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The Sunflower from Williamsburg, Kansas • 20

The Sunflower from Williamsburg, Kansas • 20

Publication:
The Sunfloweri
Location:
Williamsburg, Kansas
Issue Date:
Page:
20
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SUNFLOWER PLATFORM. FREE SILVER! Free Trade, as near as possible to pay expenses of government. No Prohibition. No trade with Santa Pe railroad since she has always been in the coal and political trade to the detriment of Kansas and profit of Milk Street, Boston, and ye Dutch of Amsterdam. Her sins political are mountain high.

Weather cold since election but Nevada has gone hot for free silver. Texas has gone hot Pop. and we can trade Kansas wheat and corn for home made Nevada silver dollars, so can Texas her long horns. The Sunflower thinks we can all make a living. We here make an offer of 10,000.

bushels of Kansas wheat and corn to Nevada for her home made silver dollars. Let the banker keep his "Uncle Sams." THIS is an ordinary coal pile in Williamsburg, Kansas. This particular coal pile is owned by Joe Owens who was A. A. G.

under Maj. Gen. A. J. Hamilton on Wolf Hunt army day.

Joe did not catch his wolf that day, but catches lots of trade at his blacksmith and wagon shop, Williamsburg, Kansas. His coal pile on his land near town is ten times bigger than this one. Harry (or II. Jacob) Welch, Frceport, Formally of Kana. Either One Will Catch Me.

I AM Clothing and Furnishing Goods' Broker for Messrs' Wright who are the best Clothiers and Gents' Furnishers and Manufacturers in the West. I have a large trade in Kansas now and for a short time will sell anything in Clothing or Furnishing Goods' line at wholesale prices and deliver at any express office reached by The Sunflower, free of express charges. Guarantee fit and price against the world. Write me for free samples either of the above addresses will do. PLEASE note ad.

of Mr. Skinner of Ottawa. The Sunflower will give one year's subscription to any person who writes or calls on Mr. Skinner and mentions that they saw his ad. in The Sunflower.

Our pony express distributed 200 of Mr. Ottawa Traveler on our route to Princeton, Homewood, Ransomville, Agricola and Waverly. It is said no Jew can sell clothing in Ottawa against Skinner GHEAP COAL! The Sunflower has arranged with all the coal drifts around our little city to sell coal for them. All subscribers to Sunflowek can have coal at lowest carload price, so write or call with your wagons, give us fifty cents for one year or twenty-five cents for six months, subscription, and we will give you an order for what you want. Price for December seven and one-half to eight cents at drifts.

Best coal in Kansas. BIG PREMIUMS will be given subscribers of The Sunflower during December. Just now we will sell a few subscriptions to our paper for twenty-five cents for one year and give an order on a good merchant in Williamsburg, for boots and shoes, good for any amount all winter, all fresh goods, and will purchase anything in this line at ten per cent, under any cash price in Eastern Kansas. Will not tell the name of merchant. If goods don't suit will refund the twenty-five cents.

Send in names promptly. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in eastern Kansas is The Sunflower. Immense circulation monthly. Write for rates. THE SUFLOWER'3 Sunday pony express was a big success.

First trip Sunday, October 28th. Every Sunday in the future. HARD CIDER was abroad in Kansas during the last campaign at Williamsburg, Kan. Mr. Jenkins of Ottawa, (a Pop.) came with two wagon loads to attend a Pop meeting and to quench the thirst of ye Pop.

multitude, but wras not allowed a room in the school-house and so ye thirsty Pops, went dry until ye mineral well was reached at, say 11:30 p. m. POLITICALLY The Sunflower is independent! The Editor personally is a Pop. and shall so vote and labor, BUT any first-class candidate on earth can have his picture and a column of reading matter for, say $10.00 Our portraits will be made by what is called the Coarse-line half tone process. This is the latest and best process of the age having been in use but two months.

Next issue of this paper November 15. 1894. THE WOLF hunt at the 'burg Saturday Oct, 15, was a grand fiasco of the high-blown type. Not a wolf, jackrabbit, or tater bug was captured by their The crowd in town was a great disappointment, being much smaller than was expected. Free soup was dispensed to the hungry, and a nigger show linked with the prospect of a dance that night, keep things a going.

It is said that a few parties were fooled into coming down from Kansas City to see the hunt. Pomona Enterprise. General Hamilton authorizes The Sunflower to say in answer to the above, "It is simply foolish "If Pomona thinks she can catch wolves let her raise an army as Williamsburg did and go for them. We are the champion wolf army of the U. and can hold it against the world." Dry Tip, old Pomona, or fight..

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32
Years Available:
1894-1894