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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1902
Page
2
A stream of metropolitan whimsy pokes at Prince Henry and Kaiser humor, Kipling and Rhodes, royalty, journalism, and maturing morals. It notes a Philadelphia death, American girls abroad, and a Brooklyn stag baby ad, piling satire on public figures and misreads of empire.
Elma Washington woodsman K Lambert has three years hunting tree growth shapes to collect each English letter. He lists sources for letters, detailing how different trees and growths yield A to Z and a few extra shapes.
Miss Ackerman a traveling missionary for the National Woman's Christian Temperance union reports engagement to a Russian nobleman she met during temperance lectures in Russia. She says the couple will marry after her tour and hints he saved her from a mob attack years ago in Russia. The husband’s name is not given.
A special commission has been appointed in France to codify laws governing labor for the working class, aiming to streamline and unify regulations across industries and regions. The move signals potential reform efforts affecting workers, employers, and social policy.
A Scotsman reportedly achieved a remarkable golf feat on a London area links. After a misjudged drive hit a cottage roof, the player clambered up, positioned astride the chimney, and finished by driving the ball into the hole in six strokes.
Kansas notes report a court of inquiry in Emperia to determine responsibility for a freight car that toppled through a stone wall of a round house. The Coolidge Enterprise suggests applying this genius to a wireless fence invention for western Kansas utilities. Local items cover ministers, windmill experiments in Great Bend, social clubs in Junction City, and various Kansas happenings.
Engravers completed a Roosevelt vignette for the official president image. After his death it may appear on government money or securities, but not until then. The vignette was based on what was judged the best photograph from the last decade after reviewing every image taken.
The report links a New Years Mass in Paris to the St Bartholemew massacre as authorities note church and royal figures, including Cardinal Richard and Prince Henry, with Dewey in Hong Kong and Secretary Long disputing the toast incident. It notes the death of Sir James Parker Deane, an octogenarian legal figure in England.
In a Senate exchange Massachusetts Senator Hoar mocked Vermont voters with a claim about five thousand dollars in horse trading. Vermont's Senator Proctor replied with a retort about voting. The report notes the ongoing strain in German military leadership over required noncommissioned officer strength.
Pacific Coast losses this year from ships and cargoes total near 4 million dollars, with vessel and cargo losses reaching about 6 million. The heightened risk has driven marine insurance rates higher as a result of the increased totals and economic impact on the industry.
W H Ketchum of Me Clinched, Kansas, suffered five months of severe back pain starting July 1900. After ineffective medical advice, he used Dodd's Kidney Pills, starting with six pills daily, recovering in a week and remaining symptom free for over a year. He credits the pills with a complete cure.
Emined speciallets seek to solve beriberi described as sleeping sickness of the West Coast of Africa. Despite efforts by eminent physicians, diagnosis and cure remain elusive. Entire villages of West African negroes have been known to sleep themselves to death.
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