Kansas Happenings from Early State Papers
Kansas notes report on files of papers pre 1875 with a complete Union Sentinel issue from Hiawatha by H P Stebbins, covering 1866 1867 and revealing early Kansas history including settlers and events. Also included are wind damage at an Oakland nursery 300 bushels seed potatoes lost 20 000 000 trees. Comanche County dog tax debate. Atchison saloon move across the river. G A R reunions announced in multiple cities. Sherlock renamed Holcomb. Coburns report postal limits. and a near fatal river crossing at Big Caney creek involving Miss Bessie Fisher and three companions.
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George W.martin
State Historical Society
Kansas
Statehouse
So‘ciety
Union Sentinél
Hiawatha
H.P. Stebbins
R-Fagler
Sens
the -Oakland
Oakland
Taylor
Atchison
Missouri
Buchanan County
East
Caney Creek
Sedan
Cedarvale
Bessie Fisher
Knight Tricks Shoemaker With Fashion Gown Prank
In a tale from Camden's Remains a knight named Sir Philip Calthrop tricks Norwich shoemaker John Drakes by sending a gown of the same price to a tailor. The tailor copies the knight and makes Drakes’s gown with the same cuts. Drakes denounces the result on Christmas Day vowing to abandon gentlemen’s fashions.
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Camden
Philip Calthrop
John Drakes
Norwich
Henry VII
London T. P.’s Weekly
Life Insurance A Sacred Trust Emphasized by NY Life Leader
The NY Life president addresses the new board of trustees stressing life insurance as a public service and a trust. He cites twenty years in the company, urging directors and officers to uphold standards of efficiency integrity and faith while turning words into daily performance for policyholders.
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New York Life Insurance Company
Board of Trustees
New York Life
Tapas
Soap Bubble Simile Reflections From Amiel Quote
A fragment discusses life as a soap bubble hanging from a reed. The analogy traces creation expansion colors gravity escape and final vanish leaving a drop of turbid water. It notes poets’ recurring use of appearance shine disappearance birth suffering and death as universal themes.
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Henry
Frederic Amiel
Infinitesimal Affinity In Barber Shop Banter
A barber porter humorously helps a patron seek deductions on molecular necrosis. The exchange hinges on a jokey misinterpretation that lands on a pun about an infinitesimal affinity as the man confides a dilemma and the porter answers with urbane calm.
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John
Wanted an Excuse. A Cleveland Plain Dealer Q&A on colds
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet presents a quizzed exchange about remedies for a cold. The crowd questions the simplest way to start a cold and the plausibility of whisky and a wife as factors, framing a humorous take on illness and social habits.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Where Doctors Failed Dean's Kidney Pills Story
J A Sutton of Salem Oregon recounts years of kidney and rheumatic pain before using Dean's Kidney Pills. After three boxes his condition improved, and he reports lasting relief from severe headaches sleepless nights and mobility problems. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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J. A. Sutton
Salem
Oregon
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Rehearsal in a Car Showed Tears of a Professional Entertainer
In a late night car ride a professional entertainer reflected on his wrongs and past mistakes hoping to move himself to tears. He admitted practicing tears in solitude but was interrupted when a woman offered help. He explained he was merely rehearsing on himself.
Under the Sea Mines Cape Breton Submarine Collieries
Cape Breton hosts vast underwater collieries sprawling about a thousand acres with shafts reaching beneath the shore and veining extending over a mile the ocean bed sealed by fireclay roof and water pressure keeping it dry One Point Of View notes a teacher mis Pronounces the greatest negro as Joe Gans in a Tuskegee inspired classroom moment
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Cape Breton
Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington
Rastus
Joe Gans
Triplets Bring Father Questioning News in Sketchy Bits
Full Particulars Wanted. When the nurse brought the cheering news to Toperton recently that he had just become the father of triplets, he betrayed no particular satisfaction. "Boys?" he growlingly queried. "Only one boy, sir." "Well," said Toperton, "go on, don't keep me in suspense. One boy-what are the others?"
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Toperton
Hutchinson
Kansas
C. F. Simmons
San .Antonio
Texa
Dr.c. F. Simmons
Atascosa
County
Texas
Brown Ranch
Franks
Pleasanton
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Simmons
United States
Grape-Nuts Food Praised For Convenience And Digestion
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as a scientifically made, ready to serve food that needs no preparation. It claims the product is predigested and easily assimilated, with grape sugar formed during manufacture, and suggests it suits even weak stomachs. Located at Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
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Postum. Co
Battle. Creek
Oldest Alpinist M C Russi Heads Andermath Pride
M C Russi of Andermath, aged 101, is lauded as the world’s oldest alpinist after last summer climbing the Gutsch mountain unaided. The column also notes various advertisements and humorous quips from the era.
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M. C. Russi
Andermath
Gutsch Mountain
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Comanche County
GA. R
Dodge City
Paola
Rexford
Eldorado
Pittsburg
Sherlock
Holcomb
Santa Fe
Life Insurance
Byron
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Ill
Dodds
Cen Ta i
Carters
Nuleiver
Carter Little Iver
Clipper
Great Northern Mfg. .& Supply Co
Harold Somers
Ralb Aves
Brooklyn
Sade
China
Chicago
B. Q. Mathes
Chas. F. Simmons
San
Alamo Plaza
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