21 Dec 1907
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1907
Page
1
Week ending December 12 shows government thermometer reading with a maximum and minimum. About ten inches of snow fell, leaving most on the ground. melted amount is 0.85 inch. Representative Reeder proposes a bill to end stock gambling and short sales, punishable by fines and imprisonment, applying to banks and interstate corporations, with executives liable.
Secretary Burnham plans motor cars for chief engineer and right of way men to shorten travel between line points. A recent 218 mile trip from Stockton to Ness City and back showed near schedule time, with multiple brief stops and no mishaps. A divorce case in court produced a quip about jurisdiction.
A playful verse about how children adapt the word Umpty I into Umpty L as a running gag about speech and wit. The poem mocks adult haste and tastelessness, urging care with words and dress while noting the playground rhyme's spread.
The Greenbrier Valley newspaper men held a convention to decide between shrinking paper size or raising subscription prices. The rhetoric questions the intent of plutocrats and rails at profit jumps, warning they will worsen public unease amid Wall Street instability.
Short advices warn of danger in using unknown cough and cold preparations. Foley's Homey and Tar is advertised as a safe remedy that relieves coughs colds and can prevent pneumonia. The product is described as having no opiates and a yellow package. An unrelated item notes a Marietta Ohio woman died after using oil to start a fire.
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