Cost of the President expenses far exceed salary
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch summary notes the president costs the people $114,005 annually, including a $90,000 salary and handlling expenses for private secretaries, clerks, guards, and servants. It cites furniture, repairs, and various allowances totaling $44,305, asserting the presidency costs far more than the salary and compares it to the French president's terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
United States
Perai
Tather
White House
French Republic
GENIUS TAKERS. Census Work Appointments Delayed Thirty Days
Washington policy for the 1200 census task outlines that no appointments will be made for at least thirty days. Director Merriam and Assistant Director Wines announce examinations will determine competency, with strict civil service standards and no political influence.
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Washington
Associated Press
Merriam
Wines
Minnesota
Br. Wines
Staf
Bs ‘Ade
Henry Gunett
Thin City
Ccrstavher
Sven
Whlirie
Iik
Kansas Missionaries to the Philippines First Minelomari
The Presbyterian Board of Protestant missions announces that David Si Mibinind his wife of Lyndon Kansas have the honor to be the first missionaries sent for this country to the Philippines. The expert to sail about April 1.
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Kansas
David Si Mibinind
Lyndon
Kan
Presbyterian Board of Intantone
Wil
Unclear historical notice of a minister candidate’s background
A garbled excerpt describes a clergyman candidate with ties to Princeton University and a master’s degree. It mentions relatives and a summer journey to Lyndon, references to a congregational affiliation, and claims about examinations and qualifications for a college post, with several distorted names and places.
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Myr Hibbard
Nix
Hannon Ther Aye Renan
Princeton University
Lyndon
Sryka
Hee
Renesee City
Terit Tivturd
Dave Alwensa
Fia
Dr. Wibtard
Linen est spelless American Bream Laundry opens shop
A terse local item notes the opening of a new laundry business at 112 Weat Seventh with telephone number 34. The brief mentions the name American Bream Laundry and highlights its linen care services.
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Weat Seventh
de Witte
de Witt
Geo
W. Stansfield
W. H Wu
Railroad workers to gain 5 to 10 percent raise across 3600 miles
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific announces wage increases for roadway department staff. More than 3000 employees will receive a raise from 4 percent to 10 percent across the railroad’s 3600 miles of track. Round trip rates for the Northeast Association set at 52 dollars from Missouri River to Chicago, with general manager Parker confirming the policy.
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Chicago
Roadway Department
Chicago, Rork Island & Pacific Railroad
Parker
Fothce
Hay
Oboe
Kansas Railroads Report Reveals State's Total Capitalization and Earnings
The state board of railroad commissioners publishes annual data for Kansas railways. total mileage 3343.49. capital stock 826,540,989.99. funded debt 374,468,751.99. current assets 640,066,068.60. Overall capitalization 621,167,02.62 or 480 per mile. Santa Fe leads net income with 8,908,008.52. Gross earnings across Kansas railroads reach 32,017,240.54. operating expenses 1,121.25 yield net income 10,602,726.75. 31,029 employees. 24,650,491 passengers. average miles 48.74.
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State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Ileege
Habitative
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy
Chicago Great Western
Leavenworth
Kansas & Western
Manhattan
Alma & Burlingame
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Kansas
Not Safe to Use Unknown Druggist Prescriptions
Pay you to take chances by having your prescriptions compounded by a druggist you don't know. We employ only careful and trustworthy clerks in our department and you can rely on prescriptions being filled accurately with the very best and purest drugs available.
Rail freight revenue per mile and earnings per route
Reported figures show revenue per passenger mile at 1.03 dollars and total freight revenue of 2,156 tons carried, with average haul 3,523,363 miles and average receipt per ton 2.03 dollars. Gross earnings per mile total 55,980.74, while operating expenses per mile are 3,340,875.
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Fer
Santa Fe to Build Multiple Depots Including Olathe and Great Bend
Santa Fe management plans a number of small depots this year with two large stations at Olathe and Great Bend. Both are expected to be frame buildings with brick veneer and will cost several thousand dollars each. Most depots at smaller stations will be plain frame structures with no tare depot plans decided for the year.
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Olathe
Great Bend
Santa Fe
Smither
Pumps in Mexico demand windmills and hand pumps
Consul Kindrick reports in Ciu Sad Daurez that northern Mexico lacks surface water and rainfall to fill cisterns. Wells, hand pumping and windmills supply most fresh water, with United States pumps favored in mines, homes, camps, and ranges. Imports in 1808 totaled 337.20, distributed by the Mexican Central and Rio Grande railroads.
