Sales Agents Wanted for Largest Picture and Frame House
Advertisement seeks one-eli re agent in the locality for America’s largest picture and frame house. Pays $36.00 per week or 400 percent profit. Samples stationery and art catalogue free. Experience unnecessary. Instructions provided to sell goods and furnish capital. Permanent, honorable, profitable opportunity with Franklin Williams Co. TW Taylor St Chicago.
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Eli Re
America
Erain
Ieee
Par- Franklin
Holiday travels and local happenings in town
Beautiful springlike weather and busy holiday trade note merchants heavy activity. Mrs Powers convalescing while Dr LaCarte attends Mrs Brown. Several families travel to Oklahoma Wichita and Chicago for Christmas. Dance at Big Creek Hall delays the school box social until January 3. Skin itching advice and Dean’s ointment advertised.
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H. Powers
LaCarte
J. Brown
Rishel
Oklahoma
F. Walz
Witchita
James Walsh
Chicago
Cass
Big Creek Hall
Big Greek Froze Morning As Meetings Open In Ridgway
A frosty morning marks ongoing viral meetings at Ridgway while local business and church activity continue. George Rice bought a team last Saturday and Joe Herbert added a corn load in Ellis. Work proceeds on the Wheatland elevator at Ellis as the dry goods auction continues Saturdays. Rev Gunckel arrived from Oakdey to lead the Ridgway revival.
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Ridgway
George Rice
East End
Chas. Loflin
Kansas
Will Gerken
Hillis
Joe Herbert
Ellis
Gunckel
Oakdey
Social Notes From Big Greek Hall and Nearby Towns
Miss Anna Benisch visits home folks Nina Neff returns home for vacation Chas Spena recovers from illness Mr and Mrs Stradal visit Big Creek school Prank Zeman helps Elmer Pears this week New Year’s Eve dance at Big Creek hall Ralph and Helen Henderson spend Christmas in eastern Kansas Miss Carrie Stradal returns from Emporia for the holidays
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Anna Benisch
Nina Neff
Chas. Spena
Mrs. Stradal
Big Creek School
Zeman
Big’ S Reek Hall
Ralph
Helen Henderson
Kansas
Carrie Stradal
Emporia
Xmas program brightens Big Creek school day
Abbie Mummert visits grandparents at Wa Keeney. An Xmas program was rendered at Big Creek school Thursday afternoon. John Stradal prefers Collyer over Wa Keeney for Saturday. If anyone has extra cats, notify John Stradal. Local bachelors face leap year concerns. Mr and Mrs E Knapp visit relatives in Russell county. Large Sunday school attendance with Christmas treats. W R Cummings to move to Locksburg Arkansas. Young people from this vicinity attended literary at Morell school house last Saturday night and had a good time.
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Abbie Mummert
Wa- Keeney
Big Creek
John Stradal
Collyer
Wa-Keeney
E. Knapp
Knapp
Russell County
W. R. Cummings
Locksburg
Ark
Morell School
Bloody Run Rambles and Local Chatter
A mix of society notes and humorous asides. Edith Emmons visits Mrs Grim while Leta Cook plans holiday travel. Word comes of a relative's death and households prepare for holidays. The Bloody Run riot prompted militia from Fort Riley. A local vet uses candy as payment for surgery and a noisy landlord tenant dispute looms.
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Edith Emmons
B. E. Grim
Leta Cook
Wm. Walker
W. T. Littlechild
Gertrude
Fort Riley
Bloody Run
James Finch
Hague
Mean Old Scribbler on Segregation Gala in Wichita
A veteran Eldorado editor mocks a Federation of Women's Clubs wing plan to segregate sexes at a Wichita meeting. It lists absurd topics about husbands and childrearing and includes a quixotic verse about doctors and death amid fragmented lines.
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Eldorado
Kan- Federation of Women’s Clubs Wing
Wichita
Samantha Jane Simpkins
Eliza Ann Poddgeezer
Anna Maria Co
Angeline Seraphina Phildazer
Genevieve Hathaway Jones
Cesar
Doctor Fell
Walt Mason
Doctor Fell and a Neighborhood Warning Poem
A satirical piece mockingly targets medical torment and crude surgery, then shifts to a Walnut Valley sage advising readers to mind their own affairs and beware of graft and swindlers. It urges caution in investments, staying loyal to honest local traders, and avoiding being duped by slick promoters.
Magi Lantern for Kansas City Journal subscribers
The Kansas City Journal offers a magic lantern reward to any boy or girl who recruits eight new subscribers at 25 cents yearly, delivering a lantern with full use directions. Send names and $2 total by post office money order or draft to Kansas City Journal, Kansas City, Mo.
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Kansas City Weekly Journal
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Kansas City Journal
Kansas City, Mo
Fourth assistant postmaster general favors uniformed rural mail carriers
The fourth assistant postmaster general advocates uniformed rural route carriers during Uncle Sam’s mail delivery and recommends rural delivery of packages with a maximum weight of eleven pounds.
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Gashier
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S. Diebold
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E. D. Beason
General Blacksmith
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Walhi
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Paris
Emerson
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Pacific Northwest Country
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Seattle
Wash
R. E. Morse
Rud Knaver
Manila
Indianapolis
Ind
Kansas World
SERRE
Wa Keeney, Kana
Gollyer
Dean
Ayer
Mean Old Scribbler
Kingdom Come
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Diprice
Bent Murdock
Walnut Valley
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