State Journal notes and commentary from Topeka
Reprinted Associated Press dispatches and editorials discuss banking, elections, and public works. The column rails at railroad and telegraph monopolies, imagines underground wiring, cites Kansas deposit growth and state wealth, and comments on cultural topics including a Tagal immigrant community in Louisiana and royal coronation costs.
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The
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Topeke
Sunday saloon opening controversy at Fort Worth protest
The National Women’s Christian Temperance Union seeks strict enforcement of the Sunday closing law and abolition of the Eight Hour law during a Fort Worth convention discussion of New York saloon openings. The document criticizes Tammany Hall and questions leaders’ stance on Sunday alcohol sales.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Fort Worth
New York
Elne
Tam Wmany
Centrol
New York City
Tammany
National Women's Christian Temperance Union
New York State
Reso
Ww. CT. U. Aa
Low
Nome
Globe Sights. Atchison hints on modern life and manners
Fragmented column notes social quirks in Atchison life. It muses on old fashioned women and children, fashion at stores, rural to urban contrasts, and everyday observations. Observers comment on aging, marriage unrest, and distant acquaintances rekindled after decades.
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GLOBE
Atchison Globe
Atchison
Stone
Commercial Street
Pointed Paragraphs From The Chicago News
A sequence of aphoristic observations on gender roles money and dialogue. It notes that women talk when together and face judgment regarding looks and intellect while commenting on ambition and marriage. It mentions Naomi at age 180 marrying for better or worse.
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Chicago News
Lolare
Naomi
Reflections of a Bachelor in The New York Press
A social vignette notes that a woman does not seek truth in beauty or photos. It asserts a man harbors hate longer than regret and forgiveness, claims the devil vacations at elections, letting others shape the world, and suggests most people overestimate themselves.
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New York Press
Gleas
Quaker Reflections from a Philadelphia Record
A collection of wry quips and sketches on life, love, and society. Observations lampoon detectives, wealth and marriage, theater, cigars, and weather prophets, with playful one liners and humor from the era.
Banquet Follows Last Kansas District Court Term
Atwood Kansas Nov 22 district court adjourned marking the end of Judge A C Geiger's term in the 17th district. A farewell banquet at Tremont house honored the retiring judge with toasts from ex Judges and bar members praising his fair, honest rulings and impartiality while recounting district history and anecdotes from Rawlins and neighboring counties.
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Atwood
Kan
A. C.T. Geiger
Geiger
Tremont House
Gnd
Wen
Supreme Court
G. Webb Bertram
M. A. Wilson
J. C. Wilson
Oberlin
Albert Hemming
Fred Robertson
Bar association banquet yields hearty toasts and smiles
W K Loofbourrow and Joseph H Young toast Rawlins county bar leaders in a lively county banquet. D O Bye recalls county history while Patrick Fleming jokes about saying nothing. Dempster Scott acts as toastmaster as the gathering praises the bar’s work and a cordial, well-run event ends with ads for hats and a cough syrup.
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W. K. Loofbourrow
Joseph H. Young
D. O. Bye
Rawlins County
Mr Bye
Wreing
Patrick Fleming
Kansas
Dempster Scott
Doctor Arrested for Not Reporting Scarlet Fever Case
Dr. C Hammond faces arrest in Oakland after allegedly failing to report a scarlet fever case at 183 Wabash Avenue. City Physician Judd contends reporting within 24 hours was required. Hammond cites county reporting practice and defends his action as proper. A $25 to $100 penalty is noted for neglect.
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Hammond
Board of Health
Oakland
Ticket scalping law ruled unconstitutional in New York
Albany November 22 the state ticket scalping prohibition law passed by the last legislature was declared unconstitutional by the court of appeals. The decision concerns Clarence Frenchman a Buffalo ticket broker and Sheriff Samuel Caldwell of Erie county.
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Albany
N. Y
Court of Appeals
Clarence Frenchman
Buffalo
Samuel Caldwell
Erie County
Washington cabinet session ends with plan for army education board
President Roosevelt’s cabinet met and heard a summary of his message to Congress. The plan includes a feature for a board of instruction to supervise officer education, creating a new branch of army education. Indictments and fires also dot the day as Rathbun faces murder charges, Armour & Co. burn occurs, and a bank robbery case surfaces in New York.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Hoot
Local notes on baptisms and court appeals in Kansas
The report lists religious rites at Caffey Ville with Bishop F R Millspudgh baptising nine and confirming seven, notes Ella Buckner’s appeal to the Supreme Court from a penitentiary sentence, and mentions a Topeka medicine football dispute and Washburn’s stance. It also covers an upcoming January exposition feature, a Sterne brothers business venture in San Francisco, and a Thanksgiving football game between the Kansas Medical and Atchison Athletic Club with praise for Topeka’s teams.
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F. R. Millspudgh
Caffey~ Ville
John H Front
Conpeanence Club
Colorado
Pean Hie
Ella Buckner
Nesta
Supreme Court
Topeka Medica
Paraletane Ierwurgeansn
San Francisco
Ami
Charles Sterne
Joseph Reed
Contentanta
Kasia Mahana
Stanley
Aschinon Globe
Forest Park
Kansas Medlcs
Topeka
Atchison Athletie Club
Atehinen
Tobeka Beye
Lustere
Katians Medice
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Durelar
Alabama
Rochester
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Bradley-Martin Lars
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Washington Post
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Louisiana
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America
Lunon
Philadelphia Record
Variety
Lfe
Lucky Sluggard
Blessed
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Eve
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Cripple Creek
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Kansan
John I. Helvin
Manhattan
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Rawline County
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D. C. Bye. “the First County Attorney of Rawline
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Nellie
W. H. Pratt
Phillipsburg
Wilson
Pratt
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Louis K. Pratt
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Robertson
Scott
John R. Hamilton
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John Heasin
Commonwealth of Kansas
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National
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Doctor
Rathbun
Jeffersonville
Ind
Newell C. Rathbun
Charles Goodman
Little Rock
Coots
Armour
Huntington
W. Va
Armour & Co
Chasspeake & Ohio Feight
Lonss
Kings County
George Zollinhoter
Williamsburg Savinga Bank
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Green Sons
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