Topeka Soldiers Reunion Debate on G A R Invite
City meeting across Topeka rejected a plan to invite G A R leaders and their wives as members of the reunion committee. Speakers argued the event should remain an old soldiers gathering, not a G A R affair, with fears of alienating nonmembers and breaching promises.
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Topeka
GA. R
G. A. BR
J.J. Miller
A. A
G. A. Ht
Miller
Committee of Fitten
M. P. McKirahan
Leavenworth
Nile
GA. KT
Allen
W. W. Dechisen
John P. Tes
Minneapolis
George R. Peck
Snake
Moore
Pottawatomi County
A. Wardell
Bean
Amithit Hiarao Mila
Pestivan
Ton J. Miller
Grdunus
Allén
Dr. Burkett
Keene F. Smith
Ottens Firemen Order 6 Uniforms for Topeka Tourney
Ottawa records show Ottens Fireman's Meeting approving six new double breasted uniforms for the Ottawa Fire Department. Uniforms will be tailored like regimental coats with standard ap paratus. Orders placed through Smith & Zellner with fittings today and delivery within about thirty days to allow a party to attend the Topeka tournament September 28 and 29.
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Ottens
Topeka
Ottawa
Smith & Zellner
Reguin
Pall Fire Department
Festival Push By Gavitt Company Aids Topeka Events
W W Gavitt Medical community promotes a Topeka festival week with an attractively printed circulars to be mailed nationwide at its expense. The firm plans 206000 circulars accompanied by letters and dispatched by agents, aided by scouts across Kansas and nearby states to boost attendance and awareness of Topeka’s festival.
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W. W. Gavitts
Topeka
United States
W. W. Gavitt
Hwang
Kansas
Topeke
Karnival Knights Meet Admits New Members and Plans Ball
Large attendance at Bika lodge room highlights a brisk Karnival Knights regular meeting led by President Chas. K. Halliday. A committee reports on arranging a masquerade ball during Festival week with 31 admission by invitation and no conflict with the Floral ball.
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Karnival Knights
Bika
Chas. K. Halliday
W. Roehr
Chas. K. Holliday
Karnival Knights General Committee
Eveniay
Paul Torrington
C. H. Trapp
Hamilton Hall
Wilt Haskell
Arkansas City Meeting Sets Up Festival Plans
The Sante 2e employees held a mass meeting at Nash Ishmael’s bicycle emporium to organize for the Pall Festival at Topeka on Santa Fe day. Officers elected include President D J Sweeney and Secretary C H Fenn. committees were named for festival arrangements and visitor outreach to Panhandle Florence Newton branches. Subscriptions to the Fall Festival fund were opened with $3 bills in evidence.
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Sante 2E
Nash & Ishmael
Dolan
D. J. Sweeney
Toveka
Sante Feday
Mwetine
J.D. Sweeney
George Buln
Griffin
M. J. Drury
H. Addington
W. E. Thomas
J. A. Blackburn
Wm. Bogardus
Panhandle
Florence
Newton
Topeka
Illuminate the Windows On Kansas Avenue Buildings
A call to merchants and tenants along Kansas Avenue to light upper-story windows with electric, gas, lamp, or DIY lights for the next Fall Festival. Emphasizes candles in frames on sashes, especially for upstairs displays, as a cheap, handsome civic improvement to impress visitors from the east.
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Kansas Avenue
Topeka Lantern Parade Sparks Childrens Craft Boom
A Topeka trend sees children carrying long colorful lanterns through the streets at night during Fall Festival week. Lanterns range from bird and butterfly figures to beasts and artful designs, some towering eight to ten feet on poles. Prizes could reward largest or best lanterns, boosting a grand parade spectacle.
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Topeka
Prises
Col
Fiesta of Lanterns Parade Sparks Topeka Vision
A predicted fire danger is noted as lantern parades could endure yearly in Topeka. Transparent floats might resemble fireworks sets and glow in rainbow colors, envisioning the event as a long running local spectacle called the Fiesta of Lanterns.
