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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1908
Page
5
An old advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as a method to gain flesh claiming a person can gain a pound a day by taking an ounce. It asserts the emulsion stimulates digestion enabling absorption of ordinary food to promote weight gain. The pitch ends by directing readers to P & Bowe, 409 Pearl Street, New York.
Manhattan Kan Sept 22 08 Governor Hoch read a regents meeting where the push to separate engineering from the Agricultural College was debated. Judice A M Story defended keeping engineering at the agricultural school arguing Congress intended these lands grant institutions to teach mechanic arts and industrial topics alongside agriculture.
A Kansas philosopher discusses life as growth and evolution through nature and divinity. Quotes on progress, happiness in movement, and the inevitability of death unfold in Walt Mason’s Emporia Gazette meditation.
A prominent Indiana publisher advertises postpaid music rolls. Request three or more performer names and twenty five cents in silver or postage to receive a 20 page roll featuring popular songs marches and waltzes for piano or organ including Flight of the Butterflies March Manila and The Girl Ive Seen. Popular Music Publishing Co. Indianapolis Ind.
The Kansas City Journal offers a magic lantern with 50 views to any girl or boy who secures eight new subscribers at 5 cents yearly, totaling two dollars, and sends full payment with names. Send for samples and full use directions by post or draft to the Kansas City Journal in Kansas City, Missouri.
In Toledo at a G A R reunion Senator Foraker and William Howard Taft publicly downplayed enmity. Foraker praised Taft and Republican unity while lauding Taft’s fitness for the presidency. The exchange underscored support for Taft and a battle over Ohio's forte for the ticket.
The piece discusses Taft's labor policy record and endorsements, contrasting Taft’s ability to enact promises with Bryan’s alleged lack of power in a Republican Senate. It cites labor legislation and cites a Cincinnati declaration endorsement, concluding with political theater about Taft, Sherman, and Bryan.
A reader from a block south of depot shares relief from back pain and kidney misery after using Down's Kidney Pills. The testimonial notes pain when stooping and the pills clearing up the ache, with endorsement of the pills and a reference to New York agents distributing them.
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