Topeka Journal urges sending festival floats to Atchison
The Topeka Journal proposes sending fifteen to twenty floats from the Topeka Fall Festival to Atchison for the Corn Carnival. It views the floats as strong advertising for the 1898 fair and festival. Newton will send a large railroad delegation, and the piece urges widespread participation to boost patronage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Newton
Topeka
Newton Hepabeath
Topeka Journal
Atchison
Glo
Weather Indications In Kansas Forecast
General fair tonight and Friday with variable winds as reported for Kansas. The bulletin notes fair conditions continuing with no significant storms expected, signaling a calm weather outlook for the region.
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Washington, Aue
Kansas
Doct ors Disagree At Bankers Session In Detroit
The American Bankers Association met in Detroit this week. A Richmond Virginia member warned of future monetary danger and urged currency reform. He urged retirement of favorite rates and repeal of state bank taxes while cautioning against a return to a wild cat currency if reforms fail.
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Detroit
Richmond
Virginia
Branch
Timpribante
Congress
Pablo Tuciners
Qunter
Arkansas
Leedy the Silent and the Populist Controversy
Kansas governor John W. Leedy is described as taciturn amid a public debate on Populism and verbosity. Critics quote the New York Tribune calling him silent and unsure on key issues while defending his uncompromising patriotism and leadership style. The piece notes Elusive statements fuel political discourse in Lawrence and beyond.
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John W. Leedy
Kansas
Lawrence
Kar
Meir
Lerdy
Reyyt
Egypt
New York Tribune
Tribune
Teedy
Brown
Leedy
Fall Festival Pageantry Mentioned In Topeka Papers
fragmentary notice from a 1920s era source discusses Topeka papers praising a fall festival queen and parade. It notes Sree Button Aix as queen and highlights publicity. Abilene Chronicle is cited as supportive media.
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Topeka
Sree Button
Thrace
Atchison Ee
Fragmented 19th Century Ad Speech Lobes in Scattered Notes
A garbled collection of witty and satirical notes from various papers praising patrons, venting economic concerns, and recounting odd local anecdotes. It displays names like Burden Eagle, Harry Jomtan, and Scandia, plus anecdotal items about marriages, baby buggies, and skunk removals in Corning.
Globe Lights: Musings on Law and Life From Atchison Globe
A readable montage of quips and observations on law, marriage, work, love, and aging. The piece jokes about lawyers, business risk after age 40, farmers feeding sunflowers to chickens, a local Atchison man fooling his wife about the YMCA, and a humorous child’s reply to a governess as a woman in a crowded social scene.
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Atchison Globe
Ated
Atchison
M.C. A. Eymnasium
Woman's Tariff Views Spark Debate on Taxes
Mrs. Currier of Oberlin objects to a 60 percent tariff on women’s apparel aboard the Mohawk voyage. She argues taxation should target men's clothing, not women’s, suggesting 25 percent as a maximum if taxed. She cites silk gown, fur trim, gloves, and a chip straw bonnet as items she owns.
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New York
Aux
Lone
A. H. Currier
Oberlin
Currier
London
Mrs. Currier
GHAIN-O Coffee Alternative Debuts in Stores
An advertisement claims a new grain based substitute called GHAIN-O replaces coffee with less stomach distress. It targets coffee drinkers and even children, offering 15 and 25 cent packages and urging readers to ask for Grain.
Coal famine in Wheeling shuts down manufactories
Local coal shortages hit Wheeling across the Ohio side as the Bellehm mines fail to supply the gas works and hundreds of families face cold. Coal prices surge to 12 cents per bushel with slack at 6 cents, while manufactures struggle without gas fuel. The Kanawha valley movement shows little change as new court actions and agitator campaigns continue with limited success.
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City Gas Works
Wheeling
Fairmont
O'Connell
Montana
Watson Company
West Fairmont
New England
United States
Jackson
Kanawha Valley
Glass-Blowing Machine Imports Stir Union Tensions
At Bell Bros fruit can factory in Muncie Indiana the first group of operators for patent blowing machines arrived from Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. The firm says it cannot hire union workers and has engaged independent men prompting clashes and threats as hundreds of union workers protest. Muncie, noted as a strong union town, has long employed many union laborers.
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Muncie
Ind
Bell Bros
Ig Frult
Washington
Ball Broad
Uplon
Ref USA
Munelo
Ball Bros
LA Oi
Finiteglass Prosects
Air powered rail car tests on Third Avenue elevated line
New York reports an air motor locomotive with a missing smokestack operating on the downtown track with two flat cars and a remaining engine. The odd machine was towed to Rector Street and back to the air storage tank before a successful eight minute charge. Superintendent Smith calls the trip satisfactory and says an official trial may follow soon.
