Remarkable 19th Century Doctor Brings Cures to Piles and More
A letter from Joel John VWeckel claims the doctor near Topeka Avenue treated piles and bowel disorders with a “no case” cure, promising cures for anemia, diabetes, kidney issues, lumbago, and hernia. The missive touts Ged, Duncan and other elements of a broad medical system, urging readers to seek the same remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Vweckel
Flo
Edward McGulty
Anne Unio
Sanday Bourne
Topeka Avenue
Railroads Seek More Power for Commerce Commission
Denver march 3 railroads warn they will withhold contributions to the republican campaign fund if congress passes measure 0a5 empowering the interstate commerce commission to act as a court of justice with power to fine. stock grower associations urge action to defend rail shippers and see millions saved by restraining commission authority.
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Denver
Chicago
Great Range Country
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Campaige Fund
Baccetary
Chas E. Martin
National
Téve Stock Groween Association
Miiroads
Inter- Rube Commission
Court of Justice
Viet Chmau
Gabt
Cnly Zeaterday
Adrian
Seckaven Association
Chitage Stock Yards and Transit Company
Reid
Mexican railroad wrecks raise fears and tough justice
Victor Murdock reports on Mexican authorities harsh handling of rail accidents and the seeming impunity for railway workers. He notes incommunicado detention, arbitrary searches, and juries that challenge blame shifting. The piece discusses a culture of risk and fatalism among Mexican railway personnel and the dangers faced by civilians.
Duty cost his life Santa Fe brakeman death suit filed
Lizete Fuley sues the Santa Fe Railway for 10000 damages claiming her husband, a brakeman, was killed near Asp Oklahoma Territory when a ballast material shifted on the line between Ponti City and Guthrie. The suit cites a fatality caused by a fault in the roadbed and alleges negligence by railroad workers during track work.
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Santa Fe
Arkansas City
Lizete Fuley
Fied & Sult
Winfield
Santa Fe Company
Orhs Seas
Asp
O. T
Tel Rewan
Tity
Sradoy
Ponti City
Githrie
Asce
Woman Seeks Damages After Train Collision Death
Mrs. Whey seeks $14,000 from the railroad company for the death of her husband in a train collision incident. The emergency stop signal was given by Riley after the train lurched as it neared him, and the impact threw him under the cars, killing him instantly. The case will be heard at the next term of the district court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Murdock
Wichita Eagle
Mexico
Republic of Mexico
Turner
Rawland
Miles Avehy
Theo Arrewtad
Brexico
Alec Ty
Wulil
Riley
New Mra Whey
Heaviest in the West Baldwin engines ordered for freight service
Denver reports Baldwin Locomotive Works will deliver 15 engines for the Denver and Rio Grande. The freight locomotives are designed for power over speed, with 64 inch driving wheels, six and three inch cylinders, and a total weight of 190000 pounds without tenders. Driv ing wheels bear 168000 pounds. Tender capacity is 6000 gallons water and ten tons coal.
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Denver
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Denver & Tio Grane
West
Wabash Wage Talks Prompt Mixed Increases Across Jobs
Slated advances in pay emerge from Wabash discussions with trainmen committees. Through passenger engineers gain 240 per 100 miles, freight conductors 3 per 100 miles, sid brakemen 2 per 100 miles, freight engineers 3.85 per 10 miles plus 31 per 100 miles on moral, mall increases noted. Through freemen receive 200 per 100 miles with moguls at 2.20, up 5 cents in both cases.
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Wabash
St. Louis
Ramsey
The
Ernie
Frekgut
Moral
Fremen
Western roads lose in battle over soldier transport rates
Chicago March 3 Western passenger officials report the US Treasury comptroller seeks to reclaim funds claimed by railroads for transporting soldiers. Railroads charged half the highest tariff for many groups while government and theater cases used party rates. Treasury probes raise questions about railway and army officials.
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Chicago
Comptroller of the Treasury of
United States
Uncle Sam
Fle
Treasury Department
Purdy Denies Rumors On Rock Island Plans In Topeka
President Purdy and party aboard private car No 390 traveled from Fort Worth to Chicago via Topeka. He told a State Journal reporter the Rock Island line is in first class shape with no planned beyond ordinary improvements and dismissed rumors of a Took Island extension between Topeka and Kansas City as untrue.
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Rock Island
Kansas City
Tyock Island
Purdy
J.H. Carrel
Col
S.thompson
Thumpson
Topeka
Fort Worth
Chicago
State Journal
Pury Maid
Rock Island Road
Perood
Topel
Kazans
Rock Island Bridges To Be Replaced Near Topeka
Six wooden bridges near Topeka are to be replaced with uniform 60 foot iron spans across Mission and Spring Creeks. Construction on stone foundations has begun at Valencia Paxica Carson and Transfer as crews work between mild weather windows.