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St Louis Republic
Kindrick
Ciu- Sad Daurez
United States
Mexico
Republic
Mexican Central Railroad
The
Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railroad
Washington exposes Congress spending in recent session
Chairman Cannon releases a detailed record of Fifty-ninth congress appropriations. He puts total appropriations for the entire congress at 1 060,500,000 and future limits at 270,000,000 under the continuing contract system. He estimates last session at 8273,658,400, noting a saving due to war expenses. The ordinary two-year expenditures exceed the Fifty-fourth congress budget by 19,746,804 with pensions and various programs driving the excess.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Cannon
Committee On Appropriations
Cancun
Catan
Congress
Shain
Fifty-fourth —Congress
Postal Service
OSI Censis
Weather Indications Chicago March 11 Por Kansas
Snow flurries this afternoon with partly cloudy skies tonight and colder in the extreme east portion. Sunday brings a fall with warmer conditions in the west portion and a brisk northerly wind.
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Chicago
Kansas
Labier Williams Named Superintendent at State Blind Institute
The state board of charities announced Prof Lapier Williams as superintendent of the state blind institute at Kansas City. He succeeds Warden Toothaker after two years in office. Williams, 37, married with one child, has taught mathematics in a city high school for four years and recently worked as a teacher of the blind. He came to Kansas in 1880 from Michigan after graduation from Ann Arbor University.
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State Board of Charities
Lapier Williams
Kansas City
W. H. Toothaker
Marshall County
Lyman 0. Humphrey
Kansasity
Kan
Willams
Kansas
Michigan
Ann Arbor University
Bucket Shop Bribe Claim Sparks Topeka Debate
L Chamberlain of a Topeka commission house alleges bucket shop operators offered $1,000 to defeat a bill. He says they would pull funds if the measure passed and if declared unconstitutional the shops would stop, else proceed. The transcript notes the bill’s fate hinged on bribery allegations and legality.
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L Chamberlain
WL. Chamberlain
Topeka
Bucket Shop
Psesuw
Royal Bank
Hitt
Bouquet for Stanley Endorsed by El Dorado Republicans Telegraph
El Dorado Kansas Republicans telegram to Governor Stanley on March 11 congratulates him for his stance in the Fillion-Stuart contest, the bills to manufacture dentists and pharmacists, and for morality and honesty in state charitable institutions, signed by CL King president and Geo W Harvey secretary.
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el Dorado
Stanley
Kan
W. E. Stanley
Topeka
Fillion-Stuart
Cl, King
Gc. W. Harvey
Secretary Coburn Loses $1000 From Salary After Forgery
Secret ry Coburn of the state board of agriculture appears to lose one thousand dollars in salary due to a forged manipulation. The bill altered after passage in both houses and before gubernatorial approval. Records show Coburn was paid two thousand five hundred dollars yearly. the change cuts a thousand from the two year appropriation. The perpetrator of the forgery will be found.
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House
Senate
Coburn
State Board of Agriculture
Riddle Vacate Focus Amid Republican Politician Moves
Republican politicians seek to remove Barry Landis as Taylor Riddle secretary of the livestock sanitary commission and as warden of the penitentiary once led by Harry Landis. J and Tomlinson of Minneapolis are involved in the matter.
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Barry Landis
Taylor Riddle
Livestock Sanitary Commission
Harry Landis
J. & Tomlinson
Minneapolis
Cod liver oil praised as nature's remedy by eminent scientist
An eminent scientist hails cod liver oil as a wonderful composition and nature's remedy in wasting diseases. Scott's Emulsion combines pure oil with hypophosphites to rebuild tissues and enrich blood. It helps consumptives, diabetics, pale or thin people, and nursing mothers. avoid substitutes. Scott & Bowne chemists, New York.
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Scott
Poe and Sr.co
Bcott & Bowne
New Yorks
Topeka Official Named Deputy Warden in Probe
W A Thompson of Topeka, sergeant at arms of the house, is slated as deputy warden. Riddle and Landis face an upcoming investigation unless they resign or leave.
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Landis
W. A. Thompson
Topeka
House of Representatives
Riddle
Curtis Commends Congress for Kansas Gains in Session
A Topeka letter praises Congress for Kansas benefits in the latest session. Fort Riley Fort Leavenworth Soldiers Home Haskell Institute and a government building in Kansas City Kansas receive funding. Enacted surplus land use at Pottawatomie Kickapoo reservations. Private bills aid Kansas residents including pensions for Mrs Holt Mrs Allen George Brown and Arba Capron.
