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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
2
A compact collage of facts and curiosities cites world sizes, science notes, labor and rail politics, crime, library statistics, public service promotions, and mineral discoveries. It mentions Indiana missionaries, Hank Bank of England foundations, cool climate rheumatism, and Castro in Venezuela, with regional Kansas notes on paupers, crops, saloons, and governance.
A German immigrant Amann and a 12 year old boy Walter Knobel died in a woods near Fort Sheridan after a two day fugue from life. Amann stabbed the boy and then himself, both efforts failing to kill him at first. the pair left letters and spoke of ending their lives together, a tale recounted to Lieut. Griffis and the coroner, with inquiries continuing into the circumstances and possible federal action.
A Vanderbilt University chancellor, known to students by a nickname, is described in a classroom moment where a student read aloud a cryptic line. The class roared in response to the self deprecating phrase about enduring the blown of chance.
A crusty character complains of a toothache and poverty, joking that he carries his baseball in his mouth due to lack of pockets. The dialogue captures rough humor and streetwise cadence in a compact slice of everyday life.
George B. Farley of Concord New Hampshire describes a severe two month leg eruption that resembled raw beef and caused intense itching burning and swelling preventing shoe wear for a week. After trying multiple remedies a bit of Cuticura relieved all symptoms within days and he was back to normal. testimonial dated May 14 1907 indicating swift recovery after use.
A Tatler excerpt presents two brief sketches. In a lunatic asylum scene a visitor meets a despondent man and a crazy inmate, while a neighbor complains about a chatterbox neighbor who talks over the fence to her husband.
A Kansas matron reads of a woman carried two miles by a cyclone and silent for weeks. The column mocks sensational cyclone lore and features a farmer with a spyglass seeking such storms. The piece then shifts to a health caution about coffee habit and promotes Postum as a coffee substitute.
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