English jockey Danny Maher bids fair for return to America
New York dispatch details Danny Maher amid a banquet with 140 attendees before a planned return to America. He notes a potential $50,000 next year, with King Edward paying $25,000 and others contributing, reflecting his lucrative English season and intent to ride again in the United States.
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New York
Danny Maher
England
Jett Banggam Loaten
Areuka
Ward
Ing
Seco Cal
Decree Blackwell
Pierre Lortiinra
Blickwell
Daniel Cooper
Gmf
English Dock
Lester Reiff
Reiff
Tare
Fel Hary
America
Maher
Kid Broad the Judge in First Grand American Cakewalk
New York reporter recounts Kid Broad’s London visit thirteen days including acting as judge at the First Grand American Cakewalk in England. Promoters listed as Kid Grow Ria Mecoy Mekeever Tom Went and Philadelphia Jack O’Brien. Francie Turner won the cake with an English partner. Tod Sloan and other American boxing figures attended. Broad hints at future fighting plans and club purses.
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New York
Kid" Frond
London
England
Igor
Kid Grow
Ria
Mecoy
Mekeever
Tom Went
Philadelphia
Jack” O'Brien
Broad
Francie Turner
Nash Turner
Ridea
France
Tod Sloan
Danny Skeets Martin
Clem Serine
Iadie Jones
Bert Dorman
Arsarsean
McGovern
Harris
Nichols Released by Boston National Ten Club in New York
Charles Ed Nichols and President Whitfield conferred with A H Soden of the Boston National Ten club. Nichols received an honorary from Boston after twelve years of service. He told Boden of an opening in Kansas City with the Western league and was released reluctantly as Boden called him one of the nation’s most valuable men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles
Ed") Nichols
Whitfield
A. H. Soden
Boston National Ten Club
Nichols
Boston Club
Boden
Kansas City
Vandusen Likely to Ride for Hungarian Nobleman
New Orleans December 14 Charley Vandusen the Western jockey is expected to ride abroad next season. An Austrian agent quoted a top offer and a Hungarian nobleman’s trainer is now pursuing him. Also arriving today was J R Dyer, owner trainer of Elwood.
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New Orleans
Charley Vanduceo
Ridera
Fwehe
J. 2 Dyer
Elwood
Dyers Wement
Vandursen
van Deusen
Flever
Dyer
Hungary
Vas Dusen
Balance of Health Promises Womanly Strength Restored
An article touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for female weakness and related ailments. It claims the remedy corrects irregularities, dries drains, heals inflammation and ulceration, and makes sick women well. It invites private correspondence and mail-order details with postal stamps.
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B. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Clay Center Court House, Built Without Bonds, Completed
Clay county voters originally approved a county hall plan in 1897. The Manhattan stone building, costing 20029.20, was completed December 13 1901 with no bonds or interest and sits prominently in the city center. J C Holland the architect Zeiger and Dalton the contractor J E Kerby county clerk and the commissioners oversee final completion.
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Clay Center
Det
Clay County
A. F. Dexter
Kansas
Perry Holsington
Manhattan
Zeiger
Dalton
Junction City
J. C. Holland
Topeka
Board of County Commissioners
J. E. Kerby
Court House
Racing and boxing notes from the era clash at multiple venues
A garbled chronicle notes Mr Dyer’s training return with a plan to hire a star rider, Alvin Kraenstein’s London invitation, a potential Gans Gardner match in Cincinnati, Oakland racing results with Katie Walcott and Royal Flush, Mexican Pete Everett’s recurring evasion of the chain gang, and a Christmas dinner dish debate with stomach remedies.
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Gardner
Cincinnati
Joe Gans
Gus Gardner
Phoynix Athletic Club
Mark Fagusn
al Herford
Baltimore
Gans
Gang
Oakland
San Francisco
Dec
Katie Walcott
Vanljue
Gibraltar
King Dellis
Danway Maid
Map
Royal Flush
Rushfield
Princess Titania
Pete Everett
Denver
Pete" Everett
Pueblo
Everett
Colorado
Argentine Smelter to Close About February 1
Walter T. Page confirms the Argentine smelter will shut down permanently around February 1 after the current material supply is exhausted. Machinery is old. replacement costs near those of a new plant. Workers may transfer to Colorado smelters as Shemaka operates at full capacity and refining gains are planned.
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Kas
Walter T. Page
Omaha
American Smelting and Refining Company
Page
Sad End of a Farmer's Wife by Hanging Near Ottawa
News from Pomona reports the death by suicide of Mrs Isaac Gibson, a 52 year old invalid farmer's wife. For years she suffered despondency and mental strain, having fixated on a country paper clipping headed Cont ent. The woman hanged herself using bed sheet strips from a rafter above her bed and was found dead.
