Personal notes from Kansas City visits and local movements
I L Thomas went to Kansas City today. Miss Bessie Dennis is visiting in Kansas City. Miss Harriett Miles visiting Miss Alta Phillips in Charles Lotholtz from Endora today. James Taxler to Ottawa for Sunday. Fred Landon back from Topeka. Miss D Lewis spending Sunday in Topeka. Belle Ramsey to Kansas City this morning. Mr and Mrs A Woods from Baldwin yesterday. H C Metsker to Kansas City this morning. Arthur Cummins arrived from California. W B Durward to Washington Kansas on business. Emma Christenson visiting in Kansas City. Arthur Waldron coming from Kansas City for Sunday. George Porter returning home to Kansas City for Sunday. Fern Shane visiting Kansas City relatives. Hunter Martin here from Kansas City at Phi Gamma Delta. Fritz Wulfekuhler of Leavenworth guest over Sunday. Mrs M Forter to Lansing to visit. George Kuhne and wife back from Kansas City. Bob Oliver from Kansas City to spend Sunday at Phi Gamma Delta. Col John K Rankin of Flat Head Reservation visiting. Mrs Rankin and John K Rankin of Hortin Mont. Mrs W R Stubbs to Topeka for a tea note. Mrs James Craig and Shirley leaving for Ann Arbor. Ray Campbell of Wichita visiting. Campbell clerk in Topeka legislature. Marriage license to Ethel May Allen and Fred C Gerstenberger of Eudora vw. L Douglas shoes sold by Abe Wolfson 637 Mass. St. Lawrence Council K and L of A meet Sun Feb 2 1908 at 1 sharp for Lizzie M Gerhardt funeral. Sarah Potter president Erie Owens secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Thomas
Kansas City
Bessie Dennis
Harriett Miles
Alta Phillips
Charles Lotholtz
Endora
James Taxler
Ottawa
Fred Landon
Topeka
Misa D. Lewis
Belle Ramsey
A. Woods
Baldwin
H.C. Metsker
Arthur Cummins
California
W. B. Durward
Washington
Kansas
Emma Christenson
Arthur Waldron
George Porter
Fern Shane
Hunter Martin
The
Phi Gam House
Fritz Wulfekuhler
Leavenworth
Phi Gamma Delta House
John K., Rankin
Flat Head Reservation
Carl Rankin
John K
Hortin
Mont
Col. Rankin
W. R. Stubbs
Frank Maclennan
James Craig
Shirley
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Ray Campbell
Wichita
Campbell
Fein's for Gas Manties and Fumigation at Ray mond's Drug Store
1,000 cubic feet fumigated thoroughly for 50c. No trouble to use. Light the lamp and close tight the doors and windows and the lamp will do the rest. Vanilla Tea Cream Chocolate Ice Cream Banana Ice Cream Grape Toe at Wiedemann's. Fruit Salad and wafers served at our tables 10e per plate at Wiedemann's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond’s Drug Store
Wiedemann’s
Wiedemann ‘A
Rock Island Depot Fire At Topeka Wreaks 100000 Loss
Fire roared through the Rock Island depot in Topeka from attic flames at 11:30 PM and burned to 3 AM. Loss put at 0100,000 with extensive water damage to surrounding property. Several workers injured including depot staff and a fire chief, while the law library of Attorney M. A. Low was destroyed. Conditions hampered firefighting as ice coated gear and hoses, amid a gale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Rock Island
Paul Walker
M.A. Low
Lloyd Davis
W. H. Ready
Stormont Hospital
A. M. Robinson
Wilmarth
G. M. Brown
Law Library
M. A. Low
Tclcck
Parkhurst-Davis
Chesterfield Hotel
Tulsa
Okla
Mis Garretsouri
Kansas & Texas Freight
Milo Treworgy
Lawrence
Treworgy
Perfowly
Be Merciful to Suffering Street Horses Warns City
A call pleads for humane treatment of horses left in the storm. It condemns unblanketed, underfed, and overdriven animals tied with short reins, urging residents and Lawrence to act to end the cruelty and relieve the animal suffering on city streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Goes After Them. United States seeks to break rail monopolies
