Spring Wall Papering Season Promotes Home Refresh
The best time in the year to paper is now as homes undergo overhauls and cleaning. This seasonal push highlights papering as a key upgrade for interior refresh.
20 Jul 1912
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1912
Page
1
The best time in the year to paper is now as homes undergo overhauls and cleaning. This seasonal push highlights papering as a key upgrade for interior refresh.
In a satirical flow the piece attacks rising costs, government grievance, and a divided town. Old St mocks fashions and opposes woman suffrage. Old Sour denounces government while declaring Canada a looming fate. A mock ad promotes Deans Regulats for constipation at 25 cents per box.
Quick notices an everyone sale at Bargain Store where goods go at Bargain Prices. Eggs offered 11-2 cents above market price in exchange for goods. Located one door north of Wa Keeney Hardware Co. store.
Wisconsin Senator La Follette accuses Roosevelt of taking money from trusts to fund his campaign and questions the honesty of Chicago backing. He demands full disclosure of contributions and expenditures and warns of misused power and betrayal of progressive principles. Kansas City Journal notes La Follette’s long, sharp critique and alleged personal knowledge of Roosevelt’s conduct.
Market summary shows cattle receipts exceeding estimates by about three thousand, with total bovine numbers around eight thousand for the day. Prime cattle sold strongly with a top of 9.65, while Chicago fancy cattle brought 15 to 25 cents less than last week. Top steers hit 9.50, grass steers range 7.7 to 7.43, other cattle 5.75 to 5.55, calves around 3.50 to 4.54. Hogs open strong but packers slow, top 7.00, 7.25 to 7.55 bulk. Sheep and lambs move slowly, lambs 7.00 to 7.40, wethers 4.50 to 4.00, ewes to 4.15, receipts 550. J A Rickart, Market Correspondent.
Old ladies in a Fifth Avenue parlor recall Teddy Roosevelt from cradle age, describing his head habit and protective myths. The piece notes a Boston News Bureau NY correspondence and mentions Chamberlain's Liniment for muscle soreness and Baker's smoked meats.
Edwin Taylor recalls Eugene Ware the lawyer poet of Kansas at a Kansas City dinner where a Missourian quips about hens. A M W A No 1651 camp voted to adopt Kansas City resolutions to secede from head camp and to send R C Wilson to Hutchinson for the Kansas Woodman's Protective association. The camp also voted to drop delinquent members for nonpayment. H E Tripp, Clerk of No 1681.
An advertisement urges women to avoid weakness and bad breath with Dr. King's Life Pills promising new strength clear complexion and cheerful spirits. The offer claims easy safe and sure benefits for 25 cents from W. W. Gibson.
Government thermometer in Wa Keeney records weekly temperatures with maximum and minimum figures for the period ending Wednesday noon. The week notes a rainfall of 0.41 inch on Friday night and mentions fresh beef at Bakers.
A Bays Chautauqua program runs July 29 to August 4 featuring Monday through Saturday events. Highlights include lectures by Ruth Bowers Company and J Bryan Piats, concerts by the Harmony Concert Company, and performances by The Novelty Players and Sibyl Sammis MacDermind. Admission ranges from 2 to 50 cents, with notable acts including William Rainey Bennett James Francis O'Donnell and the Royal Italian Guards Band.
An old style classified line promotes a KING SPRING OIL CAN named Jackson Header Forks. The ad hints a quality oil can with a slogan about usefulness increasing with use, priced at 15 cents.
In Trego county businessmen discuss a better currency system. The Citizens League led by C. L. Hardman and J. W. Phares has spread educational material, highlighting money trust concerns. Kansas congressmen study reform. eighty three counties organized. Abilene headquarters, led by C. M. Harter, offers free literature. Members paying one dollar receive League publications and the 450 page book Banking Reform priced at 2.50.
The Kansas State Board of Health bulletin cites a writer who jokes about six weeks in quarantine for smallpox. He claims his family endured meals, sleep, and solitude while relatives fled, and quips about selling a manure spreader and an automobile. The letter shows humor amid public health quarantine.
A brief advert urges using Bucklen’s Retine and Pain to avert insect bites and treat related injuries. It claims the remedy heals burns ulcers piles eczema cuts and bruises and is sold for 3 cents at Gibson’s.
The Tregon County Fair Association calls a meeting of directors and stockholders in Wa-Keenes on Thursday July 25 at 0 o'clock to conduct general business and decide questions pertaining to a fair this year. Thomas O Tacle President.
A Kansas newspaper excerpt presents a pro railroads argument from a prominent western commercial club. It stresses that extending rail lines opens virgin markets, raises farm values, spawns towns, and benefits schools and industry, while urging government support and resisting rate increases that threaten progress.
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