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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
4
Mayor Purcell visited Topeka last Saturday as local notices list stationery sales below cost at a book store this week. Various social and civic items include New Year’s Day rabbit event, Republican State convention in Topeka on March 4, health updates, and guests visiting local families. Events mention musical performances, advertisements for remedies, and a leap year party at I. Sell’s.
A promotional piece praising The Kansas Farmer for forty five years of practical farm guidance. It highlights departments in Agriculture Horticulture Live Stock Dairy Poultry Vet Home Circle Young Folks Weather Bulletin and livestock markets. Subscriptions offered at 1.50 for World and Kansas Farmer for one year.
A reader sends a playful problem about John Jones with seven white dogs and fourteen cats, each cat with eighteen lives, and three dogs to spare. It asks how many lives three dogs must take before they kill eight cats, using a light, brainteaser tone from a midcentury humor column.
A report notes a person who disturbed the congregation last Sunday by coughing is requested to buy a bottle of Foley’s Honey and Tar. referenced by W. W. Gibson.
A physician notes proper use of home thermometers in households needing care. A doctor questions a caretaker about temperature handling, stressing prompt stomach relief and warnings of indigestion. A mail order anecdote ends with a humorous yet stern warning from a husband about inappropriate correspondence to his wife.
A Maine paper notes a man killed by a railroad train and recalls a prior accident, hoping the new injury does not become chronic. The brief mentions Foley’s Honey and Tar and Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup as cough remedies, advertising Wy Gibson products. It also reports Robidoux driving 200 steers to a Kansas hay lot, totaling about 600 cattle, and praises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a blood-building tonic from Ww. Gibson.
A fragment from Great Western Kansas notes salt water near Smoky Hill shows medicinal value similar to Excelsior Springs waters. Hopes of a sanitarium or oil wells fade to salt water boast, as western Kansas imagines future health cures and ventures.
The Wa-Keeney Entertainment Association reveals a six act schedule for 1907 8 featuring January 10 La Dell Fox Concert Company with reader and violinist four performers February 4 G A Gearhart presents The Footprints of the Centuries a lecture for thinking people March 5 The Royal Male Quartette with two violinists and reader The Royal Male Quartet is noted as a popular Wa-Keeney act and expected to justify season pass prices.
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