Kansas Notes Snapshot of Local Happenings and Quips
A kaleidoscope of small-town items from Kansas: Mullenville seeks a bank, Greensburg to gain a phone line, Manchester reports whooping cough, Wellington eyes a dog poisoning fiend, Parsons endures a $50 fire from mice and matches, and Hutchinson claims a near‑break-even jubilee. Tales include a blind Greensburg peddler, Chanute cigarette taxes, a Osage county catfish, and north Topeka’s electric repair latency. Stories weave through wheat harvest delays, free mail delivery, local mischief, protests, lawsuits, and humorous local color from many towns.
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Mullenville
Greensburg
Manchester
Wellington
Parsons
Coffey Brothers
Osage County
Hutchinson
Yates Center
North -Topeka
McPherson County
Olathe
Labette County
Lightning Creek
Cherokee County
White City
Woodson County
Woodson
Congressman Miller
Kaw
Chanute
Montgomery County
Packing firm plans million dollar Kansas City plant
The United States Packing company formed in Colorado in 1902 seeks a Kansas City packing plant with $1 750 000 already subscribed. James H Peabody is president. John W Springer helped spur the creation at a Kansas City convention. Investors include western bankers merchants and a labor union in the east with 26000. The move unites cattlemen retailers consumers under a new independent company to rival the beef trust.
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Kansas City
United States Packing Company
Colorado
Beef Trust
Charles F. Martin
James H. Peabody
United States Company
National Livestock Association
John W. Springer
John Dickey
East
Forest Reserve tree planting expands to two reserves
The Bureau of Forestry planted 100000 pine seedlings on 80 acres and sowed seed on 20 acres in the Dismal River sand hills Nebraska. The Niobrara reserve and Dismal River reserve totaling 212000 acres will be surveyed this summer. A separate Bartlett tract in Vermejo valley near Trinidad is set for forest management with a four man party under Yale forest school.
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Dismal River Forest Reserve
Nebraska
Bureau of Forestry
Bureau
Niobrara
Dismal River
Niobrara Reserve
EB. J. S. Moore
William H. Bartlett
Chicago
Colorado
Bartlett
Spain Tragedy at Bilbao Train Wreck Leaves Hundreds Dead
A Madrid dispatch reports one hundred bodies extricated from the Bilbao train wreck after the derailment into the Nievrille river on Saturday night. About seventy more remain, with rescue hampered by civil and military authority clashes. Wealthy victims are noted by the large sums of money and jewelry found by gendarmes.
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Spain
Bilboa
Nejerille
Madrid
Russian Crop Report Signals Broad Growth Across European Russia
Damp warm weather last month boosted crop yields across European Russia with exceptions in Vovogorod Psovk and areas including Vilne Viteshk Grodno and Baltic provinces. Prospects are strong in the southwest and central regions with the Volga area offering satisfactory outlook except in several extreme northeast districts. Winter and summer wheat oats and barley show better overall prospects than rye.
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European Russia
Vovogorod
Psovk
Vilne
Viteshk
Grodno
Baltic
Volga
Western trips planned by foreign diplomats to study American west
Since President Roosevelt’s western trip diplomats plan tours across the continent to engage with Americans and consular officers. Italian ambassador Signor Des Planches will visit San Francisco Seattle Chicago St Paul Omaha Denver Salt Lake City Helena and other western cities. Similar tours are planned by Baron Speck von Sternberg the German ambassador M Juesserand the French ambassador Senor Ojeda and Chinese minister Chien Tung Lian Chen.
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Roosevelt
West
America
Signor Mayor
Des Planches
Washington
San Francisco
Seattle
Chicago
St. Paul
Omaha
Denver
Salt Lake City
Helena
Baron Speck
von ‘Sternberg
M. Juesserand
Senor Ojeda
Chien Tung Lian Chen
Great West
Kansas City Employers to Fight Union Labor Laws
The Kansas City Employers' Association with about eight thousand members broadens its battle to strike down city laws seen as pro union. It targets contracts to union shops only, the eight hour rule, and licensing exams run by a board of union men.
