Oakley’s Big Festival Opens with Rides and Racing
Four glorious days of fun in Oakley Kansas from September 2 to 5 featuring daily aerial plane flights, Ferris wheel, circle wave, steam swing, moving pictures and a shooting gallery. Purses and premiums total 4000 dollars with events at Springs Ellis Hoxie Russell Springs Oakley and Gove. A scream from start to finish and 1700 dollars in racing prizes. Ball tournament in Scott City and Sharon. Grounds admission 50 cents.
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Oakley
Springs
Ellis
Hoxie
Russell Springs
Gove
Y W C A Welcomes New Students at Lawrence Campus
The Young Women's Christian Association helps arriving girls in Lawrence by meeting them at trains, arranging rooms, guiding course planning, and providing ongoing support. Freshman Week features a parade with Japanese lanterns, a joint Y M C A and Y W C A reception, and weekly devotional sessions to inspire kindness and achievement.
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Young Women’s Christian Association
Lawrence
Y. W
Youngs Men's Christian Association
Young Women's Christian Association
Savings Bank Maxim Ad Emphasizes Small Accounts
A vintage banking ad promotes starting a savings account with one dollar. It urges readers to keep money active, suggesting extra dollars be brought to the bank to earn interest and secure a peaceful old age. The tone echoes midcentury financial guidance.
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Savings Bank
Saving Bank
Kansas Agricultural College Catalogue Expands Programs
A Kan sas Agricultural College catalogue announces a division into a secondary school and a College of Agriculture and Engineering. The college offers vocational courses in Agriculture, Mechanic Arts, Engineering, Home Economics, and Veterinary Medicine. It notes high school level entry requirements and will mail free copies to President H J Waters, Manhattan, Kansas. An official Golden Belt Read log book describes a 490.5 mile motor road from Kansas City to the Colorado line with maps, ads, and hotel info, distributed by commercial clubs. E F Madden, Hays, Kansas advertises cattle for sale and frost beef at Bakers.
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Kansas Agricultural College
School of Agriculture
College of Agriculture and Engineering
H. J. Waters
Manhattan
Kansas
Bax
Golden Belt
Rand
Kansas City
Colorado Line
America
For Sale Alfalfa and Feed Crops Near Selden Kansas
About 200 tons of good alfalfa cane millet and kaffir corn offered for sale on a ranch one mile from Selden Kansas. Purchaser may use 300 acres of fenced pasture with running water sheds and a house for feeding purposes. G W Strurts Adv 22 21 Yocemento Kans.
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Selden
Kan
G. W. Strurts
Yocemento
Kans
Deaths of St Emmet Morse in Kansas
St Emmet Morse born January 24, 1870 at Ft Atkinson Iowa died July 30, 1905 at Wa Keeney Kansas aged 43 years 6 months and 6 days He came to Culver Kansas in 1873 married Ollie Anderson December 11 1895 He served United Pacific Railway starting September 1693 and died while on leave He would have reached 20 years of continuous service next September Survived by wife parents two brothers and eight sisters He was the first of eleven children to die.
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St Emmet Morse
Katie Morse
Ft Atkinson
Iowa
Wa Keeney
Kansas
Culver
Ollie Anderson
U. P. Railway
Grasshopper harvesting brothers aim for motorcycle
Goutehinson Kansas July 31. Arthur Heomeg and his younger brother from Rush county will earn enough selling dried grasshoppers to buy a motorcycle. For two weeks they gather hoppers with a canvas winged wagon, dry and ship them by parcel post to Armenian and Syrian buyers in eastern cities.
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Goutehinson
Kan
Arthur Heomeg
Rush County
Heomeg
Hromeg
Eashern
John the Baptist
Philadelphia
Hromek Boys
Uiem
Go Red to Death by Bull in Kansas Pasture
In Goodland Kansas 13 year old Lester Middleton was killed by a mad bull while driving cattle to his father's home. The bull rushed him crushing him, and a younger brother found his body in the pasture. The animal had been sold to a shipper and was to be shipped away.
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Goodland, Kans
Lester Middleton
Topeka Journal
Cement factory workers hold country party ends in tragedy
In Yocemento a keg party led to a wagon accident when Carlhouse was thrown from a wagon wheel and crushed by the team. He died Tuesday from a broken backbone, broken hip, and internal injuries after initial hospital transport and postmortem findings. Scott Grippen is jailed pending trial. Krause, age 11, was well liked. funeral held in Yocemento.
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Ab Yovements
Carlhouse
Lex
Blake
Yocemento
Hays
Scott Grippen
Miller
Grippen
Krause
Ellis
Cattle and hog markets mute under drought at Kansas City Stock Yards August 5 193
Receipts total 16 000 cattle and 4 000 hogs as dry weather and slim corn prospects press prices. Prime steers bring 60 while grass and wintered cattle range 6 75 to 6 50. stock steers 4 75 to 6 75. veal calves 6 96 to 8 25. hogs 4 50 to 8 70 with 10 to 20 drop on the day. sheep and lambs show strength with top lambs at 7 85.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Cas
Arizonas
Doctor Hobson's Eczema Ointment advertisement claims cure
Fifty year suffering from tetters or eczema ends with Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment. Mrs D L Kenney testifies it cured her long standing condition, saying she cannot thank the remedy enough. Available from Pfieffer Chemical Co and druggists for fifty cents.
For Sale Block 10 in Smiths addition Wa Keeney KS
For Sale block 10 in Smiths addition features a good house barn and well contact W W Mensing Wa Keeney Kansas adv 21 For loans on your farm call on the Wa Keeney State Bank adv 27t
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Wa-Keeney State Bank
Smith's
W. W. Mensing
Wa-Keeney
Kans
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Y. W. GA
KS. A. C
Dean
E. F. Madden
Haker’s. Adv
Keeney
H. Swiggett
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