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Topeka
McPherson County Seeks Parade Exhibitfloat display plan
McPherson Aug 18 The Daily Republican calls Old settlers soldiers and Commercial era to contribute top county products for a float in the carnival parade to reflect credit at home and abroad. The exhibiting team will arrange it all with no cost spared. Readers urged to bring materials to Smalley Seed company store by September 12 under W Knau s Commercial Club chairman.
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McPherson
Dally Republican
Topeka
Smalley Seed Company
W. Knaus
Cumercial Club
Fraternal Day Parade Plans From Local Societies
Fraternal groups outline actions for a state fraternal day parade with 75 to 160 mounted men. Modern Woodmen, A. O. U. W., Pyramids, Royal Arcanum, Patriarchs of America plan parade participation and floats. Degree of Honor and Triple Tie consider decorations and coats. Invitations extended to uniform members. mounts provided. open house and guest checks noted.
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Royal Arcanum
Patriarchs of America
Topeka News Snapshots and Local Notes
A collage of short city items includes the library heating upgrade, a lantern parade for hundreds of children, and updates on residents. Frank Leech's father ill in Pennsylvania. a woolen mill dance and football practice at Washburn College. Local figures mention temperance meetings, railroad business, and festival plans. a boy injured by a bicycle accident. and civic remarks on the AO U W archim project.
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Frank Leech
Pennsylvania
L. C. Dunran
Kansas Medical College
J. H. French
Topeka
Wentworth Military Academy
Lexington
K. T. van Valkenburg
Crosby Bros
Washburn College
Stephens
The
State Temperance Union
Osage City
J. J. Frey
Santa Fe
Histuniiy
Colorado
New Mexico
HH. H. Aziz
Arkansas
C. C. Baker
City Railway
Salvation Army Hospital
Emogens Emmons
M. A. Cornelius
Arat
Kannas Avenas
Minneapolis
Troutman
Peabody
Indy
Bssen
State Journal
Nee
T. J. Andersen
Kansas
G. AR
Buffalo
Arsenal i
State House
Battery B
Loen
Acd & Block
Bolme
William Anderson
Madison Street
Jeoik
J. W. F. Hughes
Reasson
AO. U. W. Archim
Parades, prizes, and accidents fill town events
The Gropere and Butchers parade forms at 8 and moves at 10 to suit women attending. Beacon Hill Hand of Mercy honors Roy Slayton and Minnie Pears for kindness to animals. Miss May Chesney writes a two-step for the Santa Fe anniversary. Rock Island depot at Topeka to be paper-towered for Fall Festival. Major Tom Anderson’s petition for pension agency with 10,009 signatures cited. Chetk entertains Paiges at Crawford Opera House. Prince of Liars to follow. Santa Fe offices report elevator machinery setback and shutdown all day. Mr. W. K. Bradford escaped injury when his horse bolted. Christian Citizens’ League to elect officers after Nicholson lecture. Nietolson features at First Presbyterian. Wi T Feed to manage Kansas University football team this fall. One interstate league game in Lawrence vs Iowa University. Charles Crew injures at Sixth and Golden. Knight’s ambulance and Dr. Wallace respond. patient serious but improving. Haul Sheafor arrested for public nuisance liquor sale. old offender kept in jail after bond issues.
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Mae
Gropere’ and Butchers
Judge Yonter
Beacon Hill Hand of Mercy
Roy Slayton
Minnie Pears
May Chesney
Justice Chesney
Santa Fe
Rock Txlan
Mt Topeka
Tom Anderson
Pension Agency
Yelth
Atchison Gisbo
Chetk
Paiges
Crawford Opera House
Santa Fe General Offices
W. K. Bradford
Christian Citizens’ League
S. S. Nicholson
First Presbyterian Church
Iwagte
Nietolson
Kansas University
Pittsburg
Kan
Lawrence
Iowa University
Charles Crew
Sixth
Golden Streets
Mt. Knight
Wallace
Tex
Salvation Army Hospital
Walylace
Henry Sheafore
Dawsons City Start For Eugene Steamer Trip
Portland Aug 19 The stern wheeler Eugene of the Portland and Alaska Trading and Transportation line has begun its descent to Dawson City expected around September 1. From Astoria it was towed to Victoria by a tug and then to St Michaels by the Bristol, where passengers transfer back to the Eugene for the journey to Dawson. At Dawson the vessel will serve as a hotel this winter.
