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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1908
Page
5
A German man tests his son's future by placing a Bible a bottle and a dollar in the boy’s path. The boy chooses the Bible and a dollar, signaling an Evangelist future. Also notes on enemies sharpening character and the value of decisive duty amid gossip and scandal. An ad touts Dr Thomas Electric Oil for quick croup relief.
The article blends a wedding notice praising a groom and bride with a critical, data driven note on rural free delivery costs. It cites expenditures for maintaining the service, a star route expansion, and a call for communities to maintain roads in return for federal services. The piece ties a personal event to public policy and funding.
An advertisement invites boys and girls to secure eight new yearly subscriptions at 25 cents each for a two dollar total. Those who mail the full amount with details receive a magic lantern with 50 views to use at home via a white sheet for projection. Directions accompany the lantern and samples for canvassing are requested.
A letter to H J Hille explains Mr N Avery paid 18 dollars for six gallons of lead and zinc paint and 36 dollars for twelve gallons of barytes and zinc both claimed as Devoe quality by dealer. The total shows 327 dollars for lead and zinc and 54 dollars for barytes and zinc.
A public sale will be held Monday November 30 at 10 am ten miles southeast of Wa-Keeney and near Ogallah. Items include draft horses and mares, cattle calves, hogs, farm machinery, farm tools, wagon teams, corn hay and seeds, household goods, a sewing machine, phonograph and records, shotgun, carpet, furniture, and many other items. Credit terms ten months at 8 percent interest with cash discounts five percent. Auctioneers J W Hill M Mason. Clerk O R Hine.
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