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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1901
Page
2
Kansas items report veterans seeking draft understanding and praise for Kansas troops, rising farm land prices in Saline and Labette counties, new business ventures in Wichita and Topeka, a lightning strike damaging Dodge Avenue Methodist church, and growing agricultural activity in several counties.
In a small town on Decoration Day, Lucy quietly decorates Sylvester's grave with buttercups and grass, moved by Phebe Ann's illness. John Kemp learns Phebe Ann wished him to receive Sylvester's bank savings for schooling and care, prompting a plan to honor the grave beyond the annual ceremony.
May 27 Topsten reports Assistant Attorney General Tracy issued an opinion that if upheld counties must pay the full state tax even if they do not collect from individuals. The ruling challenges the last session’s nostalgia law and could cut state revenues by about 40,000 this year with potential future losses.
The Kansas flouring mills production report topeka May 73 notes total production of 2472 275 059 pounds with 532 053 2 pounds wheat flour. Sixty percent of wheat flour remained in state and was consumed, 26 percent went to other states, and some exported. If Kansas wheat had all been milled into flour, 2 621 100 000 pounds or 52 000 000 fifty pound sacks would have fed the US population for ten years and could have baked 2 200 000 000 loaves, a vast distance when laid end to end.
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