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Boiler Inspecting Bill
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to support by Governor Capper toward the Boiler Inspection Bill from J. F. Perry of Wichita, Kansas. This is part of a bigger collection of…
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Prison Board – Transmittal of Letters
Date: January 28, 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to the transmittal of letters to the Prison Board. The file is incomplete because it no longer contains the transmitted letter to the Prison Board.…
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Deputyship in the Grain Inspection Dept.
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to the deputy’s role in the Grain Inspection Department. Correspondence included in the file is an application and questions about the position from L. A.…
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Primary Elections – Proposal for Change
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to primary elections and suggestions about women’s voting. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Irrigation and Irrigation Board
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to the Irrigation Board and irrigation in Kansas. Topics included, but not limited to, in the correspondence is reducing irrigation challenges in Western Kansas, administration…
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Taxation and Recording Fee for Mortgages
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to the taxation and recording for mortgages. Topics included, but not limited to, in the correspondence is increased taxes through mortgage payments, guaranty law evaluation,…
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Tax Exemption for Real Estate Mortgage – Request for Law
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to tax exemption for real estate mortgages by law. A letter from E. A. Wagner of Meriden, Kansas, urges Governor Capper to sign a mortgage…
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Old Age Pension – Request by David Pritchard
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to old age pension. Correspondence from David Pritchard of Rosedale, Kansas, is asking the office of Governor Capper for a pension to support himself. This…
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Pensions for Crippled and Blind Persons
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to pensions for persons with disabilities. Topics included, but not limited to, in the correspondence is pensions for senior citizens who are unable to work…
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Haskell County – Proposal for County Seat Election
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to the proposal of the county seat in Haskell County. Several years earlier in 1913, Haskell County held a special legislation to elect a county…
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Transmitting Letter of Mrs. H. B. Admas to Senator Curtis
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence from the office Governor Capper to Mrs. H. B. Adams that he transferred her letter to Senator Curtis to get the information she needs. The letter…
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Interstate Conference on Uniform Industrial and Insurance Legislation
Date: 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to the Interstate Conference on Uniform Industrial and Insurance Legislation held in Chicago, Illinois from February 11 to 13, 1915. The purpose of the…
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Panama-Pacific Exposition – Request for Employment
Date: 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to employment for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The request asks Governor Capper to employ Helen Mesmer and her sister of Vermillion, Kansas at the Kansas…
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Rewarded for Capture of Milan State Bank Robbers
Date: 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to the reward for the capture of the Milan State Bank robbers. Led by a man named Callahan, him and his team of robbers…
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Proposal for Legislation – George B. Frost
Date: January 25, 1915
This file includes general correspondence where the Secretary to the Governor replies to an earlier letter on January 23 from George B. Frost of Chapman, Kansas. Frost requests Governor Capper…
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Acknowledgment of Appointment Endorsement
Date: January 25, 1915
This file includes general correspondence acknowledging the appointment and endorsement of William E. Thompson as janitor of the Memorial Building in Topeka, Kansas. To see his endorsement sent two days…
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Endorsement & Application for Appointment
Date: January 23, 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to the endorsement and application of William E. Thompson and A. B. Dadd by Honor J. T. Botkin, Secretary of State, as janitor at…
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Parole Request – Charles Dillinger
Date: January 16, 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to a parole request for Charles Dillinger. In response to the request, which is no longer with the file, explains that clemency towards the…
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Justices of the Peace
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence and applications relating to the Justice of the Peace. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Good Roads Days
Date: 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to Good Road Days. The correspondence is between Governor Capper’s office and the Legislative Reference Bureau in Montpelier, Vermont, discussing if there was a…
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Violation of Prohibitory Law
Date: January 23, 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to the violation of the Prohibitory Law. Complaints had been sent to the Governor’s office from Morton County which are no longer associated with…
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Alleged Effort to Wrongfully Take Children from Mother – Bethel, Ks.
Date: 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to the alleged effort to remove children from their Mother in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. The correspondence claims that the State removed children from…
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Legality of Soliciting Funds
Date: January 20, 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to the legality of soliciting funds. Topics in the correspondence discuss the legality of soliciting funds for purposes as described when taking out a license,…
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Complaint Regarding Rates for Shipping Livestock
Date: 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to a complaint about rates for shipping livestock. Topics included, but not limited to, in the correspondence is charges of freight travel to and…
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Exchange of Flags Between Kansas & Philadelphia
Date: 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to the exchange of flags between Kansas and Philadelphia. Topics included, but not limited to, in the correspondence is Kansas Statehood birthday, exchanging state…