Topeka Casino Opens With Garfield Park Dedication
A large gathering attended Garfield park as the Casino opened a new summer amusement temple titled America. The production showcased United States history through tableaux and fetes with strong audience enthusiasm. Notable participants included local residents and performers, who received frequent applause for their roles in the patriotic tableau.
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Topeka
America
Garficid Park
Garfield Park
Sinc
Topekin
Amerna
Cufield Park
Casino Seatings and Stage Ahead of Tonight's Show
The seating ton provides 75 by two feet and inclines, with three aisles and a well arranged stage. Dressing rooms and large doors allow easy access for props and scene changes. "America" will be at the Casino tonight and Thursday night.
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Crete
Armerica
Insurgents Ordered to Obey US Rule in Cuba
Washington Aug. 17 The War Department posted a reply to Maj. Gen. Lawton directing that the United States holds peace and order in the Santiago de Cuba territory. Cuban insurgents must recognize military occupation and authority of the United States and cease hostilities. interference from any quarter is forbidden. Adjutant General Corbin issued the order.
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Washington
War Department
Magor
Lawton
Department of Santlino
Hhis
Department of Bantives
Santiago de Cuba
United States
Jeaders
Siena
Corbin
Worry Over Philippines and Cortes Convocation
Madrid reports El Tiempo, organ of Senor Silvela, calls for convocation of the cortes to influence the rescue missions regarding the Pinttp-Pine islands. The paper translates the term control in article 0 of the protocol as intervention akin to Britain’s occupation of Egypt.
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Madrid
el Tiempo
Senor Silvela
Tts
Cortes
Great Britain
Egypt
Police close in on killer of Emiline Reynolds
New York August 17 police are positive dentist Samuel J Kennedy murdered Emiline C Reynolds. Kennedy was held without bail after an affidavit by Captain Price of West Thirtieth station charging him with homicide. Examination set for Friday.
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Mics Reynolds
New York
Samuel J. Kennedy
Emiline C. Reynolds
Ranch
Captain Price
West Thirtieth
West Side
Kennedy
Death by own action at Pittsburg and Warrentown
A 19 year old man identified as Henry Day was found dead in an old junk shop owned by F. M. Bauer in Warrentown, Pittabiri. Coroner rules death by poison with suicidal intent after heavy drinking and possession of a rat poison box. Spaniards Leaving Rapidly. New York. Aug. 17. J. M. Ceballoz, New York agent, says passengers will depart Ban age for Spain this week.
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Pittsburg
Mittsboro
Atte
W—Henry Day
F. M. Bauer
Warrentown
Pittabiri
New York
J. M. Ceballoz
Compania Trancatlantica
Spain
Walt
Banage
French Sugar Bounty Parts Set to Aid Exports
In an official notice dated August 17, authorities outline a refined French sugar bounty effective after September 1. The plan provides per hundred kilos payments for first, second, and third grades of native colonial sugar intended for export. Also noted, Andrew Carnegie offered Dumfries £19009 for a public library. The town council welcomed the proposal.
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M. Faure
Carnegie
Dumfries
Scotland
Andrew Carnegie
Five Thousand Dollars for Son's Death Case
Mr and Mrs George E Leggius of Santa Fe seek five thousand dollars in a wrongful death suit over Chester A Les killed when a swinging door struck him after a freight train ride attempt near Jarbee streets in June The petition claims the train ran at excessive speed not that employees acted without blame and seeks damages for the boy's death
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George E. Leggius
Santa Fe
Chester A. Les
Tae
Jarbee
Reid for Hays Place
London dispatch notes mixed reactions to Colonel Hay's departure and his new post in the Tula region. Editors praise his service and expect important Anglo American diplomatic benefits. Perry Heath asserts broad US support for Hay's appointment and outlines potential peace and policy implications.
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London
Hay
Tula
Daily News
Perry
Heath
McKinley
Col
Hays
St. Heath
United States
Great Britain
Col. Hay
Colonel Hey
Goa
Icurope
Mr. Feld
Reid
Newark
Plates Puctner
Held
Lomdas
Unhappy marriage ends in murder suicide in Bellevue
A Kansas couple Elmer Green and Carrie Daker faced years of jealousy and separation. In Bellevue Nebraska Elmer shot Carrie then killed himself. brother-in-law Herbert Baker shot Green. Carrie survived, Elmer and Baker died, inquest started, bodies buried in Bellevue. A later note mentions Mrs Adare Hart praising King’s New Discovery for a separate illness case.
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Independent
Norton County
Bellevue
Neb
Elmer Green
Carrie Daker
Graham County
Goldfield
Colo. Duritg
Tfe
Herbert Baker
Carrie
Omaha
Cora
Carte
Elmer
bin Rap
Ueush
Ald
Green
Baker
Betlevue
Bhela
German American relations praised by envoy in Hamburg
United States ambassador Andrew D. White, en route to Hamburg, tells AP correspondent that relations between Germany and the United States remain satisfactory. He cites fair treatment by Germany, clarifies issues about Philippines forces and spheres of influence, and argues for civilization by enlightened powers.
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Philippines
United States
Far East
Germany
America
Spain
Attempted murder ruins Belmont home in Chicago suburb
Chicago Aug 1 an attempt to kill John M Hill Jr his wife and two children by a heavy dynamite blast at their Belmont residence failed injuring no one though the frame and sash of a bedroom window were blown. The assailant laid a slow fuse and placed the charge to direct the blast at the bedroom window. Mr Hill a known board of trade operator is believed target. race track men not implicated.
