Children Award Prizes For Natural History Collections
The Philosophical society awarded prizes for school collections in the vegetable kingdom. Winners include Earl LeMar land and Bath of Polk School for special mention. Prizes ranged up to 32 dollars, with recipients from Clay School, Bethany College preparatory, and Polk School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cal Society
The
Philosophical Society
Chidren
D. Evants
Geo. D. Hale
C.F
Kirst
Yar Ce
Brigham
Harry Seller
West Eighth Street
Ernest Zeliern
Clay
Grace Dauchy
Juliet Thomas
Bethany College
E. A. Sener
Genie G Smith
Polk School
Peter
Charlie J. Mulinson
Westvende
Charlie Ander
Earl LeMarland
Bath
Polk Sthoat Teestys
Irregular Agency Inquiry Tangles Kansas Insurance Debate
Fragmentary notes show an inquiry into Continental Masonic Accident and the Kansas insurance department reacting to unauthorized business in Coffey County. Statements reference LeHay, J C Covert, and Superintendent Stewall with warnings to address unapproved activities. The text includes ad-like lines about Lexative Bromo Carb and a confusing trader’s pitch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Masonic Accident Associatics
Kansas
J.C. Covert
LeHay
Chicago
Stewall
Benaam
Coffey County
McNall
Capitol Lodge No 3 Fraternal Day Parade Notice
Members of Capitol Lodge No 3 A U W are summoned to assemble at 418 Kansas Avenue on Monday September 27 for the Fraternal Day parade. Visiting members are cordially invited to join. By order of J W Pasley M W Ernest Mueller Recorder.
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Capital Lodge
Capitol Lodge
No. 3
U. W
Kansas Avenue
Ati Pu
J. W. Pasley
M. W. Ernest Mueller
Hecorder
Fraternal Day Parades Call To Topeka Lodge Members
Attention all members of Topeka Lodge No 11 and Apollo Lodge No 188 invited to attend Fraternal Day parades at their Kansas avenue halls. Meetings scheduled for Monday at 1 o clock with visiting members welcome. Degree of Honor members also invited to Tepeka Post hall for all day entertainment by Excelior Lodge No 1.
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Topeka
Kansas Eyenue
Apollo Lodge No
D. of H
Te- Peka_ Post hall
Kansas Avenue
Excelsior Lodge No.1
Attention SueHower Camp Meeting Notice Sept 27
Members of SueHower Camp No 536 are urged to attend a called meeting Monday Sept 27 at 5 pm for concerns. Clerk A B Mills signs the notice. The Queen of the Festival march will be played tonight by Watsons orchestra at Roehrs music store.
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B. Mills
Watson's Orchestre
Roehr's
How Cars Will Run For Festival Week In Topeka
The Topeka railway line plans continuous car service to the fairgrounds during festival week with special transfers en route. The west Eighth Street line will be abandoned and transfers will originate at Kansas avenue and Siehth corner. Special trains from Garfield park to the fair grounds will be run with four minute service at peak times. West side loop routing and multiple street adjustments will guide Washburn College Quinton Heights Lowman Hill Oakland and Cemetery West Fourth lines. All cars run on regular schedules except during parades when several lines stop or reroute to transfer points. The track and power plant have been prepared and 56 cars to be used next week. All trains arriving for festival week will be met at depots by trolley trains for passenger haul.
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Topeka Hailway Company
Siehth
Kansas Avenue
Fair Grounds
West Eighth Street
Garfield Park
Twelfth Street
Harrison
Washburn College
Quinton Heights
Lowman Hill
Oakland
Cemetery- West
South Topeka
Potwin
Insane Asylum
Asylum
West Sixth Street
Washburn
Lowman
Tenth
Jackson Streets
Second
West Sixth
Cemetery
Sixth
Kan- 45 Avenue
West Fourth
Jackson
North Topeka
Crane Street
Kanfax Avenue
Cara
Topeka
Float From Strong City Represented At Topeka Parade
Strong City residents plan a twenty by eight by fourteen foot parade float for the Santa Fe parade in Topeka representing Stone Interests of Chass County. The design features rock ledges sod and shrubbery with drilling and stonecutters at work and a center derrick. Inscribed sides read Strong City and Lantry Brothers back the float with four horses to be provided.
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Topeka
Gore Th
Guy
Lantry Brothers
National Guard Camp Staked Out At Fairgrounds
Detachment from Company M Topeka under Serst Henderson pitched camp at the fairgrounds for the Kansas National Guard encampment next week. The site south of the dining hall offers a secure view of military life with guards on duty. Militia companies will begin arriving in Topeka on Sunday for parade to the camp, about 22 companies expected to receive marching orders.
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Company M
Topeka
Serst
Henderson
Fair Grounds
Kansas Naional Guards
Atchison Topeka Festival Delegation Named by Globe
Atchison plans to send a delegation to Topeka with any member of the late Corn Carnival committee. A Topeka Karnival Knight threw corn at a colored woman who seized him and kissed him three times.
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Atchison
Atchison Globe
Topeka Carnival Week Carnival Trains From Atchison
Atchison Globe reports a Topeka carnival week with special Santa Fe day Floral der Soldiers day parades. Special trains run 1 am to 9 28 am for Topeka events with one fare round trip. Topeka crowds invited to join, Atchison hosts festivities and cheap travel for a large representation.
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Topeka
Atchison
Atchison Globe
Collection of room rent by Committee of Fifteen
The Committee of Fifteen repudiates authority to collect charges for assigning visitors to rooms during the Fall Festival. Henderson & Wood claimed they could list rooms and collect rent, but the committee states no such charges are authorized. Wood says charges are optional and only cover rent for rooms provided to guests.
