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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1906
Page
5
A newspaper voice argues the world does not owe youths a living and urges the young man to contribute to society through study, labor, and honest effort, embracing responsible character and mature friendship. It notes the need for self reliance over entitlement. It mentions laxative syrup and Panama Canal Zone remarks from the era. Verbeck Lucas advertise Singer sewing machines with cash prices.
A fragment from The Clay Center Times extols a new patent milking machine with crude lines about cows and “suckers,” interlaced with an insurance notice, a humorous verse about Mary and the lamb, a Kentucky wife’s crude punishment tale, education exhortations, a pun on habit, and an insurance notice by W H B Swiggett.
A mix of editorial creed lines and local notices. It includes a quip about churchfolk from Ex and a critique of using violent laxatives, plus local political wins for W. A. Reeder in Kansas Sixth District. Also ads for wood hides, legal papers, horses for cattle, and paint sellers with local names.
Readable lines show train numbers and routes such as past express and local freight along Western and Eastern limits with times around 424 p.m. and notes about agents like E. Morse. Other text is garbled.
Kansas county board of commissioners met to canvass the November election results. The meeting audited numerous election expenses for judges and clerks, listed numerous names and payments, and adjourned with county clerk attendance and commissioner's salary noted.
Effective December 1 1906 the Union Pacific Railroad Company announces rates for less than carload shipments detained in freight depots or on platform after unloading. A 48 hour free period begins from 6 00 p m excluding Sundays and holidays with a 1 cent per 100 pounds per day charge. Minimum 25 cents per consignment. Free time varies by distance to inland points 5 days to 7 days. R E Mozsr Agent.
For sale or rent one mile southeast of Ogallah Kansas 90 acres ready for use. Sale price bargained or rental. Apply to C. Dh Vetter Ogallah Kansan. We offer a fine line of heaters and related goods. Prices told at Verbeck Lucas.
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