Weather Bulletin Sees Need For Rain Across Kansas
Kansas weather service reports unusually dry late week with below normal temperatures and light frosts. Rainfall remains deficient except in Grant, Trego, Neosho, Elk counties and northern districts, while orchards and fruit trees show strong growth across the state amid ongoing corn and wheat cultivation.
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Kansas Weather Services
Jennings
Allica
Topeka
Grant
Trego
Nea
Elz
Ievo
Bes Begune
Kaw
Farmnete
Norton and
Clark
Jerusalem
Stevenson Store to Reopen After Settlement Talks
Topeka reports a settlement with creditors may save the Stevenson firm from sale. George T Stevenson arranged a plan in New York and Chicago creditors have agreed on a 25 percent settlement, needing over $30,000. If finalized, the store likely reopens next week and bidders may be avoided.
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Stevenson
George T. Stevenson
Mont
J. E. Stevensan
Sinra
New York
Mr. Stevenson
Stevensim
Chicago
Topeka
Beautify the Square Statehouse Grounds Surveyed
Statehouse grounds are being surveyed for improvements under the guidance of Gow Morrill. Engineer Tweeddale, a noted expert, maps grades to start work promptly. The executive council rejected Nystrom’s plan with changes anticipated, and the legislature did not approve a separate appropriation.
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Wm. Tweeddale
State House
Executive Council
Insanity Hearing and Jail for Caroline Johnson
Caroline Johnson, eight years old, was adjudged insane in the probate court after a sanity hearing. She will be committed to a county asylum. earlier records show multiple asylum stays and alleged delusions of poisoning. In other news, Tremiyeji named Japanese plenipotentiary to exchange ratifications of the peace treaty. temporary imperial headquarters move noted to Che Foo and Eita.
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Caroline Johnon
Caroline Johnson
Thorainy
Shoe
Mina Johnson
Finnintried
Pacsen
Okomama
Tremiyeji
Foreign Office
Che-Foo
Eita
Bircsbima
Snap Shots At Home News From Kansas City Era
A collage of brief items from a Kansas City area newspaper notes fishing, weather, travel, arrests, and local happenings. People named include County Clerk McCabe, J B Suoda, Capt J Lee Knight, Biddle, Wilkerson, A A Robinson, W W Thomas, Frank Montgomery, May 27 business notes, and school and militia visits.
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McCabe
J.B Suoda
Texas
Haskell
Huntchingan
Kansas Avenue
J. Lee Knight
National Bag
Kansas City
Tee Jones
State Agency of Kansas
New Court House
Biddle
Topeka
Wilkerson
Emporia
National
Stanley
Coffeyville High School
Les Curtis
St Joseph
Samuel Wakefield
Pittsburg
Harry Overbolt
United States
van Buren Street
Joan Hal
Washburn College
B. Simmen
Charles Wesestt
George Scleich
Church of the Assumption
E R Nevels
A. D. Maton
Drew
Ottawa
C.H. Katz
Frank Montgomery
Kansgas
Shawhea County
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Kansas
Cheyenne County
Viola Stewart
Ellsworth Hospital
Medical College
Mo. I
Lovewell
Wastibura
Burnett's Mound
A. M. Jepson
Verdella
Berton County
Missouri
Stevenson & Company
John Elliott
Sixth
Nebraska relief plea cites worsening starvation
Mrs W Browduss, Nebraska relief agent, reports the suffering of the beatitule people is worse than three months ago and urges immediate aid. She appeals for any form of assistance, including donations via wall papers sold for two cents.
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Nebraska
Bewr
W. Browduss
All Sisters Funny in Topeka College Entertainment
Washburn College students form Panthy guterian society to raise funds for a room. A lively program with drills, burlesque debuts, a mock debate, glee club spoof, and a depicition of Miles Standish drew crowds and contributed to a record haul. In a separate note, H C Speer’s Washington & Chesapeake railroad fails after a pug pup and shark scare, leading to a receiver taking control.
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Heine
Miles Standish
Maine
Ingalenzo
Isiea
Topeka
Napoleon
H. C. Speer
Blind Man Carries Eyes in Alcohol Across States
In Atchison on April 23 Charlea Swan and Thomas Walker travel from Kansas City in a wheelbarrow. Walker, a blind Irishman, shows his eyes carried in a bottle while they plan to reach Chicago in sixty days. Walters lost his eyes while employed by Rock Island in Wabauses county and won $25,000 in damages. Swanson hopes for a share. They trade a whip for breakfast and collect donations along the route.