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Topeka
Aion
Valencia
Paxica
Reduced Rates Granted for Various Meetings and Journeys
Rates of one fare and one third for the round trip were granted by associations for upcoming events. Dates include Topeka March 7 annual Dealers' Association, Sioux Falls April 1 to 3, Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West in Hutchinson May 15 to 18, and a Kansas musical jubilee. New York March 2 notes a March 19 effective date for rate changes from the classification committees of the Trim Line and the Cea.
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Ines
Topeka
Kam
Azsociand
Sioux Falls
S. D
Ty ‘Oman
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West
Hutchinson
Raw
Kansas
New York
Trim Line
Cea
Railroad News From Saint Louis to Horton Traffics
Changes in railroad rates restore pre January 1 basis. Cotton goods and implements costs reduced. Le Moyne Moffet named city passenger agent for Rock Island in Kansas City, replacing Geo Andrews. Day Mills leaves Pine Bluff for Pittsburg Kansas City line. Several staff moves and engine repairs noted across lines including Grand Island and Horton.
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Tata
le Moyne Moffet
Rock Tar and Railroad
Kansas City
Geo
George) Andrews
Fort Worth
Tex
Chicago
Rock Island & Texas
Chariva B. Sloat
Day Mills
Pine Bluff
Ark
Cotton Belt Railway
Kansas City,Pittsboro & Gulf Railroad
Pittsburg
Kan
FS Rawlings
Santa Fe Notes and Local Shop Accidents
John Dryer of the machine shops suffered an ankle injury in an accident on Thursday evening. J. H. Beardsley, seriously injured in the Midiquet explosion, remains in hospital with slow recovery ahead. Snow shovel work continued, workers kept at it as preparations for an upcoming event at the round house proceed. Locomotive No. 381 at Argentine tow caused by a piston rod uncoupling. cylinder head damage noted at Topeka shops.
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John Dryer
J. H. Beardsley
Lie Hospital
Round House
Tol
Rochesi
A.J. Heder
Order of the Mystic Shrine
Nenworthy
Argentine
Topeka
Ed Little's Nerve and the Manila Mission Mixup
An Abilene Reflector item recounts a Topeka tale of the Twentieth Kansas during mobilization. Conflicting telegraph orders lead Colonel Little to question instructions as rumors swirl about camps in Virginia Florida and Leavenworth before the regiment sails to the Philippines via San Francisco.
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Abilene
Eannie
Thle
Twentieth Kansas
Chicksmauga
Corbin
Little
Topeka
Kas
Chere
San Francisco
Philippines
Smallpox scare hits Wellington depot traveler
A bum from the south with a smallpox breakout caused a rush of activity at Wellington Rock Island depot. Dr. Ebright was summoned but the individual had already boarded a northbound train to Wichita. He reportedly visited several rooming houses seeking a bed but was refused due to the illness.
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Wellington
Rock Island
Ebright
Wichita
War department board to survey Fort Leavenworth needs
A board of officers is to visit Fort Leavenworth to assess barracks for enlisted men and quarters for officers. The group includes Majors Knight Pond Rickard and Malcomb, Lt Allen and Capt. Malcomb as recorder. They will likely recommend tearing down old structures and erecting modern facilities to accommodate larger organizations for the infantry and cavalry school to reopen as the war college.
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Airw Werssweo Ff
Secretary of War
Fort Travenworth
Infantry and Cavalry School
War College
Fort Leavenworth
John G. D. Knight
Corps of Engineers
George B. Pond
Charles Rickard
Montgomery M. Malcomb
Seventh Artillery
Robert Tf. Allen
Fourteenth Infantry
Woman School Teacher Arrested for Cruelty in Fort Scott
Fort Scott March 3 Mrs Lillie M Newell a country school teacher in District No 18 twelve miles south of Fort Scott has been arrested on cruelty charges for whipping two sons of John Endicott. The witnesses are PL W Dent and Isabel Miller widow whose home one boy stayed nights. The boys fought on the way home from school and the father told the teacher to use any punishment needed to keep order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Scott
Lillie M. Newell
John Endicott
PL W. Dent
Isabel Miller
Emporia Couple Sentenced Fifteen Years for Night Holdup
Marcus Henry Stowers and wife Maggie were each given fifteen years at hard labor in the penitentiary in district court. Stowers, a muscular man, and Maggie, an unusually muscular woman, allegedly robbed victims after dusk, grabbing and rifling pockets before disappearing.
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Emporia
Marcus
Henry Stowers
Maggie
Stowers
Douglas County Man Starts a Big Industry on His Farm
Lawrence March 3 Two thousand Angora goats arrived from Fort Worth Texas to Mr Johnsons farm on the way to Lawrence They lost 100 on the road fifty of them were dead in cars At Lawrence six car loads reached the farm the goats were so hungry they swarmed under horses and onto the wagon for corn Mr Johnson now operates a three thousand acre farm and the sight is remarkable
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Mr. Johnson
Ft. Worth
Tex
Texas
Smallpox Rumors Reported In County
Dr Aikman of the state health board, returning from Dry Ridge, reports 20 to 40 variola cases and several smallpox cases in the area thirty miles northwest of here. A young woman from Kansas City is said to have brought the infection. All houses with smallpox or variola are quarantined and guards placed by the sheriff.
