Topeka News Roundup Highlights Miller Convention Amid Local Doings
Topeka's Wichita printed ledger notes a busy scene with millers' convention attendees from diverse lines including F E Tyler of Junction City and J D McTanes of Lackawanna. Reports mention weather, health updates, civic events, and a Chinese Wedding at Euclid Avenue M E church.
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Wilmore Street
Alice M. Frazier
Topeka
Emporia
Winmer
Kenomas City
Bessie Rice
Halifax
Kan
E. Pechner
East Fourth Street
A. L. Hudson
Chicago
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Grand Trunk Railroad
W. P. Morse
Des Moines
J.D. McTanes
Lackawanna of Fees
Kansas City
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Yellowstone Park
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Newton
J. G. Sonecker
Caldwell
United States Circuit
Topeka Elks
Lyon County
B. Holcomb
Dean Kaye
J. H. Skier
Mansas City
Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen
Missouri Valley League
Gill
Wandburn
East Seventh Street
Lust Hight
Pocketbook Lost With $30 and Railroad Passes Recovered by Official
Assistant state superintendent D W Little misplaced a pocketbook containing $30 and many railroad passes. He suspects it was found between 3% Clay Street and the state house. He asks the finder to return it to the office of the superintendent of public instruction for a reward.
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Superintendent of Public Instruction
D. W. Little
Little
State House
Harbor authorities decide to cut canal reno to stop plague of dead fish
At a conference in New Orleans on July 10 Jefferson parish officials the state health board president and the New Orleans port commissioners discussed Harvey's canal conditions caused by a fish plague. They agreed to cut the ren e and let the ta
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New Orleans
Jefferson Parish
State Board of Health
New Orleana Port
Harvey's Canal
Council Flaws Found In Bid Report On Paving Contract
Councilman Weber calls Monday’s award for paving East Eighth Avenue misdone. Wall and Hanley bid $1.17 but Ritoble’s bid at $1.18 should have won after reading errors. Tellers mistook figures, Hanley admitted the error, and Ritoble’s bid is now argued as correct. The episode suggests bidders knew rivals’ numbers better than their own.
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Weber
East Eighth Avenue
Quincy
Monroe
Wall & Hanley
John Ritoble
Rachie @t
Sgurea
Rueble
Hanley
Ritchke
Tt World
Lower Steel Prices Drive Shifts in U S Iron Trade
The Iron Age notes lower iron and steel prices amid a complex market. June output reached 1,475,456 gross tons, with July likely surpassing 600,000 tons. anthracite coal shortages affect Lehigh furnaces while coke makers struggle to meet demand. Foundry trade shifts, central-west open hearth capacity rises, and imports may ease as prices fall. Demand remains strong for heavy finished products, lake steamers, and structural shapes, while sheets and tin plate show weakness and some mills close.
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New York
Hyeryting
Lehigh
Chicago
Treasury bars salaries for Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The Treasury decides salaries and expenses for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition commission cannot be paid until the act's $5,000,000 appropriation provision is met. The condition requires directors to contract to close the gates to visitors on Sundays for the entire duration of the fair.
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Washington
Long Cherished Theory Apects in Hopi Inscriptions
Dr George Dorsey of the Field Columbian Museum reports investigations among the Hopi Indians find no discovery overturning established anthropological theories about inscriptions. The July update reiterates the persistence of prior assumptions and notes the research continues to seek authentic interpretations.
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Chicago
George Dorsey
Field Columbian Museum
Dorsey Explains Hopi Adobe Inscriptions Discovery
Dr. Dorsey announced at the University of Chicago that Hopi adobe house inscriptions are not writings but accidental scratches by mischievous Hopi children on freshly built couches. The claim challenges earlier interpretations by anthropologists seeking decipherment.
