Classified Advertisements from Lawrence Journal
A fragment from a Lawrence Kansas journal shows diversos items including real estate agents, job ads, and goods for sale. Listings mention Blair physicians, Blair and Sharp livery stable, Ponnelly Bros, T Sinclair real estate, and Loomis loans. Goods offered for sale include a LaPort Surrey and a second hand cook stove. Rentals seek furnished modern West Lawrence house. Wants include a horse for tow works and a brake. Help wanted announces cigar factory positions with wages and steady work.
Baker University Endowment Drive Reaches New Total
President Marlin announces Baker university has raised 37,589 for endowment aided by J A Motter and Harry A King. The campaign supports 52,000 for a library with Carnegie gifts plus additional pledges from Judge Case and Governor Nicholson, aiming for 100,000 endowment with 38,000 more hoped within months.
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Gev. Br. Nicholson
Motter
King
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State Fire Escape Law Enforced Urgently Sought
Governor Heeh asks county attorneys to enforce the 103 fire escape law for public buildings in Lawrence and beyond. Officials will inspect schools churches theaters hotels and apartments to ensure three stories or more have safe exits. Violations are misdemeanors with fines up to 450 dollars.
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Lawrence
Heeh
All County
Linspitals
Nes
Peculiar Robbery at Mrs Bunker’s on New Hampshire Street
Mrs. L C Bunker of 646 New Hampshire reports a peculiar burglary by a young man who rented a room then stole clothes before leaving to catch a Topeka train. Police could not locate him. another ledger holder at Business College was noted as a weekend visitor in Topeka.
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L. C. Bunker
Boomer
C. I. Bunker
New Hampshire Street
Topeka
Sensational Roosevelt shooting rumors fade amid hunting season
Oyster Bay reports of an attempted shooting of President Roosevelt circulate as hunting season opens on Long Island. Loeb, the president's secretary, said today there was no belief that anyone tried to harm the president and that the remarks likely stem from routine shooting in outlying districts.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Long Island
Loeb
Attell and Moran Battle to Draw in 23 Rounds
In San Francisco Abe Attell and Owen Moran fought 23 rounds to a draw at Colma arena before about 60 000 spectators. Referee Jack Welsh declared the draw as the crowd cheered both fighters. Attell showed clever defense while Moran pressed, though Attell perhaps did not display his peak speed and dazzling moves.
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Attell
Moran
San Francisco
Abe Attell
America
Owen Moran
England
Colma Open Air Arena
Jack Welsh
Dazsling
Papke Defeats Ketchel To Crown Middleweight Champion
Billy Papke of Kewanee lands a brutal barrage in Vernon to defeat Stan Ketchel after eleven and a part of twelve rounds. Ketchel is blinded and battered with blood flow from his nose and mouth, ending the match badly bruised.
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Ketchell
Thunderbolt Bill
Los Angeles
Cal
Billy
Papke
Kewanee
Jeffries Athletic Club
Vernon
Stanley Ketehel
Trouble with Indians Tax Protest in Oklahoma
Indian Protective League reports complaints from Choctaws Creeks Chickasaws and Cherokees that the 1832 treaty is violated by state officials. Four Indians near Corrine Oklahoma were jailed August 26 for refusing to sign tax forms. Complaint will be sent to the president.
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Oklahoma
Washington
Indian Protective League
Reague
Corrine
Laneo
Journal Opposes Ill Advised Electric Line Franchises
The Journal urges the city to oppose hastily granted electric line franchises. It calls for a thorough investigation and only allows a franchise to a thoroughly responsible party. The city council meets tonight. members should safeguard municipal interests and avoid repeating past troubles.
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Ita
Journal
Parties converge in Jefferson City for state conventions
Delegates flock to Jefferson City for state conventions. Republican and Democratic state committees plan to choose campaign officials before convening to draft platforms. Harmonious talks occur to prevent clashes over liquor regulation and local option.
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Jefferson City
Sept
Carnegie
Circuit Court Reom
Music Hall
Senate
People’s Party
Republicas
Democratic
Engineers to Build A Million Dollar Locomotive Club House
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will spend one million dollars to erect a permanent home at the corner of Clair Avenue and Ontario Street in Sleveland. The building will be twelve stories high with an auditorium seating 1,800 people, announced Warren Stone, chief of the organization.
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Sleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Warren
Stone
Clair Avenue
Ontario Street
Taft to Make Second Campaign Stop From Train
Taft as a ready campaigner will deliver his second speech today from the rear platform of the train. His itinerary includes talks at Tita Carry Wharton Forest Bellefontaine Urbana Springfield Dayton and other stops depending on crowds in Sandusky Ohio.
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Taft
Sandusky
Cincinnati
Soldiers March in a Five Mile Column to St Joseph Tourney
Four thousand officers and enlisted men left Fort Riley under Brigadier General Charles Morton to attend the Missouri department tourney at St Joseph. The parade is nearly five miles long, the largest military body to march through Kansas, with camps planned at Manhattan tonight and Topeka on Saturday night.
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Ft. Riley
Charles Morton
Department of the
GEO L DAVIS MARRIED IN DENVER
Lawrence residents learn that attorney George L. Davis of Lawrence Kansas married D V Cobb of Kansas City and Denver, with the ceremony at Trinity Methodist Church Denver conducted by Dr Lewis Albert Banks. Davis, a former city attorney, has built a successful Kansas City practice and remains a well regarded local figure.
