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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1902
Page
2
A compact column from Western Kansas World mixes quips and world affairs parodying Tolstoi’s obituaries, taxes and salaries of rulers, baseball club fears, and humorous notes on culture. It mentions Morgan, Wu Ting Fang, Waterbury fire losses, and a Boston peddler jailed for misusing the American flag, among scattered satirical items.
The article notes wireless telegraphy endangering carrier pigeons once used for sea work and military messages. Navy lofts at Brooklyn and Norfolk sold off, others bought by officers and private parties. Private owners and weather bureaus still use pigeons for long distance messages, including a New Jersey Carolina plantation flying about 600 miles. In Boston, elite local pigeons endure only at shows owned by C. E. Twombly of Medford.
A Medford owned pigeon lineage captivated readers with birds like Number 71 and Number 57211 famed for long flights from Telsonburg to Lawrences. Experts discuss breeding, wireless rivals, and the impact on the market. Also covered are ivory imports and market prospects amid scarce supply from Africa and Cape sources, plus a Chicago man's unusual dinner-party wager.
The piece notes Russian pony skins in pale tawny to jet black tones, with manes of little use so far. It highlights pale native ponies, Nordic horse hues in Norway Sweden and Finland, and claims strong, tough pelts for wraps. Prices rise for miniver and ermine amid coronation demand.
Paris officials and funeral firms report 1901 as a poor year with 2500 fewer deaths than average and revenue drops for major houses. Sundays see about 200 funerals but last was 260, blamed on the exposition, economy, and living costs, with burials ranging from small rites to vast displays.
The article surveys the U S Fish Commission work aiding fishermen and waterside interests, detailing oyster fattening, mislabeling of caviar from catfish, declines in whaling ships, rising lake fishing, mackerel catches, pearl button production, plankton and fish disease research, rainbow trout and salmon expansion, clamming and sponge industries, and extensive hatcheries and albatross expeditions, highlighting policy, geography, and economic impacts.
A humorous essay describes Servia's risky marriage bonus schemes funded by assessments. as many members quit after securing brides, remaining subscribers face rising obligations, causing liquidation of the companies and a potential shift to electric incentives. The piece then shifts to a domestic scene about touching a button to obtain desires, provoking a debate between a husband and wife. King Edward awards James Haylett for fifty years of service to a fife, prompting a quip about living to a hundred.
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