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Atchisos
Charlea Swansop
Atchison
Thomas Walkers
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Chicago
Walters
Rock Island
Wabauses County
Kas
Grubbs Named To City Board Of Health In Topeka
Mayor Fellows announced the appointment of De L Grubbs to succeed Dr. R Mitchell on the city board of health. Grubbs, a Democratic mayoral candidate against Mayor Pollaws, is the mayor’s family physician and considered a close ally. The board’s pay is nominal at five dollars for advice, yet the position remains important for Topeka citizens.
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Fellows
Grubbs
City Board of Health
de L ¥. Grubbs
R Mitchell
Mitchell
Dr. Grubbs
Pollaws
Topeka
Dr. Price
New Russian Railroads Plan Major Construction and Aid
Consul Karel reports Russia to enter a period of rail activity with a Paris Berlin brokers syndicate proposing a vast railway network. Plans include a St Petersburg to Kiev line, leasing lines to Kazatin and Dman-Elizavetgrad, and a new Umen to Odessa route with government guarantee sought.
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Wasuixerox
Kiev
Kazalin
Dman-Elizavetgrad
Umen
Volserensk
Odessa
North Topeka Items of Interest of the North Side
Local notes from North Topeka list Rev. C F McFarland in Hoyt Mrs Dr Wallace ill with la grippe. Kingsolvers fished at Silver Lake. George Stebbins hosted J W Cook editor at the U P hotel. Pratt Bros advertise hardware pumps wind mills and coal. Various residents visit and travel. notices of bicycles livery services and weddings. A Foster home fire damages Fletcher residence. Mrs Frasers improving. Police find a boy after a missing case. man Breese involved in family matter.
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C F. McFarland
Hoyt
Wallace
L D. Kingsolver
Clark
Hays City
Géorge Stebbins
U. P
J. W. Cook
Meriden Tribune
Pratt Bros
North
Kansas Ave
Desser
Nystrom Bros
N. Kan
Ava
John Rivers
Buel & Sons
St. Lewis
S & Cap
Cincinnati
Laisies
E. P. Evant
N. Kan. Ave
A. P. Farris
Garnett
Reform School
Daphne
Union Pacific Park
M. E. Orentz
Pratt
Laurent St
George J. Graves & Sons
A. J. Arnold &Son
North Kansas
Marlett
Central Avenue
Mra. SF
Fraser
Kansas Avenus
Parkhurst
Coantry
J. Cecil
HL Heller
N. Kun
Riordan
N. Kansan Avenue
Remington Bicycle Agency
Kansasuve
Lodge & Colvin
W. Norris St
Capital Livery
J. W. Willets
Kan
Oriental School of Embalming
Frank Strong
Congregational Church
W. W. Crittenden
F.H. Mann
Kansas Avenue
Furst
J. Proudiit
Lukens Bros
Ariel
Sheele & Walker
Lyons& Beynolds
Rooma
William Spivey
Grantville
Oliver
Hreese
Mrs Stone Seeks Husband’s Release After Fines
Mrs Charles Stone, a tiny four months postpartum mother, pleads for her husband’s release from jail for nonpayment of a $30 combined fine and costs after a quarrel over a well. She recalls being taunted by officers and fears loss of his job if he stays to work off the debt. county commissioners will consider the petition.
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Stone
Anniversary of Washington inauguratio n celebrated in New York
The 180th anniversary of George Washington first president of the United States will be celebrated by the National Provident union at Lenox Lyceum in New York on April. General John Palmer, secretary of state of New York, and past G A R commander in chief, presides. Judge Roger A Pryor will deliver a Washington address. Speakers include Governor Lu I Marton, Lieutenant Governor Saxtos, mayors, Senator Hul, General Warner Swayne, Colonel Fred D Grant, General Porter, and Chauncey M Depew.
