Plucky Woman Preacher Advocates Earthly Reform Work
Frances Brant, candidate for Kansas senate chaplain, argues against waiting for heaven rewards. She promotes institutional churches aiding the hungry, clothed, educated, and uplifted, with practical relief programs for the poor and neglected. Brant dwells on extending opportunities for boys and girls through church departments that teach trades and virtue.
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Hatchingen
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Universalist Church
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Mies Brant
Ummeehns
Creede Divorce Talks Begin After Separation Pact
W C Creede the millionaire mine owner of Creede Colorado and his wife have separated and agreed to divorce by mutual consent. The settlement includes $20000 cash in hand and the wife relinquishes further claim while Creede will initiate divorce action after the legal period. They had adopted Edith Walters Walker’s infant daughter months earlier. Creede will care for the child, though the wife said she did not wish to be bothered. In a separate dispatch, Hawaiian annexation prospects were discussed in San Francisco with Minister Cooper presenting reports on U S interest and possible annexation within a year.
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W. C. Criede
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Mer
Edith Walters Walker
San Francisco
Jun
Honoluli
Henry Cooper Nat
United States
New Commission House opens branch in Topeka
The Michael Commission Company of Kansas City announces a Topeka branch at West Sixth Street with A W Wickham named as Topeka manager. The expansion marks the company’s new commission house operations in the region.
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A.W. Wickham
Lawmakers Call for Longer Sessions and Higher Pay
Otto Eckstein, former Kansas legislator from Sedgwick County, criticizes brief biennial sessions and low pay. He warns rushed bills, unclear appropriations, and inadequate debate stifle reform. He favors quadrennial sessions of four months with better compensation to achieve sound legislation and avoid railroad tax disputes.
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Otto Eckstein
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Sedewick
Plot
George Gould
Topeka
United States
Blaine
Kansas Editors Meeting Opens In Topeka
Kansas editors convene in Topeka on Monday January 25 at 1 30 pm for a program of minutes reports discussions and a reception. Topics include advantages of country weekly over city weekly and advertising while diversos speakers from Ottawa Norton and Kansas City contribute. Evening program features music and specialties as arranged by the local committee with formal and informal sessions and election of officers planned.
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Leavenworth Times
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Rahel
Holiou ‘Tribune
Ening
Pananes Af
JI. G. Waters
A. McNeat
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Toe “the Grase
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Gaeere
Wayne
Affireen
Nava
Representative Hall
Wilden
United Bull
Kansas City
Ure
Biennial report outlines public school system trends
The executive summary highlights statewide school organization, enrollment, teacher salaries, and average school year length. It notes proposed reforms to school district laws, textbook ownership, and state uniform standards, urging legislature action to modernize education statutes.
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Actiool
FIRST STATE DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington hosts the annual state dinner with President and Mrs Cleveland, Vice President Stevenson, and Secretaries Smith and Bissell in attendance. The event, held in the state dining room, featured formal decorations and a welcome lineup of prominent Washington figures at the administration.
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White House
Washington
Jan
Smith
Bissell
Hoth
Mee Clevaland
Aire. Stevenson
Olney Efit
Mexican Eastern railroad route eyed from San Geronimo to Tapachula
Engineers outline a potential line from San Geronimo on the Tehuantepec railroad to Tapachula Chiapas. The project aims to unlock coffee and mineral lands in southern Mexico and Guatemala with backing from American capitalists. A furniture contract error misstated convict wages at six cents per day instead of one cent.
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Mexican Eastern Railroad
San Geronimo
Tehuantepe
Tapachula
Chiapms
Mexico
Guatemala
Board of Ressimentiary Directors
Helmers Manufacturing Company
Disgraceful Disappearance of Pastor Lyons Young
Rev P James Lyons Young of the Christian church in Pomeroy has vanished to escape law sanctions for performing marriages without authority and to avoid a public scandal. He arrived last October posing as single, gained social favor, and campaigned for converts. His wife, Mary F Lyons, lived in Roxbury Mass. Attorneys for a Sioux Falls court action disclose a complex history with prior names and roles in Hexbury Mass and Egan SD, including alleged desertion and cross border moves.
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James Lyons Young
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Mary F. Lyons
Roxbury
Mass
Sioux Falls
Moody County
Lyons
Hexbury
Masa
Canada
Mr. O'Brien
Egan
Made bow to an idol in Lan chow rumor report
A rumor from Chinese sources claims a party in Lan chow Anhui forcibly compelled a Roman Catholic priest to bow before a local idol and sign a document under threats. It is believed the French cruiser Alger with the French admiral and consul general in Shanghai headed to Nanking to seek reparation.
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San Francisco
Jan. S
Lanchow
Anhui
Alger
Shanghai
Bracaeees
Nankin
Receiver Appointed for Bank of North St Paul in Minnesota
In St Paul Minnesota a receiver was appointed for the Bank of North St Paul after a petition by Public Examiner Kenyon. J F Fitzpatrick named receiver. Bank had capital 25000 with deposits about 2000 and assets around 5506. Main deposits were public funds and reserve with another failed bank. The incident follows a wider banking collapse and suspension of the North St Paul bank.
