Local notices and social items from North Topeka
In North Topeka notes Mrs J Davis reports two telegrams about the death of Mrs W C Mullola of Kishwaukee. A Good Literature Reading circle meets at O D Simos tonight. Grace Hereing has been ill at Centest Avenue but shows some improvement. Edith Kent spends vacation with her parents on North Jackson street. A surprise party honors Misses and Master Cooney on Taylor street by the Heppy-Go-Lucky club. A long list of attendees includes Nellie Stovall and many others. Local ads list druggists A J Kane Co and Gee J Gravee & Son offering Niger tops wagons and fur goods. The Magnet Restaurant advertises meals and wholesale fruits. An incident on Kansas involved a Crystal Ive company wagon, a buggy wheel, and a near accident as a farm team broke a wagon tongue. D W Hardiman intervened to help.
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Yne
O. D. Simoer
Grace
Centest Avenue
Edith Kent
Nori Jackson
Missles
Cooney
Taylor Street
Nellie Stovall
Loly Sawyer
Adélia Bistos
Edga Sawyer
Nellie Bicwom
Ning Sawyer
Suete Firmer
Roaia Firm
Hope Clerk
Masters
Wailter Clark
Bertie Vauway
Buechner
Walter Spear
Bidhie Baschpet
Beenie Spear
Jolusie Spear
Torts Summers
Clarence Spear
Walter Saratorre
Dolmer Cecil
Mra W. Spear
A. J. Kane & Co
Ransao Avenue
Gee
J. Gravee & Sone
Laurent Eevee
North Topeka
Niger
Ball ‘Phore
T. J. Jackson
Citizens’ Tank
Eby'’s
Bill to raise railway clerks pay faces passage
Washington March 14 An effort by House post office and post roads committees to pass a bill increasing railway clerks salaries was detailed The bill expands service classes from five to ten with salaries from 800 to 1 000 dollars A pension fund provision was dropped after a mortality study showed railroad mail clerks suffered higher deaths than Civil War soldiers and no vacations are provided in the current plan.
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Wassixcton
Linton
Michi-gan
Clarke
Ativtlan
Wesmenes
OMNES
Washington
William Waldorf Astor's Pall Mall Gazette Aide Shuffle
March 11 report on Astor reorganizing editorial staff at Pall Mall Gazette to shape coverage of the Venerurian question. mentions Henry Cust’s dismissal as patriotic grounds and notes Americans in London view Tory society influence with Monroe doctrine ideas seen as absurd.
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William Waldorf Astor
Loxspox
Astor
Pall Mall Gazette
Henry Cust
Hev
England
London
Totone
Belsus Britton
America
Revenge Lingers Amid Wedding Tour In Odd Tale
An elderly couple, newly married, travel eastward amid tinkered vows and veiled vengeance after years apart. The husband, George Ferguson, recollects a troubled past as the wife confesses she exacted her retribution, while surrounding passengers judge the scene on a moving wedding journey.
Bill Nye anecdotes and humorous frontier tales revive
A collage of vintage clippings recalls Bill Nye in private banter and a comic court scene in Laramie. It wittily threads Nye’s accident, a shoe bond swap, a judge’s brisk pull of dignity, and a parade of quirky vignettes from Chicago to Philadelphia with period humor and small-town morals.
Topeka Notes on Local Affairs and Events
Local items report council actions upcoming contracts and infrastructure plans. Notes mention a Melan bridge contract set for March 28 and paving steps for Eleventh Street, plus a royal ar can club event and lodge degree conferral.
Fire at Abe Steinberg's Home Causes Roof Burn
Firefighters rushed out at 6:05 AM to 816 Monroe Street where burning soot set a small hole in the roof of Abs Steinberg's house. A 7:35 AM alarm shifted operations to 1110 Taylor Street, where a fire in a occupi ed building was quickly controlled with little damage. At 8:30 PM sparks from the asphalt theater near Fifth and Jackson streets triggered a neighborhood alarm.
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Mia
Pires
Nono
Abs Steinberg
Monroe Street
Hesd
Taylor Street
Jackson Streets
Boy disrupts chimney fire with box plan
Callie Mitchell a sixteen year old North Topeka boy noticed wind drove smoke from a chimney at 830 North Kanaes into the air. He climbed onto a building, placed a box over the chimney, the box caught fire, the chimney burned out, and the fire alarm sounded. Fire crews removed the box and no damage occurred.
