Fremd and Curious Sights From a Distant Page
A miscellany of notes from a western Kansas weekly features quirky items about Budapest churches urban electric lighting in Berlin and a London three wheeler car. It mentions a sheep in Addison Maine yielding two fleeces and a Passamaquoddy Indian child with bright red hair shunned by his tribe. Also reports a nine year old Covington Georgia preacher and an estate dispute involving distant cousins with 21 000 in claims.
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Passamaquoddy
Pleasant Point
Eastport
Sopiel Haney
Menzo Shaul
Herkimer
United States
Estate Board Plans Eight Thousand Annual Allowance
Probate Court appraisers in Canton Obio estimate the McKinley estate at 210000 with 70000 real estate and 140000 personal property. If approved Mrs. McKinley would receive 8000 yearly for living expenses. James Farrell of Barboursville WV marks 105th birthday, possibly the nation’s oldest man. He served in the War of 1812 and Mexico under Jefferson Davis, and volunteered again at the Spanish American War.
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Board of ‘Appraisers
Probate Court of
Canton, Obio
McKinley
James Farrell
Barboursville
W. Va
United States
Mr. Farrell
Mexico
Jefferson Davis
World champion mantster funeral sparks gender debate
A Vienna obituary tells of a self styled world champion man hster whose will bans male mourners from her burial rites. Women must perform all rites from laying out to chiseling the gravestone while a wind forces a male pallbearer to assist. The piece closes with a warning against judging motives and notes Honolulu dwellings with outward lighting and wall lamps reflecting on lawns.
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Vienna
Castles in the Air Poem Fragment
A fragment of verse recalls dreaming of someone until reality breaks the spell and the imagined world dissolves into air. The speaker acknowledges the dream cannot endure and that the person is no longer present.
The Ghost of the Alpha Riders at Jose's Trail
John and a glass-eyed broncho rider confront a haunted cattle drive along the Jose trail as legends of Nita and the Spanish cemetery echo in the October wind. Fear rises among cowhands while a spectral danger seems to stalk the herd and the riders.
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C. P. Greenley
Daily Story Pub. Co
Jose
Nita
Hecienda
Cowboy
Kreaser
John
Rusty Pete
Pete
Miguel
Antastic
I Or
Old Pete
Alario
Rangers
Joto
The Ghost of the Glass-Eyed Broncho at Night
A frontier tale recalls a stormy pursuit as a glass eyed broncho charges home. John and companions chase their herd through rain and lightning while Miguel and Pete lead a rescue. The riders endure fear, prayers, and a border camp fire as tales of the Ghost of the Glass-Eyed Broncho echo.
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Addie
John
Red Bess
Corral
Miguel
Pete
Guadaloupe
Wild West Tale and Indian Aid From Globe to Arizona
A New York Tribune piece recalls a girl eager to help Indians and a Globe Arizona tale. An Indian man wearing painted garb buys goods, asks for a light, and reveals four years at an Indian school, yet still lives as before government policies.
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East Side
Arizona
Globe
New York Tribune
Happy Miserable Ride Sparks A Motor World Laugh
W K Vanderbilt Jr recalls a dinner mishap where a family friend begged for a ride in his Mercedes racer. He obliged and then sped off, provoking fear and exhilaration as the rider shouted through gasps that he had found happiness in misery.
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W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Mr. Vanderbilt
Galt
France Leads World Wine Output Amid Global Totals for 1906
The 1906 world wine production is estimated at 3.619 billion gallons. Europe produced 3.403 billion gallons, America 200 million, and the British Empire about 9.0 million. France yielded 1.482 billion gallons, roughly half of Europe’s total and over a third of the global output.
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Europe
America
British Empire
France
Fetersl Querr Mothers Dear What Is It Ger
A fragment from an OCRed page shows unreadable names and garbled phrases. The readable portion hints at a personal note or caption and lacks clear event or factual details suitable for a standard news item.
Kansas Notes shows varied Kansas news items and oddities
Ottawa rejects a jail proposal while Winfield considers bore holes for fuel and town booms. The supreme court reviews a Russell County case on harbors as professional men. Falls and Abilene feature brine, pickle factory plans, and a hotel raffle. Schools, payrolls, and local curiosities paint a broad Kansas snapshot with named towns and figures.
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Ottawa
Winfield
Eas
Supreme Court
Russel County
Harbers
Welfhouse
Stahl
Topeka
Clay
Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Cottonwood Falls
Ben Davises
Omar Gregory
Osborne
Dan Paramor
Logan
Abilene
Jewell County
Olf Manker
Centralia
Mitchell County
Blue Rapids
D. Adams
Department of History
Kansas
Leland Stanford University
Oskaloosa Asylum
Troy
Pratt County
Union
Grant
Emerson
O. K
Emporia Gazette
Santa Fe
Lange
Charles M. Kinney
Hutchinson
Larned
Father
First Japanese liquor factory planned in United States
Horbury brewers of Wess Berkeley California lease plant to a firm for manufacturing Japanese liquors. Duty on Japanese liquor is high, so the new company plans to produce native drinks for Japanese in the United States and Hawaii. It would be the first factory of its kind in the nation, with a ten year lease and about 100 workers when running.
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Eld Horbury Brewers
Wess Berkeley
Cal
Japan
Hawaii
United States
Maryland Senator Gorman Encounters Rude Clerk in New York
In the Fifth Avenue Hotel corridor after breakfast, U S Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland aided a street cleaner who asked to change a quarter, noting to a friend that New York would be shocking for a man of extreme exotism.
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Faslllar
United States
Arthur Pue Gorman
Maryland
Fifth Avenue Hotel
New York
Why the Sea is Ice and Why the Sea Is Blue
Brief explainer notes that water appears blue because it absorbs red light, leaves blue, and that color effects come from light absorption by leaves, tomato, black lead, and a white rose. Water absorbs a little blue, layers of pale blue deepen the sea’s color, making it look deep blue, with a London News flavor.
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London News
Canada's Capital Aroused Over Dodd's Kidney Pills Case
Ottawa reports a sensational claim about George H. Kent of 408 Glamour street who allegedly recovered from Bright's Disease in 1894 after taking Dodd's Kidney Pills. Kent and his wife reportedly celebrated with a daughter named Dodds and Kent has since returned to work without misses. Physicians discuss the case at private association meetings.
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Physicians’ Association
Ottawa
Canada
George H. Kent
Glamour Street
Bright
Dodd
Kent
Mr. Kent
Sidney
American Bank Note Printing Company
Dodds
Lipton and Lonsdale contrasted in early British sport figures
The Philadelphia Times describes Lord Lonsdale as a premier sports figure with a renowned pack of hounds, boxing skill, equestrian talent, and yachtsman fame while Thomas Lipton is noted as a prominent sport representative. The piece notes Lonsdale’s patronage of church livings and broad renown across multiple domains.
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Thomas Lipton
Lord Lonsdale
England
Philadelphia
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Kansas World
B.S Giver
Budapest
Hungary
Addison
Holland
Belgium
Sweden
London
Berlin
Unter-den-Linden
Alaska
Ohio
Covington
Metz Joiner
Honolulu
Mabie
Toutema
Seturhy
the Home Magazine
the Ghost of the Alpha
Let
Washburn College
Winfeld
Sumner
Stack Arms
Montana
North Dakota
New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhodesland
Connecticut
Pia
Leer
Maine Money
St.Jacobs Oil
de Onetal
Authet
St Jacobs
Price
Cees
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