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New York
Third Avenue
South Ferry Junction
Fifth Avenue
Rector Street
Buperintendent Smith
Two Georges Washington Inheritance Dispute In Argentine
A federal suit seeks $10,000 in property in Argentine over confusion between two George Washingtons. Nancy Whitefeather left property to her grandson George Washington while another child with the same name and guardian Gore allegedly sold land. Heirs of George Washington No. 1 sue to recover the lands, arguing improper disposal.
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George Washington
Nancy Whiteferther
Gore
Saward
George Washington No. 1
Nancy Whitefeather
Tufted States Circuit Court
Argentine
Sore
New Transellentic Line Plans London Service
New York reports arrangements for a new Transellentic passenger and freight steamship line between this port and London, to start late next month. Five modern ships are being built, with English control by wealthy shipping interests including the Wilsons, Purness, and Leyland. Capital stock is £650,000 as the firm aims to compete with Avantic Transportation in transatlantic traffic.
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New York
London
Wilsons
Purness and
Leyland
Boston
Halifax
Avantic Transportaton Company
Bakeries Bill Passed Then Killed Over Veto In Madison
In Madison Aug 19 the assembly passed the Express company and sleeper taxation bills over the governor's veto while the senate supported the bakeries bill but it was killed in the assembly. The bakery bill aimed to regulate cleanliness in bakeries.
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Madison
Assembly
Express
Senate
Hurry for Klondike: Excited Man Drops $1650 Check at Ticket Office
Chicago August 19 a steamship ticket agent at 99 La Salle Street found a $1,050 check left by a jittery man seeking a single Dawson City through King Alaska trip. The man vowed to invest his savings for a Klondike claim, strutted off before detectives arrived, leaving the check on the counter. The drawee bank was First Nations. signer God. Glover. The stranger, tall and middle aged, wore fine clothes.
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Chicago
Anton Boenert
Steamehlpcket
la Salle Street
First Nations Bank
God. Glover
Dawson City
Alaska
Mr. Roenert
de Roche
Farley
Will of James KR Doolittle Involves Executrix And Wisconsin Real Estate
The late James KR Doolittle’s handwritten will was filed in county court. Doolittle names Mrs Sarah Pease as the sole executrix without bond after debts are paid, directing disposal of his real and personal estate. The will specifies a home near Racine Wisconsin and a 28% acre tract south of the city, with a bequest to the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
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James KR. Doolittle
B. B. Northrop
Willian M. Holton
Sarah Pease
Powers
Racine, Wis
Zstead
Washington, D. C
Wisconsin State Historical Society
Wisconsin
South Carolina Considers Leasing Catawba Falls Power
A Midlands syndicate plans to develop Catawba Falls to supply electric power to Rock Hill Winnsboro and nearby mills. The deal would buy out Sudan Boylston owner of surrounding property and use transmission lines to serve multiple factories. The project aims to energize local mills for about $1 operation and extend to new towns as built.
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New York
Columbia
D. C
South Rolina
Sudan Boylston
Catawba Falls
Mmt Boylston
Hester
Rockhill
Winnsboro, & C
Pasquale Parmiere Dies After Pyrotechnic Bomb Bite
Newark article reports three year old Pasquale Parmiere found a gutter pyrotechnic bomb on State Street. He bit the fuse and magazine, causing the device to explode and decapitate him. County Physician Washington oversaw removal to the Parmiere home.
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Newark
N. J
Pasquale Parmiere
Pasquale
State Street
Italy
Locka
Jocki
Pasquate
Telon
Washington
Pagmiere
Boyder Street
Nlight
Unidentified Coachman Vanishes From Crest View Estate
Greenwich Apr 19 General W McAlpin prominent tobacconist reports his coachman Henry Carlson has vanished after learning he would quit at month end. Carlson, who recently came into a fortune, uses an assumed name and claims Russian aristocracy with three Russo Turkish war medals. The General notes Carlson’s departure follows a parental death and a $15,000 payout from a $70,000 estate.
