The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-19
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Nickerson thinks it has a canning
factory sighted down the road.
A Sylvia man comes forward with a
watermelon weighing 50 pounds-but
he doesn't come very far.
The weighty question in Lyons just
whether d billiard hall shall be
licensed.
Five of the Kansas City orphan
children entertained recently at Clay
Center have found good homes there,
and will stay.
Fort Scott went eighteen days re-
Gently without death except that of
very young infant There never is
much doing in Fort Scott any more
since the joints closed.
The Telegram spoke or a man ar
irving in Garden City over the line of
the Nebraska. Kansas & Southern.
Then it explained that he had driven in
over the right of way of the road.
Atchison Globe: Nick Bremen, the
Doniphan wine grower, Will quit, ow-
ing to the prohibitory law. He will
pillow up a part of his vineyard next
he can dispose of the wine he now has
or hand. He sold wine all over the
United States.
Smith County Messenger: For the
first time in more than quarter of a
century OF active newspaper work,
san, was off duty two days last week,
caused by an attack of neuralgia in
the super-Orbital nerve, which put his
eye right out of business. Couldn't
read a line for two days. The most
painful predicament possible for a
daily newspaper hustler like Conner.
Being minus leg for fifty years, was
as nothing compared to the loss of the
eyes two days.
A Rock Island brakeman out in
ductor; A man from one of the west
ern counties became crazed on the
subject of hynotism, and was being
taken to the asylum. When the con-
ductor came through the car gather
ing up tickets, the crazy man began
hypnotic YOU" he said. Fire away"
replied the conductor. The man made
few mysterious passes in front of
the conductors face and said. Now
the ticket puncher looked the part as
best he could. you're a conductor"
the hypnotist said. That's right"
you're a good conductor" went on
the hypnotist. Right again" you
don't smoke, or swear at passengers.
You are honest. You turn in all
tickets and money you collect from
passengers In fact, you do not steal
a cent That's right" assented the
conductor, dohning a smile. The
said: What an awful fix you would
be in if I left you in this condition"
''I was a passenger on a train from
Kansas City the other day." said
Lawrence man to the Journal, land
noticed a little act of kindness 1 had
never thought of before. A travelling
man sat in front of me and when we
were some distance out of Kansas
City, the commercial traveller care
fully folded up a large pile of Sunday
papers which he had been reading,
put them in his lap and opened the
window. He did not throw them out
Immediately, though. but kept watch
ing the country as we passed along A
few minutes afterwards I saw him
hurriedly throw the papers out and
looking out I saw a group of section
men waving their thanks. This is be-
coming quite a custom among travel
ing men. Section gangs have little
chance to see the daily papers, and
they are as much interested in the
of the day as any laborer.
The custom has become SO general
that some papers have taken to print
ing requests that travellers perform
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