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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1901
Page
8
Fragment from a poem praising the beauty of May hills and blossoming orchards and dogwoods. Vivid color imagery appears in lines about pink orchards, white dogwoods, and blue violets, contrasted with themes of longing and quiet song. The text evokes December news of beauty despite the May glow.
On Lost Mountain Enfield Joiner recalls a perilous winter trek. A storm traps him in a rock shelter as the Canon looms. With no tools he blasts snow with a pistol blast and survives, returning to camp to a warm meal and bed.
An oil well five miles west of the city on the Rennigner farm suffered a remarkable accident during a 200 quart nitroglycerine shot. The casing pipe was hurled hundreds of feet into the air before crashing the derrick, wrecking the well and injuring workers as they fled. Authorities attempt to fish out the pipe while the oil flow continues.
New York lawyer Mat Spene recalls the death of William M. Evarts and a humorous matter of retainer fees. Evarts agreed to a nominal one dollar retainer then billed thirty five thousand dollars for service, later explaining the earlier one thousand and five thousand figures as spent, prompting light protest.
Recent experiments by four researchers including Gautier of Parts indicate hydrogen is a constant constituent of alt, measured at two in ten thousand parts by volume, suggesting a stable presence in the sample.
A misread legal style notice references a partnership between Mr. Carnegie and M. de Castellane. It hints at wealth transfer and timing of death in a few years, with the fragmentary language suggesting a bequest or settlement. The source lacks clear names, dates, or places beyond the cited individuals.
The Philadelphia Times reports Herr Anschutz-Kampf proposes a submarine vessel built at Wilhelmshaven to reach the North Pole by passing under Arctic ice. The craft would descend to 160 feet, travel up to 50 miles by 3 knots in fifteen hours, blast openings if needed, and surface for scientific work, with fuel for 600 miles and air for five men.
Twenty years after 1880 there were 180 mills south of the Potomac and Ohio. The 1900 census shows many mills and spindles rising fast, especially in Georgia with 43 new mills and 263 676 spindles. North Carolina and other states follow, fueling employment and reduced transport costs as cotton becomes higher value yarn and sheet goods. The Southern railway region hosts 1 062 new manufacturing concerns in a decade, including furniture and tobacco factories in the Piedmont. The industry growth underscores the South’s industrial surge.
A flustered young woman rushed into the Philadelphia mint seeking information. A fat messenger refused help, then mocked a frivolous weekly claim that 1901 cents now bring about $19 in the coin market, drawing amused reactions from coworkers.
A young Chicago street musician studies at a musical college on scholarship in Michigan. He earns his living by playing classical pieces on street corners each evening and collects tips in a hat. He dreams of a private studio and teaching, though he must continue street performances for now. He says he does not care what people think and remains determined.
A Kansas miscellany notes a Wichita wife winning divorce in minutes, Belmonts' long Sunday school tenure, a Kent post office discontinuation, and a spinning wheel sale to a Clay Center owner. It reports Osage County rains aiding harvest, a Caney gas well capped at 12 million cubic feet, and local strides in education with Garden City building a new schoolhouse. It also mentions wild squirrels in Paola, a geologist selling fossils to New York, and various regional curiosities from Eldorado to Nortonville.
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