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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1908
Page
4
A fragmented ad style snippet urges readers to choose Light To Pure Food Products for wholesome economical use. It emphasizes home baking and cooking benefits and prompts asking grocers for Lee Brands with Lee trade marks.
Obituary notices recount the life of Joachim Charles Christopher Ww 8 born in Poppendorf Germany. He learned blacksmith trade, farmed in Illinois and Arkansas, then Kansas, married Eliza Landindier in Illinois, and fathered ten children. Survived by wife eight children and 37 grandchildren. died February 14 after illness. Also notes Riverside township resident Mr. Stone, a Woodmen and Knights of Pythias member, died of pneumonia, interred in Wilson Kansas. obituary includes Lincoln Memorial Park fund drive with local committee leaders C C Vetter W Olson and W Sweet seeking donations from 25 cents upward.
Charles William Stone known as C. W. Stone died recently. The report notes his full name and sobriquet, with limited biographical detail available in the fragment. Further specifics on date, place, or cause are not provided in the readable text.
Fresh pork at Baker's and bargains on blankets and robes dominate small ads. Wanted items include old iron brass and copper by John T. Brown of Wa Keeney Kansas and several sections of raw and improved land via R H Burns. W H Swiggett offers prepared abstracts. four room rental partly furnished via Osterkamp at the Feed Store. De Witt’s Little Early Risers pills sold by W W Gibson.
An assortment of 1900s era ads touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as aiding appetite digestion and sleep. The page includes farm seed for sale alfalfa and Red Texas oats, kidney cures from Foley, land for sale near Wa-Keeney, and lumber and building supplies from Get Verbeck & Lucies. Other items push kidney and bladder pills, indigestion relief, and pure home lard with rental farmland offerings.
Commissioners meet in Wa Keeney Kansas to approve bonds for deputy assessors across districts. Appointments include J C Bochanso Ogallsh Glencoe Qualia Wernher Riverside Wa Keeney D Hobbick Acre Willcox Collyer Franklin and 2 B Brigus with clerical approval of bonds for D Hobbick Acre Blacksome and others. No further business.
A patchwork of ad copy and comic snippets extols tonics and tonics like Kodol, Foley’s Honey and Tar, and Orino Laxative, interwoven with quips from newspapers. It includes local sale notices, farm rentals, and a cartoonish reflection on panic and public mood from early era sources.
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