Kansas Notes A Mosaic Of Town News And Oddities
Topeka opens golf season while Olathe plans a new opera house. Wamego builds a 25000 dollar waterworks plant. Wellington displays Washington gravestones in conservatories. Atchison invites Colonel Jeltz for Fourth of July. Lawrence questions an electric streetcar plan. An Atchison man jokes debts unpaid. Belmont’s Sunday school superintendent marks fourteen years. Onaga girl shoots a cat in a strange tale. Emporia grad loses 60000 on Wall Street. Harpers hotel war serves strawberries on toast thrice daily. A 200 year old Irish spinning wheel travels to Clay Center. K U museum hunters seek a four legged chicken in Greenwood. Paola’s park hosts fourteen wild squirrels. South Winfield cemetery pastures town herds and stones fall. Leavenworth’s Kenyon marries his mother-in-law. Cave Springs lacks Sunday school so boys fish or sip seven up. Osage City sock socials reveal feet in Chicago. Alma sees a Texas steer cause a street melee. Cimarron hosts horse, foot, and bicycle races. Bonded paper at Card bondale, sermon length examined. Allan Swisher’s Gypsum Chronicle lauded by a boy. Wichita court halves divorce time with 15 minute verdicts. Canton aging totals reach 1117 years. Kansans may vote anywhere next year with affidavit. Nellie Took teaches fiddling in Atlanta earning 500 a month. Professor Huffman killed near Pittsburg. Beloit dented shirt waist headlines. Jaquins family wealth details. Jewel county spared from pests.
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Lawrence
Atchison
Mr. Wise
Saline
Belmont
Onaga
Minnie
Ketchim
Chicago
Emporia
Wall -Street
Ireland
K. U
Greenwood County
Paola
Cave Springs
Osage City
Alma
Cimarron
Garten
Famous Second Funerals and Historic Remains
A Chicago Record-Herald piece surveys notable second funerals and reinterments, from Napoleon at St Helena to Columbus, King Rene, and Cromwell remains. It notes public enthusiasm, witnesses like Thackeray, and details of vault openings and head severing.
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Napoleon J
St Helene
the Invalides
Paris
Louis Philippe
Prince de Joinville
St. Helena
Napoleon
Thackeray
Columbus
Havana
Seville
Reneat.Aglow
Charles I
Duchess of ‘Brunswick
George III
Charles
Cromwell
Henry VII
Westminster
Chicago Record- Herald
Word Blindness Strikes Philadelphia Man
Thomas R. Supplee of 1106 Poplar Street Philadelphia reports sudden loss of reading ability following a left head pain. Dr Frank Woodruff notes a rare amnesia type aphasia likely from a blood clot cutting blood flow to the brain. recovery possible.
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Thomas R. Supplee
Poplar Street
Philadelphia
Frank Woodruff
Medico Chirurgical College
Supplee
Chicago ‘Journal
Love Among the Convicts in Andaman Islands Marriages
A jail policy allows well behaved convicts to marry under certain rules. Last year the superintendent processed eighty eight marriage applications. fifty were approved while the rest were rejected for various reasons. In twelve cases the husband refused divorce.
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Andaman Islands
Madras
Montreal’ Herald
Ang Star
Ice Cakes Float Down to Woolwich Ice House
A Woolwich Maine man filled his ice house with cakes that floated down during a freshet. The crew watched for the blue cakes and floated them into the ice house.
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Woolwich
Four Sisters Aged 21 Present Themselves Separately
Four sisters registered from one ward at the city clerk's office in Salina Kansas presenting themselves separately. Each gave her age as twenty one.
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Salina
Fashionable New York women accused of cheating credit cards
The Baltimore American notes a sensational charge that elite New York women are cheating at cards, claiming the claim signals a collapse of social morals and a threat to the social fabric. The piece frames the accusation as a warning from the advanced social conscience.
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New York
Baltimore
English Cotton Spinners Face Hard Times in Trondon
In Trondon it is believed English cotton spinners endure severe hardship as trade slows after a peak, caused by high raw cotton costs, weak demand from India, and virtually halted purchases from China.
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Trondon
India
China
Printing Without Ink Promises Printing Reform
A new company forms to control printing without ink and predicts rapid revolution of old methods. The article praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy for dyspepsia indigestion biliousness daysomnia constipation and nervousness and claims it also prevents malaria fever and ague.
Longest Mile In World Swedish Mile Notion Discussed
A note from Exchange asserts the Swedish mile is the longest mile in the world. A traveler told he is about a mile from a desired point is advised to hire a horse for the 11 700 yard distance if he walks in ignorance.
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Sweden
Grain-O Food Drink Promoted as Coffee Substitute
Advert shows Grain-O as a new drink from puré grains that imitates mocha color and tastes, safe for children and adults, with no distress. It claims to replace coffee at 15 or 25 cents per package and urges readers to ask their grocer for Grain-O.
Primacy of Funeral Debts Law Sparks Estate Pay Order
New York passes a law making funeral expenses payable from the deceased's estate before other debts. The measure may promote simpler funeral displays and aid undertakers. Also advertised are Virftuama tablets claimed to cure brain-fung and debility, with pricing and pharmacy distribution details.
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New York
Gala Day for San Francisco May 18 Ohio Launch
The Ohio will be launched at San Francisco on May 18 with the state contingent in force. A special train is secured and three or more drawing room sleepers will be provided, likely plus one composite car.
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San Francisco
Ho for Oklahoma new land sale and Morgan alerts
Advertisement notes land opening in Oklahoma Territory with Morgan's Manual and supplement. Proclamation and map showing allotments offered for 50 cents for the supplement and map. Agents sought for Perry Oklahoma. Humorous quip about spring bonnet and household finances appears in the copy.
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Oklahoma
New Lande
Morgan
Morgan, Perry
O. T
Beemans Pepsin Gum Endorsed for Digestion Aid
An old advertising snippet touts Beeman's Pepsin Gum as a remedy for digestion while warning against self praise and flattery as false polish. The fragment reflects period ad language and humor about vanity.
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Kansas
Topeka
Olathe
Wamego
Washington
Wellington
Jeltz
Winfield
George B. Kenyon
Leavenworth
Congregational Church
Carbondale
Printers Ink
Allan Swisher
Gypsum Chronicle
South Dakota
Canton Township
McPherson County
Nellie Tiook
Babetha
Atlanta
Clarence N. Huffman
Chicopee
Pittsburg
Beloit
Jaquins
Jewell County
Orny
Kidd Drug Co
Rigg
O Street
Lincoln
Neb
Prigo
Beeman
Mrs.Pinkham
Pinkham
Ella Rice
Chelsea, Wis
Mrs. Proznam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Eva Rier
ARBES
National City Bank
Lynn
Mass
Lupia E. Pinknam
Bens Dyn
Standard Oil. ‘Company
Vat
Aartial
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