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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1901
Page
2
The piece urges fair adherence to districting law by state legislatures while noting uncertain enforcement. It highlights agriculture in the Pecos valley with 1200 acres planted to cantaloupes and projected shipment to Chicago. It also praises American public schools sending teachers abroad, citing strict selection criteria for overseas postings.
An official circular to Turkish newspapers urges avoiding suggestive dots in articles and not publishing pieces too long for one issue. It contrasts such cautions with monarchic restraint and hints that republican forms may outlast monarchies.
A New York elevator anecdote mocks the so called elevator cure used mainly by women in skyscrapers. Separately, John Newman a former Arizona pioneer finds a $9,000 bullion bar buried near Phoenix after losing it fifty years ago, retracing a ground chart and returning from Europe.
Several steam plants have tested a newly developed Beaumont Texas oil with satisfactory results. The Jennings Electric Light and Power company supplied Neht and power to the town using the plant. Houston experiments are also underway to replace coal and wood with oil. If Beaumont oil proves cheap and effective beyond coal, demand could surge for steam boating and other uses. Our fifth season is educational, the graduation period, as memory travels back to diploma days and anticipation of the future.
Sahib Baba recounts an ancient tale of the great pyramid in Cairo through folklore learned from his grandmother. The myth portrays a queen commissioning a tomb, a Hebrew architect, vast slave labor, and the enduring pyramid standing amid shifting civilizations and desert winds.
A two wheeled carriage with a rounded front and rear opening houses four rotary grass catching rakes on a shaft driven by gearing from the traction wheels. As they rotate they comb the lawn and throw grass and rubbish into a rear basket that detaches for easy emptying, swiftly cleaning the surface.
Leslie's Weekly surveys Kansas history from prohibition to modern agitation, praising its people as active and versatile. It notes the state’s dramatic social changes from 45 years of events, featuring figures like John Brown Jim Lane Mrs Lease Jerry Simpson and Gen Funston amid a broad sweep of tragedy melodrama burlesque and political drama.
A 300‑strong socialist settlement about ninety miles south of Savannah Georgia proves a man can live on less than eight cents a day in a communal economy. They work eight hours daily, grow crops, make brooms and belts, and rely on vegetables with rice beans and cereals for sustenance. The group reports happiness and success in their experiment.
Dr J H Frazee of Knoxville exposed a North Carolina relic dealers scam after receiving a sample box via a letter praising his status. He inspected items and rejected them, but a western buyer was lured in, later learning the relics were counterfeit. Government experts confirmed the fraud, as the scammers conducted extensive but bogus dealings per the Chicago Chronicle.
George Washington Anderson, 68, who claimed to have 17 wives, is sent to Pleasants County poorhouse after his 74 year old wife, who had given up her pension to support him, discovers his confession of 16 prior marriages and sues for divorce. He eloped with her after two days of knowing him in Parkersburg last month.
The Critic ridicules Brander Matthews and Harry Thurston Peck calling them an intellectual intoxicant. The piece notes readers become quarrelsome as the prose consumes them and ends with a jab at remedies for such effects. It imagines siding with one or both authorities in their dispute.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, while with a coaching party at Yonkers, dropped money in a hotel. He spent minutes searching before recovering a coin that proved to be a red cent.
A Woolwich man has loaded his ice house with cakes that floated into the freshet. The crew watched as the cakes drifted toward the ice house, seeking to reclaim or inspect them.
Four sisters aged twenty one each registered at the city clerk’s office from a single ward. Each sister presented herself separately and gave her age as twenty one, according to the fragmented OCR text.
Report from Philadelphia Times details long quarrel over the Massacre river boundary as Dominican and Haitian forces clash after a covert Dominican alteration of river courses and Dominican demands for post removal. Haitians reinforce frontier while arbitration lingers amid rising war talk.
Ex Governor Hogg of Texas predicts oil from the Beaumont field will revolutionize world fuel. He notes seven gushers and argues fuel oil can be produced and shipped at very low cost, rivaling coal at seaboard ports. Beaumont’s location near Port Arthur and proximity to New Orleans and Galveston enhance export prospects to Mexico, the West Indies, and beyond.
General Wood, military governor of Cuba, reports harmony and growth on the island. He urges repeal or reduction of U S sugar taxes to unlock unprecedented prosperity. He notes Cuban officials and guards, few incidents, and a disciplined administration. The piece also covers piano leather from deer skin and German tanning influence on U.S. manufacturing.
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