Pension Office Talk on Kansas Federal Offices
United States District Attorney W C Perry returns to Topeka from Washington while Eugene Hagan remains there The Perry denials about blame for the Topeka pension office order conflict with reports that some Kansas postmasters were removed for silver ties Perry says no removals were political and cites bad accounts and business reasons He notes a potential savings by centralizing to St Louis and asserts no Kansas postmaster was removed for supporting Bryan.
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United States
W. C. Perry
Topeka
Washington
Fort Scott
Eugene Hagan
Perry
Mr. Hagen
Francis
Cleveland
Dew Moinos
St St. Louis
Camp Territory
Clevelant
Kansas
St. Lewis
Indholm
McKinley
McKinles
Civil Service
Hutchinson
Wilken
Clay Center
Vannatti
Bryan
Rich Gowned Missionary to Calcutta Arrives for English School
Emma Lamb, a wealthy Hagerstown woman, sails from San Francisco to join the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Northern Indiana M.E. conference. She will head the English school in Calcutta and incur lavish preparations. Her wardrobe features elaborate gowns, lace, and satin fabrics, reflecting a fashionable departure from traditional mission work.
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Chicago
Calcutta
Emma Lamb
Hagerstown
Tad
San Francisco
Brles
Snd
Mmtollerity
Kansas City stock yards probe begins in joint session
Missouri and Kansas legislators opened a joint inquiry into the Kansas City stock yards and livestock exchange. The committee, chaired by Representative Whiteprmt of Missouri with Morrow of Kansas as secretary, planned inspections while focusing testimony on yard charges and commission fees. Kansas members avoided yard contamination areas and did not participate in deeper subcommittee work.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas Plate
Kansas City Livestock Exchange
Whiteprmt
Alissouri
Rabeas
Kansas
Midland
Stock Yards
Commission
$300 000 Mansion at Rye Planned by Lawyer Bramer
Rela New York Feb 16 A costly mansion to be erected at Rye by C Tempre Bramer a lawyer of the city. The villa will be French in design with an estimated cost of 200 000 and will overlook Long Island Sound. Moments before completion a large underhill Purdy farm was purchased and the estate will include terraces a stable and coachman's cottage.
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New York
Rye
C. Tempre Bramer
Finimet
Mist Chardier
Toke Jacob Astor
Tye
Emmet
Long Island Sound
Mniles Cath
ROW OVER A BACK-RUBBING St Louis Woman Refuses to Scratch
St Louis on February 16 a retired merchant and capitalist named John Witte was playing cards when police arrived and seized him. He was taken to a city hospital ward for observation of the insane after an altercation with his wife over rheumatism. Neighbors intervened as the dispute intensified and Witte was arrested on a police court warrant. Mrs Witte and their two children have since disappeared from their home. She says he is insane.
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St Louis
St. Louis
John Mr. Witte
Forest Park Boulevard
Morton Exposes Public Money For Cabinet Portrait
A half page image of Morton’s Nebraska home Arbor Lodge is shown in a federal report. Senator Vert protests using public funds to print the portrait in an agricultural document, urging taxpayers to see how officials spend on personal displays.
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Washington, DC
Herald
Morton
Death notices for Mr F Buickney and Restival Timmons
Deaths note Mr F Buickney of 109 West Tenth Street died after months of illness. Remains will be taken to New York for burial. He leaves a wife and three children. Funeral services for Restival Timmons were held at John Timmons’s home at 123 Monroe Street after his death at Dr Shekian's private hospital.
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Mr. F
Buickney
West Tenth Treet
Sune Feyr
Tien
New York State
Restival Timmons
5. E Shekian
John Timmons
Monroe Street
Kentucky Distillers Plan Cincinnati Stop Feb 14
Kentucky distillers announce plant closures this year as a new session of talks aims to cut whisky tax from $1.10 to 90 cents. The move affects Cincinnati operations with potential tax relief and industry-wide impacts discussed by leading producers.
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Kentucky
Discovery Saved His Life By King's New Discovery
Beaversville druggist Mr G Calliaude reports a patient with Ea Grippe who, after failing all doctors, recovered after using King's New Discovery from his store. Three bottles restored health. store offers free trials at J K Jones drug store with regular and dollar sizes advertised.
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G. Calliaude
Beaversville
de King's
Ea Grippe
J. K. Jones Drug Store
Cus
Kansas Avenue
Shade for City Streets In New York Planting Society Forms
New York Tree Planting Society of New York, incorporated, plans to beautify and shade city streets. Members propose impartial treatment of wealthy residential streets and tenement districts, with blocks assigning residents to plant trees. Nurserymen will supply trees at low rates.
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New York
Department of Public Works
Stuart Buys The License For Corbett Fussimmons Fight
Dan Stuart obtained a $1,000 license for the Corbett Fussimmons boxing match in Carson Nevada to be held March 1. Carpenters will begin work midweek and seats go on sale then. In Reno the promoter faced a licensing requirement under new law. Edward Cook warned of arrest if the bout proceeded without the license and the exhibition was cancelled. Corbett sent a telegram preferring to avoid legal trouble and possibly skip St Patrick's day bout.
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Edward Cook
Corbett
Cook
Burbett
Fitesimmons
St. Patrick's Day
Canton Visitors Detail McKinley Event Delays
A crowd gathered at the McKinley residence but President-elect could not be seen. W. W. Dudley, pension commissioner under Garfield, left Cleveland planning to return later. Inauguration committee member Col. Dudley said preparations proceed satisfactorily. Dudley, once Indiana politician, now resides in the capital.
