Health's Sake Exposes Food Adulteration in Big Cities
The piece warns on food adulteration by unscrupulous dealers, noting spices, oils, fish, and sauces adulterated with coal tar and other substitutes. It cites distinct cases in Philadelphia and midwestern cities, and urges buying from trusted local dealers to avoid poisoning risks and legal penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Connecticut
Food Commission
Food Department
Philadelphia
Middle West
Trade's Great Magnet Advertisers and Merchants
A historical piece argues that newspapers drive commerce through advertising. It praises the power of ad space to build fortunes, warns against mail order monopolies, and urges merchants to use clear, attractive ads with concrete details and persistent weekly updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
United States
Proverb Pair Reflects Guest Insight and Learning Effort
A Polish proverb notes a guest observes more in an hour than a host in a year, while a German saying warns some prefer easy eating over effort to learn. The pair contrasts hospitality perception with valuing knowledge.
The Premium Plans in Trust Marketing
The piece critiques trust practices in premium schemes where consumers exchange coupons for certificates and prizes. It notes customers pay extra for scoops or shovels and bear shipping costs, with premiums funded by buyers rather than manufacturers. It urges buying goods on merit and price, not prize incentives.
Overcrowded Fields Open Challenge for Small Town Merchants
The piece argues mail order houses erode country trade, urging small town merchants to modernize or quit. It notes limited population towns support few stores, overcrowding from eager entrants, higher freight costs in some cases, and calls for better location choices and sound business principles to avoid failure and harm to the town.
Advertising Pays Off Against Competition Says Merchant
The article argues that advertising is essential in modern business and that merchants who dismiss it as wasteful fall behind competitors. It notes that crossroad stores in pioneer country may survive without it, but in the larger market up to date methods are required.
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John Jones
Unavailing Weather Protest Cited in Washington St
A fragmented reading notes weather complaints with lines about persistent heat in summer and cold in winter, set against a Washington Street scene. The text reflects a mood of futility and protest in verse form within a historic newspaper fragment.
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Washington St
Spanish War Ends. Ellis County to Help Stranger
An Ellis County attorney general opinion says a Spanish laborer injured in Tullon and cared for by Union Pacific physicians is entitled to county aid. The county should cover medical costs and ensure steady care, with state resources sufficient for the destitute as he recovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Ellis County
Tullon
Union Pacific
New Gas Line Starts at Gas City with Long Pipe Run
Eleven cars of gas pipe unloaded at Missouri Kansas & Texas depot Gas City as workmen begin a 20 mile line from Kansas Portland Cement plant to a new gas field. More casing cars arrive from Yonker Indiana with 139 to come. Suits total 267000 filed in McPherson against Parker Grain Co and family including banks for 58422.97 80000 and 14000. Parker Grain operates six elevators and trades grain with a Kansas City link under J F Parker Grain.
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Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Gas City
Kansas Portland Cement Plant
Cleveland
Yonker
Ind
Parker Grain Company
McPherson
H. Parker Grain Company
National Bank of Commerce For
Kansas City
Santa Fe Railway Company
People’s State Bank of
H. Parker Grain’ Company
J. F. Parker Grain Company
Fifty Kansas counties send no prisoners to state penitentiary
A Kansas report states fifty counties did not send any prisoners to Lansing during the past fiscal year while Wyandotte led with 20 inmates and Montgomery 15. Geary followed with 10 and Riley with one. Total prisoners transported: 207. Daily conveyance and board costs totaled 4700 dollars.
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Kansas
Lansing
Wyandotte
Montgomery
Geary
Riley
Militia Praised After Ft Riley Redoubt Action
Kansas National Guard troops and officers earned high praise from regulars for their performance in the final assault on the redoubt at Ft. Riley during the maneuvers.
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Kansas
Ft. Riley
Kansas National Guard
Topeka Endorses Military Road Plan From Fort Riley to Fort Leavenworth
Congressman D R Anthony and W M Price chief engineer of the office of public roads toured Topeka to inspect proposed routes for a military road connecting Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth. A Topeka commercial club meeting endorsed the project.
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D. R. Anthony
W. M. Price
Office of Public Roads
Department‘ of Agriculture
Washington
Topeka
Fort Riley
Fort Leavenworth
Reed and Basnett Bound Over for Murder Trial
John T. Reed and T. J. Basnett of Ravanna have been bound over to Finney county district court for trial on the charge of murdering William H. Browning.
Stocking Streams with Bass by State Fish Commissioner
Under direction of State Fish Commissioner Travis 6000 large black bass from Saddler's hatchery in Butler County were released into the Walnut West Branch and Fall rivers. Travis plans further stocking of Kansas streams with black bass and catfish and aims to release Hungarian partridges this winter. Chinese pheasants from last fall are multiplying rapidly.
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Travis
Saddler
Butler County
Walnut
West Branch
Fall River
Kansas
Knights of Honor Elect Kansas Grand Officers in Topeka
At a meeting of the grand lodge for Kansas held in Topeka the Knights of Honor elected officers. William Dill of Leavenworth was named grand dictator S B Riggs of Emporia grand reporter Wil Ham Cunningham of Humboldt grand treasurer Newman Waring of Ottawa assistant dictator Willis Edson of Topeka and George Marsh R D Thomas and J T Black were chosen grand trustees.
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Knights of Honor
Grand Lodge
Knights of Honor For
Kansas
Topeka
William Dill
Leavenworth
S. B. Riggs
Emporia
Wil Ham . Cunningham
Humboldt
Newman Waring
Ottawa
Willis Edson
George Marsh
R. D. Thomas
J. T. Black
Doan's Kidney Pills End Backaches Says Mrs Moore
Mrs. S A Moore owner of a Wa terville Missouri restaurant testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieved her year and a half of kidney troubles. She reports back and head pain fatigue and urinary distress improved after a few doses and credits the pills with the cure. Sold at all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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S.A. Moore
Waterville
Doan
Mean
Foster
Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
On Wit and Humor and the Value of Starch in Laundry
The piece contrasts Hazlitt thoughts on laughter and tears with notes on white goods and laundry care. It extols Defiance Starch for improving the look of textiles through proper starching and home laundering.
Tough Proposition
A brief dramatic exchange from the Louisville Courier Journal features characters cursing a difficult situation and a whispered remark about the devil’s interest, signaling tension and a moment of comic banter.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Cure claim for nervous diseases advertised locally
An advertisement touts a permanent cure for fits St Vitus Vance and all nervous diseases with Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. It offers a free trial bottle for $2 and a treatise from Dr K H Kine Sd at 931 Arch St Philadelphia. It ends with a weather proverb about ill winds and predictions.
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St. Vitus Vance
Kline
K. H. Kine
Arch St
Philadelphia
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad and Tobacco Note
An old advertisement snippet touts Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product urging shoppers to keep clothes white. It also includes an optimistic cigar promo for Lewis' Factory Peoria Illinois and a quip about love and indigestion.
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Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
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Western
Canada
Saskatcheewan
Alberta
Manitoba
North-West Provinces
J. S. Crawford
Ninth Street
Kansas City, Missouri
Carters
Wittle Iver
Johar
Jamestow Exposition
Old Virginia
Norfolk and Western Ry
St. Louis
Chicago
Toledo
Cincinnati
Norfolk
W. E. Hazlewood
State Life Bldg
Indianapolis
Allen Hull
D. P.A
W. B. Bevill
Columbus
Ohio
Roanoke
Virginia
Army
Navy
W. E. Moses
California Building
Denver
Colo
Infants
Fen
Bears
Castoria
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