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Lawrence
Denver
Cal
D. VY
Cobb
George L. Davis
Kansas
Trinity Methodist Church
Lewis Albert Banks
Journal
Agig
George Davis
Keeler
Kansas City
Davis
Two Leap to Death in New York Windows
Two women died by self harm in New York today. Mrs. Mary Ann Keisch jumped from the second floor of her home on Seymour Street, died soon after. Her two year old son Joseph had drowned two weeks earlier. Miss Lillian Reynolds, 50, threw herself from a fourth floor window on East Seventeenth Street after long nervous troubles.
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New York
Mary Ann Keisch
Seymtle Street
Joseph
Lillian Reynolds
East Seventeenth Street
Race Tensions Rise After Fatality in Kansas City
Following a fatal shooting by six Black men last Saturday, Kansas City reports a surge in racial fear as local pawn brokers note widespread firearm purchases by Black residents on East Eighteenth Street. A man wounded himself while cleaning a revolver. no violence has occurred yet.
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Kan
Kansas City
East Eighteenth Street
Iowa Senate Deadlocked Over Senate Decision After Split
Des Moines reports indicate Iowa will see either a deadlock in the legislature or a U S senate election to replace the late William B Allison when reconvened. Cummins leads conservative Republicans while standpatters and Democrats back Porter. the Senate is deadlocked as chambers prepare to vote.
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Des Moines
United States
William B. Allison
Cummins
Lo Allison
Iowa
House
Porter
Senate
Cunnains
Five Die In Belmont Hotel Fire After Incendiary Blaze
Denver reports five men killed and scores injured when the Belmont hotel at 1723 Stont Street burned. Victims include Edward Moore and George Barteel. many were severely burned or jumped to escape. Officials call the blaze incendiary and a full investigation is underway.
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Denver
Cal
Belmont
Stont
Edward Moore
Philadelphia
George Barteel
Pullman
John D. Kane
Colorado Springs
George Budke
Middletown
N. Y
George ON
Dodge City
Kansas
Wa. F. Lewis
Will Ie
Fall season begins and home life shifts with school
The piece notes fall arriving, schools starting next week, and mothers preparing children with sewing as vacations end. It contrasts summer ease with renewed duties, mentions men’s finances tightening, and ends with a critique of public mood and a Siberian tribe where women are yoked to sled dogs.
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Ile
M. Jackelson
Siberia
Tne
London Globe
Socialists Cut Into Kansas Democratic Ranks
Kansas Republicans report socialists and independents making inroads on Democratic strength. Council members say many business and farming Democrats favor Taft, with labor towns shifting toward socialists or independents. They project 15 000 to 20 000 socialist votes, half from Democrats. Republicans discuss funding for the campaign.
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Kansas
Topeka
Sept. S
Taft
State Central Committee
Taft Vows Full Devotion to Progressive Policies
In Sandusky on September 8 Taft praised Roosevelt policies and rejected Bryan’s link to them. He pledged to devote all his energy if elected to Congress proposing steps to clinch the Roosevelt program.
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Sandusky
Bora
Tafts
Bryan
Congress
Origin of Yankee Doodle and local notes in Greenbush
Fragmented item recalls early American tunes linked to the fort at Fort Craile and a Dutch refrain in a Vienna paper. It also records moving professors, prohibitionist convention in Denver, cattle market figures, and local notices including a photography studio reopening and school term start.
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Greenbush
Rensselear
Albany
United States
Pueblo
Col
Fort Craile
Ticket
Alao
Fort Ticonderoga
Henry Eleller
Martonfort
Denvers
H. County
Shuckburg
Anna Morgan
Vienna
Abe
Denver
Colorado
The
People’s
P. L. Murray
Langmont
Straffon’s
Property Valuations This Year Nearly Six Times 1907
Topeka notes startling tax comparisons as 1908 assessments rise sharply. Public service corporations show a near full-year total of 1 996.96 rather than 436 549.48 across all property. Personal property valued at 378 804 209 last year jumps to 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 this year.
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Topeka
Kansas
Haunted Hempstead Farmhaunted Marbles Spinning Spools
New London Conn Sept 8 A Hempstead family home near Yale Harvard training quarters reports supernatural activity Spools of thread tumble from a second floor to the dining room beans and marbles move on their own and objects levitate as visiting professionals observe the events.
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New London
Conn
Yale
Forest fires threaten hundreds of settlers in Minnesota
Reports from Duluth indicate wildfires along the northeast shore engulfing a hundred square miles. Settlers in Dahl Nashwank Wrenshall Aurora Mitchell and Lubbing fight flames as Duluth raises 20000 for victims and relief trains move in. One thousand settlers penned by flames near Grand Morais.
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Duluth
Minn
Dahl
Nashwank
Wrenshall
Aurora
Mitchell
Lubbing
Grand Morais
Markets by wir grain sad provisions
Kansas City market notes for September include wheat receipts and cash prices for various hard and white wheat varieties, rye, hay, and dairy items. Prices are listed with varied cents per bushel and per hundredweight, reflecting late summer market levels and regional availability.
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Kansas City
Choice Prairie
Buster—Creamery
Ge. Eges
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