Land Boom in Garden City Nets Gorham $119,900 This Week
Chas Gorham, Garden City real estate agent, topped a week of high value land deals totaling $119,900, mostly Finney county property. The biggest sale, nearly $60,000 to James Healey of Muscatine Iowa, covered 688 acres.
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Finney County
Iowa
Gorham
Register of Deeds
Garden City
James Healey
Muscatine
Healey
Court House
A. T. Ayres
Howard
Long Telegraph Circuit Links London to Teheran by 4000 Miles
A London Daily News note describes the world’s longest telegraph path from London to Teheran 4000 miles away. Automatic repeaters at ten intermediate stations relay the message through Lowestoft Emden Berlin Warsaw Rome Odessa Kertch Sukhum Kaleh Tiflis Tauris to Teheran, then on to India.
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Persia
Teheran
London
London Daily News
Lowestoft
North Sea
Emdenz
Hanover
Berlin
Warsaw
Rome
Odessa
Kertch
Sukhum
Kaleh
Tiflis
Tauris
India
Sme Yy
Social Cl Impressions in Nevada Gold Camps
A fragmentary social column discusses Nevada mining towns with shifts from hutch housing to villa style living. It notes a railroad reaching the gold country, a carnival of trades, and changing wealth driving neighborly status through portable houses and imported goods. A remark about marriage and divorce sentiment closes the piece.
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Good Housekeeping
Frisco
Lawandiere
Value of Rubies Compared to Diamonds
The article states rubies are more valuable and tougher than diamonds. It notes a one carat flawless diamond around $100, while a ruby of the same weight starts at $200. It cites a 10 karat ruby potentially worth up to $70,000, contrasted with diamonds at about $4,000, referencing a stone shown at the Franco British exposition in London last year.
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London
Lyman Twins Draw Full House With New Costumes
The Lyman Twins headlined at the opera house, delivering a lively performance to a packed audience. The company arrives with refined scenic gear, strong chorus, and engaging drills, producing their usual comical plotline centered on the twins’ mistaken appearances.
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Lyman Twins
Lyman Boys
Booths Famous People second edition offers free booklet
The 32 page edition features portraits and concise autobiographies of Conan Doyle Maude Adams Madam Curie and Sir Thomas Lipton among others. It includes four pages of info on accidents antidotes poison stamp flirtation aging and Bible facts. Send a postal card to Booths Hyomei Co Duffaty WV to receive.
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Booth
Conan Doyle
Maude Adams
Hyomei Co
Duffaty
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Zimmerman Co
Lson & CO
Jsig CO
Keone
Ashington, Iowa
Pete
Mber CO
Chas. D. Gorham
Garden City, Kan
City Land
Telegram
Kan
Ber
Chas. Gorham
Washington Land
Charles D. Gorham
Sexton Place
Wilsey Place
Pawnee-way
New York
Nevada
Humphrey Ward
Boston Herald
Opera House
S.S.S
Ion Tenere
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Swift Specific CO
Atlanta GA
Jd. A. Harwood
South Side
Washington
FP. L. Stewart
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