Snow and legal notices fill Kansas and Britain reports
Telegraphic items from February 23 describe a major snow storm in central Kansas with four inches on the ground and drifting conditions, plus weather indications across Missouri valley and Wichita. Reports also detail fines for liquor sales by druggists in Eureka and a long Kansas penitentiary inquiry with senate and house actions on related bills and reforms.
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Wasnixotox
D.C
Missouri Valley
Jcexcrios City
Eureka
Kas
B. K. Butterfield
W. T.bush
C. B. Stuckey
Senate
Torexa
Barker
National Historical Department
The
State University and Heat and Dumb Asylum
Cube. Toren
Samuel Lappin
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House
Sedgwick County
Sedgwick
Vaode
Committee of the
Board of Survey
Lloyd
Kellogg
Horror of That Christmas Night in the Ruined City
A Ninth Cuirassier officer recalls the night Santa Christmas terror as two shocks topple rooms killing servants and injuring his wife. He crawls through debris, salvages children, and hears harrowing stories of loss under cliffside homes and fallen boulders. the city remains shrouded in odor and fear.
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Alhams Baths
Albania
Goil
Cwdle
Modest Domestic Servant Ad With Demands
Mrs Sam Smart advertises for a colored servant offering fifteen dollars a month in advance and a furnished room with carpet and stove. She grants strict terms including church attendance and recovery evenings during revivals while detailing a lavish supper and daily meals as conditions. The exchange satirizes class rigidity and self-serving hospitality in a southern urban setting.
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Sam Smart
Thia
Washington
Ats
Thomes A. Doyle
Kansas City Live Stock Market Report February 23 1885
Rawlins City market notes show cattle receipts at 3,000 with steady demand and values from 4.50 to 6.00 for various grade steers. Hogs receipts near 4,639 with prices around 4.50 to 4.70 for light weights. Sheep receipts sparse and market quiet. Chicago reports mixed activity with steady to firm trend, cattle receipts about 6,000 and prices quoted from 3.70 to 6.00 for different classes. Sheep receipts 3,500 with steady to fair demand and prices from 4.00 to 4.85 for assorted quality.
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Kansas City
Rawneas City
Cator
Chicago
CuicaGo
Scotch investment in Southern farms nets high returns
A N. F. Sun report describes Scottish investors forming mortgage companies with $500,000 capital, offering four percent debentures and ten percent loan returns in the South and West. Loans secured by productive lands, 40 percent appraisals, and fixed annual installments minimize risk. Investors collect interest via notes, with strict recordkeeping and no foreclosures despite millions involved.
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North Pole
Congo River
Tim O
America
N. F. Sun
A Dainty Bedroom Demonstration for Frugal Furnishing
A dainty bedroom can be furnished cheaply with clever use of common pine, cretonne and muslin. The dressing table, mirror frame, lounge cushions and drapery are described, with tips to salvage chairs and make improvised tables from broomsticks and a kerchiefed box top. Also notes on cretonne coverings and securing cushions. The second item comments on shorter trains and increased freight as country needs, touching freight yards, coal, and steel cars.
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WN Y. Commercial Advertiser
Arena
Jena
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Oklahoma
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Kansass. Legislature
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Pearl
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Dr. Love
Indian Department
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New Orleans
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Arkansas
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Henry Btreat
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Masnachtnetts Street
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Field & Co
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Chicago Photo Company
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South End
D&wim
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G. A. Stevens
Vermont Atreat
Lawrences
H. B. Asher
Vermont Street
Marrat
Lewis
Eldridge House
Lawrence, Kansas
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Eldridge
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