Miscellany of Kansas Notes and Local Oddities
A collage of brief Kansas items: Nortonville women seek first class dressmaker. Alma plans an electric light plant. a Ft. Scott man sues Missouri Pacific for 5000. Coon takes charge of Horse Shoe hotel in Muscotah. Arkansas City laments few state jobs. Emporia harp lessons for flattered youth. Corbin’s Iola grocery, not kin to adjutant general. Salina union and Republican Journal wed two printers. Lawrence wind mill saved by $25 gifts from 16 supporters unlikely. Baker commencement attendance by McKinley noted. Paola prize culverts program. Coolidge man seals whiskey habit with prepaid subs. Billy Patterson myth debunked. Peabody boy joins Uncle Tom’s Cabin orchestra. Hutchison man’s joke about whisky. Kankakee girls worth high prices, Kansas City chase to Atchison tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corbin
Iola
Funston
Fr. Scott
Salind
William A.” Hunt
Salina
Minnie ‘Likely
Republican Journal
Coolidge
Enterprise
Minneapolis Messenger
Billy
Patterson
Peabody
Kansas
Standard Oil Gains Control of Port Arthur Terminal Complex
Standard Oil announced it had bought the railroad terminals wharves shipping facilities and 90000 acres of land around Port Arthur. The purchase price was not disclosed. The move would let Standard Oil control domestic crude oil trade through Port Arthur to New Orleans and Galveston, challenging competition with pipelines and ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont Texas Oil, Exchange
Standard Oil
Port Arthur
Black Jack Hanged at Clayton for Train Robbery and Murder
Outlaw Thomas E. Ketchum alias Black Jack was executed at Clayton New Mexico beside a stockade for train robbery and murder. The headless body collapsed before the crowd as spectators watched the hanging. The ceremony followed a public execution setup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas E. Ketchum
Black Jack
Southwest
Clayton N. M
Audacious robbery nets $10,000 in gold at Anaconda
Two burglars forced the Alaska saloon door in Anaconda Montana and hauled a 300 pound safe to an express wagon. They broke the safe open after leaving the city and secured $10,000 in gold before escaping with no clue to their identities or whereabouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda
Mont
Alaska
Rich Mine Alleged on Eldorado Creek Dawners
Dawson and Tacoma reports describe a fabulously rich mine on Eldorado creek of Klondike. Gravel hoisted yields hidden nuggets ranging from a quarter to an ounce, with pans from the new pay streak producing up to fifty dollars and daily totals as high as two thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson
Tacoma
Washington
Elddorado Creek
Klondike
Lynching of Man Follows Abduction Near Elberton
Miss Rhoda Alexander, a Black woman, was assaulted by William Goolsby while fishing near Elberton Georgia. Friends reportedly freed Goolsby but later it was learned that he had been lynched and his body discarded in the Savannah River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Elberton
Rhoda Alexander
William Goolsby
Goolsby
Savannah River
Icarus Returns From South Seas Cruise
The Icarus has returned to Victoria, British Columbia, after a south seas cruise visiting American and British islands. Its captain reports talk in Tahiti about officers of the French cruiser Protet who carried off a number of native girls and took them aboard for a trip.
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Icarus
Victoria
B. C
South Seas
Tahiti
Protet
Berlin Times estimates dead and maimed in Griesheim explosion
The Berlin correspondent for the Times places the death toll at 75 to 80 with no doubt that at least 1150 were maimed or burned. He notes several injuries appear likely to prove fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
London ‘Times
Griesheim
Omaha Road Buys a Feeder
Officials of the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Omaha line meet in St Paul Minnesota and decide to purchase the Minneapolis Wisconsin railroad running north south through St Croix and Pierce Wisconsin for about 450000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, St. ‘Paul
Minneapolis & Omaha Road
St. Paul
Minn
Minneapolis’ & Wisconsin Railroad
St. Croix
Pierce
Wisconsin
Bloomington cigar maker shoots at Havana hardware store
C E Fitzgerald of Bloomington enters Harman & Sons Havana shop, selects and loads a revolver, then shoots himself at the salesman J L Graham, who dies minutes later. Reported life attempt on King Sieg Charles of Bucharest denied. palace arrest and jail placement noted.
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Bloomington
Ill
Harman & Sons
Havana
Graham
Ae Sieg
Charles
Bucharest
Peruna advertised as a cure for female ailments
The notice touts Peruna as a national remedy for women’s tiredness nerves and digestive issues. Testimonials claim it restores mucous membranes and overall health, with Dr Hartman offering free advice if results are unsatisfactory.
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Marie Coates
Marie Coats
Mia
al. Wetzel
South 17Th Street
Terre Haute
Ind
Peruna
Hartman
Hartman. Sanitarium
Columbus
Peruna praised by social circle in Washington
Miss Anne Bryan and Bertha Kockler vow Peruna and Manalin aid. Bryan, cousin of William Jennings Bryan, praises Peruna as a tonic and cure for catarrh in a Washington letter. Kockler reports weight gain and improved health after using Peruna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Washington, D. C
Miss Bryan
Fairmount Seminary
Washington, D.C
The
Perma-Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna Medicine Co
Anna Bryan
Garnett Street
Brooklyn
Peruna
Manalin
Bertha Kockler
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Bocandia
PUB
Nortonvillé
Alma
Ft. Scott
Missouri’ Pacific
Arkansas City
Board of Railroad” Commissioners
Emporia
Carruth
Lawrence
Papa
Baker University
Baldwin
McKinley
Paola
Commercial Club
Hutchison
Girard
Kankakee
Center Times
Atchison: ‘Globe
Topeka
Atchison
Santa Fe
Rock Rock Island
Missouri_Pacific
Kansas’ City
Rock Island
Missouri Pacific
Kansas ‘City
Texas Oil Field
Georgia
Omaha
Florida Avenue
N. W
Martin’ Schon
Emma
Colin
Jove
Pittston
Kansas City Journal
Niture
Phelps Brown
F Sroene
Sona
Atrial
Newburgh
W.N.U
Ee Ney
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