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Canton
McKinley
W. W. Dudley
Washington
Garfield
Cleveland
Pele Jk
Inaugara Committee
Hye
Nations
Hann
Col
Dudley
Indiana
Murdoch
Pitts- Vv
van Pallen
Port W
John Conkling
Harrin- Chariva Sehieren
Brooksburg
Thompson Divorce Suit Alleges Abandonment And Support
Mrs Annie O Thompson files for divorce from George C Thompson, a U S pension office employee, citing abandonment since 186 and a daughter Mary Irvin. She says he once paid 25 per month for support. now earns 125 per month and seeks alimony of 5 monthly.
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St Atchicon
Thompson
Banker A M Lampson leaves Yale most of estate
Troy New York reports banker A M Lampson died leaving about one million dollars in property to Yale University, a school he attended around 1960. The bequest follows his long career in this city and is described as his major legacy to the institution.
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Yele
Troy
A. M. Lampson
Yale University
Lampson
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEY FESTIVAL AND TOWN HAPPENINGS
A jumble of Topeka items notes events from a festival chorus gathering to a lodge dance and lectures at Turner Garden. It mentions theatre, police, new patrolmen sworn in, and a rise in street work applications. A colored ministers union protest, a divorce suit, deaths, a jail inmate, and a buffalo bone find are briefly listed among community notices and upcoming performances.
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Pyramid Lodge
Neral ‘Frey
Santa Fe
Tee Jones
Edward Stevens Industrial Institute
High Schuot
Ray
Turner Garden
Masone
Ware
RH XM
Entertainment Tonight
W. Harrison
Ott
Topeca Pillonopnical Society
Eanleson
Leedys Mene Sunger
Boodust
Kansas
Topeka
Atryet
Rarmsty
Kansas Avenue
Quincy
United States
Foster
Blumenstock Stit
Levering
Street Commission
Loulis Hradahaw
District Court
James Seradshaw
Auwu
Thay
Ward
Atte House
Post Office
Parkhurat- Davis
J. J. Hilard
S. W. L. Grant
Shiloh
F.C. McClintock
Bala
Alma
Gentie Hitec
Carson
New
Union Paciic
Louis M. Housman
Chicago Inter-teran
Reliagee
Press Bureau
Cook
Grand
Piet Jordan
M. L. Field
Prospect Street
Bune
Lawrence
Fitta
Lincoln School
Eiucnton Dianinead Behcot
Kansas Avenne Uy
Blackfoot Bank Fails In Idaho Receiver Appointed
Salt Lake dispatch reports the banking house of C. Bunting & Co. placed in receivership after heavy withdrawals. The bank, among the oldest in Idaho, faces assets estimated around $150,000 with creditors protected. owners requested the appointment to safeguard creditors.
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Salt Lake
Utah
the Tribune
Blackfoot
Idaho
C. Bunting & Co
Mabies Ofe
Miss Anthony Celebrates 78th Birthday With National Congrats
Rochester New York February 16 Miss Susan B Anthony receives congratulatory notes from across the country on her 78th birthday. Among the well wishers are Elizabeth Johnston New York Jane Spofferd Hampton Corners Me Elizabeth H Oulton San Francisco William Lloyd Garrizon Jc and Eien Wright Garrison Boston. A reception in her honor was held last evening.
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Rochester
N. Y
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Johnston
New York
Jane Spofferd
Hampton Corners
Elizabeth H. Oulton
San Francisco
William Lloyd Garrizon
Eien Wright Garrison
Boston
Senate approves joint commission on freight rates
The senate passed a house resolution creating a commission to coordinate with Kansas and Texas on securing tower freight rates to the gulf. The measure was sent to the governor for action.
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Guthrie
Hep. Ik
Senate
House
Kansas
Texas
Gulf
Sousa’s Daughters Send Him Valentine Humor From Denver
In Denver on February 16 John Philip Sousa, famed “March King,” received valentines from his two young daughters now in New Jersey. The elder pens a romantic verse imagining Sousa’s duty on heights of Noble Pike’s Peale, while the younger, Helen, sends a joke about stage lovers. Sousa plans to set the piece to music, noting his daughters’ playful tribute and his European return remarks.
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Denver
John Philip Sousa
Sousa
New Jersey
June Priscila
Valentine
Capitan
Helen Sousa
Papa
St. Malentine
New York
Martre
Hess
Maud
Mr. Sousa
WW. A. Bush
Europe
London
Ike Love
Ideas of Albert Ross Afflicted With a Poverty Hallucination
Boston feb 16 one strange feature of Lynn Boyd Porters insanity is the hallucination that he is financially embarrassed and nearly ruined though he is one of Americas wealthiest authors His fortune comes from book sales and real estate profits He maintains a mammoth estate in Cambridge with a socialite family and prized horses He once competed on a Boston daily newspaper before Thou Shalt Not made him famous and wealthy
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Boston
Lynn Boyd Porter
America
Porter
A & Mammoth
Cambridge
University City
Nordica Co Deserted Causes Concert Delay
Nordica company members arrived in the city to find the venue unused and the concert in doubt. Anna Nelson Laden, local agent, faced travel and housing troubles as she vanished from sight after a disrupted stay at the Palacé. Clerks at the hotel were flooded with inquiries about her whereabouts as authorities scrambled to rent a hall by eight o clock.
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Nordica
Anna Nelson Laden
Wes
meVvEtCe
Paeamemetta
Lern
Ernest Crete &c
Ghee
Aira
Laeno
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