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Greenwich
Conn
W. McAlpin
Crest View
Henry Carlson
Rosaie
Carlson
Russia
That Bicycle Trust Forming in New York Owe Consolidation
New York August 19 At the board of trade of cycle manufacturers it is admitted European wheel makers seek to consolidate. James Sullivan of Spalding Brothers lists Col Pope A Spalding Edward Warwick H A Lozier and others as organizers with English links. Origin traced to 1886 overproduction and a 100 dollar wheel price slump prompting a proposed consolidation to prevent future losses.
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New York
Board of Trade of Cycle Manufacturers
Europe
James Sullivan
Spalding Company
Col.Pope
Pope Manufacturing Company
A. Spalding
Spalding Brothers
American Welded Tube Company
Edward Warwick
H. A. Lozier
Cleveland, O
E. T. Hooley
Martin Rucker
Humber Cycle Company
Albert Moore
England
Single Tax Urged by Philadelphian in Liberal Talk
H B Tawresey, once jailed for expounding the single tax on Philadelphia streets, argued that real estate should be the sole taxed asset. He faulted Charles McCaul’s municipal reform views, claiming non land owners and workers would lose crumbs from the political machine unless landowners bear all taxes. He warned reforms would aid landowners and raise values benefiting them.
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Philadelphia
H. B.tawresey
Dover
Del
Liberal League
Charles McCaul
Set Firth
McCaul
Spolla
Tawresey
Shot Stealing Apples Murder Near Madison County Line
West Jefferson dispatch reports a shocking triple tragedy. Mrs Paylor, a farmer’s wife near Tram, allegedly killed a girl with a shotgun in an orchard after a child and her fatll brother entered the area. The assailant claimed divine instruction and fled to London after arrest, with deputies en route.
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Columbus
Jefferson
Madison
London
Give Up Pleasures Many Young Women Take the Wail
Wisconsin and Iowa nuns attend a religious retreat and mass at St Agnes in Fond du Lac and the Sisters of Charity hold a novitiate ceremony in Dubuque. Archbishop Katzer presides in Fond du Lac while Rev Father Murphy leads the retreat in Detroit. Eight young women enter the novitiate and eighteen white veiled novices complete probation.
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Wisconsin
Iowa
Fond du Lac
Wis
St. Agnes' Convent
Katger
Milwaukee
Father Frank
Pittsburg
Dubuque
Sisters of Charity
Father Murphy
Detroit
Two museum representatives arrested for grave robberies
Two Field Columbian Museum representatives,Ewallan and Gadarsey, were arrested near Memaloose Island in the Columbia River near The Dalles Oregon. They claimed the thefts served science. they were not prosecuted but forced to surrender bones and skulls. Local guards fear grave robbers and warn of pursuit by Indigenous stewards. The incident underscores tensions between scientific collecting and respect for Indigenous graves. Mr H S Greeve of Chilhowie Virginia attributes his recovery from consumption to Dr Kings New Discovery after failed treatments. Trial bottles offered free at J Ke Jones drug store. Also notices about a Buffalo-bound rail trip leaving Rock Island depot at 2:40 pm Saturday August 1st with limited seats, inquiries to A B M Puller.
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Chicago
Aus
Field Columbian Museum
Memaloose
Columbia River
Oregon
Dalles
Ewallan
Gadarsey
The
Law
H. 5
Greeve
Chilbowie
Dr. King
Buffalo
Rock Island
Puller
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the State Journal Official City Paper
Gubdurba
Kan
Topeke
Karans Avenue
Eighth Telephones
sttevens-Ball
New Fork
Me Potter Building
Cate American
Ai- Wasa
Sun
Mion
Tus
Wed
Thur
Fil
Sat. Sa
Salet
Ates
Leedy the Silent
Burden Eagle
Harry Jomtan
Sunewiris
Scandia Our
Stafford
Tiler
Toller
Robinson
Corning
Corning Alsouvers
Wwe Ivebert
Greatiss
Tham
Frank Simmis
Chico
Dows
Munsie
George Washingtons
English Corporation
Doolittle
Wisconsin Historical Society
Syndicate
G. A.B
N. Y
Dregerics
Hood
Bicycle Trust
Owe
Scientisis
Field Museum
Banteay
Oa Pares
Clairette
N. K. Fairbank Company
St. Louis
Andy Gathartic
Moss
Ll.m. Penwell
Odd Fellows
Quincy Street
Undertakers
DE Moss & Penwell
Quincy St
Resto Robes
U. S. Townsend & Co
East Eigata
Western Foundry
s@ Machine Works
Toreks Foundry & Meghine Estate
Seee
Topeka, Kan
R. L. Cofran
Leading School OF Business
Penmanshmep & FE
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