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Kansas City
Conference on Louisiana Purchase Exposition Funding
Governor Francis president of the exposition led by W H Thompson treasurer and D M Houser vice president met Secretary Shaw to discuss releasing a 5 million appropriation. The company has spent nearly all 10 million required before payment, aiming to learn preliminary steps to secure funds and will not formally demand the grant until the 10 million is fully expended.
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Francis
W. H. Thompson
D. M. Houser
Shaw
Congress
Exposition Company
New Chicago Terminal La Salle Street Station Opens July 12
A new Chicago railway passenger terminal at Van Buren and La Salle streets will open July 12. Trains on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Lake Shore Michigan Southern and Nickel Plate lines arriving after midnight July 11 or departing after that time will use the new building.
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Chicago
Chicago Railway
la Selle Street
van Buren and
la Salle Streets
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Nickle Plate
July Grand Jury to Probe Boodler Charges in Missouri
In Jefferson City a July grand jury will investigate boodler charges with preliminaries arranged though Judge Hazel is absent for several days. The move aims to supplement St. Louis investigations and likely yield additional indictments beyond those there.
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Jefferson City
Hazel
St. Louis
St Louis
Boston Man Lives To See His Second Century
Thomas Grimes of South Boston dies at 101 after a ten day illness. Born March 4 1802 in Dublin Ireland he immigrated to America in 1834 and settled in Boston. He recalled early steamships the Savannah Waterloo Napoleon exile and carrying the Irish banner in Faneuil Hall.
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Boston
Thomas Grimes
Boston Globe
Mr. Grimes
Dublin
Ireland
Grimes
Duivetogol
Savannah
Liverpool
Waterloo
Napoleon
St. Helena
America
New York
South Boston
Faneuil Hall
O’ Flaherty
Broadway
Fremont man caught stealing goods from Hansen's store
Louis Larson was caught taking crockery eggs and a keg of herring from L. P. Hansen's grocery. Clerk Mark Morrison alerted authorities and restrained Larson until arrest. Larson agreed to leave town and was not prosecuted. Also noted is a U.S. State Department report on a Mexico tariff delaying a price spike to protect American corn exports, with Ambassador Powell Clayton negotiating with Mexico's prime minister and President Diaz.
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Fremont
Neb
Louis Larson
L. P. Hansen
Mark Morrison
Larson
State Department
Department
United States
Powell Clayton
Mexico
Clayton
Mariscal
Ater
Diaz
Glare of bicycle lamp startles lion on Mashonaland road
On a moonlit Mashonaland road a cyclist fleeing a lion stops, shines a bright headlamp in the animal’s face, and the startled king of beasts bolts into the jungle. The rider, renewed by fear and fuel, continues toward civilization.
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Mark Twain
National Museum Plans Move Ahead With Millions Investment
Plans in Washington call for a new 3.5 million dollar building to house the government scientific collections. Regents of the Smithsonian will reorganize exhibits across the National Museum, Smithsonian, and library and art holdings. The new museum will focus on biology anthropology geology zoology botany and American history and aim to rival the Victoria and Albert Museum. The present National Museum will showcase industrial art including its vast collection while new departments cover land transportation boat models war implements and electrical devices. The project includes a future grand library and art gallery with the Smithsonian library expanding its role. The structure would be 486 feet long 345 feet wide and four stories high.
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National Museum
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Smith‘sonian Institution
Smithsonian
Smithsonian and National Museum Library
Great British Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum of
Great Britain
Up-to-date author boasts of rapid literary success
An author boasts his starting capital was a bottle of ink pens paper and stamps. He now employs a secretary two servants and ten typewriters to work eight hours daily. He aims to publish new novels by the fast mail and swears his genius requires no leisure.
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Kansas
Colony
Hutchinson
Wamego Agriculturalist
Mendelssohn
Lohengrin
Tom McNeal
Spanish Grapes Ship to America Adds Large Harvest
The Spanish company exports 300 000 barrels of Almefia grapes to the United States each autumn, distributing a vast seasonal shipment to American markets.
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America
United States
Pat's Capability and Ashes Charge
A village garbage cart owner Pat quotes a price of Livin dollars an a half per load for ashes. The speaker notes the expected quantity is five or six loads, while Pat cheerfully assures he can make ten loads out of the pile without bother.
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Pat
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