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Portland
Ore
Eugene
Portland and Alaska Trading and ‘Transportation Company
Dawson City
Astoria
Victoria
Bristol
St. Michaels
St Michaels
Dawson
Ten Years Sick In Onalaska Woman Ends Illness
Mrs Lulu Gleason reports ten years of nervous prostration and dyspepsia relieved after one box of Dr Charcot s Kola Nervine Tablets. She says her weight increased five pounds and she feels better and happier than in five years. The remedy is described as vegetable and harmless and available at druggists via Eureka Chemical & Mfg Co La Crosse Wis.
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Onalaska
Wis
Lulu Gleason
Chascot
Eureka Chemical & Mig. Co
la Crosse
Currency Reform Foreshadowed by National Merchants
Chicago August 1 The executive committee of the National Association of Merchants and Travelers endorsed a currency platform. John V Farwell Jr presented The Advisability of a Currency Commission arguing currency is the key deterrent to permanent prosperity. He cited a post panic revival, tariff-driven factory gains and farm crop strength, and urged consolidating banks with provincial branches and an elastic currency partly backed by U S bonds and bank assets, redeemable on demand.
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Chicago
National Association of Merchants and Travelers
John V. Farwell, Jr
Currency Commission
Farwell
United States
Miss Mabelle Crawford Stars in Summer Opera at Lake Minnetonka
Miss Mabelle Crawford, a Chicago contralto, gains notice in the Sherwood Concert company summer opera season at Lake Minnetonka Minnesota. A neat couturier setup near the hotel hosts performances from operas including Martha and Faust. Crawford has attracted favorable early notices from fashionable resort audiences and is slated for additional Chautauqua and resort dates with a Chicago choir singers lineup.
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Topeka
Lake Minnetonka
Chicago Tunes-Herald of Monday
Buss Marie Crawford
First Congregational Chilch
the Herald
Mabelle Crawford
Chicago
Sherwood Concert Company
St. Louis
Minn
Sudhotius
Northwest
Ite
Ingers
Negro boy feared death in Florida mob murder near Ricoes Bluff
A 17 year old girl’s screams drew help as a Negro boy about 11 was found in a home near Ricoes Bluff Florida. A mob seized him after an apparent attempt to escape. He was beaten tied to a horse and thrown into Maid Lake. No suspects identified. Local authorities kept silent as fourth such case in two years emerged.
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Apalachicola
Fla
Mamie Stone
RO. Stone
Ricoes Bluf
Elichtern
Bix
Hem
Lont
Flea trap inventor claims 20 foot catch range
A Kansas populist patent describes a flea trap that allegedly captures any flea within twenty feet. The device uses a scented lure guiding insects through connected wire-netting compartments until they are trapped. the source mocks the idea as brutal and notes only a Kansas man could conceive such a device.
Mineral Water in the West Offers Finest Restorative Try
Beggs Little Giant Pills advertised as cures for constipation sick headache and other indigestion caused complaints. Readers urged to ask their druggist for samples.
Psalm Singers Unite Move Aims For Church Unity
In Indianapolis on August 19 the United Presbyterian church Young People’s work featured a prayer meeting at the capitol grounds. Rev J D Raskin spoke on consecration as General Secretary J A Duff reported growth from 65 presbyteries to 123,000 members and 35,000 young people with 10,000 juniors. Negotiations with the Associated Reformed church sought cooperation for union of psalm-singing denominations in America.
