United Iron Works Plans Major Iola Expansion
United Iron Works in Iola announces an 80 by 150 foot concrete block addition to its east plant on the former Iola Brick site. The new facility will replicate the recent machine shop and house cement and grinding mill machinery boosting payroll by about 40 to reach nearly 300 workers, making it the region’s largest such plant west of the Missouri River.
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United Iron Works
Iola
Ihe
Iola Brick Company
United Iron Works’ E Company
Missouri River
Atchison Council Threatens Standard Oil License
The Atchison council warned Standard Oil to stop refusing to sell oil to a local grocer who supported a rival with a refinery. The city attorney was ordered to notify Standard Oil that persistent discrimination could lead to revocation of its Atchison business license.
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Atchison Council
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company
Atchison
Standard Company
Standard Ol
Atchisoen
Cattle shipment totals six figures for Mr Beeler
Fred Beeler of Jewell county traveled by train to Kansas City with 263 head of export cattle for the American Dressed Beef company. The cattle weighed about 1500 pounds each and brought $6.25 per hundred, yielding a payment of $25,392.50 to Beeler.
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Fred Beeler
Jewell” County
Concordia
Kansas City
American Dressed Beef Company
Beeler
Farmers Move West as Abilene Welcomes New Settlers
A special train of farmers from Sabetha and Nemaha County arrives in Abilene. They have purchased numerous Dickinson County farms at prices once high but now common, with quarters fetching around 9000 dollars. Many plan to relocate further to western Kansas this spring.
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Sabetha
Nemaha County
Abilene
Dickinson County
Kansas
Wichita Liberal Offer for State Fair Site
A joint Wichita commercial club and chamber of commerce meeting directed a committee to telegraph Sedgwick county’s representative. The city would contribute 50 000 dollars and provide an 80 acre site for a permanent state fair to be located in Wichita. Signed officials sought support for the proposal.
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Wichita
Wichita Commercial ‘Club
Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Sedgwick County
Explosion Kills Mine Shotfirer in Pittsburg Yard
A windy shot at mine No 10 of the C C Cockrill Coal and Mining Co in Pittsburg killed G E Philips, one of the shotfirers, who was working on the side where the blast occurred. The explosion caused the fatal blast and the tragedy is attributed to the windy shot.
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C. C. Cockrill Coal and Mining Company
Pittsburg
G. E. Philips
Phillips
Lawrence Seeks Honor as Best Educated Town in State
Lawrence is proud of its claim to be the best educated town in the state citing citizens’ caution in gas leak searches. The remark highlights local discipline and public safety awareness.
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Lawrence
Nelson elected president of Minnesota college at Minneapolis
Frank Nelson former Kansas state superintendent returns from Minneapolis where the Minnesota conference of the Lutheran Augustana synod unanimously elects him president of Minnesota College. More than 100 000 Swedish Americans reside in Minneapolis and Minnesota is seen as a center of Swedish Americanism. Nelson will likely accept the post.
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Frank Nelson
Kansas
Ting
Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
Lutheran Augustana’ "Synod
Nelson
Minnesota ‘College
Millers Trust Injunction Sought in Kansas Court
In Sedgwick County district court Attorney General Fred H. Jackson secured a temporary restraining order against the Southern Kansas Millers club to probe trust status. Thirty three milling firms and fifty millers named as defendants with a hearing set for the late month.
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Hunting A Millers’ Trust
Kansas
Millers Club
Sedgewick Courity
Fred 8
Jackson
Southern Kansas Milling
Kansas Senate Advances Ge tty Bill and Raises Legislator Pay
The Kansas Senate met Monday after an overnight adjournment and amended the Get ty bill to take effect January 1, 1908. The house concurred in amendments by 91 to 24, awaiting the governor’s signature. A concurrent resolution to submit a constitutional amendment raising legislator pay to 500 dollars for regular sessions and 100 dollars for special sessions passed in the house. The house also passed a stock service bill requiring railroad livestock shipments to average fifteen miles per hour and voted to reapportion legislative districts.
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Senate
House
Legislature deadlock on transportation fare and oil bill
The senate messaged a two cent fare bill to the house where it was immediately taken up and amended to insert a two cent fare. After a back and forth, the bill was sent back to the senate and then laid over a day. Both chambers adopt resolutions, making a primary election bill appear unlikely. In committee, the Stannard bill fixing maximum oil transportation rates passed 47 to 44.
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Noftzger
House
Senate
Strické
A. Hage
Legislature votes to submit pay raise to voters
Senate passes concurrent resolution to submit legislature pay raise to general election with 34 to 0. Yukon exposition appropriation initially killed then reconsidered 22 to 15. Conferees named for two cent passenger fare bill. House battles over primary election legislation end in near rejection. many bills die. Widespread appropriations push total beyond 6.5 million. J R Burrows bill on corporation organization advances. District reapportionment bill killed. Warranted summons for 60+ absent House members issued by speaker. executions threatened if not returned by Monday.
