American Women and Freedom Across the World
Excerpted survey argues American women enjoy broader liberty in education work and society, contrasting with harsher gender roles abroad. It cites Lydia Kingsmill Commander and Herbert Spencer, notes increased female influence in marriage and public life, and condemns child and slave labor, domestic subjugation, and widows’ isolation in various regions.
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United States
America
Russia
France
Germany
Carroll D. Wright
Lydia Kingsmill Commander
Matic
Ward
Tahiti
Letournean
Soudan
Moul
Uganda
Balkan Peninsula
India
Japan
Orient
Paul du Chaulu
Central Africa
Herbert Spencer
Prof
Africa
Letourneau
Burien
Himalayan
Fraser
When Nerves Are Tangled In Sleep And Insomnia Tales
A medical specialist recounts patients with nervous disorders and insomnia. He describes a former patient who slept eight hours after taking a powder yet feared trains and fireworks. Another patient suffered nervous prostration and confinement to bed, illustrating varied responses to stress and sleep disruption.
Farmers Institute Schedule Prompts Eastern Kansas Institutes
The Kansas State Agricultural College announces fall local institutes in eastern Kansas, with county circuits starting October 12 19. September circuits may form in small towns or groves, and 20 new local institutes could arise if demand grows. Correspon dence to the Paruers Institute dept is invited to secure dates.
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Farmers’ Institute
Farmers’ Institute Department
Kansas State Agricultural College
Kansas
Paruers’ Institute
Hessian Wye
Interurban Changes Hands In Southern Kansas
Interurban line transfer completes in Iola with Kansas Southern Electric taking over in September. F Crouch, president, returns from Paris after financing Hoeft line extension to Humboldt nine miles south and then to Pittsburg. He aims for car operation into Humboldt by Christmas, marking the start of several planned southern Kansas interurban projects.
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Iola Electric Railway
Gas City
LaHarpe
Copereto
Iola
Kansas Southern Electric Line
F. ¥. Crouch
Paris
Hoeft
Humboldt
Pittsburg
Kansas
S Jackson's Father Dead
Martin Van Buren Jackson father of Pred S Jackson Kansas attorney general died at his Eureka home after a long illness. He moved from northern Missouri to Kansas and settled near Osawatomie. He was a follower of John Brown and aided him in his troubles in Kansas.
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S. Jackson
Martin van Buren Jackson
Pred S. Jackson
Kansas
Eureka
Mr. Jackson
Missouri
Osawatomie
John Brown
Kaw Valley Potatoes Crop Cut Short 60 Percent
Kaw Valley potato crop cut by about sixty percent this year. Only around 60 carloads expected in the valley instead of 2,000 plus anticipated in spring planting. Winfield voters approve bonds totaling 20 thousand dollars to fund an interurban railway linking Winfield with Arkansas City and nearby towns.
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Kaw Valley
Kaw Valler
Winfield
Arkansas City
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W. Trickett
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Slayer
Richard Waterhouse
Coffeyville
Missouri Pacific
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Cuthbert Sargent
Topeka
State Board of Health
James R. Garfield
Secretary of the Interior
W. H. Newell
Reclamation Service
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John Goens
Osborne County
George Goens
Leavenworth
Kansas Tax Commission
Western Union Telegraph Company
Adis Ousl
University of Kansas
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Fred S. Jackson
George A. Vanderveer
Ninth Judicial District
Hutchinson
Rock Island
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