Kansas Notes Highlights From Local Columns
A compendium of quirky Kansas items notes jokes and local color from towns including Jewell Emporia Wichita Atchison Bald win Beloit Downs Ellis and more. Snippets mention editors advertisers the Beaver River bridge washout Beavers river floods Leavenworth memorial day and residents like Mrs Julia Whitmore and Thomas C Platt in passing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Hill McCarter
Topeka
Kansas
McCarr
McCarty
Mackéy
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Beaver River
Liberal
Solomon River
Delphos Republican
Meda Noble
Eureka
War in South Africa from First to Last 1899 1902
A concise chronicle tracing the South African War from Kruger's ultimatum and the Natal invasion through sieges at Ladysmith and Kimberley to the Boer surrender at Paardeberg and final British consolidation. Key dates, battles, leaders, and shifting control are outlined with emphasis on major campaigns and proclamations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton Kansas
Will. McFarland
Santa ‘Claus
Atrén Seaser
Jake Klabau
Seaser
Hurley
Riley
Bert Repetto
Sterling
South Africa
Kruger
Natal
Ladysmith
Buller
Kimberley
Bowers
Mafeking
Transvaal
Cape
Bechuanaland
Goshen
Stellaland
Transvaal Republic
Johannesburg
Great Britain
Cape’ Colony
Pretoria
Raad
Uitlander Bosom
Steyn
Free State
Republic
Cape Colony
Talana Hill
Elandslaagte
Cronje
Baden- Powell
Cecil Rhodes
Lady‘smith
Lombard’s
Lord Methuen
Magersfontein
Lord Roberts
Tugela
Peter’s Hill
Lord Dundonald
Methuen
French
Paardeberg
Lord Kitchener
Bloemfontein
Brinsloo
Europe
England
Dewet
Delarey
Botha
Schalk-Burger
Peruna touted as a tonic by Mrs Kate Taylor in hospital notice
Mrs Kate Taylor a prominent society figure and former auracy endorses Peruna as the finest tonic for recovery after serious illness. The note cites Dr Hartman offering free treatment for female catarrhal diseases this summer and directs readers to The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio for address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Taylor
Hicago
Ill
Monroe St
IRS
Hartman
The
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Rapid young man dies of old age at forty
A terse obituary notes the death of a man aged forty described as rapidly maturing, his life marked by swift ascent and early decline. The notice provides few personal details but frames the event as an unusual early aging of a vigorous individual.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jewell
Barnum
Wichita
Atchison Champion
C. H. Young
Mitchell County
Cottonwood Falls
Baldwin
Beloit
Downs Times
Ellis
Julia Whitmore
Weir City
Dora
Cora
Nora
Flora
Zora
Lora
Clora
Haskell County
Henry Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth
C. W. Goodlander
Thomas C. Platt
William Allen White
Emporia
Larned Opera House
Opera. House
Opera: House Hotel
House
Arkansas
Dodge City
Garden City
Roberts
Joubert
Prinsloo
Kitchener
Modderfontein
Plummer
Schalk-Burger and Steyn
Gough
Benson
Piet de Villairs
Langeberg
Beyers
London
Republica
Hall
Price
Libby
U. S
Libby, McNeill, & Lippy
Chicago
Chandler's
C. F. Chandler & CO
W. 6Th Bt
Kansas City
Hamlins
Roh
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