The Journal and Its Century of Kansas Newsreach
The Lawrence Journal claims leadership as the largest Kansas newspaper in 1902, publishing daily and weekly editions with full Associated Press reports and a county mail list. It notes Sunday-free daily and Saturday weekly issues, plus a county delivery network and a long history dating to 1867. It also reports editorials on national and local politics, law, and social issues, including mining, transportation, and education debates across Kansas towns.
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Stbs Journal
Lawrence Espublican
State Journal
Herald of Freedom
Lawrence Trivage
Haine
Jourral
Terrtory
Lawrence
Jovnsac
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Kansas
Kansas Politicians React To March Edits And International News
The item references Kansas congressmen and local figures debating votes and measures in the Senate and on irrigation rights, alongside broader notes about German Christian Scientists and a royal invitation in New York. It also mentions a St Louis railroad tobacco ban for staff, and a flurry of scattered quotes and caricatured commentary on current events.
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Col M.M. Murdock
Kansas
Colorado
Supreme Court
Industrial Report Condemns Restraint of Trade Practices
Washington dispatch outlines second part of the industrial commission report from 1900. It urges full disclosure by promoters of corporations, annual audited reports for large trusts, and enforcement of anti trust laws. It calls for federal action to prohibit price cutting to ruin competition and for state legislation to curb over capitalisation and enforce penalties.
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Washington
Industrial Commission
Congress
Ag Ulore
Commission
United States
Ford
Mike
Missiehuserts
Anu
Evans
Teer
Haseley
Indian Appropriations Hearings and Creek Nation Funds
Washington reports that a committee has been tasked to report to the house on annual Creek nation income of 9800 dollars with five percent payable to Indians. An 830,000 appropriation was reduced to 9000 for Creek Nation benefit, with riders affecting other tribes. Nearby at Cleveland a streetcar crash injured five, police noting several men in danger.
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Washington
Salt Rheum Then Chronic Skin Disease Warns Readers
Ancient health column describes salt rheum as a chronic risk that may cover the body with inflamed itchy patches and cause great suffering. It urges early treatment and cleansing the humors, citing Mrs Ida Ward of Core Point Maryland who reports rapid relief after Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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Mre
Ida BE
Ward Core Point
Hood
Sarasperille
Pier Fire Damages New York Waterfront Killings and Losses
A February fire at a New York pier of the Lehieh Vathlena Company caused about 250000 in damage including shipping. The blaze started near the pier head as Joseph Panarie and his wife lived in a nearby cabin. The ship Mildeen and other vessels were threatened as the building burned. The fire department fought hard but the pier sustained extensive damage and several smaller structures nearby were affected. The origin and full consequences remained unclear while many goods were destroyed.
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New York
Lehieh Vathlena Company
Stesn Ead
Dale
Stoseph Panarie
Sim
Pininie
Reek
Washington
Amd
Meath
Wandus City
John Smith
Twenty-eighth Street
Jackson Avenue
The Schley Case Dispatches and Navy Movements Review
Washington reports detail attempts to read the president's mind on Schley and Torres, noting Admiral Schley’s position and naval movements. The dispatch describes transmissions, ship sailings in May, and examinations by bank officials and observers, with mentions of London and St. Louis routes and various transport schedules.
Wartime woes and curious cures mix in strange report
A jumble of notes recounts a purported remedy for indigestion and other ailments, then shifts to a theft where the Lemon Bank building vaults were looted of gold bonds and stock certificates. A deadly boiler explosion in Lima, Ohio kills Fireman Floyd Brown and fatally wounds Engineer Edward Casey, followed by a six day go as you please race in New York with $8,000 prize and a note on Dr Rost cultivating cancer in guinea pigs. The Grpheart theater in Chicago suffered Fire damage estimated at $50,000 with two scrub women missing.
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Beleblone
Aeworth
Tin
Lemon Banking Company
Georgia
Lima
Lake Erie & Western Railroad
St. Marys
Floyd Brown
Edward Casey
Fremont
Siz
New York
Madison Square Garden
Grpheart
Chicago
Jennie
el Wie Thepihisers
Berlin
Onres
Monaren
Thomas
Fire at Empire Hotel injures eight. many killed in St Louis
A disastrous fire at the Empire hotel on Olive Street in St Louis yesterday caused eight injuries and many deaths. The blaze trapped guests and workers, delaying alarms and creating a furnace in the front of the building before it was controlled. The report lists multiple deceased and describes the chaotic city hospital intake and ongoing recovery efforts.
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St. Louis
Empire
Ton Ad Viet Olive Street
Meiss
Baihling
Contenta
Morris Yall
Tints
Vall
Vlarka
GF. Wenillex
Eure Penter
S. T. Telegraph Eqiersator
Warner Hoistings Enerineer
AL J. Alen
Serdalia
Win
Stone Mason
Amin Min
Haves
Pgliliy
Elorbinay
Republican delegate convention planned for Fort Scott Kansas
A Republican delegate convention will be held in Fort Scott Kansas on Tuesday March 11 1992 at 7 PM to nominate a candidate for Congress from Kansas second district. Delegates are apportioned at one for every 253 votes or major fraction thereof cast for Congressman J D Bowersock in 1920. Counties receive specified delegate totals and county representatives must set the time and manner for selecting delegates, per the second district congressional committee.
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Fort Scott
Kansas
J D Bowersock
Towit
Scott's Emulsion Promises Help for All Ages in Sight
A crowded street scene highlights varied needs from a white haired elder with weak digestion to a pale girl with thin blood and a consumptive young man. The ad asserts Scott's Emulsion will warm, feed, strengthen stomachs, restore color, soothe lungs, and help children grow and be happy.
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Scott
Scagy
The Coming Woman Suffrage Caner Washington Bel 10
The Coming Woman Suffrage Caner reports the Washington scene with suffrage leaders arriving and addressing a crowd about the movement. Anticipated speeches include Anthony who brings decades of work and a fourth volume of suffrage history. The event features elderly pioneers, highlighting a notable moment in the long campaign for voting rights.
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Washington
Bel
Ventoweniia
Snean Ji
Anthony
National American Women's Suffrage Association
Tvo
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