United States Attorney Hiram E. Booth filed in Salt Lake City a bill in equity where the United States sues multiple railroads and financial houses including Union Pacific Oregon Short Line Santa Fe Great Northern and J. P. Morgan agents. The suit charges restraint of trade and monopoly under federal law and seeks perpetual injunctions to halt the alleged conspiracy and control of competing lines and associated steamship interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Hiram E. Booth
Salt Lake City
Union Pacific Railroad
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
San Pedro
Jacob Schiff
Otto Kahn
James Stillman
Henry H. Rogers
Henry C. Frick
William A. Clark
Congress
Bank cashier Horace E Neal arrested for forgery in Boise
Horace E Neal, cashier of Capitol State bank, held on forgery charges after the bank failed last week. Authorities say he forged notes totaling at least 50,000 dollars, with early returns from Kansas City and Omaha banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise City
Idaho
Horace E. Neal
Capitol State Bank
Kansas City
Omaha
American battleships anchor off Punta Arenas harbor
The fleet arrived and dropped anchor in the harbor at Punta Arenas, Argentina, this afternoon as February began. The movement marks a show of naval strength with ships from the American fleet anchoring in the South Atlantic port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punta Arenas
Argentina
Murder charge after Centropolis killings shocks Kansas
Mrs Mollie Stewart and Frank Schneck are jailed on murder charges for killing Mrs Frank Schneck and two children on February 3 last year at their Centropolis Kansas home near Ottawa. The case has drawn wide attention in Douglas and Franklin counties as Sheriff Cody and County Attorney Walter Pleasant pursue clues and pursue hog theft connections linked to the suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mollie Stewart
Frank Schneck
Frank Sehneck
Centropolis
Stewart
Kansas
Ottawa
Ed Stewart
Cody
Walter Pleasant
Franklin County
Chris Hunsinger
Bowersock’s Mill
Douglas Franklin
Eli Schneck
Lawrence
Schn
Japanese Preparations Questioned at Diet Meeting
Tokio reports a sectional committee of the Diet debated who targets Japan's military mobilization. The war minister stated the preparations were not aimed at any single nation but against possible Pacific contingencies along Japan’s long coast from Saghalien to Formosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Diet
Todas
Oishi
Pacific
Japan
Saghalien
Formosa
Markets by Wire Grain and Provisions Kansas City Feb 1
Grain and provisions prices listed for delivery months and cash bids at Kansas City. Wheat May and July futures quoted around 8630 to 863c, No 2 red near 96 to 98 cents. Corn May 53 4 to 54 3/4 cents, No 2 white 49 1/4 to 50 1/4, No 2 mixed 48 1/4 to 49 1/4. Rye 78 cents. Timoth y and hay prices shown. butter creamery values listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Bard
Hay—Choion
Timothy
Choice Prairie
Butter—Creamery
Om Packing
Fur prices and trapping season near Lawrence
The trapping season is underway around Lawrence as dealers like F Barner & Co report prices for musk rat four to fifteen cents, skunk twenty to seventy five cents, possum similar to skunk, coon skins twenty five to seventy five cents, minks rarer at seventy five cents to $1.50. Largest daily haul by David McCloud and his two sons yielded seventy five fur pieces. Beaver skins fetch four to ten dollars, black cat skins fifteen to twenty five cents, common house cat four cents. Beaver and mink skins drive fur costs for ladies' furs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
F. Barner & Co
David McCloud
F. Barner
Colorado
Frigid Midwest Weather and Hoch Veto Mark Feb Averages
Feb 1 reports pinpoint record cold across Missouri Colorado Nebraska and Kansas. Temperatures ranged from 3 to 10 below zero with drifting snow disrupting Burlington trains in Nebraska. In Topeka the day opened at 3 below zero. A Kansas legislative recess left only a small parliamentary presence as Governor Hoch vetoed the insurance measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Burlington
