Kansas Notes Reflect Local Rumors and Oddities
A Topeka man is brickbatted, editors flood papers with essays, and a Leavenworth preacher sits in jail for stealing screen doors. Kansas editors travel, towns discuss alliances, and Burrton moves papers as floods of oddities sweep the state.
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Kansas
Topeka
Seth G. Wells
Erie Republican Record
Belle Harbaugh-Benedict
Leavenworth
Atchison
Chicago
Atchison Counties
Coffeyville
Port Arthur
Shay Noot
Chanute
Parsons Sun
Parsons
City Market
Union Depot
R. B. Knock
Montgomery County
Neodesha
Fort Scott
Burrton
Fred Kirch
Rush Center
Trego County
Ing House
Nebraska City
Dunn
John Spangle
Prairie Township
Wiligon County
George Porter
Porter
Oo. J. Bodley
Richmond
Hiawatha
Kansas City
Allen County
Daughter of Secretary of State Thrown From Carriage
From Washington a gossip note reports Miss Alice Hay daughter of John Hay secretary of state was thrown from her carriage last week after a frightened team caused a partial overturn. She is betrothed to James W Wadsworth Jr of New York.
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Alice Hay
John Hay
Miss Hay
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
New York
France Honors Miss Sickels for Courage in Sioux War
Miss Emma Sickels of Chicago receives Le Sevateur medal for exceptional courage during the 1889 90 winter crisis near Pine Ridge agency. Absent at first she returned at War Department request and met with two hostile chiefs to explain the Wounded Knee misunderstanding, leading to pacification.
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Sickels
Chicago
le Sevateur
Emma‘ ‘Sickels
Pine Ridge Agency
War Department
Miss Sickels
Millionaires Gamble At Up-Town Hotel Café
A New York Post anecdote shows Western steel magnates displaying bravado over money. In a hotel café a participant tossed a $500 note, the rival countered with a roll of pills worth $500, then handed it over, ending the exchange with no further remarks.
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John
New York Post
Ruth Hanna a Sportswoman Heroine of Ad Venture
Senator Hanna plans a summer trip to his Melrose Plantation in Georgia if a state session ends early. His daughter Ruth, already famed for a wildcat adventure after a famed coon hunt, joins him with her equestrian skill as a marksman.
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Senator
Hanna
Congress
Melrose Plantation
Georgia
Miss Ruth
Miss Ethel Sigsbee Weds in Washington Social Season
Miss Ethel Sigsbee niece of Capt. Charles Dwight Sigsbee married Robert Toombs Small at the Church of the New Jerusalem Washington. The ceremony drew notable society attention with the bride noted for beauty and a West Point graduate lineage. Small is the son of a prominent figure.
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Washington
Ethel Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Robert Toombs Small
Church of the New Jerusalem
H. H. Lockwood
West Point
Annapolis Naval Academy
Mr. Small
Candidate's Plowman Scheme Wins Farmer Votes in Kansas
In Butler County Kansas a political hopeful travels by buggy with a plowman to work a farmer's field while the candidate tells followers tales. The novel act aims to win farmer support and is reported to be working well.
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Butler County
Kansas
Focus on Early 19th Century Combustion Devices in New England
Fragmentary notes describe a combined tinder-box and candlestick used in New England during the early 1800s. The text references pulling up sticks and using gas prior to modern illumination, indicating older methods of lighting and ignition.
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New England
Creek Nation citizenship and race mixing after the war
The Creek Nation, with 14 000 citizens, allotted tribal lands to 5 000 of them who were negroes. Like other civilized tribes, Creeks owned enslaved people and after the war admitted former slaves to citizenship. Much racial mixing occurred, producing many individuals of mixed Indian and Negro blood.
Two Recent Deaths Dr Palmer Presbyterian Minister
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Morgan Palmer one of the oldest and best known Presbyterian ministers in the United States died in New Orleans last week. Paralysis following an street car accident caused his death at age 84, the elder pastor had suffered severe age related frailty but remained active until the incident.
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Palmer
New Orleans
Benjamin Morgan Palmer
New Or
No British Banners Wave in Battle
A report notes that banners are not carried into action with corps as colors are placed in safe custody before service. When soldiers return they will be fresher for not bearing dusty lands and rivers. Battling men once responsible for banners now serve in other duties deemed more practical.
Lieut Olaf H Rask Dies of Cholera in the Philippines
Secretary Moody received a cable from Rear Admiral Wildes at Cavite reporting the death of Lieut Olaf H Rask of the Marine Corps at Bacoor from cholera on the 29th. A Minnesota native, he enlisted in October 1899 and served on the Asiatic station since December.
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Marine Corps
Philippines
Moody
Farmer Finds Old Shell Near Stevensville Virginia
A farmer near Stevensville Virginia unearthed an old shell and, uneasy, piled combustibles over it and lit a match before moving his mules to safety. The ensuing explosion, slow to occur, was heard up to five miles away according to a local newspaper report.
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Stevensville
Queen Alexandra Owns Rare Opera Glasses Worth Noted Value
A world renowned pair of opera glasses owned by Queen Alexandra, crafted in Vienna. The barrels are platinum and studded with diamonds sapphires and rubies. Estimates vary but an expert valued the lorgnette at about 25000 dollars.
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Queen Alexandra
Vienna
Prague authorities condemn man for spiritualism and seances
In Prague Austria authorities sentenced a man to a week in prison and a fine for practicing spiritualism. The Governor-General ordered that anyone taking part in spiritualistic seances be imprisoned with no option for a fine in the future.
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Prague
Austria
Value of Duplicate Copies of the Declaration of Independence
A Philadelphia Record note discusses inquiries about the original Declaration of Independence and its duplicates. It explains the original document is housed in the U S State Department in Washington and nearly illegible, making a photographic reproduction without value.
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Philadelphia
Department of State
Washington
James D. McBride
Philadelphia Record
Actress Ada Gray Destitute and Ill in Fordham Hospital
Ada Gray famed for East Lynne is destitute and ill on City Island New York. Disabled by disease for years since retiring from the stage she once was a top American actress. She resides in a Fordham Hospital room and will be cared for by the Actors' Fund.
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Ada Gray
East Lynne
City Island
New York
Miss Gray
America
Charles Tingay
Fordham Hospital
Actors’ Fund
Mrs Colclough Ventures Alone Into Central Africa
Emma Shaw Colclough, a noted clubwoman and writer, sails for a daring solo expedition into Central Africa. The intrepid traveler, tall and energetic, is famed for globetrotting regions where few women have ventured.
West Pitts ton man seeks name change to Folmer
Ervin Pfubl a resident of West Pitts ton Pennsylvania files in county court to change his name to Folmer. He cites trouble with jokes and mispronunciations as reasons and notes his current name invites puns and mockery.
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Ervin Pfubl
West Pittston
Folmer
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Burlington
Missouri, Kansas, & Texas
France
Ruth Hanna
Evangelist Small
H. Rask
WANT
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