Kansas Notes Bright Hiawatha boys enter Yale year
A mosaic of small town Kansas items notes Hiawatha boys headed for Yale, local windmill and well sinking, Angora goats at Brown county fair, a Wathena man with 400 bearing pear trees, and various oddities from Ottawa to Atchison. It reports prideful yard anecdotes, petty crime, and farm earnings like $6200 from alfalfa.
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Hiawatha
Yale
Parsons
Nedsho County
Florence
Downs
Russell
Toronto
W. R.C
Brown County
Hamilton County
Smith County
Ellis County
Cheery
Gayias
Little River
Osborne County
Ottawa
Wellington
Lize Polly
Louisburg
Atchison
Chanute
Missouri Valley Ball League
Jewel County
Cowley County
Etta
Gil
Chase
Elmdale
Franklin Couty
Ben Murdock
Eldorado
Lawrence World
Unfortunate Greenwich Workhouse Walleting Public Funds
A new Greenwich workhouse costing nearly 875000 dollars is deemed a white elephant. Built under local government pressure, it remains largely unused after a law change broadened outdoor relief. The old workhouse now suffices, making the costly new building a monument to hasty public spending.
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Greenwich
England
White Elephant
Guardians of the Poor
Loca Government Board
Man praises Dods Kidney Pills in Morenci notice
Mr J S Whitehead of Morenci Michigan writes a publication letter praising Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says he suffered severe pains and could not rise from a chair for days but after seven to eight months of use he found great relief and urges others to try the remedy.
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Morenci
Mich
Dodd
Nonsense and Household Ads in a 1900 Broadsheet
A collage of campaigny quips and patent medicine pitches from a 1900 issue, urging Defiance Cold Water Starch 16 oz for 10 cents, Piso’s Cure, Dr Fowler’s Extract, Red Cross Blue to keep whites bright, and Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children, with quips about temper, marriage, and fashion sprinkled among product claims. Contains multiple brand names, counties, and tugging social lines typical of era consumer pages.
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Defiance
Laborers charge public interest men with law violation
Ten warrants were sworn for the arrest of Horace G Burt president of the Union Pacific and W Arnett chief of the employment bureau. Burt was arrested and released on $1000 bond. Attorneys Edson Rich and Charles Dundy represent him. Workers say they were lured to Omaha by false strike claims and promised 32 to 39 cents an hour with meals. They claim in Council Bluffs doors were barred to exit from cars.
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Burt
Union Pacific
Union
Pacific Railroad Company
W. Arnett
Omaha
Horace ‘G. Burt
Edson Rich
Charles Dundy
Council Bluffs
Indianapolis
Army and Navy Wedding of MacArthur’s Daughter
Miss Mary H. Mac Calla, daughter of Capt and Mrs, marries in a ceremony linking Army and Navy families. The groom is the son of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, highlighting a union of high military lineages. Guest list details and venue not fully readable in the fragment.
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Gen. MacArthur
Capt. McCalla
Mary H. MacCalla
McArthur
Bowman H. McCalla
Arthur MacArthur
Winslow
MacArthur
All Saints’ Memorial Chapel
Newport
Henry Morgan Stone
Trinity Church
Army Officer Armes Repeats Eccentric Acts in Washington
Major Armes, a well known Washington figure, has long courted sensational incidents. He has been court martialed repeatedly and accused cabinet officials, halted parades, and created public disturbances over a thirty year span. He was shot at his summer home by an evicted hotel lessee, amid ongoing legal actions including a breach of promise suit two years ago.
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Armes
Washington
E Major Armes
St Jacobs Oil Ad Prompts Word Of Mouth Relief
An advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as rapidly relieving muscular rheumatism. It cites Margaret Lee of Brightfield road Green Wis who claims long term relief after trying various remedies. The copy emphasizes customer recommendations as proof and notes 25 and 50 cent bottle sizes sold by druggists.
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St. Jacobs
Gil
St. Jacobs Oil
Margaret Lee
Brightfield
Green
Wis
Across the Atlantic in 48 Hours Prediction
Sir Robert Bond premier of Newfoundland predicts the Atlantic crossing will soon be done in forty four hours and the voyage from New York to London could be completed in forty four hours.
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Atlantic
Robert Bond
Newfoundland
New York
London
Old Tower law and drunkards in Iowa asylum reform
A fragmented report discusses a Iowa measure called the old Tower law aiming to cure habitual drunkards through insanity asylums. Proponents claim reforming drinkers strengthens citizenship and urge expansion of asylums and adoption of similar laws nationwide.
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Old Tower
Nec
Towa
Doan's Kidney Pills Proclaimed Cure by 50000 Readers
Fifty thousand people interviewed at home report kidney pill cures with Doan's. Free offer prompts many to try as they claim relief from backache, sleeplessness, and dropsy signs. Pills said to dissolve urinary gravel and correct urine. readers invited to mail a coupon to Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Buffalo, N.Y
Coash
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Dean
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Allen S. Olmsted
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Defiance Starch Co
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