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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1900
Page
1
A mosaic of town notices and rumors from Codell and Millheim Pa recounts sports, business openings, repairs, and personal updates. Talks of a Reds vs Pleasant Aut contest, a new photograph gallery, oyster dinners, a Baptist Sunday school convention, a horse with a sore shoulder, a life-saving cough remedy, harvest forecasts, new banks, marriages, livery work, and local politics.
Front iron columns for the Zeigler store arrived while John Schlyer received another car of headers. Brown and Riedel are relaying the sidewalk in front of their store. A Decoration Day baseball game between Hays and Smokey bill ended with Smokey bill narrowly edging Hays on an unlucky last inning throw. Sat urday Afternoon Club forms the Hays City Library Association to start a circulating library for public use, hoping for success as other towns’ Ladies clubs have done.
Reading through Parana county items, harvest work heats up as 500 plus laborers seek jobs while a new elevator rises, towns connect by long distance phones, and bands and concerts enliven Leb anaire and Bellaire. A baby girl arrives in Lawrence news, and a Gettysburg tribute precedes Decoration Day events with a crowded hall and moving cemetery services.
The diary of Father Svestreil Velez de Escalante, the first white visitor to Utah, praises the Great Salt Lake climate as balmy and rich in nature. The note includes a travel ad for round trips to Ogden and Mount Dake City with fares from Missour River, stating June 21 to July 18 departures and return by October 31, urging travelers to contact ticket agents for details.
W J Baxter of North Brook North Carolina says after fifteen years he was cured by two boxes of DeWitt s Hazel salve. He claims the salve heals everything and warns to beware of counterfeit products from J C Farley.
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