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Topeka
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Fort Riley
Fort Lengsnworth
Solediers’ Home
United States Prison
Haskell Institute
Kansas City
Kun
Kickapoo
Soldiers Home
Pottawatomie
Port Leavenworth
Tobeke
John W. Holt
Martha Allen
George ‘Brown
Arba Capron
Sunday Services Across Topeka Churches Plan
A long list of Topeka churches announces Sunday services across numerous venues. Hey Hutchinson presides at North Topeka Baptist with sermons on The Lord of the Feast and The Gates of RighteQuaness. First Baptist, Divine Healing Home and Mission, First Christian, Church of Christ Scientist, First United Presbyterian, First Unitarian, United Brethren, St John E church, Church of the Good Spirit, Oaklandian church, Third Christian, Free Methodist revival in Parkdale, Grace Cathedral, Good Shepherd, St Simon's, Calvary chapel, First Cumberland Presbyterian and First Congregational all feature morning and evening services with varied sermon topics.
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North Topeka Baptist Church
Laurent and
Harrison Streets
Hey. W. B. Hutchinson
First Baptist Church
MM. L
Christan
M. B. Harlan
First Church of Christ
Scientist
West Sixth Street
First State Spiritual Society
Hardine Fiteh
Tenver
Chesney Mt
First United Presbyterian
Eighth and
Topeka Avenues
MP. MecKirahan
First Unitarian Church
Uwm
Rer
Abram Wyman
United Brethren Church
New Church
Quincy
Ua. Im
Savior St. Joh
Me. E
Seventh and
Topeka Avenue
A.M. Ward
CL. Davis
Birmingham
Bel Chesney
Jc. E. Hamme
Oaklandian Church
Third Christian Church
Third Amt
Malher
H. P. McClurkin
Tt. P
Clay Street
Tenth
Free Methodist Church
Parkdale
G. B. Howard
Kansas
Dean Sykes
Stainer
Western Avenue
Seventh
Canon Bywater
Calvary Chapel
Joseph Wayne
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
North Topeka
Jackson Street
Curtis Street
River
Cob. Davis
Birminsham
Ther Stor
First Presbyterian Church
J.D. Countermins
Ing
Eove
Westminster Presbyterian — Rharch
Colles Avenue
Hastoon
Mise Clagston
Kansas Avenue
E¢Ond Story
Soeleck P.i
B. Arnold
Smallpox at Sterling Quarantines After Letter Contact
Sterling Kan March 11 Dr W P Truchtesy yesterday discovered a case of smallpox near town and now has it quarantined Samuel Bose a stock feeder is dangerously sick with the disease which he contracted presumably from a letter from a friend There is strong probability of new cases in the area.
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Sterling
Kan
W. P. Trucheszt Yesterlay
Samuel Bose
How a Cuban Drinks in Old Fashioned Vessels
An antiquated note describes Cuban water drinking with clay jugs called monky fug, showing how porous ceramic cools water in heat. It explains jug designs, hanging methods, and the peculiar wide-mouth drinking style that directs a thin stream straight to the throat.
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Perene
Socsequill
Hong
Train and Festival Promises One Cent Admission Event
Citizen George Francia announces a labor festival by Train and his manager with hope for 000 to 3000 daily crowds. Admission is one cent, with one cent lemonade and buns, and Train's bankits and clab to entertain. The plan aims for novelty, large crowds, and no political feuds to spoil the event.
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New York
George Francia
Train
Hie Mianhger
Mystic Cure Promoted For Rheumatism In Topeka Ad
An Osage County advertisement praises Detchon’s Mystic Cure for rheumatism after a sprained ankle and claims two bottles cured a case. It urges readers to buy Lower Leaf brand goods made at home and mentions a local library sale at 750 Kansas Avenue upstairs.
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Hettinger
Indianapolis
Ind
Detchon
SWI & Mullidey
Kansa
Topeka
Kansas
Law Library
Toulecu
Kansas Avenue
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Reece Ronan
T. F. A. Eee Saechee
Felix Gouvraud
Deatas
Hansas Missionaries
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Aharnde
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Marie Fatls
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James A. Herne
Shores Acres
Railroad News
Missouri River
Kansas Railroads
State Board of Commissioners
R. W. Squires
Kansas Ave
State Blind Institute
Is Lapier Williams
Kansas City, Kansas
Curtis
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