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Anti-Cigarette Law
Date: 1915
This file includes a letter from Mrs. Johnson from Gridley, Kansas asking for the permission to print the Governor’s name on printed Anti-Cigarette law statements that she intends to display…
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Legislative Recommendations’ by Texas Governor
Date: 1915
This file includes a letter from Governor Colquitt of Texas discussing Texas legislative laws on protecting persons from fraud. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper…
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State Prohibition Enforcement Officer
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to the enforcement by officers of the State Prohibition laws. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Second Federal Court in Kansas Opposed
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence regarding the opposition to House Concurrent Resolution No. 22. House Concurrent Resolution No. 22 was in opposition of establishing a Federal Court in the District of…
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Widow’s Pension Law
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence regarding the Mother’s Pension Act and pension for widows of men who died fighting in World War I. Topics included in the file but not limited…
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Kansas Day Club Speech – James Watson
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence regarding Mr. Watson’s speech for Kansas Day in 1915. Topics included but not limited to in the correspondence is printing of the speech, cost of printing…
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Federation of the World
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence and printed pamphlet about the World Postal League and its efficiency and its reliability. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Weights and Measures
Date: January 25, 1915
This file includes a letter from Coffeyville, Kansas regarding the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures. The office of Weights and Measures inspect commercial weighing and measuring devices in…
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Insurance Commissioner Selection
Date: January 3, 1915
This file includes a resolution into the investigation to the insurance lobby in Topeka, Kansas. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Pension Request for Handicapped Brother
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence requesting Federal pension for relatives who fought in World War I. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Abolition of Capital Punishment – Effect on Crime
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence asking for literature about the abolishment of capital punishment. In reply to the request from Oklahoma, the Governor’s office states that Kansas abolished the use of…
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Committee of Mercy
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence regarding fundraising for the Committee of Mercy. The Committee of Mercy was a group for war relief during World War I that was aimed at not…
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Legislative Recommendations by Connecticut Governor
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence from Connecticut Governor Simeon E. Baldwin with legislative recommendations to Kansas Governor Arthur Capper. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Zenda Becoming Third Class City Opposed
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence regarding the legalization of Zenda as a city in Kansas. Zenda is a city in Kingman County in central Kansas. This is part of a bigger…
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Irrigation
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence regarding irrigation and water reserve use in Kansas, specifically the construction of a dam across a river that does not carry flood water. This is part…
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Fish and Game Dept.
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence about Kansas Fish and Game Department. Topics included but not limited to in the correspondence is Deputy Fish and Game Warden appointments, fish hatcheries, and railway…
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Highways and Bridges – Legislation and Repair
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence about Kansas highways and roadways. Topics included, but not limited to, in the file is road laws, cost and expanse of road maintenance and expansion, and…
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Twenty-two Club
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence from Carey J. Wilson, Superintendent of Insurance, and replies from Governor Capper’s office regarding the Twenty-Two Club. The Twenty-Two Club was an insurance scheme where customers…
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Soldiers’ Home – Board of Managers
Date: 1915
This file includes replies from Governor Capper’s office regarding the Board of the Soldiers’ Home in Fort Dodge, Kansas. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper…
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Work-for-the-Unemployed League
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence to Governor Capper’s office regarding unemployment and work in Wichita, Kansas from Honor J. J. Bulger. Governor Capper replies to Honor J. J. Bulger in support…
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Tuberculosis Test for Milk Cows
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence and responses to and by Governor Capper’s office regarding testing milch cows, also known as dairy cattle, for tuberculosis. This is part of a bigger collection…
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Live Stock Sanitary Commissioner
Date: 1915
This file includes responses by Governor Capper’s office transferring requests by Kansans to the Livestock Sanitary Commissioner Taylor Riddle. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper…
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Live Stock Sanitary Commissioner
Date: 1915
This file includes responses by Governor Capper’s office to Taylor Riddle regarding the Livestock Sanitary Commission. This is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Prohibitory Liquor Law Violation Alleged
Date: 1915
This file includes correspondence relating to an allegation of Mrs. M. T. Kirkland violating the prohibitory liquor law in Anthony, Harper County, Kansas. This is a part of a bigger…
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1st Infantry Division – Memorial in Vicksburg Park
Date: 1915
This file includes general correspondence relating to the Memorial in Vicksburg Park honoring the 1st Infantry Division. Topics included but not limited in the correspondence includes: inscription proposals and cost…