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Chicago
John Mh1n. Jr
Hill
Belmont
Fill
Paresh Ok
Sameline Sarge
Mx. Hil
Civtc
Crusade
Hilea
Board of Trade
One Fare Plus Two For Round Trip To Santa Fe Route
Round trip fare plus two dollars with August 16 as the pile date. Route is Santa Fe. For details contact North To pek a office, phone 24 or Deput phone 632.
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North Topeka
Omaha Exposition Plans and Route Details
The notice outlines a grand exposition planned near Omaha, with through tickets from the Missouri and Mississippi Valleys. It advertises reduced excursion rates via the Burlington Route, details a Santa Fe connection to Cincinnati events in September, and notes carpenters’ meetings at Kansas Avenue. Also promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute for children and adults.
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Missouri
Mississippi
Omaha
Burlington
Platt Machine Plans Spark Gubernatorial Moves
In New York on August 17, Senator Platt and GOP leaders outlined a campaign strategy at Manhattan Beach. They planned promoting candidates and pressuring action on the canal scandal while signaling support for Roosevelt and potential ambassadorships for Depew or Morton. Col. Jerome predicted Platt would accept Roosevelt’s influence, forecasting a major party reception when Roosevelt leaves quarantine at Montauk Point.
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New York
Aus
Platt
B. Odell
Republican Ztate Committee
Lemuel Ey Guise
Marthattan Beach
McKinney
Chauncey M. Depew
Levi P. Morton
Black
Aldridge
Fifth Avenue
Saratoga
Astor
Senator Platt
Hts
Cornelius van Cott
General Shafter
Roosevelt
Col. Lovell H. Jerome
Montauk Point
Tulare Lake Dries Up Leaving Desert Bed in California
San Francisco reports Tulare Lake once the largest freshwater body west of the Rockies has largely vanished. From 1854 onward irrigation drained inflows, shrinking the eighty mile long, thirty five mile wide lake to a dry mud bed cracking under desert sun. By 1882 water crossed into Kern County.
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San Francisco
Cal
Tulare Lake
California
Rocky Mountains
Visalia
Bakersfield
Tulare
Nelda
Tulare County
Kern County
Snake Steals Eggs Farmer Sets Trap in New Jersey
In Trenton on August 17, farmer Latham reported hens robbed nightly. He bought fifteen china eyes and set sixteen dummy nests. A racer snake seized by chalk in its jaws caused a dramatic struggle. the farmer killed it with a maple plank, leaving a seven foot snake skin on the woodshop.
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Trenton
N. J
Latham
Snake
Reef
Service Seeker Jovanowics Detained After War Entry Refused
First Lieutenant Peter Jovanowics, decorated by King Milan of Servia, arrived in New York on the Pree turia from Hamburg with ten dollars. The war with Spain had ended, immigration officers deemed him possibly a pauper, and he faced detention. He is 32, with fourteen years in the Servian army, a cavalryman skilled with a broadsword, who fought Bulgaria in several battles.
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New York
Aus
United States
Spain
Peter Jovanowics
Milan of
Servia
Hamburg
Immigration Bureau
Jovanowics
Bulgaria
Imore Sk
Lively gas tank runs amok in Chicago streets
An oxygen gas tank on a dray end of Fifth Avenue rolled over a car rail, dropped from the dray and released gas. The headless tank became a writhing moving terror as it sprayed oxygen, spooking pedestrians and chasing a policeman down Washington Street. The incident began when the tailboard dropped from the dray.
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Chicago
Fifth Avenue
Washington Street
Movement of a heavy tank on Washington street
A force changes to a progr ve movement and in a second the heavy tank toppled onto its side and rolled east along Washington street.
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Washington Street
Gorman Declines Peace Commission Offer
Washington August 17 reports indicate the president offered Benator Gorman of Maryland a seat on the peace commission, but he declined. The president is now seeking another Democratic senator from the Senate to fill the position, aiming to appoint a Democrat from the upper house.
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Washington
Benator Gorman
Maryland
Peace Commission
Gorman
Congress
Cruelty to Soldiers From War Wounds Reported
Private Henry Mulkey of the Twelfth United States Infantry, on sick leave after eleven bullet wounds at Santiago, tells of hunger and neglect aboard the Cherokee. He says wounded men were fed poorly, lacked blankets, and lay on decks with only shoes for pillows as Cubans allegedly stole supplies. doctors and nurses aboard were reportedly drunk.
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Japan
Henry Mulkey
Twelfth United States Infantry
Santiago
Bulkey
Fort McPherson
Georgia
Mulkey
Kansas Facts Card From Olin Visit To Ohioans
Professor A H Olin of Lawrence presents a card listing Kansas achievements and features. It claims Kansas is the nation’s geographic industrial and mining center with large wheat and corn production, vast fruit trees, the world’s largest apple orchard, and no saloons. It notes voters, a strong national guard, churches and schools, teachers, poets, writers, and a Santa Fe connection, alongside weather outlook for Kansas and a closing laundry advert from Chicago origin.
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Olin
Klondike
Cuba
Luzon
Porto
Drux
Say
Umne
Kansas
America
Ohio
Obie
Charhartain Cough Remedy and Travel Sale Notice
A reader touts Charhartain Cough Remedy with family use and children benefit. Santa Fe Route offers a through train to Cincinnati on September 6 round trip $18.10 with a souvenir button offer and sponsored promotions. Bucklen's Arnica and other products are advertised with retail offers and druggist availability.
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Santa Fe
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