No Grazing Law For Kansas Under Burkett Bill
The Burkett bill to lease public land to stockmen under the agricultural department was amended by the senate agriculture committee to effectively exclude Kansas from the law. Senator Long feared the measure would disrupt western Kansas homesteaders, aiming to avert conflict with cattlemen. The law lacks explicit exemption but imposing conditions will yield that result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Burkett
Agricultural Department
Senator Long
Senate Committee
Grain Weighing Law Declared Invalid by Court
Judge Pollock of the United States circuit court grants a permanent injunction stopping the Kansas board of grain inspectors from weighing grain sent to elevators. The order follows findings by Special Master 8 R Peters of Newton who ruled the state law authorizing weighing by the department unconstitutional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pollock
United States Circuit Court
Kansas Board of Grain
R. Peters
Newton
Kansas
Kansas City
Spcial
Bankers Insurance Fund Planned in Kansas
A movement in McPherson seeks to organize a Kansas Bankers Surety Company with $1,000,000 capital. The fund would be invested in government bonds and banks would pay a fraction of one percent on their average daily deposits for the year to insure depositors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Bankers’ Insurance Company
McPherson
Kansas Bankers’ Surety
Capital
Baldwin Becomes Illuminated City With New Electric Plant
Baldwin now a bright city as a new electric light plant operates. The system uses a powerful dynamo connected to a 95 horsepower Olds gasoline engine. The town is also piped for natural gas, matching other Kansas communities in heating and lighting capability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Olds
Kansas Town
Senate Adopts Direct Vote for U S Senators
The senate votes 16 to 17 to adopt a house concurrent resolution urging election of U S Senators by direct popular vote. The measure has passed the house and requests Congress to call a constitutional convention to propose an amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
United States
National Congress
Car Shortage and Political Rights News From Ottawa
Garden City suffers from ongoing car shortage hindering grain and cattle shipments causing daily losses. In Ottawa, the House committee passes up killing a constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage, returning it for action. Ex Senator Benson asks to drop the senator title, surprising many. A newspaper man loses his pass as postage rates rise, with critics arguing against continued newspaper jobs and subscriptions.
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Garden City
House Committee On the
Potts
Horse For
Ottawa
A. W. Benson
Ottawa Republic
Post Office
Mack P. Cretcher
Sedgwicks
Doans Kidney Pills Backed By Stillwater Woman
Mrs. A Heiman of Stillwater Minnesota credits Doans Kidney Pills with saving her life in 1899 after severe back pain fainting and disordered kidney secretions. She says she has remained well since and notes the product sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Doan
A. Heiman
Stillwater
Minn
Foster-Milburn” ‘Co
Buffalo, ‘N
Deer Pen Trespass Case at Feltham Park
At Felt ham England three men faced a charge for sleeping in a deer pen at Bushey park A keeper testified the men pulled down about ten shillings worth of hay which the deer later refused to touch as it had been laid upon The deer avoided the pens due to the sleepers presence
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Feltham
England
Bushey
Park
Hall's Catarrh Cure Reward Notice
One hundred dollars reward offered for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsements from F J Cheney Company in Toledo plus wholesalers Walding Kinnan Marvin. Cure is taken internally and works on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
One Way Out of Difficulty
A small woman asks a druggist for another advertising print to comfort her sick child whose twin brother has one. A bystander critiques for spoiling children, while the mother defends herself saying twins feel each other's loss and will find twins who are tall in love with them.
Dreaded to Eat and the Coffee-Fever Cure
A Philadelphia woman describes long term coffee-induced indigestion and nervousness. After using Postum as directed, both she and her husband report improved appetite and energy, no coffee, and high satisfaction. Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan promotes the product with testimonial references to The Road to Wellville.
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Phila
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Allcock's Plasters Introduced 60 Years Ago
A brief note recalls the 60th anniversary of Allcock's Plasters, hailed as the world's standard porous plasters. Described as original and genuine, they are marketed as the quickest and cheapest relief for certain ailments and are sold by druggists worldwide.
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Allcock
Insects Have Public Houses Says Prof Bottomley
Professor Bottomley claims insects drink in a mythical social setting at the University of ndton South Kensington lecture. He identifies the wild arum as the lead public house of the insect world, noting its large lily like bloom and dark shaft that signals nectar access and pollen gathering.
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Bottomley
University of Ndton
South Kensington
Cyclone catarrh cure from home remedy mixture
A home made catarrh remedy named Cyclone is advertised. The formula uses Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla to be taken in tea spoonful doses after meals and at night, purporting to cleanse catarrhal poisons from the blood and relieve mucous membrane sores.
Early Northwest Voyages and Arctic Search Milestones
A concise account traces early Northwest passages from John Cabot in 1497 through Danish English French and Portuguese rivalries. It highlights Frobisher 1576 78 Davis Strait voyages Davis 1612 Henry Hudson and the drive to find the northwest passage. It notes William Baffin 1616 reaching 77 45 N and discovering Jones Smith and Lancaster sounds as outlets to the route.
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John’ Cabot
Northwest Passage
Denmark
England
France
Portugal
A. W. Greely
Frobisher
Ohn Davis
Davis’ Strait
Henry Hudson
Atlantic
William Baffin
Jones, Smith and Lancaster
Baby Healed Fast After Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Hattie Currier of Thomaston Maine describes her nine month old with a facial and foot rash that caused nightly irritation. She used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, noting rapid improvement within hours and complete healing after one box, also clearing cradle cap. She keeps the ointment for future rashes and insect bites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Currier
Thomaston, “Me
Tramp-Thankee Pledges Quiet Dinner Reflections
A fragment from a New York Weekly piece features a tramp thanking a housekeeper for supper and discussing plans to rest and walk a mile after dinner. The dialogue includes polite phrases and household routine, reflecting era language and social norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Magazine-Style Ad Snippets Spark Reader Caution
A compilation of brief product and public notices touts cigars plus patent medicines and home remedies. It pitches Lewis single binder cigars, Garfield Tea and laxatives, brominated quinine warnings, Allen’s Foot-Ease, and odors of public curiosity about Jacques Lebaudy with housekeeper quips and common daily tips.
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Kansas State News
Minnesota
Baby
Cutiura
Lewis
Peoria
Ill
Drummond
H. W.groyve
Abe
Jacques Lebaudy
Sahara
Boston
Allen
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Jacobs Oil
Defiance
Larus & Bro. Co
Richmond, Va
Carters
JTES
Thompson's
Tee
Canadian West
sbPur
Intendent OF Immigration
Canada
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