Kansas paper notes temperance union and auctions
The issue lists a Republican County Ticket with candidates Mahlon Newlis Joel S White H Carmean and A L Paul for local offices. It mentions a Kansas State Temperance Union annual meeting in Topeka on the 27th and 28th, and the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association convention planned for Salina on October 28–29. It also reports various society items including Ferdinand Warn's jail stay, Professor Henry's anecdote, and horse Maire Maip sale details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas State Temperaice Union
Representative Hall
Topeka
Kansas Equal Suffrage Association
Salina
Kansas
Household Hints And Recipes From An Old Page
A long list of home remedies and kitchen tips includes teeth care with soap and salt to prevent tartar, a mutton sauce using current jelly and dry mustard, and a note that boiling water removes stains. It also details decor ideas like a sage green mantel valance with chenille birds, a wall hung tin aquarium, and light scrim curtains with rosebud embroidery. Recipes cover corn with milk and cornstarch, bread pudding and fritter batter, and a forced leg of mutton with stuffing, plus remedies for poison ivy using baking soda, serpentaria, and plantain leaves.
Walk Through Calcutta Native Quarter Reveals Hard Reality
Glasgow Herald correspondent guides a Calcutta native quarter tour noting crowded streets with bamboo houses and shops, widespread temple rites, goats sacrificed in public, and daily life of laboring women. The piece critiques Hindu practices, poverty, education gaps, and calls for industrial education to boost subsistence and progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
Glasgow Herald
India
Esch
Bengal
Strand
Church Mission
Howrah
Somerville Journal Peeilings Weaving Humorous Snippets
A collage of vintage quips and social jabs from the Somerville Journal. The piece lampoons verbose telegraph wording, cheap fashion, and flirtations alongside humorous exchanges about a minister’s Elijah sermons and a stubborn proof editor. It includes playful plates of town life and newspaper vanity.
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Lowell
Elijah
Hoe
Exchange
Bourbon
Texas
Washington
Gazelle
George
Clara
Harry
Somerville Journal
The Thistle and the Cornstalk Fable Roots in Garden Rivalry
A Canada Thistle in a farmer's garden ridicules a small corn blade. The corn grows bright and thrifty, prompting the thistle to demand the corn be removed. In a twist the farmer discovers the thistle's boasting and insists on removing it, while a moral about thieves hints at the thief who abuses law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
King
Moka
Detroit
Model for Two Authors William P Duval Remembered
William P Duval died in Washington while visiting. A backwoodsman and hunter from Virginia who moved to Kentucky, he inspired Irving in Raron Ringwood and Paulding in Nimrod Wildire. He studied law, built a lucrative practice, served as Florida governor under Jackson, influenced Seminole chiefs, and later dealt with Texas land business in his 70s. His humor, anecdotes, and integrity made him a favorite among young men who recalled his vivid past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Duval
Washington
Jackson
Florida
Texas
Perley Poore
Origins of the Alps and Earth’s Shrinking Face
A Cornhill Magazine essay recounts how mountains form not by upward thrust but by crustal subsidence and folding. It tracks the Alps’ birth in Permian weaknesses, their burial under seas, and later tectonic crumpling during the tertiary period, with Mantled Europe and Mull’s Miocene volcano cited as dramatic examples of erosion and wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britan
Alps
Imalayas
Central
Europe
Germany
Rome
Switzerland
Mediterranean
Jura
Heim
Judd
Mull
Etoe
Bourgeois
France
Cornhill Magazine
Hunting the Giraffe in African Chase and Craft
A descriptive account of giraffe hunting in Africa, detailing the animal’s habitat, appearance, and the Nubian and Bedouin methods. It narrates the chase on dromedaries, sword hunting, and the ritual of victory cries, meat sharing, and use of the carcass for supplies and tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Upper
Nile
Australia
Nubia
Seansar
Rank
Leslie
South America
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the Daily Journal
EA Rae Voraal .Company
Lawrence
Lawrence, Kas
Republican County
Mahlon Newlis
Joel 8
White
H. Carmean
A. L. Paul
Y. G. Miller
A A. H. Pearson
Kansas City
T'tnez
Ferdinano Warn
Henry
Harvard
Saratoga
Harvard University
Gonoeurra Maip
Trenton
N. J
Eame
Maud
Roberts Boner
Philadelphia Telegraph
The
Philadelphia Times
Edwin Stevens
Ningpo
China
Philadelphia
Shanghai
J.T. Stevens
Kansas City Times
George Miln
Denver
Miln
Bostox Eveine Recorp
Cleveland
America
East
Eldridge Horse Livery
Sale and Exchange
Asprihalty Geo. W. TvoTnakur
Elitr
Wolley
Clark & Blair
Naitional Rink
A. G. Menger
Sasten Aas T
New Firm
Mabe
CAL
J. F. Wiedemann
Mass. Street
Stecercor
EL Boyd
Ohio
Missisippi
Louisville
Cincinnati
Knosville
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Savannah
Charleston
Jacksonville
Palace
Ohio & Mississippi Bailn
St. Louis
Cary
Knox Oygville
Chattanoogs
Santa
Sayamanah
O & BM
Lowsville
Palaca
New York
Union
Ohio & Mississippi
A.C. Goodrich
West
Pase
Age
Kansas City, Mo
W. W. Peabody
W.P. Sadtoy
Agt
Cinceynati, O
E. Springer
Mechanicsburg
Dr. King
Barber Bros’ Drug Store
Lunguiseason
Lerge
Rilawin
Fee
Kidemiller & Co
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