Watkin
Vics Frenidens
O. A. Rite J.haase
Mao
GH Tucker
Madlow
Yason
H.tackarana
B. Watiina
Woetinea
al World
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Curtis
Thy
Ang
Kansan Ulty
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Wga
Onioayo
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Lawrench
Kindy
Mar Street
Fort al
F. D. Brooks
Tod City
Myers Md
Denver
Madison, Wis
Scogland
Bafors
Wiedemano
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