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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
8
A fragment from a grocery purchase shows items including a five pound package of Scotch Oats, three pounds of large prunes, bulk raisins per pound, twenty one pounds of fancy dried peaches, two pounds of fancy dried apples, scans Otoe corn, and lean early June peas with one can of string beans.
A list details several mares and horses by age weight and foal status. Items include two 5 year old mares at 1300 Ibs, a 9 year old mare at 1200 Ibs with foal, a 5 year old mare at 400 Ibs with foal, a 6 year old mare at 1300 Ibs with foal, a 10 year old mare at 1000 Ibs with foal, a 7 year old horse, a one year old thoroughbred stallion, a yearling colt, a two year old mule, and notes limited to basic descriptors.
Three milk cows two yearling steers two yearling heifers seven Poland China pigs five boars two months old household goods offered for sale likely at a rural auction with livestock and items described in concise terms
Regional notices advertise free lunch with terms, auctions, and local business promos. Items mention Rock Springs coal, Baker’s fresh pork and pies, seating for library entertainment, primary law voting, and a dozen brief updates on residents, court actions, farm sales, and upcoming auctions in the Wa-Keeney Kansas area.
A broad inventory sale offers a roan mare aged four with foal and other mares, bay mares, geldings, a gray saddler, a large mule, yearling colt and sucking colt, a Poland China boar, twelve shoats, sows and piglets. Farm implements include wagons, mowing machines, rakes, a grain binder, a sulky plow, harness, a cream separator, incubator, stove, alfalfa hay, kaffir corn shocks, corn stalks, and more.
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