Mastodon Tusk Found In Kansas River Bank
An exciting local find by Fred Dutton of Concordia uncovers a nearly eight foot ivory tusk in the north bank of the Republican River near Concordia. The fossil suggests a mastodon connection, with search for the rest of the skeleton planned after field tests and further digging reveal a creek bed buried under silt.
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Kansas
Fred Dutton
Concordia
Scandia
France
Republican River
Dutton
Nelvon Township
Cloud County
Huscher
Low Dairy Scores Grow Concern Across Kansas Cities
Dr Whitaker, after five weeks with the state dairy commission in Manhattan, finished scoring dairies for sanitary conditions. Results ranged from 28 to 87 points of a possible 160, signaling substantial improvement needed in milk supplied to urban areas.
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Lord Dairies
D. M. Wilson
State Dairy Commission
Manhattan
Whitaker
Kansas
Washington
Beet Sugar Yield Report From Garden City Farm
The United States Sugar and Land Co. manager at Garden City, Mr Gillespie, reports 100 beet samples averaging 11 percent sugar. With the crop only 31g months along and most beets planted after June 1 amid a dry season, the yield may still surpass previous years despite a smaller overall crop.
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United States Sugar & Land Company
Garden City
Gillespie
First Congregational Church of Leavenworth Turns 50
Services commemorated the church's fiftieth anniversary with a large turnout. Justice D J Brewer of the U S Supreme Court delivered the featured address. he has been a member for 49 years, joining a year after the congregation's founding.
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First Congregational Church of
Leavenworth
D. J. Brewer
United States Supreme Court
State reform school move eyed by Kansas board
The Kansas board of control in its annual report to the governor and legislature asks to move the industrial school for boys in Topeka. It suggests converting the present buildings into a hospital for incurable insane patients or building a new hospital in the western part of the state.
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State Reform School
Kansas Board of Control
induas+ trial school
Topeka
Kansas
Log Rolling in Pleasanton Exhibition Draws Crowds
The annual Linn county lot and agricultural exhibition was held in Pleasanton with a ten block parade and crowds arriving by excursion trains. Also notes late sowing advice from E C O Kellus of Washington on Hessian fly control, a funeral for Spanish War veteran John T. Clark, a coasting accident in Leavenworth that killed 15 year old Andrew Larkin, Kansas boy George Muir dies of lockjaw, and Read Engine to pull a drag on King road.
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Kansas Department
United
Abilene
E C. Little
John Kartbere
Kansas City
Lawrence
Kansas
Salina
Missouri Pacific
State Board of Railroad
Bes
George Goatt
Presitot
E. H. Harriman
Une
Missouricific Railway Company
Pleasanton
Linn County
E. C. O. Kellus
Department of Entomology
Washington
Bulmer County
Mies
John T. Clark
Baltimore
Manhattan
Dewey
Manila Bay
Andrew Larkin
Leavenworth
George Muir
Henry Mir
Saline County
Beauty the mother of youth and a clean skin creed
The article argues for maintaining a youthful appearance through neatness and mental calm, endorsing regular cleansing baths. It prescribes Turkish baths and homemade alternatives, praising cleanliness to keep pores clear and complexion healthy. It urges regular facial baths and steam methods to prevent skin deposits and enhance attractiveness.
Paris Fashions and Color Rules of a Bright Season
The piece notes gowns and accessories for slender figures, including tile socks, white hats, kid waistcoats, and painted waists. It highlights play hats for children, scarf trims, and a fad for bridge stockings with suit colors. It ends with simple artist color-matching rules for cold and warm greens and russet contrasts.
Covered Hampers as Bedroom Furnishings
A fragment describes economizing on a hamper with upholstery in good French cottons and cushions to create a good looking bedroom piece. The text suggests storing various articles inside its deep sections while noting a concern about dust.
Dark Blue Serge School Coats From Earlier Era
Describes dark blue serge coats worn by schoolgirls, praising color versatility and dust resistance. Notes coats are shaped like black and white checked styles with large gold or silver buttons, checked silk collars and cuffs, and dark satin neckties with gilt tassels.
Advance Fall Suits Feature Empire Directoire Styles
Empire and directoire effects define advanced fall suits with trash and buttons as trims. Soutache is widely used. large, handsome decorations abound. Skirts are often pleated, coat lengths reach about three-quarters, fronts cut away to show a vest, with straight edges and no rounded corners.
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Empire
Directoire
Traveling Garb Trends in Women’s Weekend Attire
Women adopt directoire style long gowns and coats and short skirted one piece frocks for travel and informal events. Rubberized utility coats in black white plate or checked worsted serve as substitutes in absence of a salt wrap. Garments vary from one piece to three quarters length, with outfits matched to sports and social occasions.
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Directoire
The Ubiquitous Scarf in Mousseline Shawls
The article describes abundant mousseline shawls with varied finishes such as fringed tassels and hemmed edges. It notes differing colors and weights, mentioning borders and taxes, and hints at mining of scarfs or fibers in a period context, citing Lead as a referenced term.
Death boards of Bavarian forest memorials along roads
In the Bavarian forest between the Danube and Bohemian frontier, foresters erect death boards or tenbretter along roads as memorials to the dead. The boards, carved like gravestones with name and age and often verses, stand beside fields or near chapels, not over graves, and may rot when money runs short.
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Berlin
Germany
Danube
Cham
Furth
Passau
Tenbretter
Black Forest
Bavarian Forest
Yeorer
Lice in Poultry Prompts Public Endorsement
Mrs. B R Buffham of Roswell New Mexico writes that after using 20 Mule Team Borax as a spray and wash, her S C W Leghorn house was relieved of lice in two months and she plans to continue using the product.
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S.C. W. Leghorn
BR Buffham
Roswell
New Mexico
Stylish lines and old maid stereotypes in a late 19th century fragment
A collage of social chatter and advertisements from a 1585-era page mocks fashion shaming and the pursuit of wealth. It blends bits about a telephone clerk, a fashion minded bachelor friend, a cure advertisement, and scattered comic exchanges on manners and business acumen.
Mean Hair and Cigarette Tales from Yonkers
A brief Yonkers Statesman item notes a quarrel over hair style and coat mishap, paired with a stat on cigarette use. Despite restrictions, over 50 million cigarettes were smoked in the United States last year.
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Betey
Yonkers
Statesman
United States
Fragments From An Obscure Ad Jumble
A garbled OCR snippet presents a string of old ad like phrases and quoted lines. It mentions Eden days and a salve for eyes, a salt for salad, and a Red Crown product. Names and clear events are absent, leaving a scattered, miscellaneous block of prose with no cohesive report.
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Farmers’ Institute For
Tola
Farmers’ Institute
Farmers
Allen
Fourbon
Anderson
Woodson
Coffey
Charlee F. Scott
Kansas University Alumnel Association
Fraser Hall
Lincoln
Whittemore
Iis
Chase County
Cottonwood River
Myra King
Victor Rector
Etta Foltz
Leavenworth County
John Gallagher
Springdale
Gallagher
Geneseo
Landanum Botue
Denver
Father Leo
Eera
Ontis Ly ¥Ioch
Stéite
Bois Carvel
Sears
Walter E. King
Agricultural Experiment Station
Bureau of Animal Industry
Genere
Prof. King
Drage Salim
Publc
Ufe
A. W. Gleason
Saat ‘Norasr Pontic
Mall
F. J Cheney & OL
Toledo
Bohl
Hall
Hewitt
Abel
Maclaren
Crete
Kioney Rane
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