Kansas Utilities Save Millions Through Rate Cases
Judge Clyde M. Reed, chairman of the public utilities commission, reports savings to Kansas from two Interstate Commerce Commission cases. Grain rate case yields estimated savings near 74 million dollars, with other estimates around 10 million. Travel costs for commissioners totaled 2,344.60 dollars. another travel total was 568.23 dollars. Additionally, about three hundred miles of roads were built in 1921 under federal aid, bringing total to about four hundred miles, with plans for a state financed highway system in the following year.
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Topeka
Clyde M. Reed
Public Utilities‘ Commission
N.H. Turner
Hee Wil
The
Utilities Commission
Reed
Turner
Commission
Washington
Mr. Reed
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas
Kansas State
Chicago
Des Moines
Kanagas
M. W. Watson
Kansas taxes rise over previous year and land donation noted
A 120 acre salt marsh tract in Stafford County was donated to Kansas by the Hutchinson and Stafford gun clubs and J B McGuire to protect wild game habitats. Kansas total state taxes for 1921 reached 75 962 537 04, up 11 67 percent from 1920, with Wyandotte county taxing 4 609 695 07 and Sede wick county second at 3 999 165 07 followed by Shawnee Reno and Montgomery counties.
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Stafford County
State of
Kansas
Hutchinson and Stafford Gun Clubs
J. B. McGuire
State Tax Commission
Wyandotte
Sedewick County
Shawnee
Reno
Montgomery
Wichita physician charged with second degree murder
Pr George H Siegel a Wichita physician was arrested by Greenwood County officers on a warrant charging second degree murder in connection with an illegal operation performed in Wichita last June. He was taken to Eureka for arraignment.
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George H. Siegel
Wichita
Greenwood County
Eureka
Wichita records warmest year on weather bureau data
The year just closed was the warmest on record in Wichita, based on thirty four years of government weather bureau observations. Weather observer S. P. Peterson announced the finding.
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Wichita
Government Weather ‘Bureau
P. Peterson
Weather Observer
Five Die in Norton Accident on Christmas Eve
The death toll from a Norton Christmas Eve crash rose to five after a flat car dash into a motor car. Victims include Mr and Mrs C B Johnson and their baby Lena Powers, plus J Strinham of Norton. Applications for post rise as farmers’ boys seek jobs and sometimes conspiratorial ideas surface.
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Norton
C. B. Johnson
Lena Powers
Illiteracy in Kansas Drops Yet Remains Notable
Kansas submits 1920 census illiteracy totals showing 22 891 adults over ten unable to read or write. The rural and urban split stands 12 564 and 10 257. Kansas City Kansas tops list with 3 008 illiterates. Topeka 916. Wichita 695. A New Year message from J C Mohler credits 1921 yields for agriculture and global nourishment.
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Topeka
Lorraine E. Wooster
Kansas
Kansas City
Topckaa
Wichita
Tees
Arkansas City
Aachison
Chanute W
Coffeyville
Eldorado v
Leavenworth
Ieeeseee
Patsons
Salina
Kas
M. E. Pearson
Pearson
J. Cc. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
Earth
Kansas Aims to End Typhoid in Fifteen Years
Dr. Crumbine estimates Kansas will be free of typhoid fever in fifteen years as death rates fall. Rheumatism deaths declined from 112 to 37 in six years, tuberculosis deaths are now half the five year ago rate, cancer rate steady around 72.4 from 1915, and smallpox is to be wiped out within a year with possible permanent elimination.
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Kansas
J. Crumbine
Failure of Farmers Union Elevator at Cummings Reported
The Farmers Union elevator at Cummings near Atchison failed, with a board of directors noting the company owes 4890 dollars. Four thousand of that debt was a note to the now-defunct Cummings State Bank. The report details the financial setback and the bank’s collapse. The piece also cites cost data on National Guard funding, noting state costs around 125000 dollars and federal expenditures around 14 million dollars annually, per Col Milton R. McLean.
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Farmers’ Union
Cummings
Atchison
Cummings State Bank
Kansas National Guard
National Guard
Milton R. McLean
Bank Vault Theft Arrests and 1921 Church Growth
Henry Stier of Lebanon Missouri and Al Waldrupp of Rigsby Alabama were sentenced to the penitentiary for attempting to break into the Gem State Bank vault eight miles east of Colby on October 16. Three accomplices remain at large. A Topeka Kansas Christian Church report shows 1921 membership rose by 10,816 to 65,067, a 19 percent increase. Mrs. Max Bogolowsky killed herself in Hutchinson, reportedly due to ill health, after returning from a Topeka hospital visit over Christmas.
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Henry Stier
Lebanon
al Waldrupp
Rigsby
Ala
Gem State Bank
Colby
Kansas Christian Church
Topeka
Max Bogolowsky
Hutchinson
Modest Home Design Promotes Plain Comfort and Value
A detailed feature on a seven room modest house by William A. Radford outlining a brick foundation, stucco first floor, and gabled shingles. The design emphasizes a front porch, open living spaces, and practical bedrooms, urging builders to pursue affordable homes to restore normal housing costs.
Famous Words of Indians Reported From Ohio Soil
Columbus Dispatch notes that famed sayings attributed to Indians may be sourced from Ohio. Chief Te-caughtret in Darby Creek cabin urges patience and diligence for the captive Smith. Cornstalk after Point Pleasant calls for peace amid danger.
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Ohio
Columbus Dispatch
Darby Creek
Plain City
Tecaughtret
Smith
Cornstalk
Point Pleasant
Picaway Plains
Lightning as a Photographer Depicts Tree Markings
A government report notes an anecdote from trade commissioner Candler Cobb about lightning engraving a man's name and the date 10-9-90 inside the heart of a beech tree on Skye. The claim suggests the electrical effect photographed those markings.
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Candler Cobb
Island of
Skye
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Ad Claims Kidney Remedy Benefits
Advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure all for kidney liver and bladder ailments. Claims many testimonials and urges readers to mail ten cents for a sample bottle from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY and to buy available sizes at drug stores.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Veteran traveler recalls beds on the road in bravado
A veteran commercial traveler boasts of sleeping in eight thousand beds over forty years on the road. The tavern owner of Grudge retorts as the guest laments a recent stay, mentioning a youth sleeping half a night in a mortar bed as a grim aside.
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Yarp
Grudge
Kansas City Star
California Fig Syrup advertisement for children
An old advertisement urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup to cleanse the liver and bowels of children. It claims quick removal of constipation and toxins, promising a well, playful child after a few hours. The note warns buyers to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup printed on the bottle and to say California to avoid imitators.
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California
New Rival Registers as The Devil Comments on Yettrs
The fragment notes a provocative line about the first hundred yettrs described as the hottest, attributed to the devil in a lifelike exchange. It hints at a contrasted register of life and rivalry with a bold, quotable metaphor. The source is incomplete, yet the tone appears literary and provocative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Smith
Smith
Jones
Johnson
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Promises Snowy Linens
A vintage ad urges housewives to keep snow white linens using Red Cross Ball Blue in laundry routines sold at all grocers.
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Superintendent of Instruction
Price Auto Service Company of
Will. G. Price
H. M. Hayes
Grenola
William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
State
Lightning
New York City
Holland
Florida
Florida Farms and Industries Co. Dept
Green Cove Springs
Fla
Stearns
Scandia
Harry Hohman
M. W. Chas
Nordman
Adolph Nelson
Joseph McGowan, W. M
A. R. Morey
Sec’y
H. C. Coleman, V. C
R. Rickabaugh
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