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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1908
Page
3
Axtippy of Depot Ave Gallatin describes fifteen years of gravel attacks with severe pain and blood passages. After taking Doan's Kidney Pills he used four boxes and says he is cured with no recurrence. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Race scene features Jim and a teammate bantering about training and dinner as they prepare for a meet, signaling team dynamics and casual locker room humor. The fragment hints at competitive anticipation and appetite before a forthcoming event.
A Kansas mother reports her three month old son suffered eczema on the face. After three months of ineffectual treatment, Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent cured him. The child is now two and a half and eczema-free. May 14 and June 12, 1897.
A survey notes London hosts 75 bridges including 19 railway spans, three road bridges like the Holborn viaduct, and 53 links between private premises. The listing highlights a dense network linking districts, waterways, and estates within the metropolis.
A collage of era quotes and product pitches. The text mixes jokes about the telephone and profanity, endorsements for Defiance Starch products for stiff collars, and misquoted maxims from Emerson Schiller and others. It ends with fragmented phrases about farms and work.
In Omaha a sensational tale unfolds of Dr Frederick T Austin and Abbie Rice scheming to kill him to trigger life insurance. Austin trained Rice with staged operations and literature about sacrifice, then plotted a murder by another man Davis. After a botched first attempt, Austin and Rice pressed ahead, leading to Austin’s fatal shooting on his office porch and Davis’s suicide bid, while Rice faces arrest and the policy payoff draws scrutiny.
The piece recounts a physician famed in the West whose mental unraveling leads to a murder plot. A patient’s insistence on being killed, insurance pressures, and the doctor’s brewing despair culminate in a failed attempt as the killer’s training proves incomplete.
Mrs Austin values life over despair as doctors lose hope for her husband. She nurses him day and night, resisting sorrow and declaring he shall not die, even as his brother physicians concede defeat. Her unwavering faith guides her through a crisis of health and endurance.
Austin confronts a coerced suicide plan, threats and urging the woman to kill him. The pair devised a triple death pact and fled the scene before a fatal shot. a police remark names the man as the suspect in a first degree murder case. Dr J P Lord later identified him publicly.
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