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Western Kansas World

Location

Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1912

Page

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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.

Metropolitan town clashes with high living and suffrage talk

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.

Bargain Store Closing Out Sale Ad

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.

John Wa-Keeney Hardware Co

La Follette Attacks Roosevelt Over Campaign Finances

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.

la Follette LaFollette Roosevelt Rostevelt Steel Trust Harvester Trust Sugar Trust Powder Trust J. Piermont Morgan Rockefeller Wisconsin Wall Street Oligit Chicago de Stroy Bryan Baltimore Taft Hilieutenants National Committee United Staes LaPolette la Bollettre Kansas City Journal

Market Report from Kansas City Stock Yards 1812

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.

Kansas City Chicago Kansas St&ss

Teddy's Eccentricities and Reminiscences From New York Ladies

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.

Teddy Fifth Avenue Teddy Roosevelt New York Boston

Eugene Ware Story and Kansas Woodmen Union Split

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.

Eugene Ware Edwin Taylor Edwardsville Kansas Kansas City Missouri Ware Mr. Ware R. C. Wilson Hutchinson Kans Kansas Woodman's Protective Association New Order H. E. Tripp

The Choice of a Husband Ad Prompting Life Pills

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.

Dr. King W. W. Gibson

Weather report for Wa Keeney week ending Wednesday noon

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.

Wa Keeney

Bays Chautauqua Program Signals Week of Events

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.

Fraternity Glee Club William Rainey Bennett William Jenning Bryan Ruth Bowers Company New Music Creations Laurant & Company Harmony Concert Company Albert L. Blair Homer Marteln Cook Sign of the Cross James Francis O'Donnell Venetian Troubadours Lincoln McConnell Novelty Players Everett Kemp The Sibyl Sammis MacDermind James G. MacDermind Belle Kearney Sibyl Sammis MacDermick Raweis Royal Italian Guards Band Reya Ivatian Guards Band Phil CG. Baird

Jackson Header Forks Oil Can Ad Copy

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.

Citizens League Pushes Banking Reform in Kansas

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.

Trego County Citizens League C. L. Hardman J. W. Phares WaKeeney Money Trust Congress Kansas Abilene C. M. Harter League

Quarantine Tale Becomes Cheerful Lampoon

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.

Kansas State Board of Health Bulletin Society of Cheer‘tal Optimists Kansas Health ‘Thorities

Bucklen’s Retine and Pain for Insect Bites Advised

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.

Gibson's

Pair Association Meeting at Wa-Keenes

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.

the Tregon County Fair Association Wa-Keenes Thomas O’tacle

Railroads' Growth Key to Nation's Prosperity, Shippers Claim

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.

West Union Pacific Railroad America

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