Home in Triumph as Kansas Welcomes Returning Heroes
The Kansas welcome home parade honors twenty thousand voices and a hundred thousand supporters. Crowds greet returning soldiers marching from Topeka to the Golden Gate and back, while 68 Kansas heroes lie in quiet repose and 68 mothers face vacant chairs by the hearth. The article salutes the bravery of private soldiers and the nationwide pride in their sacrifice.
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Kansas
Golden Gate
Walton
Merritt
Calumnut
Ansas
Luroy Fields
Ransie
Gaul
Asia Minor
Journey An Ovation People Gather at Depots to Greet Trains
Crowds line depots to welcome passing trains as delays arise. Celebrations and cheers fill the platform despite earlier slowdowns, with onlookers sharing songs, stories, and thanks for the journey.
Programme Be Carried Out According to Original Plans
Topeka fills with people honoring Sunflower heroes as a commemorative event proceeds as originally scheduled with officials and veterans in attendance.
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Topeka
First Train Arrived in To peka at 12 50 p m
The first troop train reached Santa Fe depot at 12 50 pm amid a cheering crowd as soldiers from companies A through L disembarked. A chaotic reunion followed with many relatives squeezing toward the cars while ambulances waited. Battery B fired a salute as General and Mrs Funston were escorted to the dining room for a meal.
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Santa Pe
Moresf
Walter L. Sterburn
Eine Teapidstes
San Francisco
Amome
Battery B
Kansas Welcomes Returned Heroes From Twenty Regiment
Citizens of Kansas gather to honor and welcome home the Twentieth Kansas volunteers. The capitol and streets glow with bunting and lights as families rejoice with gratitude for safe returns and mourn for those who fell. The strong emotions of pride and sorrow mark a historic homecoming.
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Kansas
Isles
Welcome Hogre and Kansan Capitol Holiday Display
A vivid Kansas capitol holiday scene unfolds with hundreds of electric lights and red, white, and blue bunting. Soldiers, visitors, and officials fill halls as flags frame portraits of regimental captains and famed battles, with Hamilton, Clark, and other names inscribed along structural columns. The senate and house mirror the banquet hall’s festive decor.
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State Capitol
Kansas
Uwlirary
Sasees
Sparkie
Cal
Catumpit
Fernando
Hamilton
Clark
Waetwon
Hardy
Bottwood
Schideler
Walker
Flanders
Scott
Krause
Albright
Senate
Representative Hall
Entrance illuminated by a hundred globes in Marminetion
The scene shows a grand entrance adorned with a hundred incandescent globes against a green background. State offices serve as the hub for several companies with officials involved in the decorative setup, projecting an air of pretentious ceremony.
Rock Chalk KU Parade Promises Band and Yell
Five hundred university students arrive for a KU parade. The K. U. band will march along the avenue and form a large yell during the event this afternoon, energizing the crowd with school spirit and a staged display.
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Kunarea State University Estos
K. U
Three Special Trains Bring Thousands to Topeka Event
A Rock Island run brought 3,500 people aboard three trains from Manhattan Holton and Herington with 2,500 more aboard the Okeean Tahoe service. Five additional trains were expected with heavy coach loads from Junction City and Kansas City. A Chicago delegation from the Hamilton club visited Topeka to attend the event and invite General Pirn to Chicago as head of the Harmiston club before his Philippines return. The group included A W Gleason H Wisker Fe Whitmer and others.
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Manhattan
Holton
Herington
Okeen Tahoe
Daaeeb
Junction City
Kansas City
Bowven
Chicago
Hera
Hamilton Club
Topeka
Pir
Harmiston Club
Philippines
A. W. Gleason
H. Wisker
Fe Whitmer
CP Hare
H. Munnesy A. Rows
AL A Gilbert
AL A
FF. A. Bangs
EL. Roberts
P. J. Norton
Tonight's programme at state house with concerts
The event features a 7:30 p m grand fireworks display from the state house dome lasting one hour, followed by an informal reception. At 8:40 the Twentieth Kansas hand concert takes place at the Grand Opera House with a small admission fee, and at 8:20 free concerts will be played on every street corner by visiting bands.
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State Houe Dome
State House
Twentieth Kansas
Grand Opera House
Kimberley Doomed by Boer Blockade Report
Hopetown reports six Boers surrounding Kimberley with all routes patrolled. Marmeworth, arriving from Kitpdam, says fenders are entangled and Kimberley’s outer defense is strained. He notes residents fear annexation may drive Dutch to join the Boers after formal declaration.
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Hopetown
Cape Colony
Marmeworth
Kitpdam
Kipperley
Kimberley
Bender
Harmaworth
Beeryanaland
Ghasaland
MRK Bush Dead After Vehicle Collision on Western Avenue
Warren and Bush died from injuries after being struck by an electric car at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Tennestreet Wednesday noon. He died at Storpont Hospital at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Funeral plans not yet finalized but likely at Interovidence, 25 Lune trees, Friday afternoon. Bush belonged to Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen, and Topeka Typographical Union. He was recently chosen to represent the union at a fashionis meeting in Detroit.
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Sixth Avenue
Tennestreet
Storpont Hospital
Bush
Huah
Knights of Pythiss
Modern Woodmets
Topeka Typographical Thion
Fasionis
Detroit
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