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Committee of Pifteen
Henderson & Wood Ten
Peary Speaks on Next Polar Expedition Plans
Lt Peary declares resolve to reach the pole and risk life if needed. He plans to depart late July, base at Sherard Osborne Fjord with 250 Esquimax as support, and aims to secure gear and walrus meat for dug food. The American Geographical Society funds $150,000. a five year leave is granted and a new vessel may be purchased. Mrs. Peary will not accompany.
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Peary
Philadelphia
Sherard Osborne Fjord
Esquimax
American Geographical Society
Nansen
Andree
Controversy Over Fusion In Democratic Ticket Fight
A.C. Howen and J. A. Wilson of Sylvan Grove Lincoln County fled with the secretary of state protesting placing David Ritchie on the Democratic ticket as judge of the Thirtieth judicial district. The protest was filed today and the reviewing board set next Tuesday at 4 PM for the case. The dispute stems from fusion controversy.
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Fusion
A.C. Howen
J. A. Wilson
Sylvan Grove
Lincoln County
David Ritchie
Henry George Sets Condition for Mayor Run in New York
Henry George told a committee member that he would accept the alliance nomination for mayor of Greater New York only if the regular Democratic organization fails to back the Chicago platform. The committee had reportedly employed by the alliance to approach him about running.
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New York
L H. Curry
Democratic Alliance
Henry George
Alliance
Greater
George
Chicago
Cure for Bilious Colic Advertised in Screven County
A ad from Screven County Georgia promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the only sure relief for bilious colic attacks. It claims one dose provides relief when other remedies fail, with Ganther's Pharmacy at 8th and Jackson listed as a seller.
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Screven Co
Chamberlain
G. D. Sharp
Ganther’'s Pharmacy
8Th and
Jackson
Deputy Sheriffs for Festival Week Appointment Protest
A Topeka editor’s note reports the Committee of Seventeen questioned deputy appointments for the Fall Festival. Sheriff Kepley had already assigned over a hundred deputies per recommendation of the Festival Committee and refused extra deputization. The article argues the Seventeen aim to aid regular lawmen, not replace them, and urges enforcement of the prohibitory law with proper witnesses and county attorney involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
State Journal
Committee of Seventeen
Messrs
Peffer
Cowgill
Campbell
Law and Order Committee
Sherif Kepley
Missouri
Kansas
Topeka
Sherif
Committee of Seven Eee
Chilkoot Landslide Destroys Sheep Camp at Skaguay
Port Townsend operator Captain Nielsen reports a Chilkoot slide hit Sheep Camp early Monday, sweeping a mass of debris down the canyon. Most residents escaped. many packers' tents were wiped out, with few names available. Heavy rains formed a reservoir on the hills, helping collapse the mountainside, an unprecedented deluge for the Chilkoot pass region.
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Port Townsend
Nielson
Pioneer
Skaguay Beach
Sheep Camp
Jack
Jim
Chitkoot Pass
Fever Epidemic Presses On In New Orleans Quarantine Debated
Board of health reports the fever confined to local areas with fewer than 100 cases and 35 deaths so far this epidemic mirrors 1878 virulence. Nine new cases and several deaths listed. Despite ongoing illness some patients discharged, theaters open, freight movement slow, quarantine costs blamed for losses as Southern Pacific directs steamer Elnorte through Galveston to bypass embargo.
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Board of Health
New Orleans
Salvador Cazinnt
Charles Street
Frederick Gund
Mariaz
Pane Brevtons
Bourn
New
Orlean
Southern Pacific Company
Elnorte
New York
Galveston
Pacific Coast
Texas
Quarantine Orders Ease as Supplies Move From Mobile
Bulletin notes deaths, 18 discharged, 16 under treatment with most patients improving. A Ketchum, health board president, says six of the ill live in single story houses on ground floors suggesting tidipotann along the ground. The Tombtabee departed last night on two week river trips with cargoes and wages, not passengers.
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Mobile
A. Ketchum
Board of Health
Reads and briefs on cotton and daily work rise
A fragmented OCR note mentions increasing activity in cotton and related daily labor efforts. It notes growing work and a general rise in daily tasks, with no clear names or dates to identify a specific event.
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Moreree Aise
True to Her Colors Kansas Adopts Silver State Seal
Miss Rana Steste of the governor's office proposed a change at the state house offices. Gold seals are abandoned and silver seals, about two inches in diameter, will be used on public documents. White ribbon is replaced by gold ribbon with the silver seals, as urged by the young advocate.
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Kansas
Rana Steste
Atate House
Typhoid Fever Outbreak In Kent Alarm Holds 620 Cases
London reports a severe typhoid outbreak at a hop-pickers camp near Stume Kent with 620 cases and calls for more doctors and nurses. The note also advertises street car tickets and piano music services with an Indianapolis address, plus mineral water claims.
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London
Ne Stume
Kent
Blc
Change Makty
McRast
Bust Svenue
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Peerieas
Fieam
Lausdey
A. C
CL W
Frank Blanch
J. P. Howard
Muminy
Evers
John B. Runyon
Workman
Penwell
SueHower Camp
Rawford Opera House
Dan A. Stuast
Copdell-Filzsimmons Gontese
City Railway, Co
Wilmarth
Strong City
Chass County
National Guard Camp
Faigrounds
Atchison and Topeka
Bland Aed
Jim Orr
aAtchison Globe
Atehiso
Uticura
Brett’s
S. B. Brett
730
FL Msta Chairman Committee of Seventeen
L. A Stebbins
Eerness
Chilkoot
PEVER
Pape's
Star Grocery
East Sixth Street
England
Populakorate Pub. CO
Indianapolis
West
Phinlies
Eighth
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