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House
Senate
Seattle
Wilkerson
S. M. Porter
J. R. Burrows
House of Representatives
J. S. Simmons
Topeka
B. Dyer
Unknown remedy promises kidney relief with home mixture
A medical claim urges readers to use a homemade blend for kidney and bladder troubles. The recipe lists Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla with a teaspoonful dose after meals and at night, claiming quick relief and low cost.
Postage Stamp Paper Milled in Mechanic Falls Me
The United States buys nearly a million sheets of paper monthly from Mechanic Falls Maine for postage stamps. Each sheet holds 361 stamps and the firm processes requisitions for 1,000,000 sheets at a time.
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United States
Mechanic Falls
Allen's Foot-Ease Advertises Pain Relief
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure painful smarting feet and ingrown nails and to ease shoe discomfort. It claims relief for sweating feet, with a trial package offered free and a 25 cent price from druggists. Contact A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
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Allen'’S
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
Belgian King Prefers Traveling Incognito Above All
The Belgian monarch is described as the most fond traveler among European rulers, enjoying moving about in disguise and pursuing travel as a personal habit to the fullest extent.
Defiance Starch Sixteen Ounces for Ten Cents
Defiance starch offers a sixteen ounce package for ten cents while all other brands provide twelve ounces for the same money making Defiance the better value in the market.
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Defiance
Before and After in a Witty Campaign Exchange
A political candidate jokes with a voter about seeking an office in Washington. The voter arrives claiming to look for an office, and the congressman quips about various offices and then offers to direct him to a policeman. The scene ends with the congressman forgetting the voter until election day.
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Washington
Congress
Post Office
Patent Office
Weather Office
Chicago Daily News
Senator's Wife Harp Recital Delights Boston Guests
Mrs W A Clarke wife of a Montana senator performs a harp recital at their Massachusetts Avenue home entertaining guests with a skillful performance by a prominent musician.
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W. A. Clarke
Montana
Massachusetts Avenue
Grape Nuts Ad Promotes Health Across Family
An advertisement from Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan promotes Grape Nuts as a wholesome food for all ages. It cites a Philadelphia woman who improved her stomach trouble and her husband who recovered after starting the cereal. The family children prefer Grape Nuts for breakfast and the copy points to a booklet titled The Road to Wellville included in packages.
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Postum Co
Battle’ ‘Créek
Mich
Wellville
Dean's Kidney Pills Back Cure Endorsed by Swainsboro Merchant
John C. Coleman, a prominent Swainsboro, Georgia merchant, reports years of kidney trouble and a constant backache. He says Dean's Kidney Pills provided immediate relief and lasting improvement. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Dean
John C. Coleman
Swainsboro
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N
High Prices Paid for Pets Across The Market
A New York Press item notes a spinster paid 5000 dollars for a bulldog and a Massachusetts buyer secured an 8000 dollar cow. Walter Garvey rejects 4000 dollars for a hog while Keene refuses 200000 for Sysonby a famous racehorse. Roosters sell up to 800 dollars cats birds fish and even a tiger for 700. Calves and offspring add value with ideas of breeding worth large sums over time.
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Massachusetts
Walter“Garvey
James
N. Y. Press
Dr Williams Pink Pills Claim To Aid Debility In Women
An advertisement cites Dr Williams Pink Pills as a remedy for debility in women no acute disease, asserting improvement in hundreds of cases including Mrs. Sarah Ramsey of Litchfield. Ramsey describes post child birth symptoms and dizziness, nerve weakness, and cold extremities, noting relief after taking the pills. The pills are sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady New York with a free booklet on request.
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Williams
Sarah Ramsey
St. John
Litchfield
Eczema Relief Report From Hydropolis Reader
J M Robert of Hydropolis Louisiana shares a full recovery from three years of eczema after using the Cuticura Soap Ointment and Remedies set. He notes one hand and an eye were affected and that stopping use caused a relapse, but complete recovery followed the complete regimen. He praise and recommends it widely.
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Cuthura
J. M. Robert
Hydropolis
Destitution in St Helena Linked to Troop Withdrawals
A. G. Wise, secretary of the St Helena committee in London, says that after troop withdrawal the island faces bankruptcy and has left inhabitants with the sole occupation of catching rats. The government pays two cents for each rat caught.
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St. Helena
A. G. .Wise
London
Bank of England personnel and pension figures
Bank of England employs about 1,000 people. It pays 1.25 million dollars yearly in salaries and 175 thousand dollars yearly in pensions.
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Bank of England
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Mount Oread
Weill
Williams’. Plaik Pitts
Cuticura
National ‘Lead Company
Goa
Enten House
Cnt
Stinnal Lead
Nsion Wanscon'e
Buaminer U. 8
Pension Bureau
Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
New York
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Meda
Ease Len Cae
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