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Local notes on births deaths and new elevator plans
The piece reports on the Vital Statistics Law now in effect in Kansas requiring burial permits and birth registration with penalties for noncompliance. It notes state appointed registrars across cities and explains the purposes including demographic sanitary and legal needs. It also mentions a new 8 acre land purchase for an elevator east of town and other early 20th century developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. I. Company
Mosher Farm
Fairview Nursery
Chicago
Kansas
State Board of Health
Oisassos