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Bank of North St Paul
Bank of North St. Paul
Snap Shots At Home in Topeka News Roundup
Walter Wider returns to New York today. A new commission firm opens on West Street. Reports note a hard week for accident insurers and various local notices from the state board of culture to law court schedules. J. F. Lytle on business for Wells Fargo. Topeka Health club meets. district court term previews. voters and politicians feature, with names like Lewelling, Colburn, and Reed.
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Gormly
Linttenant Pattiman
Wewculture
Harmiten Hall
Profesor Black
Shakespeanes
King Henry TV
Methodist Sunday School
WJ. Black
Denver
Jexbress Company
Topeka Ralston
Archie Harties
Leaverworth
Irons
Edwin Bourke
Tramp
Allie Jake Cogan
Court Howe
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District Court
Junkye Magen
Jud Hazen
Shawnee County
Dicretet Court
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Ee J. A. Paull
Ellsworth County
Te- Deka
Ube
P T. Rhodes
Anson Station
Maa
Chestnut Stree
Albert O Swanson
Mattenets
Crow Chan
Dutton
Nora M
Sherman T. Alien
B.S. Diven
Martin Denne
Eorceour
Issiah W. Powell
Osi
Flugeuetember
Yastar Onughwren
le Humbert
J. Morehead
Leavesworth, Penisanciary
Reheauah
Topekii Insane Exylum
Mew
Ter
Milton Harmon
John Yaniley
Elisabeth Wardley
Coxey to Direct Convention of People’s Party Withdrawals
Massillon Ohio June 12 1948 Coxey plans a meeting in the Lindell hotel St Louis Tenn with those who have left the People’s Party The program features an address by J H Osborne of Georgia remarks by J S Coxey on The Wrecking of the Poo y and What’s to be Bone The True American Ballot System discussion on the Non-Interest Bend and demonetization of Gold plus adoption of a provisional party platform and officers
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Tan
People's Party
Coxey
Mt 1948
Lindell Hotel
Theresay
Osborne
Georgie
J. S. Coxey
Provisional Nationas
Wid
His Wagon a Saloon in Whiting
Police captured Isaac Hosenwele after a chase when he sold liquor without a license from a grocery wagon. He served Polish and Hungarian customers in half gallon jugs and fled on a horse as officers closed in near the wages scene. Hosenweig claimed to represent a Chicago liquor firm.
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Whiting
Jam. S
Nisit
Isaac Hosenwele
Breakneck
Mosenweig
Chicago
Vice President Stevenson Plans Southern California Visit
A letter from Vice President Stevenson states he will spend several months in southern California after his term ends. He will travel to Los Angeles soon and maintain a permanent home and law practice at Bloomington, DC. He owns an olive orchard near Ettwanda and a lemon grove near San Diego.
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Stevenson
California
Tookine
Los Angeles
Ble
Bloomington
Ettwanda
San Diego
Trouble for Allen as forged invitations target Boston
Massachusetts colored official Isaac B Allen faces a wave of forged invitations sent to Black Bostonians inviting them to the inauguration ceremonies at the state house. The notices, signed by a bogus "Reception Committee," prompt Allen to denounce the scheme and warn recipients to ignore the invitations.
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Boston
Jan
Isaac B. Alien
Walcott
Nore
Isaac HH. Allen
Executive Chamber
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Sr. Allen
Isaac B. Alten
State House
John H. Sulliivan
Afien
Shiny Dan's Blood Poisoning From Lip Wound
Alexander Wattsfelder, a longtime cashier known as Sheeny Dan, died in New York from blood poisoning linked to a lip wound and a later leg infection. The case traces illness to a bank note habit and a car-accident abrasion, with doctors citing gangrene and sepsis as the cause. Separately, in Elkins West Virginia, the Republican ticket won local election by 71 votes, keeping the town Democratic-leaning.
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Alexander Watlsfelder
Wattefelder
Wallafelder
Presbyterian Hospital
Elkins
W. Va
W. V
Fragmented Account Of Presidential Talks And Policies
A garbled dispatch outlines moderated talks between Pittisburs and President and senior officials. It hints at differing policy aims on education defense Chinese wall removal and reconciliation between north and south, with emphasis on shaping party strategy and regional unity.
Flying Machine Flies Near Pittsburg
A historic chronicle notes Pittsburg’s Jan date of a man claiming to have inverted a flying machine. It describes a large craft about 18 feet long with a worm shaped propeller, steel springs, and a gas-filled body, claiming ascent and operation tested outdoors.
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Aldo
Workhouse System Suppresses Tramps in Fox River Valley
The Fox River region reports success with the workhouse system in suppressing tramp activity. Officials note steady handling of vagrants across Waupun, Oshkosh, Appleton, and Fond du Lac areas with annual relief costs around five hundred dollars. The program ran from July 7 to January 1, and the county funded inmates to deter vagrant crossing.
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Oskosh
Wissan
Fox River
DSH
Wimetage
Leime
Zee Tramne
Cromdar
Fond du Lac
Appleton
Real
Cheney Goss West Benjamin Cheney of Best Passes En Route
P Cheney Goss West Benjamin Cheney of Best Santa Fe passed to judgment en route to springs where his brother is. He traveled by special train from New York after receiving word of his illness and made the trip hours. He continued by train from Topeka. Scott's Digestive Campuur cures indigestion. All druggists.
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