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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1908
Page
4
It cautions that consuming doubtful items in mixtures can create air waste and cause wasteful outcomes. The note urges careful inspection to avert wasteland problems and avoid wasteful cooking practices.
An OCR patched page promotes Kodol a natural digestant with plant acids sold by W W Gibson. touts Urine Laxative Fruit Syrup for chronic constipation. includes jests about politicians and a cough syrup with gentle laxative action sold by W W Gibson. notes 1908 as a year of choice for women and others.
A nostalgic catalog of changing costs over forty years shows coffee, soap, salt, coal oil, matches, tickets, and hosiery becoming cheaper per person while entertainment and other essentials rise. Quoted items include Foley's Kidney Cure and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as advertised remedies.
Public auction at residence in southeast Wa Keeney on Saturday February 29 1908 commencing 1 pm. Items include horse cow buggy harness tables range heater sewing machine chairs wheelbarrow chickens hay potatoes coal and many more. Cash on sums 10 and under credit to Oct 1 with interest. auctioneers W Mason and Mrs Causi Woer. Fresh pork at Baker's.
A weather hint of slight rain touches daily life as Mone F. W. Bemis sells trees. Grant Wagoner visits Emy last Sunday in ELA. Jewell shucks corn for Wm. Ryan this week. Mr. Zahn moved to his farm last Tuesday with nine walnut roads and a bogey full. Welcome Turner, son of Mr. Turner, new neighbor who moved in from Sprity. He farms on Uncle Jimmy Turner’s former land. Wm. Ryan and his wife with son relocate five miles west of McCracken this week. Neighbors express regret at their departure, praising the family as good neighbors.
Grant Wagoner of Riverside visited Ellis last Saturday while John and Emil Karst stayed home with their father. H W O Shant passed through with a land buyer. Bruce Furbeck bought cattle at the Mason sale. John Herbert sold his farm east half of section 13 21 to Mr Darby of Kansas City for 5600. George Glass lost his house and belongings to a fire last Friday likely from a base burner. Books donated to WaKeeney library include Speaker's Complete Program and Stevenson works. The Tourist club has new shelving. Kansas families urged to read Kansas Weekly Capital at 25 cents yearly. Capper publisher advertises it as a premier market-report weekly. Various ad-like lines highlight beverages and social notes. Grover Cleveland and Roosevelt references end the quip.
A jumble of late 19th century notices lists land sales and rents around Wa Keeney Kansas. Listings show farms near Saline River 7 miles north, alfalfa acreage 170 acres, single cottage on northwest town, and miscellaneous finds including oats seed, building materials, and discounted goods. A Mexican judge sentence for a woman to silence six months closes the column.
Fragmentary OCR yields no coherent event or identifiable names. Cannot determine subjects, places, or dates to summarize into a factual card.
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