Kansas Notes Mix of Townsquirks and Rural News
A collage of Kansas notes reports quirky local happenings across counties from Cowley to Ottawa. Stories mention a camera club in Lawrence, Abilene officials resigning, rural mail boxes in Dickinson, and a long list of humorous incidents including a Meade barber with porcelain baths and foxing state news as far as Chanute and Cherryvale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowley
Lawrence
Camera Club
Abilené
Saliha
Treasury
Wellington
Ottawa
Chanute
Dickinson ‘County
Banner City
Emporia
Lucky Logan
Abilene
Ealing Broomcorn
Cheyenne County
St. Paul
Ulysses
Miami County
Cyrus Leland
Russell
Jewell County
Burington
Roosevelt
Topeka
Meade County
Salina
Salina Union
Missouri
Winfield
Isaac Hahn
Osborn County
Chillcott
Dr. Daily
Henthorne
Grant County
The Impatient Young Man Chooses A Messenger Over Love
In a Chicago Record-Herald style scene Sita laments going to a club dance with the wrong man because the right one is slow. Her mother notes the issue of presumption and suggests messenger boy tactics as a clever, practical solution to date conflicts.
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Sita
Chicago Record-Herald
Dodd's Kidney Pills Relieve Longstanding Backache
Mrs. Lydia Parker of Grand View Iowa reports years of backache and sudden fits when stooping. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills she recovered fully, with no back trouble for months and praises the cure as permanent and recommending them to others with lame backs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand View
Iowa
Lydia Parker
Dodd
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Internal Remedy
A historical advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional blood disease and must be treated internally. It touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a prescription remedy from reputable physicians, emphasizing tonics and blood purifiers, and offers testimonials and a 7 cent price through F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Woman's sphere and cures border on public taste
A jumble of promotional lines and quips from 1900 includes a Trinity Springs Ind endorsement on February 18 1900 crediting a woman’s proper sphere as shopping while praising Piso's Cure for Consumption for coughs and colds. It touts Red Cross Ball Blue laundry products and a 2107 package at five cents. An ice wagon joke and Dr Kline's nerve restorer offer free trial bottles. The page reflects era advertising and social commentary with branding from Kings Ltd Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loun
Borun
Trinity Springs
Ind
Dr. Kline
R. HH. Kings, Ltd
Arch
Philadelphia
Stops and Cough Remedies and Teething Syrup Notes
The column lists Cough and Cold remedies including Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets at 25 cents and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain. It also contains quips on tobacco, a remark about sportsmen seeking games of chance, and a busybody defined as a time-waster pointing out others duties.
Pershing Forces Storm Seven Moro Strongholds in Mindanao
Manila dispatch reports Captain John Pershing and the Fifteenth Infantry meeting light resistance as they advance through Mindanao. They capture seven Moro forts at Goan, Bayaboa, Sanir, and Pantnan, with twenty five Moros killed and twenty wounded. No American casualties. Pershing plans an attack on Macin. General Sumner sends additional rations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
John Pershing
Fifteenth Infantry
Minanao
Pershig
Samuel S. Sumner
Camp Vicars
Goanan
Bayaboa
Sanir
Pantnan
Cali
Butig
Macin
Pershing
Sumner
Captain Pershing
Younger Brothers Seek Unconditional Pardon in Minnesota
In Minneapolis freed Younger brothers Coleman and James, after twenty five years parole, await an unconditional pardon. They live modestly in St Paul and Minneapolis, longing to return to Missouri while noting Minnesota has reduced their life sentences and insisting they never sought a pardon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Dispatch
Coleman
James
Jackson County
Missouri
Northfield
Stillwater
St.Paul
Jesse James
Minnesota
James Younger
Falls Under the Wheels in Nebraska Train Yard Fatality
In Bartley Nebraska on September 23 Conductor J T Brady was crushed by train No 64 as it passed through the yards. The body lay along the track for about a hundred yards before crew found it after three trains had passed. Brady resided in McCook and had worked for Burlington for years. He had just returned from burying a brother in Peoria Illinois who died in a streetcar accident.
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Bartley
McCook
Brady
Burlington
Peoria
United States to Withdraw Troops From Cuba
The U S government must end its authority in Cuba. President Estrada Palma has asked that American troops in Cuba be withdrawn. The decision hinges on Cuba's ability to defend its coast with eight Coast Artillery companies remaining, a matter to be discussed with President Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cuba
War Department
Department of State
Estrada Palma
Squires
State Department
Root
Roosevelt
West
Stockman Detained for Insanity Examination
A young stockman from Dunning Blaine county identified as Morris McDonald left a Burlington stock train at Lincoln to escape visions described as demons of imagery. He had twenty six head of cattle aboard and, after jumping from the train, wandered to the police station where he is held awaiting insanity commission examination.
