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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1901
Page
2
Dr Josiah Oldteli writes to Church of England bishops seeking opinions on abolishing the death penalty. none favor abolition. Plus notes on fashion and local anecdotes including Elvis Roth’s birthday saloon crawl, and a Rockbridge Missouri diabetes remedy testimonial praising Dodd’s Kidney Pills.
A flood of items from Topeka and across Kansas notes seed wheat on its way to Kansas, lumber needs for a Santa Fe shop roof, a $13 000 addition chosen by Dickinson county court, and a $20 000 building cost. Reports cover harvests, court deaths, business openings, a new church dedication, rail shop picnics, and local accidents. Containing mentions of Topeka, Wichita, Salina, Jefferson county, and prominent names, the digest sketches county projects, court rulings, and agricultural notes from across the state.
A survey of quirky devices and patents described, from arc lamp improvements and a mud cleaning shoe aid to the gelatograph message receiver, a postage indicator, curry comb cleaner, rapid steamboats, sink waste catcher, and barber shop cleaners, reflecting inventive zeal and practical aims across technology and domestic life.
The first field agent of the Eight Hour League and Father of the Eight Hour Day, a Boston labor leader born in Amesbury in 1877, is honored on his fiftieth anniversary with a grand banquet to be held in Boston or New York. Hundreds of prominent labor figures are expected.
A noted laryngologist and army surgeon who sparked the 1895 embatswed beef probe died last week in Pittsburg, taking his own life. A Denver prophet promotes a telepathy based “mental gymnactics” to develop muscles by thought, rivaling Elijah Dowie’s Zion healing. The Holy Rollers, led by Bishop Eastman, claim divine healing through ecstatic rolling and prayer, with thousands in New York and Pennsylvania and a Canadian branch.
An extraordinary case arose at Bath Fuge Land where a vocally endowed man provoked disturbance in a church congregation. Efforts to quiet him failed after expostulations by the vicar and choir. The group threatened to abandon seats unless voice control improved, while the man insisted on his loud singing. The dispute escalated toward court with a claim tied to property rights and a monument funding note.
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