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Fort Scott
Aikman
State Board of Health
Dry Ridge
Here
Kanes City
Mrs Williford Acquitted In Fort Scott Murder Case
A telegraph from Cripple Creek reports Mrs Kate Williford, once a leading Fort Scott society figure, has been acquitted of her husband’s murder as the jury remained in its box. Defense claimed desperation from marital infidelity led to an accidental shooting. Also listed are pensions granted to Kansas residents including Garrick, Beesley, Benedict, Coon, Collins, and Wilson with amounts from 4 to 8 dollars.
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Fort Scott
Kas
Cripple Creek
Kate Williford
Whiliford
Kansans
Washington
Originel
William B. Garrick
Kansas City
William W. Beesley
Ga Jona
Russell H. Benedict
Leots
Fiorella Coon
Columbus
Lafayette A. Collins
Leavenworth
John Wilson
Atchison
Sale of a Brick Plant in Cherryvale
March 3 report of a Wichita based deal where a company formed by local Wichita men acquires the vitrified brick yards at Cherryvale Kan. The Cherry Vale Vitrified Brick Company track well and Chilean origin, incorporated under Oklahoma laws, with capital stock of 100000 dollars and nonassessable shares. Also notes a fine shipment of twenty-one standard bred horses valued at 2600 dollars sent to J McAleater in Waco Texas. Mention of five wolves captured near Ment by farmer W C Tinkler and the death of Mrs Albert Hadley in Los Angeles, Cal., a Lawrence, Kas. native.
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Wichita
Cherryvale
Kan
Cherry Vale
Trackwell
Ohina
Inns of Oklahoma
Ball & Boyd
Labette County
J. #. McAleater
Waco
Texan
Parsons Sun
W. C. Tinkler
Ment
Salina Union
Lawrencs, Kas
Lawrence
Albert Hadley
Los Angeles
Cal
Hadley
March 5 6 at Crawford theater in Atlantic City
An1912 era advertisement lists shows at Crawford theater in Atlantic City March 5 and 6 with ladies free Monday night. It promotes a health remedy claim for kidney and bladder relief and markets Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with various local sellers and travel details for the Southeastern route.
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Atlantic City
Crawford Theater
Auuritt City
Valuable relic ring found for historical society collection
A five foot diameter iron ring with a history tied to Lecompton and the slavery conflict has been received by the State Historical Society from Horace Jones. The ring passed through buildings and mobs during the 1850s struggle over Kansas capital sites, later owned by Ena Hutchinson and uncovered among scrap metal.
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The
State Historical Society
Horace Jones
Ire
Pirla
Bekte
Ter
Lacuenptom
Lecompton
Lavery
Febert J. Walker
Iene
Compton
Wuding
Karsax
Free State
Topeka
Tacumplon
Ena Hutchinson
Leon County
Hutchinoo Ustawi
Hutchinson
Jones
Junta
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Alutrine
Motuliy
Rome
Joel
Bete Rock Island Anc
Colorado Flyer
W. Stansfield
Kansas Ave
Bave Ramw Ovaen
Kohl’s
Tey
Borria
Capitol Building and Loan Assoc
Railroad News
Power of Commerce Commission
Monster
G. Road
Carson and
Carson, New
Carson & Colorado Railroad
Southern Pacific
Virginia & ‘Trucker
Dlm- Bromlon
Wadsworth
Churchill
cMlviais
Wattey
D. O. Mills
Horthorn Pacific
St Louis
St Paul
Alton
Charies Huntington
Chiicago & Alton
Went
Horton
Jimmy Butler
Arkansas
Southern Cexak
Andy McCormack
Parker
Isd Alexander
Union Pactic
Grand Islad
Neb
C. W. Fletcher
CL. Smith
South
J. C.thompson
Tonella
Herington
Santa FE Notes
Little's
War Department
Manila
Kansas News
Board of Officers
Fost
Mang Ft
Arbuckles
Arbuck Bros
Nation Dept
New York City
ST Gach
Columbian Building
L. H. Jansen
Igr
Henry B. Btonsmith Coates
Robert B. Wilson
Otto
Nathan W. Baker
South Haven
Samuel Parker
Newton KE. Campbell
Memneth Hime
Centerville
Ee Jones & Hatch
Seneca
Harriet 8
Shepard
Booth
Mrs. Hadley
Sitarug Co
Hansas Avenue
Suxastiela
Siang
Aruig
Memphis
Southeastern
Birmingham
Chattanooga
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Fla
Ami Wagner Palace Buffett
Tuas
Olathe
Paola
Pisnsanton
Fort Scout
Lamar
Springfield
Chamberlain
Bextus
Lecompton Capitol
Historical Society
Bredbury
George St. Bradbury
Lake Erie & Western
Ransax City
Pitteburs
Guilt Road
Bradbury
Johane Gates
Harri
A RB de Muent
Jher- Bal
Doylestown
Chi
Siti
Ana Spene
Ene
Ube
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