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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1902
Page
6
A collection of oddities and comments from Western Kansas World column, noting strange tales from Nicaragua, Sweden strikes, Hetty Green wealth, pirates of press, and curiosities about famous names. Snippets include a 104 year old marriage, Morgan Bible value, and a Copenhagen kissing anecdote.
A fragmented entry lists various cavalry names including Canadian Hussar Kassier Italian Cul Spanish Hussar Chinese Cavalry and Russian Cavalry, with unclear context and mixed terms, highlighting a chaotic roster fragment and unfamiliar terms.
A mosaic of quirky items and local gossip from Kansas towns. The Downs editor mocks rival editors’ weights, while Larned Opera House faces indefinite closure over ownership disputes. Bits on mobbed Spotter Crochet, a seven foot seven inch young man joining a circus, and washouts on Union Pacific highlight a week of colorful headlines and small-town peculiarities.
A Chicago shooting gallery scene shows a 45 year old man wearing double lens spectacles shooting with perfect accuracy for twenty minutes. He credits glasses with transforming his marksmanship from third class to near top, noting his eyes were always normal. A Philadelphia merchant, Joe Slocum, known for haggling, clashes with a storekeeper over price, the confrontation escalating as Slocum repeats his bargain.
A buyer and merchant quarrel over shirt pricing ends with the buyer, Slocum, knocked down stairs and hospitalized after the merchant ejects him through a door. Slocum later returns on crutches, pleading for mercy and offering $6.75 for the shirts.
At Concord station the Rev. Mr. Jackson, famed for bearing a striking resemblance to Nathaniel Hawthorne, endures a comic intrusion when a visitor grabs his coat tail and asks if he is Hawthorne. He quietly replies that he is not Hawthorne.
A Vermont minister recounts how Lincoln, during the Civil War, expressed unwavering faith in over ruling Providence. He described a quiet Washington meeting where Lincoln rose, declared the real question was what the other fellow wants, and affirmed readiness to follow Providence and the war’s outcome.
The retired Unitarian minister W. Jackson of Concord Mass emerged last year as the biographer of James Maraineau. He did not shy from the publicity, continuing to share his views on public matters as noted in recent discussions.
The Rev Dr Huntington recalls at a Clerical Club banquet a scene in Grand Central Station where a telegraph operator refused a bribe. He congratulated the young man for showing moral courage to decline the offer, then recalls the operator’s grim retort about smoking it himself.
A resourceful humorist aboard a New York streetcar pretended to have smallpox to entertain fellow passengers. He was quarantined for a while, and authorities required a bond to detain him from further disorderly conduct. The Ram's Horn notes the event as a cautionary tale about satire and public order.
In a Reconstruction era action, Hayes pulled federal troops from supporting the provisional government of South Carolina, transferring the state's wealth to Gen. Wade Hampton who then served as governor. Hampton died on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his assuming control, a noted coincidence in the record.
A committee formed in 1890 to prepare defense fortifications for key Turkish coastal points on the Persian Gulf has finished its work. The reports outline strategic positions and potential defense improvements as Turkey seeks to bolster coastal security during peacetime movements.
The New Orleans sewerage system, priced around 20 million dollars, aims to remove objections to resilience and place the city among healthier seaports. Sewage collected by pipes would be pumped into the river whose water level lies above the city.
President Shaw and Secretary Fearns worth lead Michigan Bankers association as they plan this year s convention aboard a lake steamer visiting Mackinac and the Soo. Other members join the voyage on the planned lake tour.
Miss Selcher Ataye, a Pueblo Indian who graduated at the head of the class from Philadelphia Woman's Hospital, challenges stereotypes of native women. She was brought East twelve years ago at age ten and was educated at Carlisle.
An advertisement touts Vogeler's Curative Compound as a safe blood purifier and tonic to restore strength for overworked men and women. It promises improved appetite sleep and vitality and offers a free sample bottle via St Jacobs Gil Ltd of Baltimore Missouri.
The readable bits suggest a garbled note or transcription error about names Cuan Et Jarohe and others, with possible emphasis on a Reuters-like format lost in OCR. No clear event, date, or location distinctively identified from the fragment.
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