Editorial Gossip Now and a Kansas City Breeze
Satirical notes from Kansas papers parodying politics and local life. It cites Salina Journal, Mankato Monitor, Sedgwick Pantagraph and Russell Reformer. It cites editor Murphy of the Reformer and recounts a Kansas University tragedy, urging Hays to adopt seven o clock closing to improve clerks health and pace of business. It laments Fraser Hall suicide and student romance. It advocates painting power poles white on Chestnut and Main Streets to improve appearance.
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Chestnut
Main Streets
Chestnut Street
Kansas
Kansas University
Urbin Angeley
Fraser Hall
Angeley
Hays
Teat He Blows and a Nation of Typos in Print
A collage of garbled verse and misprints from a micropolitan journal shows how OCR errors distort poems and captions. It includes stray lines about a mother calling a wayward son, weather spell verses, and a humorous note on a barn fire loss, all peppered with accidental spellings and misread words.
Small Savings Plan Invitation Prompts Opening Account
The notice invites readers to start an account with a very small sum. It promises easy ongoing contributions after initial setup and asserts that benefits will be obvious once begun.
Free Press Classified Notice From Hays Office
Typewriter paper on sale at this office 25¢ per 100 sheets. Wanted to Purchase house with three to five acres of land in or near Hays. Inquire at the Free Press office. If you want to keep track of what the five merchants of Hays are doing read the Free Press inside and out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hays
Free Press Office
Five Merchants of
Feed for Sale and Dictionary Ad in Free Press
Feed items for sale include Miller, Cane, Hay and Kaffir Corn with contact phone 603 for Martin Orth. Webster's International Dictionary offered for sale at Free Press office. Premium pricing and first come, first served. Includes advertising pitch and perfume ad for Harkness Royal cherry buds at 50 cents an ounce.
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Martin Orth
Free Press
Harkness
Webster’s International
Websters Collegiate
Ees
Fer
Hite
G. &C. Merriam CO
Springfield
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the Free Press
Harry Freese
John Freese
MGR
Topeka
Hays Free Press
Salina
Mankato
Sedgwick Pantagraph
Mack Cretcher
Russell
Murphy
The
Reformer
Byron Willama
India
Leicester
Northampton
England
Winfield
San Lowenthal
Sam Lowenthal
Sam
Muscatine
Latrn
Harlin E. Babcock
Roby
J. A. Phillips
Adamsville
Tenn
Mr. Phillips
Piper Cee
Citizens’ State Bank
E. A. Rea
Attorney At Law
Office Over Post
Office
WM. Jordan
Hays, Kans
Gus Havemann
Undertaker
Puones
Hays, Ks
C. M. Holmquist
Hays City
1St National Bank
J. U. Catudal. Physicians& Surgeon
Fred Iliff
Prop
Sunflower Restaurant
Inez Fitzpatrick
WM. Wagner
C. Schwaller & Son
George S. Grass
W. L
Douglas Shoe
Parious Blea
Lampe Cortes
Andreas
TED Youth
Boston
Mass
J. H. Ward
Citizens State Bank
Edward Tatro
Iron Ave
Salina, Kan, Oe
John Sechlyer & Sons
F. Havemann
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