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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1900
Page
4
The advertisement-free page lists boys and men's suits, dress goods, millinery, jewelry, and numerous household items. Also noted are fresh pork at Baker's, beer, window shades, and hunting for threshing gear with local business mentions and upcoming events.
Miss Elise Neuenschwander returned home the first of the week from Chicago where she took a short course at the Chicago university. The Trego County Holiness association will hold its next meeting at Ridgway August 30 with a full program of devotional exercises, Bible exposition, prayers, dinner, Bible readings, Pentecostal services, and a sermon by Rev. E. Gunekel. Also notes on local happenings and a medical ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure.
The next regular quarterly examination for teachers will be August 28 at the school house in Wa Keeney, beginning at 7 30 p m. Tiepson Thannan, County Superintendent. For Whooping Cough. Both my children were taken with whooping cough writes Mrs O E Datton of Danville Ill A small bottle of Foney s Honey and Tan gave such relief that I used 450 cent bottle which saved me a doctor s bill. Janes Gibson.
State certificate exams will be held in Wa Keeney on August 27 or September 1, with neighboring county papers asked to copy. Hepson Hannan, County Superintendent of Trego County, provides details. Also noted are prices from Verbeck’s: corn chop 80c per 100 pounds, corn 45c per bushel, corn meal $1.00 per 100 pounds, and grinding 4c per bushel by load with ample hour.
S du Osborn, last Kansas house speaker, returns from England where trustees of Kansas Wesleyan University sent him to investigate the inheritance of Rev Ty H James. Osborn says no Kansas fortune exists. possible Australian fortune cited. He suspects an English attorney plot to dupe James, noting a London visit and a 64 pound withdrawal, with a mysterious man seen in London.
A repeating ad style fragment promotes Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and lungs, along with Banner Salve as a leading product. The text also includes a political letter claiming German-American support for McKinley, noting farmers prosper under Republican policy and voter sentiment in Hanover Kansas.
A new photograph gallery will start Saturday August 4 on Main Street two hours north of C Bestor's. The studio promotes posing lighting and finishes in glass or platinum with Huby pictures offered. Alen accepts orders for framed work in crayon India ink or pastel and offers jewelry buttons chatelaines and more. Gallery open every Saturday after August 4. call to see samples endorsed by Call and Mothers. children like it and local folks use it. Also references a One Minute Cough Cup for quick relief of throat and lung troubles.
Pullman cars offered daily on Union Pacific from Kansas to California and Oregon. Modern, comfortable sleeping cars with mattresses curtains pillows and uniformed porters. New pattern near first class Palace Sleepers. For schedule and information contact GC Schakfer, agent.
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a wonderful medical discovery that cleanses the entire system and positively improves kidneys liver and bowels. It promises cold relief headache fever and biliousness cure and urges purchase at 10 25 or 50 cents with guaranteed efficacy by druggists.
Notice records an application by a university body to purchase school land described as located in Treico county Kansas. It lists grant details and proof of improvements by individuals including George Moll Mord and references to land bounds and official attestations dated August 1.
Notice records the Land Office in Wa Keeney Kansas announcing the death of a claimant and the intent to establish a residence and legal filing for Homestead Entry No. tied to a named individual. The notice lists the section and township details, and identifies PURCELL as Register.
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