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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1908
Page
3
In Ellis, Mrs. Chapman’s funeral was halted when physicians suspected she was in a cataleptic state rather than dead. The body, unembalmed, showed discolorations. doctors worked through the night to restore her, but she was pronounced extinct in the morning.
In Topeka the supreme court handles an appeal in a 76000 damage suit filed by J A Edson receiver of Missouri and Kansas Interurban against the city of Olathe. He seeks cancellation and repeal of the franchise ordinance granted when the Kansas City Olathe electric line was built.
London’s Clifford's Inn, nearly 600 years old and once a hub for Coke, Raleigh, and Southey, is at risk of demolition. Owner William Willett bought it for 100000 dollars and plans a modern business block, signaling another loss for the city’s historic quarter on Fleet Street.
New York Rear Admiral Franklin S. Hastings of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club was invested with the imperial order of St. Stanislaus by decree of the czar of Russia.
Commodore Frank Jay Gould hosted a presentation aboard the Helenia yacht for the president of the Russian Symphony to honor services rendered in New York. The event followed Hastings roles as estate executor amid ongoing public attention over his remarks questioning a Grover Cleveland article in the New York Times.
Ernestine Gregory becomes the first woman to pass the examination in the Seminary of Oriental Languages in Berlin. She earns a full diploma and an honorable mention for her knowledge of oriental languages. Her Russian language and literature exam was especially notable.
An old Irish laborer, too weak to work, asks for food in a New York artist’s studio. The artist offers a quarter, then a dollar to paint him, joking about profits while the laborer worries how to remove the resulting painting.
A scrambled OCR page shows a mix of ads and slogans offering rewards, medicines, and household products. It mentions a $100 reward for something unclear, claims about cures and medical conditions, product pitches for Hal's Family Pills and Red Cross Ball Bleach, and quips about secrets and social wisdom. The text is garbled with misspellings and incomplete phrases.
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