Free Press notes from Topeka and across Kansas
Memorial address by Congressman Charles Curtis in Topeka. Pension Agent Metcalf reports many pensioners. Widespread storms bring heavy rain, crop damage, and flood effects across Jewell, Lyon, Sedgwick, and other counties. wheat and strawberry crops harmed. rail and street infrastructure affected. various political moves and local incidents noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Curtis
Topeka
Metcalf
Jewell County
Marysville
Dean Minnick
W. A. Minnick
Wichita
Long
West Point
Saline County
Wm. Senre
Sedgwick County
Fort Riley
St Pierre's Day of Doom
A New York Herald correspondent reports from St Pierre Martinique on a day of disaster that transformed the city into a scene of desolation. He recalls a lawn party near Morne Rouge interrupted by catastrophe as a tropical night of dancing gave way to Friday dawn and horror. The narrative paints a stark shift from normal Caribbean life to ruined, stinking wreckage fueled by an unseen calamity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Herald
St. Pierre
Martinique
Morne Rouge
St. Pierre's
Fort de France
Suchet
Carbet
Ridgc
Zones of Destructiveness at St. Pierre Reported by US Geologist
The piece narrates the May 1 to 8 sequence around Mont Pelé de Saint Pierre, Martinique, describing color, weather, and confusion as the eruption unfolds. It notes observers including Professor Robert T. Hill, the governor Mouttet, and geologists, and recalls delays and near-misses with ships and officials before the city is wiped out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndon
Labette County
Port Riley
Wichita
W. J. Bailey
Kelsey
Atchlam
Atchiston
Bndstor
Jerry Culham
Dickinson County
John Culham
Detroit
Culham
Canada
McCune
Solomon
Kas
Bolsington
Arkansas City
ST. Pierre
United States
Mont Pelee
St Pierre
Novely
Pelee
Guerin
Fort de France
Martinique
Gov. Mouttet
St. Pierre Sro
Diagram of Volcanoes in the Western Memisphere
United States consul Thomas T. Prentiss warned locals to evacuate near St Pierre as Mount Pelée unleashed a swift disaster. Geologist Prof Robert T. Mill led a National Geographic expedition surveying coastal activity from Port de Macouba to Le Precheur and St Pierre, noting vivid ruin and ongoing volcanic phenomena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbet
Thomas T. Prentiss
United States
St Pierre
Mr. Prentiss
Robert T. Mill
National Geographical Society
Martinique
Hill
Port de Macouba
Ut Island
le Precheur
Folly of Roasting Oxen Whole Provokes London Critique
London Globe condemns the practice of roasting oxen whole as barbarous and wasteful. The piece notes rustic festivals in small towns aim to honor coronations this way, yet critics doubt the meal is palatable or nourishing. A fragment mentions Lord Wastiemayne refusing alms while in Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wastiemayne
Ireland
Palmer House tale shows praise in a cranky month
A hotel crowd recalls Potter Palmer lifting a booked employee by asking when his month ends to raise his salary. The clerk stayed on as Palmer’s confidant until his death. A school inspector ends with a child’s reply that he’d be most missed in heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter Palmer
Paul Gores
Palmer House
Palmer
Poppies Bloom After Two Millennia in Ancient Mine
A British discoverer finds Laurium silver mines hid poppy seeds beneath slag. After 2,000 years dormant, the seeds sprout magnificently in the furnace area, flowering without water or restoratives, showing a vivid revival of a vanished species.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurium
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Free Press
Narky Freeze
Pep
Hays City
Kansas
Lyon County
Cottonwood
Neosho
Miteboli
Wehent Tras
Paota
J. M. Evans
Ossaratomie Asylum
Rimdale
T. L. Dayhutf
Reno County
Anegro
J.T. Hammonil
Hanson
Neye
Tho Ie
Cherokee
Crawford County High School
Treasury
Lon Alman
Charles Keefonner
Paula
Diatolus
Atchison County
Ile
Sante Pe
Rock Island
Wamego
St John’s Military School
Salina
Eugene F. Ware
Lincoln Pass
Sample
Osborne County
E. Sample
Barber County
Marion Rogers
Cheney
Wichlea
Thomas Hensley
Kearney
Arkansas
Kansas Day Club
Pittsburg
Mitchell
Haney
Fort Mays
Agricultural College
Epworth League of Washington
Edwin 5
le Ferra
Washington War
D. Crawford
Marion County
Cripple Creek
Sherrif Daniels
Cowley County
G. W. Miller
Reform School
Loomis
Te G. A. R
Lots of Veterans’ Organization
Liberal
Secretary of the Interior
Seward
i _Cotablists arig ductory
Coffeyville
General Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth
Mary L. Swith
Eureka
Owen Jones
Everest
John Keegan
Lewelling
Jewell Guty
ST. Pierre’s Day OF
Robert T. Hill
Mort Pelee
Mouttet
Mont Pelre
Pacific
Atlantic
Sanigrica Americ Cae
London Globe
New York Times
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!