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New York
George Washington
United States
National Provident Union
Lenex Lycel
John Palmer
G@ A.RB
Roger A. Pryor
New York City
Virginia
Washington
James Tanner
Washington, D
Lavi P. Marton
Saxtos
Strong
Scheren
Brooklyn
David B Hul
Warner Swayne
Fred D Grant
Fiigioia Porter
Chauncey M. Depew
Pugilists Purtell and Johnson Arraigned in Kansas
Pawick J. Purtell of Leavenworth and William R. Johnson of Galena were arraigned in Judge Tanquary's court for preliminary trial on a prize fight charge at Galena. County evidence led to binding over to the September term of the District Court with bonds of $500 each.
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Purtell
Sand Johnson
Colemens
Kas
Pawick J. Purtell
Leavenworth
William R. Johnson
Galena
Rua
Tanquary
Athletic Club
Cherokee County
W. R. Cowley
Kansas City
Hancock Statue Nears Completion for Washington Monument
The east side of the equestrian statue of General Winfield Scott Hancock is nearly finished by sculptor Henry J. Ellicott. Plaster sections will go to Goran Mutule cast ing company in Providence for casting, then return for unveiling arrangements. Hancock reportedly wore his regulation chapeau only twice.
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Washington
Wastmnoton
Winfield Beatt Hancock
Henry J. Ellicou
Goran Mutule
Slavery Grimly Documented in Texas Colony
A special dispatch from Mouston Texas reports enslaved Black families lured from Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and Texas are kept in harsh bondage on land the group says was obtained from the Mexican government. The colony allegedly holds about 22 200 people fed housed and guarded under strict control with a system described as worse than Russian exile conditions. The report also notes a separate event in Louis before dawn where Archbishop Kenrick received a reception at Christian Brothers College with four hundred students present. In Washington Armstrong of Kansas was named special agent to purchase funds for Wyandotte Indians.
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Sr Lows
Republic
Mouston
Texas
Dys Thernesroes
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Puddy
Siberia
Kenrick
Louis
Christian Brothers College
Ryan
Philadelphia
Kain
No Rain Making Cars Rumored Abandoned by Rock Island
Rock Island officials in Topeka and Chicago indicate rainmaking experiments in cars by CB Jewell and two assistants are unlikely to continue this year. Last year the program faced clear failure and costly investments, with no new cars built and older ones sidelined at Horton amid conflicting reports.
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Rock Island
CB Jewell
Topeka
Regaal
Chicago
Kansas
Horton
Mend Mend Mend Bridges on Kansas Avenue
City Engineer Barnes and Street Commissioner Kemsey inspected the Kansas Avenue bridge and found urgent repairs needed. Five broken stay rods compromising deck sway were identified, three in the south span, each twenty feet long and replaceable only by supporting work beneath the bearing. An upward angle iron brace was also broken, likely from a wagon impact, and must be replaced.
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Kansas Avenue
Ten & Danger Trap
Barnes
Kemsey
Arcnue
de Price
Theosophists Quarrel Over Besant Charges
Annie Besant plans to reopen charges against W Q Judge in New York on April 4. A London dispatch reports Besant accuses Judge of forging Mahatmas messages while Judge asserts Besant seeks the presidency and denies any forged signatures, claiming the Mahatmas themselves would verify or deny such claims.
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Annie Besant
W. G. Jaite
New York
London Dispatch
Tors
W.Q Judge
The
Theosophical Society
Judge
Ramdin
Aheir
Perils of the Church and Shaker Doctor at Crawford Opera House
Bishop J A Vincent denounces church officials and wealthy patrons shaping church appointments while denouncing unprepared ministers. A Shaker Doctor at Crawford Opera House amazed visitors by removing a tape worm on stage and offers free worm removals at the Copeland House. Office hours 9 to 11 am and 2 to 4 pm. New wallpaper designs advertised by Bellams.
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Vincent
Batimore
J. A. Vincent
Crawford Opera House
Copeland
Operw
Bellam’s
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Lords of Creation
All Sisters
Kansas City Journal
H. C. Spier
Speer
NEW
Agli Rou
Anse
North Topeka
F. W. Henderson
Tanner Bros
Cor
6Th & Quincy
George Wash
Hancoche
Mexico
Father of
Waters
BB. Armstrong
Wasuixeros
R. B Armatrong
Wyandotte Indians
Grand Opera House
Ei' Priday
Calhoun Opera Co
This
Amorita
Peesee
Orenesieg
Eunfiaiy
Adebto
Cale
Meetpie Princias
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