Kansas Notes Review of Local Events and People
A mosaic of Kansas items notes a Grainfield to Grove City mail run, Kiowa poultry sellers, Salina jointists fined, Santa Fe track length, Labette County transport costs, Hullinger named Dickinson high principal, and Wheat yields. It reports annexation talk, Eldorado book issues, and a surge in Kansas stamp book sales, plus Merriam and Toledo lore, smallpox in Clearwater, Rough Riders’ postwar plans, and a Topeka insurance reward tale. Governor Eskridge’s illness ends work temporarily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
James ‘A. Walker
Merriam
Shawnee Mission
Quantrell
Missouri
Westport
Clearwater
Cliff
Scott
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Buffalo Bill
New York
Bill
Paris
Avard
Topeka
Benjamin’ Vance
Kentucky
Shawnee County
Eskridge
Evolution of the Republican Party from Federalist Roots
A concise historical overview traces the Republican party from early Federalist and Conservative origins through to its 19th century evolution. It details caucus nominations, state and national conventions, and key figures such as Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Blaine, Harrison, McKinley, and Hobart. It notes shifts from Federalists to Whigs to Republicans and outlines major platforms and endorsements across decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Congress
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Washington
Hamilton
Treasury
Adams
Slactorate
Federallata
Philadelphia
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Whig Party
Baltimore
Henry Clay
Theodore Frelinghuysen
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Taylor
Harrigan
Winfield Scott
William A. Graham
North Carolina
Daniel Webster
Republic
Republican Party
Free Soil Party
Whigs
John C. Freemont
William A. Dayton
Oregon
Nomi
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Chicago
Grant
Schuyler Colfax
Exposition Building
Lake Front
Joseph R. Hawley
Henry Wilson
Thomas Settle
Cincinnati
Horace Greeley
B. Gratz Brown
Greeley
Brown
Louisville
Charles O’connor
John Quincy Adams
Rutherford B. Hayes
William A. Wheeler
New York
Edward McPherson
James A. Garfield Waa
Chester A. Arthur
Senator Hoard
James G. Blaine
John A. Logan
John B. Henderson
Benjamin Harrison
Levi P. Morton
M. Estee
California
Republicna
Minneapolis
Whitelaw Reid
William McKinley
St. Louisa
Wiliam McKinley
Garret A. Hobart
Curious Package Reveals Poison in Medicine. Detection Urged
A woman handling a package marked quinine took it to a druggist who identified arsenic. The incident sparks a caution about testing medicines and the need to distinguish truth from false remedies. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters touted for indigestion and dyspepsia. A dentist’s claim to extract teeth painlessly is noted.
Preventive cement coatings ward off schoolroom disease
A newspaper notice urges walls of schools churches and hospitals be coated with a pure cement like Alabastine to disinfect and discourage disease. It promotes the product with cost parity and easy renewals, includes a binder twine mail-in price offer, and lists other consumer ads for foot powder and remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Stans, Harpock& Co
Binder Twine Department
Chicago
The Health of Young Women by Mrs Pinkham
Letters from young women praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier for irregular menses, cramps, and headaches. Mary Gates of Aptos reports relief and regular cycles after use. Marina Jensen of Ogdensburg credits three bottles of each remedy with ending severe sideaches and dizziness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prixeau
Mies Mary Gouxzs
Aptos
Cal
Lydia BH
Pinkham
Phills
Marina Jensen
Box
Ogdensburg, Wis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grainfield
Grove City
Kiowa
Salina
Santa Fe
San Francisco
Labette
Reform School
OW. Hullinger
Kansas City
Ranan
Dickinsson County
Lawrence Journal
Wyandotte County
Arkansas Valley Sentinel
Syracuse
Hutchinson
Eldorado
Orient Railway
Missouri Pacific
Wichita
St. Louis
I Y
Jony
Fhurston
Matthew
Quay
Pennsylvana
John
Shou
Mark Hanna
Henry ¢ Payne
Wisconsin
Venezuela
Quelican
Powell Powell
Slayton
Hood
America
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Mags
Pannen
Riceville
Lincoln
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