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Morris McDonald
Dunning
Blaine County
Omaha
Lincoln
McDonald
Burlington
David
Tailor John Linroot Loses Arm In Night Accident
John Linroot a Villisca Iowa tailor lost his left arm below the elbow in an accident at Pacific Junction around 10 PM Monday. He was found later and taken to Dr. Livingston's Plattsmouth Nebraska office. Amputation was necessary. He is 53 and not believed to be a tramp. cause remains unclear, possibly sleeping near the track.
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John Linroot
Villisca
Pacific Junction
Livingston
Plattsmouth
Neb
Tery
Elevator Boy Dies After 25 Foot Fall at Herpolsheimer's
John Guerin a fourteen year old employed in the mail order department at Herpolsheimer's fell twenty five feet into the building elevator shaft on Saturday evening. He died within hours from a fractured skull behind the right ear after being removed to the basement.
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John Guerin
Guerin
Want Uniform Wages From Milling Workers Meet
The convention of the international flour employes opened Monday morning in Minneapolis Minnesota to form an association for mill workers in the United States and Canada. It aims to secure a uniform scale of wages and hours across milling cities.
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the International Flour
Minneapolis
Minn
United States
Canada
Miss Jessie Stephenson’s Rheumatism Relief with St Jacobs Oil
Miss Jessie Stephenson of Aberdeen writes that rheumatism left her unable to dress without crying out. After using St Jacobs Oil, she improved after two bottles and can work again. She praises the remedy as conquering pain and urges others troubled by rheumatism to try it.
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Jessie Stephen
Hartington Road
Aberdeen
St. Jacobs
St.Jacobs
Oriental Honesty Among Philadelphia Bachelors Stirring Tale
A Philadelphia bachelor, returning from the Pacific coast, employed a Chinaman as a valet after San Francisco friends praised oriental servants. The valet kept a found half dollar as evidence of honesty, then claimed he kept a scarf pin he found, saying he kept it for his honesty.
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Philadelphia
Pacific “Coast
San Francisco
the Times
Burdock Blood Bitters Claim Eases Dreadful Breakout
Miss Julia Filbridge of West Cornwell Conn praises Burdock Blood Bitters for curing a severe body breakout. The ad-like note ends with a blunt line about self-promotion in newspapers.
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Burdock
Julia Filbridge
West Cornwell, Conn
Defiance Starch Promoted as Superior Value
Advert says Defiance Starch is choicest for every household with 16 ounces in a pack and price equal to 12 ounce competitors. Claims it outperforms rivals and jokes about rheumatism and betting on favorites.
Dr Thomas Electric Oil and Defiance Starch Ad Blend
An old ad style item touts Monarch over pain with Dr Thomas Electric Oil promising instant relief for burns cuts sprains and stings. It also promotes Defiance Starch as superior and widely available. The copy notes widows may mask sorrow despite outward calm.
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Thomas
Mitchell Rules Out Conference With Mine Operators
Mitchell says he will not meet operators or their reps that morning as the strike continues with conditions unchanged. He notes many cases of destitution and near starvation among miners, but adds contributions are arriving to sustain them, while he refuses to compromise. Morgan and Governor Stone are mentioned in the exchange.
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Mitchell
Walt
Morgan
Stone
Wilkesbarre
Steamer Kensington Tests Oil Fuel On Atlantic Run
The steamer Kensington arrived in New York from Southampton after shakedown at Newcastle where an oil fuel plant was installed. An initial voyage showed success using oil, with a full endurance test planned on the return trip to New York.
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Kensington
New York
Southampton
Newcastle
England
Murder verdict for Faircloth and Smith in Bronson killing
A jury convicts Thomas Faircloth and Theodore Smith of first degree murder in the Bronson Florida case involving Mr. and Mrs. L B Lewis. They are sentenced to be hanged once death warrants are issued by the governor.
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Thomas Faircloth
Theodore Smith
L. B. Lewis
Bronson
Fla
Armenian Union Leader Seeks U S Help for Armenians in Turkey
Americans appeal Ardashes H. Keleian president of the Armenian national union composed of twenty thousand Armenians in America has written a lengthy letter to Secretary of State John Hay requesting intervention with the European powers on behalf of Armenians in Turkey basing arguments on the secretary’s note regarding Roumanian Jews.
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Ardashes H.‘ Keleian
Armenian National ‘Union
America
John Hay
Turkey
rTe- Rea
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Kansas
Sorrentino
Hag
Cherryvaie
MOROS
Tured
Palma
Stockman
Daffy
Voses
Defiance
Kkimball-Bros
St. Council Blut
Hamlins
Pvale Druggists
Seud
Telegraph College
Chicago
Allen Moore
Chillicothe. MO
Witten
Frewean
Alternati Conner
U Isears, Roebuck &Co
Ghidago
Ghbor Wow
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