Kansas News Briefs Show Wide Rural Changes
A long list of diverse Kansas items notes power shifts from electrical to steam, county clerical changes, land purchases by Rock Island near Armordale, rising farm crops and livestock trends, and a mix of political and civic updates across many counties including Topeka, Chanute, Wichita, and Saline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salina
E. G. Martin
Long Service
Topeka
Henderson
Council Grove
Coburn
Washington State Agricultural College
Stanley
Armourdale
Neosho County
Chanute
J. C. Parker
Lakin
Kansas
Jerry Simpson
George Merrill
Franklin County
Worle
Mitchell County
Court House
Joha
von Terrlieh
Kansas City
Kas
Wichita
State Agricultural College
Jeaversworth
Hen Huey
Pottawatomie County
Wamego
Sixty-Second
Pennsylvania Infantry
Grand Army
Beluit Catholics
Cyrus Leland
McKinley
Hreidenthal
Clark
Ford
Mitchell
Pratt
Rooks
Saline
Grant
Stapley
Bryan
Pawnee
Mr. Bryan
Breidenthal
Lansing
Stall
Josiah Moose
Plains
Winfield
Supreme Court
Kansas Penitentiary
Thanksgiving by the Fire: A Soldier’s Lost Love Restored
In a dim elf firelit hall Jack Long recalls a decade of joy and sorrow, a betrothal ring, and a vanished Queenie Graham. Returning from war he finds Queenie at Grandma Goodwin’s Thanksgiving, and in a quiet moment restores the ring, rekindling a long-silent love as music swells Around them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Jack Long
Jack
Graham
Queenie Graham
Ewaling
Price
Sam Brown
Sam
Queenie
Susie Bell
Mary Courtwright
Miss Sue
Mat
Queenie Occacinnally
Spain
Santiago
San Juan
Termur
Aketaphine
America
Queeni
Grandma Goodwin
San Juan Hill
San Juan Bill
San Juan Dill
Fiddler
Clancys Raffle and 1900s Temperance Notes Mixed Row
A fragmentary local diary item describes Clancys raffle with a busy bar crowd and dicey slang, followed by a feature about Evanston Illinois home of Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union preserving Miss Willard's belongings, and a note on Lecky Sloterterman driving in Paris with fashionable London circles, plus a literary quote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Willard
Miss Gordon
Gale Jezatee
Chris- Han Temperance Uni
Lecky Sloterterman
Frank Butler
Automobile Club of London
Paris
Havre
Riy
Prenel
Enlistment Surge in Army Regiments Post Reorganization
Washington on November 27 reports mounting enlistment interest as the war department plans for a larger permanent force. If the army reorganization bill sets 60,000 sailors, about 33,000 new enlistments are anticipated between passage and June discharge of current regulars, with rapid recruiting seen due to ample applicants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Bankers’ Association
Santa Fe
Wellington
Hunnewell
Anna Marbough
Atchison
Inege Enecks
August Kelling
Clay County
Nelson
Gimmes
Frank Nelson
W. F. Reed
Mies
Washington
War Department
Army
Ivis
Philippines
Pact and battles mingle in Pekin dispatches from November
Pekin reports a preliminary treaty agreement among diplomats with final government approval pending. Elsewhere American cavalry dispersed a fortress village near Pekin, killing seven. Other items recount Boer messages, Kruger’s Paris visit, Mormon migration to Mexico, Shorthorn sales in Kansas, and windstorm damage in California rails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
Take
Sianfe
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the Free Press
Mabry Freeze
EKANS
Ilis
el Dorado
Ure
Santa Fe Bishoes
Roadmasters’ Association of America
Clay Center
Santa Fe Iron Bridge
Strong City
Concordia
Conway Springs
Kansas Geological Survey
N. W. Henry
Jarvis
Holton
Manhattan Live
Pawnee County
Hutchinson
Rock Island
Geenwood County
Mariel Chamberlain
Ottawa
Edwards County
Wm HL Barnes
E & Cowgill
Kansas Horticultural Society
National Irrigation Congress
Isaac PL Gardner
Wetmore
Robert Stone
National Trend Hounds Association
Cudahy Packing Company
Manhattan
The
Agricultural College
B. Purcell
Oklahoma
Judge Riggs
Smart
Riggs
Mason Peters
Union Livestock Commission Company
Sumner County
Fort Dodge
Burns
Doniphan County
Missouri River
Near
Clancy
Dancimen
Nile
Jerry Casey Andre
O'Brien
Dhrink
Ofrien
Cowper
F. D. Coburn
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Russia
Crimea
Minch Sea
Manila
Dorotlon Karragdag
Manuelo Luxarat
Torre
Bulacan
Karragdag
Abollah
Thess. Cipelmati
American Secular and Freethought Society
John H. Remsburg
EC. Reich
Congress
Navy
Albeagh Kingman
Mort Albauzh
Kagens
John W. Breistenthal
Stanwy
Albaughs
Diwes
Albaugh
Albsugh Nad Uta
Empiria
Smyrna
Constantinople
Parte
Harpool
Thomas H. Norton
Kromsprult
Orange Miver
DeWet
TeWet
Queen Victoria
Cape Town
England
Gen. Botha
Transvaal
Lestet
Cape Colony
Lont Roberts
Feilbers
London
Kruger
Marseilles
Guerament
Ducen
Hollandd
Great
Great Britain
Bort Remabne
Mompou
Mertea el Paso
Tex
Utah
Mexico
F. Johnson
Salt Lake City
Casas Urantes
Sermmay
Berifs
Pantiermon Association
HM. Hill
la Fontaine
Kan
GF. Wolf
Frieds
San Francisco
Cal
Here
Los Angeles
Southern Pacific
Chile
Duc Tice Joheston
Weron Q
W. A. Johnston
Philadelphia
United States Grand Jury
Isaac A. Sweigand
Phiadelphia
Brotherhood of Railroad
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