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U. P
Indianapolis
Capitol Grounds
Young People’s Christian Union
United Presbyterian Church
J. D. Raskin
D. D
Denver
J. A. Duff
Committee On Young People
Associated Reformed Church
America
Road Not for Strikers at Plum Creek Camp
Campers at Plum Creek were marched at five o’clock this morning by deputy sheriffs who blocked their road to return to their camps. Deputies used a high hand, preventing any striker from being on the road even when paired and spaced. The strikers complied without argument or protest.
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Pittsburg
Aus
Plum Creek
Fasted 55 Days and a Woman’s Vow Death in Kentucky
Léna Col Unsworth of Claiborne County Tennessee died after a 58 day fast under a vow to starve until her husband returned. After a quarrel they separated and attempts by friends to force her to eat were in vain. The death occurred in Middlesboro Kentucky on August 19.
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Middlesboro
Léna Col- Unsworth
Claiborne County
Tennessee
Fire Chief Pummelled at Fire Chiefs’ Convention
New Haven Arts 18 at the annual convention of the International Association of Fire Chiefs tests of fire appliances were held. Assistant Chief Cummings of Atlanta was assaulted and cut by William Barrett a Western Union employe after mistaking him for a fellow chief. Barrett was arrested and held for trial tomorrow on assault charges.
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New Haven
Conn
Cummings
Atlanta
Wm. Barrett
Western Union
Western Union Useman That Evening. Cammings
Barrett
Whief
Towne Denies McLean Stumping in Ohio Bid
In Duluth Minnesota on August 19, Chairman Charles A. Towne of the Silver Republican party denied reports he would campaign for John R. McLean for U.S. Senate. He issued a signed statement disavowing support for McLean or any Senate candidate. Authorities in London said Chief Inspector Steevill of Scotland Yard traveled to Dover to organize a tight watch on arrivals at British ports with a large staff of detectives familiar with foreign anarchists.
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Duluth
Minn
Charles A. Towne
Silver Republican Party
Ohio
John R. McLean
United States
Towne
McLean
Omaha
Legislative
United States Senate
London
Ateivilie
Scotland
Dover
Deaths and funeral notices from a late 19th century paper
The four year old child of Lizele Brown died yesterday and funeral services were held at the mother’s home at 3215 Lincoln Street with interment in Richle cemetery. Paul Moore died this morning of spinal meningitis and burial was at Auburn cemetery after services at his father’s home, 12 miles south of town. William Butler, age one, died of cholera infantum, funeral set for 9 a.m. tomorrow, burial in Topeka cemetery. Laura A. Bozarth died this morning of a stomach ailment. funeral arrangements follow from the family residence at 2 p.m. at Stork Street. An employee of Santa Fe in Pleasant Valley, other notices mention tunnel work on the Great Northern railroad in the Cascade mountains with a projected scope and cost.
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Lizele Brown
Ovclnek
Lincoln Strait
Richle Cemetery
Paul Moore
FR. L. Mooreaceid
Auburn Cemetery
Laura A. Bozarth
J. A. Trogarth
Moreernoon
Stork Tr
Santa F O
Pleasant Valley
Lawsuit Over Damages in Millet Field Dispute
John Gallegher sues Sam Jenking for 37 ced ts for cutting millet. Jenking paid $4. court held injunction should be dissolved and Gallagher should receive about $4. Lawyer Linw argued for Jenkins and Bain for the plaintiff.
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Chrushe Macuntoces Court
John Gallegher
Sam Jenking
Pleer
Millet Delohsing
Jenking
Gallagher
Linwyer Thomas
Jenkins and
Bain
40 Cent Dollars New York Aug 1% Silver Value 4.2 Cents
A fragment from an old advertisement notes the value of silver at 4.2 cents per ounce and mentions a public speaker declaring One Minute Cough Cure as a remedy for throat and lung troubles. It names G. W. Stansfield of 62 Kansas Avenue.
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New York
G. W. Stansfield
Kansas
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