SALESMAN WANTED FOR KANSAS RURAL ROUTES
Classified notice seeking a salesman with no required driving experience for rural Kansas routes in 1918 era. Highlights include permanent connection with a large corporation, salary plus expenses, generous travel allowance, and preference for those with auto experience. Also mentions used cars and a Buick 8 with a $150 starter offer. British troops reportedly walked on diamonds during a wartime trek in the Southwest.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Mayo
Southwestee
Carnegie Leads Magnetic Pole Quest Aboard Non Magnetic Ship
Washington notes the Carnegie with provisions for two years and a 6500 mile voyage departs to map magnetic pole deviations. Built by the Carnegie Institute with no steel, Captain James P. Ault and a 17 man crew undertake the fifth and likely final expedition across oceans to aid navigational charts. The Leavenworth volleyball game against Lawrence at the Y. M. C. A. is scheduled for 7 30 p m and Belgium shows wartime birth-rate decline about 50 percent with population near 1910 levels.
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Washington
Carnegie
Atlantic
Pacific
Carnegie Institute
James P. Ault
Belgium
Markets Report from Kansas City Cattle and Grain Prices
Kansas City market report shows cattle receipts about 1500 calves with heavy beef steers at 10.55 to 18.10, light beef steers 8.25 to 17.26, cows and heifers 6.25 to 14.50, veal calves 13 to 17. hogs 14.75 to 15.25 for heavies. butter eggs and poultry mostly steady with No 1 hard $2.25 to $2.50. Corn market around 1.30 to 1.48 per bushel. oats 61 to 70, rye 1.35, hay unchanged with alfalfa around 30.50.
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Kansas City
Kansas Forecast Sees Record Grain Yield Despite Drought
The Bureau of Crop Estimates at Topeka reports Kansas will produce 299,270,000 bushels of grain this year across oats barley rye flax sorghums wheat and corn. Winter wheat leads with 144,807,000 bushels and corn totals 65,652,000. Oats yield 44,072,000 and barley 14,409,000. flax 91,000. rye 2,356,000. Spring wheat 279,000. total reflects tough weather but near ten year averages for per acre yields. Last harvests varied with 1917 and 1918 showing different totals. The report notes corn prospects at 45 percent of normal.
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Kansas
Edward C. Paxton
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Topeka
Northwest
Weather notes and farming hints across Kansas regions
The clipped item discusses dry conditions across northern and southern Dodge City lines and the McPherson east west tract. It notes seeding unfeasible in most areas with few exceptions in the northwest, rates of rainfall and prospects for the year, and mentions Derby Grain Co. advertising.
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Kansas
Dodge City
McPhergon
Missouri Coal
Derby Grain Co
Flying Parson Leads in Trans-Continental Flight Race
Rain delayed westbound army transcontinental flyers at control stations in Rochester Buffalo Bryan and Cleveland. Lieut Belvin W Maynard led by flying Chicago to Rock Island Des Moines covering 1125 miles in 1 hours 59 minutes. Thirty of forty eight machines had reached Buffalo by noon with others delayed at Binghamton and Rochester. Auction sale proceeds may profit Eben Baldwin farm holders within thirty days.
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Lassee
DeshiGin
Mimneola
N. Y
Army Transcontinental
Rochester
Buffalo
Bryan
Cleveland
Chicago
Rhetter
Salt Lake City
Rawlins River
Wye
Belvin W. Maynard
Rock Island
Ill
Des Moines
Towa
Mineola
Binghamton
KU Coaches at Rotary Luncheon Praises Lawrence Athletics
Rotary luncheon featured K U athletics leaders Dr F C Allen Stemn Foster Karl Schlademan as guests. They praised Lawrence men for backing KU sports this year. Bob Manley told of visiting Salt Peaks last summer and the Washington trip. Out of town guests included J C Neville of Walville and J R Shipley of Ottawa Kansas Telephone Co.
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Rotary
Pep "Falke
K. U
F.C. Allen
Stemn Foster
Karl Schlademan
Rotary Kincheon
United
K. U. Athletics
Lawrence
Allen
Bob Manley
Salt HS Peaks
Has Tostieute
Washington, D. C
J.C. Neville
Walville
Wash
J. H. Bell
J. R. Shipley
The
Kansas Telephone Company
Ottawa
Ukrainian Forces Face Russian Volunteer Assault Near Basle
Ukrainian troops report surprise attack by a Russian volunteer army in the region of Basle. Violent fighting is under way as authorities view the clash as the first war confrontation after Petlura’s declaration against General Denekin. The Basle Ukrainian press bureau confirms the engagement and casualties are feared.
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Denekine
Paris
Basle
Petlura
Elwood Deay Postpones Clean Sweep Farm Sale
Heavy rain forced Elwood Deay to postpone the Clean Sweep Sale planned at his farm thirteen miles southwest. The event now moves to Monday, October 13, featuring livestock and farm implements as one of the month’s major sales. South Africa is noted for its 32,000,000 sheep yielding 170,000 pounds of wool annually.
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Elwood Deay
South Africa
Hanging Too Good for This Man and Extravagance Critique
A column criticizes luxury and frivolity harming the poor, citing Franklin and the proverb about a plowman on legs. It then reports a petty theft in Philadelphia where a man robbed an old woman at the city hall tax office, took her tax bill and $73, then mailed a taunt saying Pay your taxes.
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Philadelphia
Receiver of Taxes
Mrs Effie Bummer Spends Day at Lake View with Kin
Mrs Effie Bummer and her two children visited relatives at Lake View for a day outing, sharing time with the family and enjoying the afternoon together.
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Effie Bummer
Leke View
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Eben Baldwin
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Brinkman’s Bread
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the Federal Bakery
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