Borrowed Bits and Witty Takes on Life and Love
A fragmented column of quips on marriage, friendship, education, love, and society. It plays with gender roles and social norms, lampooning pretensions, jealousy, and hypocrisy while mixing aphorisms about happiness, luck, and fortune with sly digs at editors and public figures. Notable lines reference marriage, ax and grindstone metaphors, and a Kansas editor fearing drift onto rocks. The piece ends with a note crediting Osborne Farmer and John S. Dawson in Topeka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mart
Kansas
Supreme Justices
John S. Dawson
Topeka
Osborne Farmer
Wa Keeney High School housing initiative calls for host homes
Wa Keeney residents are urged to list available rooms or board for wintering students arriving from rural areas. The appeal seeks hosts able to provide lodging or work for board, aiming to place arriving youths with minimal trouble. Walter Eppler promotes corn hail insurance at 100 cents on the dollar or money back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Eppler
Baker's Pork and Horse Listings In Town
A mixed local notice lists fresh pork and pickled pork at Baker's, sale of 30 head of horses, a house with two lots and barn, and inquiries at the office. Nearby notices announce Dr M J Brown, a Salina specialist, at the American House on Saturday Aug 14 to treat eye ear nose throat diseases and fitting glasses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Bushman
M. Jay Brown
Salina
Kansas City
Lawrence
Topeka
Manhattan
Junction City
Abilene
Solomon
Ellsworth
Russe Hays
Ellis
Wa-Keeney
Salt Lake
Department Kansas
W. R. GC
Topeka Modocs
HG. Kail
Walnut Street
Union Pacific
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Rae
Kansas Wesleyan Business College
T. W. Roach
Gen. Supt
S. Santa Fe Ave
Kans
WA Keeney
BANK
Trego County
THE
Hardman Lumber Company
Keeney, Kansas
J. T.W. Cloud
Geo. Blackman
W. E. Crabill, Jeweler
Pure Home Baker's
Baker's
Love
Locksmith
Maude
S. W. Brundage
W. A. Mong
Voda
Salt Lake City
R. H. Burns Real Estate and Loans
Ogallah
Collyer
Edith Courtney
Dr. Thomas
Monarch
State of
Kansan
Anders Oriakaoe M. Neal
Trego
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