Waterworks sale dispute and pump test in Topeka
Topeka Water company president Charles F Street argued against selling the waterworks, claiming the price is too high and the asset can operate longer. A Friday pumping test showed strong pressure, though observers noted an unusual loss between the pumping station and city gauges.
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Topeka
Adid
Charles F. Street
Topeka Wafer Company
Mockhulders
President Street
Sale
Hoon Ag
Topeka Water Company
Box 22
Fire Department
Puntpins
Jeane Shaw
Water Company
Tony
Abe
Wilmarth
Topeks
Water Company Supply to City Trade at the Time
The record notes which water utility supplied the general city trade at that period and mentions other factors that may have influenced the situation.
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Ime
Witnesses sought in Blydenburgh murder trial
Sheriff Millerse hunts for new defense witnesses in the murder case of BR. S. Blydenburgh. Mrs. Alice Harold testifies Blydenburgh urged the cemetery sexton to stand by the grave until after burial and remarked Jennie was the sickest woman I ever saw. He also claimed the wife died from stomach catarrh and vomited poison before death. Beloit Hoch club forms, elects officers, vows growth before county convention. Mitchell county Hoch faction strong.
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Bivfora
Sherif Millerse
BR. S. Blydenburgh
Alice Harold
Blydenburgh
Harold
White
Jennie
Man Surrenders Over Trunk Mix up in Missouri
A young man, using the name William Griffin, went to the police to confess after admitting he kept a trunk that was not his. He had joined a traveling show company and, after a mistaken check in Moberly, took a trunk he believed to be his. He claimed no real crime, and police advised holding the trunk for the owner, praising Griffin’s conscience.
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William
Griffin
Missouri
Moberly
Griffn
Topeka
Police Department
Nation Performs Solo Burlesque After Sharkey Absence
Carrie Nation failed to find a challenger at the Unique dealer in Brooklyn when Sharkey did not appear due to illness. She faced an amused audience and two comedians, delivering tirades on burlesque and personal conduct while confessing she had consumed unfermented wine before the show.
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New York
Carrie
Sharkey
Brooklyn
Smasher
Nation
Acme Harvester resumes Peoria operations after closure
Brief telegraph items report Acme Harvester Co of Peoria resuming production with hundreds of workers after months of financial difficulties. Other dispatches note General Kibbe’s death in Brooklyn from tuberculosis and Rev George Heber Jones on furlough in Korea. Berlin reports German South West Africa casualties near Windhoek as five settlers and three families are murdered. Brazil IndyFire destroys Knight Block causing 59000 dollars damage with water mains bursting and bucket brigade aid. Residents read the State Journal.
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Peoria
Acme Harves Company
New York
William Chancey Kibbe
California
Brooklyn
Nevada
Berlin
Windhoek
Africa
Okahandja
Herros
Brazil
Ind
Terre Haute
The
State Journal
Parkersburg Flood Swamps Downtown as Water Reaches Third Street
In Parkersburg West Virginia on January 25 the lower town including the business section up to Third street is flooded residents from Riverside Beechwood and the south side are displaced many living in second story rooms. Public buildings host overflow crowds and business houses plus factories worked overnight to save goods railroad traffic remains suspended.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Third Street
Riverside
Beechwood
KEPT FIRES GOING HELD FOR MURDER IN COLD SPELL
The city schools chief engineer M L Holloway ordered heating plants kept running Sunday to ensure warm buildings for opening day. Several plants are inadequate in severe weather but none of the school buildings were closed. students in Clay, Euclid, and Harrison schools faced minor disruption. One man, Heitger of Bedford Ind, was arrested on murder accomplice charges in the case of Miss Sarah Schaefer, with the suspect held at Jeffersonville penitentiary to avert mob violence.
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M. L. Holloway
Louisvue
Joseph Weather
Heitger
Largest Ship of Its Kind Leaves Yard on Trial Trip
Camden N J Jan 25 The Mongol ia built for Pacific Mail Steamship company departed New York Shipbuilding yards for Newport News on her trial trip The 601 foot vessel is the largest of her kind built in the country During the trial Captain Randale will command The Mongolia will later sail to New York and then operate between San Francisco Hawaii China and Japan Notables aboard include President May Vice President Hale and shipyard and company officials
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Mongolia
Camden
N. J
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
New York Shipbuilding Company
Newport News
Randale
Bolling Company
New York
Manchuria
San Francisco
Hawaii
China
Japan
May
Charles D. Hale
D. Lovekin
New York Ship Building Company
Scheir- Weln
Treacherous Shot Ends Lt Flake Mission In Mindanao
Manila reports Lieutenant Campbell W. Flake of the Twenty second Infantry was killed attempting to enter Moro Cotta in Mindanao to examine the locality. Private Foy accompanied him. Lieutenant Finke was shot as Moros fired on the expedition. Major Bullard affiliated with the assault, Moro Cotta was captured with no further losses to forces. Estimated Moro losses not specified. Baltimore firm Morrison & Co failure announced with conditions forthcoming.
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Manila
Campbell W. Flake
Twenty-second Infantry
Moro Cotta
Mindanao
Foy
Finke
Bullard
Mors Cotta
Baltimore
E Morrison & Co
New York Limited Leaves St Louis for Express Run
The New York Limited departs St Louis at 12:90 noon for New York via Vandalian Pennsylvania Short Lines with Alleghany Mountain scenery noted in the morning. Luncheon on the run to Philadelphia then from Twenty third street station New York in the afternoon. Buffet parlor connection at Harrisburg reaching Baltimore 2:55 pm Washington 5:1 pm. Reserved by J M Chesbrough A G P Agt 8 Century building St Louis. A stray remark about a woman's expression and a telegram or a mouse in a closet ends the note.
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New York
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
Alleghany Mountain
Philadelphia
Twenty-third Street
Herrisburg
Baltimore
Washington
J. M. Chesbrough
A. GP
Century Building
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Out of City
Networks
Fre
Y. Wolf
Chicago Salvage Co
Kansas Ave
Greenwald
North of
Lion Brand
Wright’s Health Underwear
Cambrie
Men’s Rockford Hose
House Coats
Eckwear
Hoch Club
Beloit
City Hall
P. G. Chubble
J. F. Robinson
Archie Cooper
G. B. Button
Mitchell County
Colt
Vici Kid
Fran Sy Fitwell Shoe CO
Kansas Avenue
William Grifin
Mr. Nation
George Heber Jones
Methodist Episcopal Church
Korea
William Toothe
Chicago
Bedford
E Dial
Kan
E. Dial
Cunker City
County Womgars
Sioners
Mitchell
Curtis
Lieut
Flake
Moros
Remo
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