A Flying Trip to Colorado We Took on No 41
A narrator recounts a Saturday trip aboard the fast No 41 to Colorado Springs with stops at Belleville and Colorado Springs. They describe Western Kansas plains, the Colorado mountains, and sights around Colorado Springs including South Cheyenne Canon Seven Falls Manitou Cave of the Winds and the burial site of Helen O. We son. The account highlights scenery, natural wonders, and the healthful air and water despite humorous anecdotes.
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Colorado Springs
Phillipsburg
Goodland
Limon
Belleville
Kansas
Colorado
Phillips County
Simon
South
Cheyenne
Cheyenne Canon
Helen Oa Weson
Seven Falls
Manitou
Williams Canon
Forty second annual catalogue of Kansas State Agricultural College
The Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan releases its forty second catalogue. It lists six courses including agriculture domestic science general science mechanical and electrical engineering and architecture with veterinary science to be added. The college reports 1450 students from 95 counties and 12 from five other states with over 1000 attending since inception and 424 women and 702 men graduated.
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Kansas State Agricultural College
Manhattan
Ninty
The
Agricultural College
Rock Island Cutoff Discussion Moves Forward
Representatives from Republic Cloud Ottawa and Dickinson counties met with Rock Island officials in Topeka last week to discuss a proposed Rock Island cutoff from Belleville to Herington. With a charter granted for an electric line from Beatrice to the Missouri Pacific in Dickinson County, Rock Island eyes its tunnels and may push a cutoff from Belleville south, else another line may seize the chance.
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Republic Cloud
Ottawa
Dickinson
Rock Island
Sal Topeka
Belleville
Herington
Beatrice
Missouri
Pacific
Dickason
Rock “Island
Cyclone Hits Phillipsburg. 130 Feared Dead
A cyclone struck near Phillipsburg Wednesday evening. Reports say 130 people were killed, communications are cut off, and no definite details are available. News crews search for survivors as authorities assess damage.
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Phillipsburg
Never Criticize a Texas Hunter After Turkey Drive
A New Orleans hunter recalls a Nueces river hunt in Texas where his guide rested a while under a mesquite, then revealed turkeys roosting nearby. At sunset a superb drove appeared and four large gobblers fell to their fire, changing his view of Texas hunting methods.
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Texas
Nueces River
San Antonio
H. J. Rice
New Orleans
Washington Post
Judging Olive Oil Color and Naval Constructors Pay
Olive oil color ranges from pale green to deep golden yellow and should raise suspicion if unusually brown or green. The text notes chlorophyll particles affect appearance. It then contrasts naval constructors' pay in England and the United States, citing a chief constructor at 15 000 dollars yearly after leaving private sector wages higher.
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England
United States
Bullet finally exits veteran from 1864 Wilderness wound
Mr. R. C. Macon of Orange Court House, a Confederate soldier, carried a bullet since the 1864 battle of the Wilderness near this city. The bullet worked loose after many years and emerged a few days ago, causing no pain to the veteran.
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R. C. Macon
Orange Courthouse
Macon
Baltimore Sun
Edison Prophecy Fulfilled as New York Lights Up
The completion of large power units in New York recalls Thomas A. Edison’s 1878 prophecy that a single machine could light the city. The era of centralized illumination has arrived as the city’s lower section can now be lit from one source.
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Edison
New York
Thomas A. Edison
New York City
Love and the Cottage Declines in a Town House Tale
The Atchison Globe notes a progression from a ten room engagement dream to a four room home then a remote location, ending with the couple living with the bride’s father after the wedding. The piece uses a humorously rueful arc about expectations versus reality in marriage plans.
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Atchison Globe
Marvelous Gift of Birds Pigeons Navigate in Darkness
Homing pigeons reach roosts in pitch dark showing a developed sense of direction. Experiments between Ceremes and Roann conducted at night found pigeons completing seventeen mile flights in under twenty minutes with most arriving before midnight.
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Franca
Ceremes
Roann
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Clarks
Greenwich
Lye
Lace
Ladies & Children ‘Holkfs
Ube Scandia Journal
Scandia, Kansas
N. W. Kimball
Trnat
Rock Island Cut-off
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