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Ottawa
Kas
Pomona
Isaac Gibson
Gibson
Santa Fe Health Resort Excursion Rates Listed
Santa Fe Health Resort offers excursion rates to several cities including Phoenix for 65 dollars round trip and a six month option to Las Vegas New Mexico or nearby health resorts. Other prices include San Antonio Texas 30 dollars and El Paso Texas 43.40 dollars with varying return deadlines and durations. Advertising copy notes cough relief and cold remedy claims with payment on cure.
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Phoenix
Arizona
San Antonin
Texas
el Paso
Las Vegas
I. M
Ae Springs
Jark
Ipeka Patona
Topeka
City fights water company over service and rates
Atchison mayor and council press condemnation of the Atchison Water company under the public utility act after failing to meet agreed water service improvements. An ordinance proposes a new rate schedule and will force the company to accept it.
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Atchison, Kes
J. Worr
Atchison City Water Company
Atchison Water Company
Public Utility Act
Water Company
Nordica to Visit Lindsborg in March
Lindsborg plans to hear Mme Nordica with Dr Swenson signing for her appearance. Negotiations with Gouden Charlton of New York set a Kansas record contract sum and low rail fares will aid turnout with tickets priced 1 to 4 dollars.
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Lindsborg
Nordica
Swenson
Gouden Charlton
New York
Mme Nordica
Kansas
Swensson
Aunt in Buffalo Leaves Clark Dodge Kin 12000 Dollars
Dec 14 Fort Beott Kas six children of Clark Doge a farmer near Clarksburg received a cash bequest of 12000 dollars from their deceased aunt Mary ilen Dodge of Buffalo New York The inheritance totals about 2000 dollars per child and was left by a prominent Dodge family member who settled on the farm now the homestead.
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Fort Beott
Kas
Clark Doge
Clarksburg
Mary Ilen Dodge
Buffalo
Sue
Dodge
Gypsum Farm Sale Reported in Blue Rapids
In Blue Rapids Kansas on December 14, Dr William Hunter Jene Axtell and H A Russell reportedly bought the Jonathan Mosserson gypsum farm comprising 85 acres for 1400 dollars and secured the upland rights on W L Hill. Hill held a 50 acre Rosecl. Jesse Axtell returned last.
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Blue Rapids
Kas
William Hunter
Jene Axtell
H. A. Russell
Jonathan Mosserson
Uilaingalte
W. L Hill
Jesse Axtell
Holiday Excursion Hates and Medicine Ad
An advertisement urges every family to have Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup for coughs and colds and promotes holiday excursion tickets on its Lines with details on sales dates and sale points at 825 Kan 5 Fulton depot agent. Also mentions a legal suit for $30.00 and a regional business line Jno F McManus & Co in Talore.
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Dr. Wood
Ther Union Acer
Bulton
Ske Our
Jaesbanee
JNO
F. McManus & CO
Talore
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Cire
Kaw Valley
Chas. Wolff Packing Co
T. J. Brown
West Fifth St
Topeka, Kans
Alfalfa Hay
Kaczynski & CO
Jackson
J.C. Elliott
Sprat's Rae
Kansas Avenue
Capitol Mine
Kaunes Ave
Sporting News
Barry Meher
Edward
Kid Broad
Eid Nichols
President Whitfield
Soden
Vandusen
Kansas News
City of Clay Center
Eraenstein
Ailwauken
Alvin C. Kreenstein
Te World
University of Pennsylvania
Eart
Kraenglein
Osborne
Concordia
Glascow
McKay
Santa Fe Health Resort
LFP. oMchis
J. P. Jenkins
Atchison’s
Bowersock
E. W. Dowd
Madam Nordlea
Madam Nordica
United States
Ichabod Norton
Lawrence
Mr. Dow
Dowd
Uere
Woul
Abilene
Vec
The
Nest
O. J. McHlfreyh
Carclr
Bearlock
I. J. Scurlock
Allie Scurlock
Oswego
William Bryant
Fifth United States Artillery
Georgia
Pruitt
Dodge City’s Commercial Club
Dodge City
Dodge City Commercial Club
Phoenix Lab Rooms
John Church
C. 0. Waring
G. J. Findlay
C. A. Milton
Voltaville
Wellsville
M. 1
Jayhawker Quartette
Bourbon County
Wee Bee
Philadel Louis
Stephe Cina
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Lake
J. Ivison
Lonaconing
DeWitt &Co
HeSby
Gomi
Ana Ping
Barrios Diamond CO
Broadway
California
Via
ER. W. Thompson, A. G. P
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Waconda
Walter
Hearturn
Waconda Springs
Osage City Shaft Coal
the Western Fuel CO
East Second Street
Gust Johnson
A. C. Adams Goan
Chickasha
AL. S
Rock Island
Goodland
Ohb . T
Union Pacific R. R
Rita
Simelow
City Ticket
Ofice Wilds Pacifc
R. R
Kaness Ave
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