News of Kansas reports a mother abandoning her baby in Wellington
Westmetes May 20. City Marshal C. G Shawver arrives from Argonia with Mrs. Eliza Jane Shoyer, jailed for abandoning her infant to die. She details a sad life, including a deceased Union soldier husband and seven daughters. She sold a contested claim for $600, spent $300, and wandered from Texas to Fredonia before giving birth in a Winfield train stop. She says she left the baby in a cyclone cave, believing the Dobbins house inhabited, and now faces six months to five years in the state penitentiary.
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Texas
Winfield
Fredonia
Ahs
Wellington
Dobbins
Argonia
Mia Shoyer
Oswego Saloon Crackdown and Mills Fire Report
Oswego residents face enforcement actions as several jointists plead guilty to operating a tippling shop with fines totaling 63.15 after adjustments. Dr Kinzey fined 25 and costs 98.80 final. Peerless Mills in Couxson Grove burns, largest touring mill in Morris county destroyed by fire with about 5000 insurance.
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Oswego
Ron Pers
Osweco
Kan
Dr. Kinzey
Peerless Mills
Couxson
Grove
Morris County
J. N. Bradford
Mother of James Boys Seeks Profits At Family Grove
Kasyeas Crr May 20. The mother of Frank and Jesse James operates a farm nine miles northwest of Excelsior Springs. Remains of Jesse James buried on the property behind a high fence. Admission of 25 cents to visit the grove and log house once home to the James brothers. She charges 40 cents for photographs of Jesse James grave and five cents for each pebble taken. Many visitors tour the Samuels place. she also lectures about the era.
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James Boys
Kasyeas
Frank
Jesse James
Excelsior Springs
Dr. Samuels
Jease James
Samuels Place
Decoration Day Parade and Gage Monument Unveiling
Topeka holds a Decoration Day procession to the Gage monument site with four divisions led by Chief Marshal Anderson. The event begins at 2 pm from Kansas avenues and Fifth Street, proceeding to the cemetery for speeches by General Caldwell and Rev McCabe, with bands, veterans, and attendees including Washburn cadets and city officials.
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Topeka
Gage
Kansas Avenue
Fifth
East Fifth
Sixth
Quincy Streets
Eighth Street
Polithen
Marshal Anderson
Marshall
J. & Collins
Geo. W. Veale
G. G. Gage
General Caldwell
Howel Jones
Wyatt Sisters
McCabe
Madocs
Jackson
George W.W. Veale
McC
Norman L. Gage
T. J. Anderson
A. M. Fuller
W. L. Ward
T. M. James
W. Coleman
Charles Lewis
de Camp
C. Il. Sampson
E J. Dallas
J. S. Colling
Comrad Maehitrick
George W. Weed
G. Stearer
A. Randlett
T. WH. Haskell
George Neal
A. J. Kane
Squire
Memorial Day Services At Keadwater By Blue Post
Memorial Day program at Keadwater lists 10:30 a.m. cemetery services with a 10 a.m. procession from Kansas avenue and Gordon street. Includes ritual at graves, flower deposits by Post corps and Quincy School, music by Grant School Chorus and Baptist Choir, recitations by Malcolm James Lu Reed and Miss Adelia Brown, closing hymn America, and marshal M. R. Mitchell. Also notes jail transfer of Rev. E Prather and other civic notices from Topeka and Abilene.
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Blue Post
Drum Corps
Keadwater
Kansas Avenue
Gordon Street
Post Corps
Quincy School
First Line Light Artillery
Army
Grant School
Malcolm James
Baptist Choir
W. L. Byers
Drum Corpe
Grant School Chorus
Lu Reed
Adelia Brown
America
M. R. Mitchell
Wonder of Nations Greatest Productive Power in World
A June North American Review article by Michael Mulhall argues the United States holds the greatest productive power in 1805, with three times the force of 1800 and energy rivaling Britain, Germany, and France combined. It notes high literacy, rising wealth, and farm versus urban growth, claiming U.S. agriculture would attract admiration even without urban industry.
