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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1900
Page
3
A pound of coal with about 10,000 heat units yields 236 horsepower when used for work, vastly more than ancient slave labor or spinning by hand. Comparisons span porters carrying loads, mill spindles, and circular saws, illustrating coal’s hidden energy. One pound equals the work of thousands of spinsters or dozens of modern saws in a short time.
Tension erupts between Chinese residents and the San Francisco board of health over bubonic plague inoculation. Chinese quarters number about 240,000 and face threats to force vaccination. Merchants fear store damage as whites reportedly influence public anger. No new plague cases are reported.
A Toledo Times note describes capitalists debating stock on Wall Street and the ill fate of trusting a “friend on Wall Street” for business. An irate director mocks the idea, calling it foolish credulity as leaders discuss trading, bonds, and profits amid wary tones and a company board meeting adjourns.
Sum Lee, called Almond Blossom, is left motherless and seeks her unknown path after visiting a joss house in New York. She asks Hip Sing and the joss about the Land of Ceaseless Shine, wanders the shrine, forages among offerings, and eventually vanishes into the Land of Silver Shadows, where the story follows her hopeful hunger and the guardianship of the temple.
The fragment discusses Lem Lee and Lem Lee’s relation to a ford family and a cat in an oven, with references to Almold Worsom and a tir ade. It reads as a garbled diary style note with unclear chronology and numerous mis-spellings.
A description of compressed foods that could replace traditional meals, with meat transformed into pills or wafers, promising less waste and easier transport for workers and explorers. The ad cites improved efficiency, potential savings, and mentions other products and local vendors amid a sprawling advertisement text.
An old Union Pacific notice touts Utah Great Salt Lake climate as ideal for health bathing and pleasure trips. It promotes a one fare round trip from Missouri River to Utah with specific travel dates and a return by October 31, 1900, naming G. Somamren as agent contact.
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