Kansan News Briefs and Notes From Lawrence
A 1900s era Kansas City paper notes subscription details and weekly editions. It covers Chicago strikes, Russian and Japanese naval remarks, Kansas wheat harvests, sugar beet crops, Nan Patterson legal news, local elections, streetcar trials in Parsons, and comments on Lawrence’s Fraternal Aid delegates, New York subway demand, and Rhode Island paving verdicts amid Roosevelt era politics and Selig administration.
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Rhode Island
Selig
Kansas News Briefs From A Turbulent Era
A chaotic snapshot notes liquor crackdowns in Topeka and Independence with fines, bonds, and guilty pleas. Tobacco and alcohol excess blamed for color blindness among railroad workers. Banking crime warning rises as a Kansas City youth steals 5750. Japan’s war news, Togo’s prospects, and Port Arthur dispatches color the broader world outlook.
Young Nominal Presidency and Kitchen Delft Ware Trends
A fragmented piece cites youth favorable to future presidential candidates amid praise for Hostetter's stomach remedies and a turn toward English French kitchen earthenware. It extols the health product and urges use, then shifts to detailed notes on blue and white Delft ware kitchenware, from jars to utensil sets, with wall-mounted display and blue printed contents.
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Foreden
Delft
Delft Blue Kitchen Ware Bundle From Louisville Store
A stovetop assortment features ball shaped crockery mixer a crockery strainer rolling pin with wooden handles and porcelain cylinder a cabbage cutter with porcelain body a pancake offer a meat beater a soup ladle and a potato masher. A pastry board with a square porcelain center and wooden borders completes the set. Each item shows quaint Delft blue scenes and the full outfit costs 7.87 dollars. Also offered is a stone water cooler shaped like a keg with a faucet and a separate ice compartment.
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Delft
Louisville Courier-Journal
That Boy of Yours and Linen Care Advice
A plea to parents to guide boys toward better associations and sympathy in work, contrasting girl guidance with male neglect. Also a linen care note from manufacturers, recommending soaps with less alkali, wringing by hand or loose wringer rollers, thorough rinsing, and a tip using gum arabic solution to improve linen handling. A warning to men not to wipe razors on towels to avoid hidden damage.
Escalloped Potatoes From a Pudding Dish Recipe
Pare and slice potatoes. layer with cracker crumbs butter onion and salt and pepper in a pudding dish. Add raw potato layers and crumbs on top. Pour in milk so it sits. Bake one to two hours. Some serve with cold meat added later. Jay Orlo Farmer.
Madras waists and cures of catarrh in old column
A mixed page item discusses Madras waist fashion with patterns smaller than last season, then pivots to health tips. It promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co claiming constitutional remedy and offers brochures and testimonials. Also includes home hints on mayonnaise safety and wall shelf designs.
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Madras
F. J. Gheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & CO
Drugginte
Oo Hall
Through Pullman Tourist Service to Chicago and West
The Union Pacific with the Chicago and Alta railroad offers through Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars from St Louis to San Francisco and other points, Mondays and Wednesdays, no changes. 16 section cars, westward vestalized, updated pattern, first class. Connections made en route for Los Angeles and Portland. inquire at local Union Pacific agent.
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Chisago & Altan Railroad
St. Louis
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Onion Pacific
Fraud in Treasury Bonds of 1790s Exposed in 19th Century Case
A rediscovered Washington Star report recalls a long fraud scheme involving deferred six per cent bonds from 1790 and the eight per cent loan of 1738. Clerk James Tompkins and associates forged certificates, sold notes, and used proceeds to fund voyages and real estate. Father and son faced trial. the father was acquitted, the son convicted and later pardoned. The affair highlighted missing blank certificates, forged signatures, and a bungled government recovery.
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the Star
Checka
United States
Washington Star
Tompkins
Mimscall
Clement Biddle
Philadelphia
Treasury
Archibald Gracie & Sons
New York
Nourse
David Parish
London
James Tompkins
Charles
Thomas Joy
Harrison
Liverpool
Justina
Joy
Wasp
Charles Tompkins
Father
Old Circuit Court of
District of Columbia
Jay
George M. Dallas
Fragmented Scribbles From An Odd Local Column
A jumble of quoted phrases and garbled dialogue peaks through a city page snippet. The text references a fatherly boast about a boy, quirky lines about pickles and onions, and stray names like Chicago Tribune and Knicker.
Local Cure Claim From Lamon City Vendor
Geed Buggeeven and Mr. C. B. Walewright of Lamon City advertise a cholera and diarrhea remedy for stomach pains and cholera morbus. They claim rapid relief when mixed with water and say the product is safe when taken as directed by doctors. The advertisement urges purchase at all druggists.
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Kansas City
Kansas
C. B. Walewright
Lamon City
Colly
Telephone Directory April 16 Issue Preparation
The Telephone Directory for April 16 is being prepared and handed to the printer on April 1. Subscribers are urged to call Chief Operator No 600 with corrections or preferences to ensure the directory lists about 1400 subscribers accurately.
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Bismarck Grove
Cor Warren
Alabama
Boyd
Bryant
Caldwell
Chadwick
Churchill
Styre
Jackson
McCall
Lonn
South Trad
Seball
South
Scott
Anns Res
Seals
Elizabeth
Shimmons
FeHtres
Eubecriba
Cranberry Pie Recipe Step by Step
A period cranberry pie recipe instructs to wash cranberries in cold water to draw out the skins then mix flour and sugar with boiling water and halved raisins, lift the berries, combine with ingredients, and bake between two crusts with optional vanilla.
Nut Sandwiches And The Rocky Mountain Pass Engraving Ad
Nut sandwiches described with grinder use and nut butter spread. Hagerman Pass engraving offer from Colorado Midland steel engraving 28x40 inches, 15 cents postage. Various classified notices list real estate, animals, hires, and property sales across New Hampshire and Massachusetts streets with multiple names and addresses.
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Hagerman
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Midland
Speers
Denver
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Security First Clase
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L. Hoadley
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East Hancock
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Lew McGann
Massachusetts Street
Paul Learnard
Strong's
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Mall
Lawrence Daly Journal
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Kaname
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Lewrence
Kensas
Chay Clark
Dal Upbeat
Lawrance
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