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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1913
Page
1
Advertising copy urges families to keep Chamberlain's remedy for hot weather colic diarrhea. Claims superior effectiveness and value, urging purchase from dealers. Subhead mentions World Weather Report and weekly temperatures at Wa-Keeney for the week ending noon.
An editorial piece urges encouraging Baltimore Oriole nesting in Wa Keeney with decorative bird fountains and cement walks. It also advocates three cross-town pedestrian lines to ease school travel, street lighting at key corners, and a cordial push for the Golden Belt road day with Midland Trail status and county-wide markers. It ends with Kansas cattle and hog market notes and seasonal prices.
The Ellsworth messenger reproduces a poem handed to them by an Ellsworth girl urging women to pursue marriage. It contrasts single life with toils and hopes of wedlock, urging action and perseverance toward finding a husband.
Market report from Kansas City dated June 17, 1913 notes a healthy cattle market with daily advances. Supply today reached 10,000 head as prime native fed steers move higher by up to ten cents, Nebraska steers at 9.00 per hundredweight, light weight steers active with bids to 8.70, and butcher cow grades showing active demand for better classes.
Opinion piece argues that rural towns depend on improved agriculture to raise local prosperity. It urges merchants and newspapers to promote higher farm yields, develop creameries or factories, and adapt retail practices to beat mail order rivals. A tale warns merchants to prioritize home commerce over distant catalogs.
Stockton Review laments Democratic rule in Kansas and urges hotel keepers to plaster carpets and all hotel furnishings. The piece claims the latest legislature mandates plastered office and sleeping room walls ceilings and equipment kept sanitary at all times.
A health tip warns against eating too rapidly as it leads to indigestion or constipation and serious illness. It emphasizes thorough chewing and states digestion begins in the mouth. It recommends Chamberlain's Tablets for relief after meals and notes they are easy to take and well tolerated. Sold by all dealers.
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