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New Yeak
Michael G. Mulhall
North American Review
United States
Mr. Mulhall
Hoe
Great Britain
Germany
France
England
Austin
America
Europe
Mulhall
Daylight Theft Involving Wagon and Grain
Grant Cornish, a colored man, is jailed on charges of attempted wagon theft in the city. He allegedly drove a wagon loaded with grain from Houser's Grocery alley behind Eleventh and Clay, but fled after a boy alerted the proprietor. Officer Pinkston later found Cornish on Second Street near Kansas Avenue. Howser identified him at the city prison.
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Grant Cornish
Gratin
Pisons
Houser
Eleventh
Clay Streets
Cornish
Pinkston
Second Street
Kansas Avenue
Mr. Howser
City
Sumner School Repaired After Fire With Bolts and Roof
James Fitzgibbons completed bolting the walls of the Sumner school building destroyed by fire last fall. Heavy bolts one and a quarter inches in diameter and forty foot long run through the structure and the tower walls, drawing them together and strengthening the building. The roof is nearly ready.
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James Fitzgibbons
Sumner
Holts
Epworth League Denounces Gov Morrill At Topeka District Convention
The Topeka district Epworth League convention closed its fifth annual session at Burlingame at noon today and adopted strong resolutions condemning Governor Morrill for failing to enforce the prohibitory law and for claiming it cannot be enforced where public sentiment opposes it. Delegates attended from twenty five Methodist churches.
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Epworth League
Topeka
Morrill
Burlingame
Half-Rate Excursions to Missouri Arkansas and Southeast
May 21 and June 11 round trip tickets to South Missouri Arkansas and the South and Southeast via the Mem his Route Kansas City Pa Scott Memphis K R sold at one fare with minimum $7 Tickets allow stop-overs at intermediate stations Detailed info time schedules and printed matter on Missouri and Arkansas stock-raising and fruit growing districts available from J E Lockwoon G P T A Kansas City Mo State Journals Want and Misses columns reach Topeka readers daily Peerless Steam Laundry promotes its services.
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Missouri
Arkansas
Memhis
Kansas City
Scott
Memphis K. R
J. E Lockwoon
G.P
T. A. Ka City
Foraker Victory Dominates Ohio Ticket Nominations
Zanesville May 29 United Republican state convention on the sixth ballot endorsed George Alan Bushnell for governor and Gen. Asa W. Jones for lieutenant governor. Foraker loyalists named the full state ticket and gained control of the state central committee. Major Charles Dick was defeated by W. D. Guilbert. The ticket includes Bushnell Jones Guilbert Minshall Allen, S. R. Campbell, and E. L. Lybarger with McKinley delegation likely at the national convention.
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Foraker
Ohio
Kida
Zanesville
Geo. Alan Bushnell
Springfield
A. W. Jones
Youngstown
Gen. Jones
Gan. Boshoell
Gov. Foraker
Ronning
Charles Dick
McKinley
W. D. Guilbert
Sherman
Foster
Supreme Court
Josiah B. Allen
Athens
Prank 8S
Monett
Findlay
Samuel R Campbell
Steubanville
Board of Public Works
E.L. Lybarger
Coshocton
Hardware Stock Moves From Topeka To Waverly
Original Anderson Hardware stock from 520 Kansas Avenue owned by W W Work is moved to Waverly Cof fey county and the store will close. RG White, previously in Waverly hardware, bought the stock to relocate after poor business in Topeka.
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Anderson Hardware
Waverly
Kan
W. W. Work
Kansas Avenue
Coffey County
RG. White
Work
Topeka
Today’s Market Report Shows Wheat Volatility Amid Hot Winds
Hot winds again drive wheat prices with rapid swings from a high rally to a steep decline. Weather woes from Nebraska to California fuel damage fears while shortages and rainfall forecasts loom, lifting and then sending prices lower. corn and hogs also respond with varied gains and losses.
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Illinois
Washington
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Weather Bureau
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Minnesota
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Colorado
Wyoming
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Carrez
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