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University of Chicago
Dorsey
Socialist candidate bets $1000 on 400 county votes
Fort Scott Kansas July 20 It was learned that J A Yeakel Clark street grocer and Bourbon county Socialist ticket candidate holds $1000 to bet that the Socialist ticket will poll 400 votes He has campaigned across the county and says he has certain knowledge of the outcome
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Fort Scott
Kas
J. A. Yeakel
Clark Street
Bourbon County
Final Negotiations On Panama Canal Treaty Progress
Washington reports progress toward a definitive U S Colombia treaty to authorize constructing the Panama Canal. Secretary Hay and Cromwell of the Panama Canal company reviewed papers aiding unsettled legal transfers while parallel talks with Colombia move toward a week hopeful signing. Colombian minister Concha notes a nonpartisan commission will redraw electoral districts as elections approach, aiming to ratify the treaty within four months.
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Panama Canal
Washington
United States
Colombia
State Department
Hay
Cromwell
Panama Canal Company
Canal Company
Department of Justice
Concha
Congress
Lberals
Nordica to Join American Opera Season in December
Maurice Grau reports Madame Nordica will join the American opera forces in December and stay through the season. Madame Melba plans a concert tour of Australia and will join the Gray company in February, appearing in March in New York and touring to Philadelphia Boston Chicago Cincinnati and Pittsburg.
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Maurice Grau
Grand Opera Imprevario i
London
The
Herald
Madame Nordica
Melba
Australia
Gray Company
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Fittsburg
Rumor Berlin Purchase of Macau Reported
Lisbon reports a circulating rumor that Germany offered to buy from Portugal a portion of the Macau dependency in China for 35,000,000. Macau lies on the Canton river mouth island near Hong Kong, with about two miles by one mile dimensions. Calcutta notes a reduced Bengal discount rate from previous levels today.
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Germany
Portugi
Macao
China
Macau
Fas
Canton River
Hong Kong
Healy’s Humorous Freight Tale and Tragic Fall in Kansas City
In Kansas City a meeting of freights agents features W J Healy recounting a tall tale about shipping a supposed valuable race horse to Los Angeles. The story ends with the horse’s keeper absconding with valuables, leaving the company with losses. A separate incident reports Fred Garnier, two years old, dying after a 50 foot fall from the New York Life building in Kansas City, with medical witnesses failing to save him.
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Kansas City
W. J. Healy
Freteht
Santa Fe
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Kansas City Journal
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Missouri Pacific
W. J. Heaty
C Tucker
Denver & Rio Grande
A. J. Mullings
Colorado Midland
Colorado & Southern
Towa
Los Angeles
Enix
Kan
Fred Garnier
Frank Garnier
Minnesota Avenue
New York Life
Fifth
Dre. B. J. Late
W. McLaughlin
Tragic threshing engine explosion injures two in Kansas
In Fredonia Kansas on July 10 the traction engine of Anderson and Wilson exploded during threshing at New Albany eight miles west. Leo Anderson was scalded and hurled sixty feet away with a iron piece striking the separator. William Wilson lost a toe. Two crash victims killed. Anderson fatally hurt and dying. Wilson expected to recover.
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Fredonia
Kan
Anderson & Wilson
New Albany
Here
Leo Anderson
William Wilson
Craes
Anderson
Wilson
Help For the Strikers in Charleston West Virginia
The strike gains support as Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad refuses to transport coal from the mines until a settlement is reached. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will not haul coal taken during the strike, notifying the company of the ban.
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Charleston
W. Va
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Need More Help With Digestive Ailments Now
A reader is urged to seek prompt relief from bowel disorders with Dr. King's New Life Pills. The ad claims gentle thorough relief and guarantees a cure, available at Arnold Drug on Kenias Avenue.
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Dr. King
Arnold Drug
Kenias Avenue
Astor's Son Proposes to Lady Edith Villiers Sauquier
From London sources Cate reports that William Waldorf Astor Jr son of Sidart Astor has offered for the hand of Lady Edith Villiers Sauquier. The engagement would join prominent families though Edith’s answer remains undisclosed. William Waldorf Astor Jr is an American citizen popular in London society.
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London
William Waldorf Astor, Jr
Sidart Astor
Edith Villiers
Sauquier
Ark of Maren
Astor
Balth
William Waldorf, Jr
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