State Capital Notes Follow Kansas Officials Moves
In Topeka state actions include the admission of Kansas Supreme Court reports as second class mail matter, a memorial building superstructure bid plan with material options, and a probe into voters and bootlegger issues. Gov Stubbs orders a hunters license fund audit as Col. Samuel Zimmerman resigns as paymaster general. Jerry Springstead named replacement.
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Stubbs
Hunters
Attorney General's Department
Samuel ‘Zimmerman
Kansas National Guard
Jerry Springstead
Gov Stubbs
Insurance Rates Reduced in Kansas Fire Policy Reforms
State insurance chief Charles Barnes issues December 15 effective order cutting premiums for country churches and schoolhouses to 84 cents and removing builder's risk and tenant occupancy charges. New rules aim to curb wide rate variances and end higher renter rates, with changes to old building alterations and a pending serum vaccination rollout at the agricultural college.
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Topeka
Charles Barnes
Kansas
Country
Insurance Department
Barnes
Kansas Avenue
Record rainfall in Kansas risks yearlong wettest status
The article notes Kansas faces the wettest year on record if dry spells fail through January 1, 1910. Through November rainfall totals reach 45.31 inches, surpassing the 1903 record of 44.14 inches. September to November alone record 18.81 inches, over half the yearly average per weather bureau data.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Wheat handling study urged by State Agricultural College
Prof. Ed. H. Webster, director of the experiment station at Manhattan and dean of agriculture, advocates employing a competent man to study wheat handling after harvest and all stages before it reaches the market to improve the state's wheat quality.
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Ed. H. Webster
Manhattan
State Agricultural College
State School Laws Compiled by E T Fairchild
State Superintendent E T Fairchild has compiled and printed the latest school laws in a neat 250 page volume. It is praised as the most complete book of its kind ever printed in Kansas.
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S. J. Crumbine
Kansas Board of Health
William P. Cutler
Missouri
Kansas Citys
E. T. Fairchild
Kansas
Youth Hunter Injured In Hedge Gun Accident
Linn Fuller a 16 year old Willard resident was injured when a gun was pulled through a hedge the wrong way during a hunt. He is hospitalized in Topeka with severe, tissue loss to his upper left arm and doctors say a slight chance exists to save the limb.
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Linn Fuller
Willard
Topeka
Backache Is Kidneyache Says Nurse Then Pills Sold
Thompson Watkins of Parsons Kansas reports relief from back pain and irregular kidney secretions after using Deans Kidney Pills. The ad urges readers to remember the dean name and purchase pills for 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York. A jokey street remark about ice pudding ends the fragment.
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Thompson Watkins
N. 23Rd St
Parsons, Kan
Dean
Dean’s
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Red Cross Christmas Stamps Boost tuberculosis drive
The American National Red Cross offers one cent Christmas stamps this year with proceeds supporting tuberculosis work. Last year under 20 million stamps sold. this year sales are expected near 50 million, yielding about 400000 dollars for nationwide TB campaigns.
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Red Cross
American National Red Cross
United States
Dean at Dinner Reflects on Mortality of Lawyers
A famous dean, seated at dinner, hears talk of six eminent barristers dying in as many months. He rises, deaf to the chatter, and offers grace noting gratitude for mercy.
Archery Tournament Draws Women in London Popular Nerve Cure
In London a recent archery tournament attracted 300 women amid growing popularity and praise from physicians as beneficial for nerves. American women have shown less enthusiasm, but renewed interest abroad could shift attitudes in the United States.
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London
Grape-Nuts Claimed To Boost Health In Testimonial
A Boston educator recounts nervous exhaustion and long teaching career ended two years ago. She credits Grape-Nuts with easing constipation and improving brain power and physical condition. She notes breakfast of raw egg with Grape-Nuts and hot milk or water aids digestion and well being.
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Boston
Wellville
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