Nebraska
Topeka
House
Senate
Hoch
Not Guilty Verdict In Thaw Stanford White Trial
The jury acquitted Harry K Thaw on an insanity plea and ordered commitment to Matteawan Asylum. Thaw’s wife and crowd reacted with relief while Roosevelt was fined for contempt after applauding the verdict. The judge postponed the commitment to allow possible habeas corpus actions and sanity review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lharry K
Pilin
Thaw
Fer
Jerome
Little- Tong
Dowling
Theodore Roosevelt
Justice Dowling
Jky Cornell
Duwhing
Clerk Penny
Gremmels
Wan
Wm. Thaw
Jaine
Matteawan
Els
Lad
Miss Emma Hyde Resigns in Lawrence for Emporia Post
Miss Emma Hyde, longtime Lawrence schools teacher and University graduate, resigns after nine years at Jula High school to accept a similar post in Emporia. Miss May Landis of Lawrence, previously teaching in Olathe, takes the position Hyde leaves vacant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Hyde
Lawrence
University
Jula High School
Emporia
May Landis
Olathe
Hyde
Rural delivery stamps urged to curb loose coins
Postmaster Hill urges rural delivery patrons to supply stamps in advance and keep on hand. He notes that placing loose coins in mail boxes to pay for letters delays rural carriers and hampers service. Detachable wooden explosive coins are mentioned as an unsafe suggestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
Fractured OCR Brief Mentions Thaw Transfer
A readable fragment notes a husband and a smile as Thaw is to be taken to Matteawan later this afternoon. The shrunken text provides only sparse action and names, with no clear date or full context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matteawan
Real estate and help wanted ads from the Journal
Classified notices list sales positions and commissions with Hermingsen Cigar Co. Toledo availability, rents for furnished rooms on the west side, and several house for sale listings on Tenn and Ky streets near the university and business districts, with prices ranging from 3100 to 4500, plus a lost horseshoe near pin and Mentholia medicine ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenn. Street
University
East Front
Ky. Street
THE
Hosford Investment CO
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ethel May Allen
Fred C. Gerstenberger
Eudora
Vw. L. Douglas
Abe Wolfson
Mass. Street
Lawrence Council
K. and
L. of
Lizzie M. Gerhardt
Sarah Potter
Erie Owens
Edison Fphonographs
Straffon’ '3 Drug
Burns
Low
Righ
Columbus
Dennis
Sullivan
Trish Astor
Fleet
Frank| Schneck
Mra. Schneck
Schneck
Court House
Douglas County
Alfred G. Day
Lecomp
George L. Davia
Bartlett P. Day
J. B. Wilson
Lecompton
Kan- Sab
Bartlett B. Day
George W. Brown
I+ K
A J.N. Roberts
Hugh Blair
Lane Place
Frederick A. Derby
Lawrence Kansas
James L. Canavan
Henry ‘Sims
F. Hall
Spectal Jtors
Salvation Army
Nickle Theater
Wyandotte Street
Jennie Bert
Hanisville
Mabel Porter
Nina Graves
Peter Rooney
Charles Johnson
George Nagasenau
Claude Polver
Bell
M. W. Stoner
Busess College
Owen Connose
John Geanenni
Sexa Hotel
Bert
Mrs. Bert
Willis Wood
St. Joseph
Quality Hill
Porter Drug Co
Neodesha
New York
Brooklyn
Storm
Missouri
Denver
Hooh
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Matteawan Asylum
Reville's Corner
Bell Tel
F. A.A
Watkins National Bank
Watkins
Cal Tum
C. H. PE
Tate 'T. Cashier
Deposita
W. R Stunts
Spalding
Luther Hnerin
T. J. Sweeney
Secon Badsky
Hiker
Merchants National
S. Enor
G. J. Maniey
B March
Eben Baldwin
Monroe
W.F. March
M. Newmark
A. Marks
Merchant National Bank Building
Wrencb
KANE
Jaedickes
FM. Perkins
Atlas Building & Loan Association
Woodward & Co
Hermingsen Cigar Co
Toledo
Jour_nal
Fraffon
E. G. Laxman & Co
F. A. Ewing
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