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Callie Mitchell
North Topeka
North Kanaes
Bhey
Mitchell
Coal Operators Pool Aims to Gain Several Extra Millions
A Lake Superior coal pool formed in the city unites lake shippers from the Pittsburg district to profit from millions of tons sent to the northwest next navigation season. The plan would involve Ohio lake shippers, distributing tonnage by prior years, boosting Pittsburgs earnings by several million dollars over last year. Queen Lil’s tableware sale in San Francisco fetches high prices, with pieces reserved for the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.
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Pittsburg
Queen Lil's
San Francisco
Lilinokslan
Adi Plese
New U S Bureaus Senate Frye’s Commerce Move
Senator Frye introduces a bill creating the department of commerce and manufactures by transferring life saving service lighthouse board marine hospital service steamboat inspection coast and geodetic survey and statistics bureaus from existing agencies. Consular service moves from state to the new department with broad jurisdiction over foreign and internal commerce and manufacturing interests.
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Frye
BIE
Washington
Washreton
Department of Commerce and Manufactures
Treasury
Life Saving Service and Light House Board
Marine Hospital Service
Bureau of Steamboat —Inspection
Bureau of Motion
Coast and Survey
Bureau of Statistics
State Department
Bureaus of Statistics
Consular Service
Stain Department
Tyig
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Nations Board of Trade
Talks to Farmers at Shawnee County Institute
The Shawnee County Farmers Institute meets at Berryton near Topeka on the Missouri Pacific line. The Thursday program includes crop rotation poultry culture and dairying for practice with speakers W Harrison, Jompeins, W Glick, Sims, Keisor, Heberting, Maassen, and Buckin among others. Friday covers orchard culture grasses and disease prevention with talks by A H Buckin, Prof pe, C Fashacht, EM Govkrell, and W Harakove.
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Shawnee County Farmers’ Institute
Berryton
Missouri Pacific
Topeka
W. Harrison
W. Glick
W. Stout
Sims
Scott Keisor
Pratit
M. Maassen
M. Maassen ‘the Programme For Friday: Qrehapd
A. H. Buckin
Prof
Kansas Shire Agricultural College
C. Fashacht
Denery
W. Harakove
Boston's New Union Station Plans Near Hearing
The legislative committee in Boston schedules an open hearing on planned rail improvements. Representatives from Boston, the New York New Haven Hartford system and its leased lines, including the Boston Albany, will discuss plans for a south side union station projected to cost about six million dollars.
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Union Station
America
Legislative Committee
Boston
New York
New Haven Hartford
Bowton & Albany
Ivis
Bailey's animal gift brings two grizzlies to zoo
J A Bailey owner of the Greatest Show on Earth sent a letter to William Leary, park commission secretary, offering an elephant named Tom and two premium grizzly bears. The elephant, lent for a year, remains the only mammal in the park menagerie and is valued at 2500 dollars. Each grizzly is valued at 500 dollars.
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William Leary
Park Commission
J. A. Bailey
Prabante
Monkey Intelligence Through Imitation and Smoke
A hotel proprietor with a small menagerie notes that monkeys show intelligence, largely in mimicry. He recalls a monkey copying actions with gum, peels, and rolling candy, and another instance where the animal enjoyed tobacco smoke and adjusted its position to maximize exposure, suggesting perceptive behavior.
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Aninal
Utica
Californians Endorse Morgie of Alabama for President
The California state executive committee of the Dimetallic party adopted a resolution endorsing Senator Morgan of Alabama for president and Senator Allen of Nebraska for vice president. T. E. Bowman spoke to young women at the W. W. CA rooms on European observations. Beulah chapter of the Eastern Star hosted friends at the Masonic temple.
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Beulah
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Duels Plague Heidelbergs Elite Students Despite Laws
Heidelberg university life centers on frequent duels held largely by the student clubs including Saxe-Borussia near the Hirschgasse. Despite imperial law severe penalties, the practice continues with twenty to thirty duels weekly, viewed by many as a religious duty and public spectacle.
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Daciio
Heidelbere
Philadelphia Telegraph
Germany
Heidelberg
Hirschgasse
Gero
Abe
University
Thn
Esaler
St A Tayere
Saxe-Borussia
Horusnin
Bonn
Helene
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Kishwaukee
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Royal Arcontm
Silcom Lodge
L. S. Woolverton
Santa Fe
State Board of Pharmacy
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Decatur
Solomon’s Temple
Smith Rosell
Brooklyn
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Topeke
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Eskimos
Abe Steinberg
HE Chibney
Coal Operators Pool
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ACME
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