Big Crowds Attend High Grade Circus Show Tonight
Report describes a large audience enjoying an excellent circus featuring twenty five dens with lions tigers leopards and more. Elephants seals and a black California ostrich captivated attendees while acts by Latey Bros Berre Hicks Morales Dimitri troupe and the Russian Cossacks impressed crowds. Baby tiger cubs and a four-seal cage drew special attention as ponies and various rare animals filled the menagerie.
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America
Pacific Ocean
Latey Bros
Berre & Hicks
Dae Ee ¢ Morales
Canker Worm Warning for Kansas Orchards in May
Kansas orchards face a canker worm outbreak as warm February days hatch large brood numbers. Entomologists urge arsenate of lead sprays, about three pounds per 50 gallons of water, to protect apples from defoliation and codling moths, noting well sprayed trees survive, while neglect leads to extensive damage.
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Manhattan
Kansas
Sedgewick
Neighibo
Albert Ickens
Horticultural Department
Kansas State Agricultural Colog
Dickens
Surprise at Pratt’s Home Guests Share Revelry
On April 27 Mr and Mrs Pratt were surprised by friends and neighbors as they planned to spend the evening at their new home Miss Maude Burkett of Marysville Kansas an accomplished musician played violin and pate The gathering brought ample provisions and toasted the hosts declaring the Pratt residence a good time spot Also notice Blue Front Store seed corn samples offered by W A Eppler and John Franks.
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Mrs. Pratt
W. A. Eppler
John Frank
Ee Ger
Frank Burkett
Maude Burkett
Marysville
Kans
Cedar merchant marks fortieth year in town
Mae Johnston celebrated forty years as a Cedar merchant dating from 1871 when he opened a small log general store along the Solomon river. He resisted relocation when the county seat moved, expanding into a vast stock as his customers kept him thriving.
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Smith Center
Kan
Mae Johnston
Cedar
Lee
Hiss Place
Johnston
Solomon
Mr. Johnston
Ein
OL Hardman
Weather and small town notes bruise Wa Keeney week
Weather report shows weekly temperatures from Wa Keeney with a mix of rain amounts and a note on a Roosevelt storm anniversary. Local social items recall a well attended Burkett party with Maude Burkett and others providing music, ice cream and cake. The rest recounts a long, fragmented obituary and nostalgia about a cranky resident and town landmarks.
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Wa-Keeney
iPhursday
Alleged Mail Pouch Robber Heads to Los Angeles
United States deputy agents sought John J. Rohe alias Anderson and Jacobs for stealing 1500 from a mail pouch at Ellis Kansas. Rohe, arrested at the King Edward hotel in Topeka, admitted on duty the night of the pouch loss but offered no confession despite evidence a woman at Ellis had identified him.
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S Angeles
United States
Topeka
Sue Witor
John J. Rohe
Ellis Kansas
Rohe
Anderson and Jacobs
King Edward Hotel
Ellis
Topeka Journal
Obituary for Neff of Trego County Illinois
The death of Neff, born June 17, 1893 in Vermillion county Illinois, is announced. He moved with his parents to Trego county as a child and lived there most of his life. He died at 17 after pneumonia and heart trouble, leaving parents and five brothers Walter Charles Osborne George Ernest and a sister Florence. Funeral services were at the M E church and burial followed in Wa-Keeney cemetery.
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Albany
New York
Topeka
Lincoln Republican
Charles Soa
Neff
Vermillion County
Ilinois
Trego County
Mr. Harrison
Lab
M. E. Church
Christ
God
Florence
Walter
Charles
Osborne
George
Ernest
M. BE
Wa-Keeney
Friend
Hotel Cunningham Sunday Family Dinners Begin
Hotel Cunningham opposite the post office will serve family dinners each Sunday at 12 30 p m. The hotel promises home cooking and attentive service for diners seeking a Sunday meal.
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Cunningham
Post Office
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We-Reeney
Pratt
The
Trego Merc. Co
Salvation Army
Cea Tn Mo
Pia
Wa- Keeney
H. B. Noranrap
Ensign
J. P. Ham
Merchant League
Wa-Keeney State Bank
Trego County State Bank
Nice Dairy Farm
Good Town
Peedlow
St. Marys
Baker's
Hert Schatner & Marr
ERE
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Burkett’s
High School Alumni Association
Register of Deeds
Swiggett
Kealey
Bert Walker
Pierson
Suitatorium
South P. O
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