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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1903
Page
6
A mosaic of wry observations and social jests recounts fashion, crime, and everyday oddities. Notable lines touch on Hetty Green, Sing Sing, King Edward, a New Jersey jail sentence, and a driver’s cross continental dash. The piece blends social commentary with sharp, era-tinged humor from Wakeeney Kansas.
Minneapolis March 4 1993 a debate on protective tariffs notes that even with global exports only 3 percent of annual manufacturing is sent abroad, while 97 percent serves domestic buyers. The tariff protects the domestic market, spurring investment, wage growth, and efficiency, arguing foreign trade remains a small share amid rising prosperity.
The writer argues that tariffs lower production costs and boost home prices stability by protecting domestic manufacturers. Surplus output can be sold abroad, with foreign markets not undercutting the home market. Protection supports wealth growth, employment, and national economic independence.
Foreign trade remains strong despite fears, with February exports setting a record for the month in U S history. Ports handled unusually large volumes and the boom continues since the year’s start with no immediate downturn visible.
Sir Charles Dilke, a noted British radical and authority on international politics, urges the great powers to meet and discuss reducing world navies. He has held various government posts and remains a leading radical voice in the House of Commons as he nears his sixty-fifth year, continuing to write freely.
A Southern resort scene features L Frank Baum the fairy tale author receiving praise from a seven year old girl who knows his books by heart. The child declares Baum wonderful because her mother told her to, prompting laughter and an awkward moment for the author.
Emperor Menelek fails to replace barter with coined money as salt blocks remain the dominant standard of exchange while the Maria Theresa thaler wanes and the new Paris coinage is rejected. The era’s true value becomes rifle cartridges, not coins or salt.
The late Jacob Rogers estate in Paterson New Jersey is valued at just over 8 million dollars. Most of the bequest goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Trenton. Executors' fees total 214000 dollars, the largest in New Jersey's probate history.
Dr. W. D. Mann of Buffalo renowned for operating on President McKinley stood out at the recent congress of medicos in Washington. He told interviewers he is an everyday surgeon and credits success to persistent hard work and effort.
Attorney General Knox enjoyed a day at the golf club with a newspaper correspondent. The ride to the club featured his record-breaking team, and after forgetting cigars the correspondent supplied them. He concluded the outing by noting the drive, game, and that he had not violated his physician's orders about tobacco.
Col Johnson L De Peyster of Tivoli New York received a Medal of Honor on Thursday for raising the first American flag over the capitol in Richmond on the night of April 3 1865 as Union troops entered the city. Despite prior efforts by his friends to secure official recognition the award had not been granted and a purse funded medal was presented to him.
Lewis Green is 93 and his wife Virginia is 92 in Bell County Kentucky. Married 73 years ago they moved to a farm at Bing ham's creek mouth on the Cumberland River and still live in the same house. Ten children born, youngest 43, with no family deaths on record.
A fractured report portrays Czar Nicholas I and his wife as a devoted imperial couple amid a massacre of Jews. The world’s opinion absolves the Czar of blame, emphasizing his humane nature and an ideal home life with the Empress and children.
The New York Court of Appeals reverses the Appellate Division and holds the eight hour labor rule in state and municipal contracts unconstitutional. The decision cites unequal treatment between contractors working for the state and for private parties. Proposals persist to amend the constitution to empower broad legislative control over wages hours and conditions for all public employment and contract work.
A lyrical poem recalling the meadow lark's call as a bridge between lovers separated by distance. The speaker loops through imagery of dawn roses and sea blues, declaring thoughts of love and a message carried by the lark’s voice across the waves.
A young woman told a Denver tale of two boys, Willie and George, aged 8 and 5. Willie stayed quiet while George wrecked a room, cried, kicked his mother, and cut his finger. George retorted that Willie was a perfect gentleman, prompting a sly quip about the other boy’s misbehavior.
The British Cotton Growing association plans missions to study cotton growth among colonial natives. Paths include Egypt, the Sudan, India, Oceanic islands, Uganda, East Africa, Sierra Leone, and the lower Niger in West Africa.
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