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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1901
Page
4
The piece surveys national and state political currents with notes on General Funston and President actions, hints at future Kansan leadership, and comments on trade, war indemnities, and labor negotiations. It also includes satirical, unsigned items from the Globe and a local reflection on social life and manners.
Within five to ten years the mor meeting has become a general pact of employers and employees to agree and adjust among motives critics of difference. The trend shows that this mode of condition has become more operative in bringing peace to industrial sectors than arbitration or public intervention.
A garbled OCR sample from a Chicago News page presents a mash of quotes and phrases. It mentions weather, health, an umpire, and a heavy bank depositor with over 800 pounds, all in disjointed lines.
The school board meets to adjourn after Wednesday and open bids for heating plans for Sumner Garfield and Great schools. Indirect radiation system to be bid by firms from Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati and Indiana City. No Topeka firms expected to win bids. Project cost about four to five thousand dollars per building. total about $9 10 thousand for heating. Levy plan aims to keep taxes flat while funding new school buildings. Sumner and Lewman Hill schools will be built.
A man claims he is not a physician and cites a city order related to medical matters. A court case details a misrepresented physician and a man named John James Walker involved with police after a medical emergency. He is treated at a hospital and moved to a charity ward. A divorce case is noted for Emma Le Fetee and John Shipman. A carpenters strike threat looms in Marion Indiana as contractors face a deadline.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for dyspepsia and weak stomach function. It claims to improve gastric juice production, aid digestion, unlock bowels, and tone kidneys, with testimonials from readers across multiple towns.
An advertisement touts a free trial of a blood and skin remedy. It asks if cuts heal slowly or if skin is oily, burned, or plagued by pimples and eruptions. It mentions Evsenia and old sores, with a price of £1 per large bottle and testimonials. Offered by Blood Balm Co. at 17 Mitchell Blvd, plus Swift & Holiday contact.
Harrison of Auckland New Zealand travels to Topeka and then Washington to study the prohibition issue. Brewers from New Zealand had recently sent a representative to assess the state situation and report back. Harrison is asked to prepare a report for the government on prohibition prospects.
The Ministerial Union discussed publishing Rev Emerson’s paper "The Prescher and His Church is Pyistics." The debate centered on separating pulpit from partisan politics while considering the value of the document and its potential publication by the Union.
The first witness in the Alfred T. Patrick murder trial, Mrs. A. M. Francis, testified about Patrick’s boarding house, denying tentative self incrimination and citing legal advice as she faced questions from Deputy Attorney Osborne. She refused further questioning, prompting Justice Jerome to tread carefully and advise she seek prudent counsel.
In the east wing new railroad board offices open today with staff urged to organize and report. The Department of Agriculture will foam in the basement of the west wing, occupying former railroad facilities, while new quarters are established. The basement rooms in the east wing formerly used by the supreme court and visitation court will be reallocated to accommodate the railroad board and related stock matters.
Local notice notes day and night police shifts changing today while the claims committee audits bills for the upcoming equit? night. Eighteen drunks held at the police station yesterday. Street sweeping on Quinoy street linked to weather, with snow or rain expected. railroad assessors plan hearings Wednesday and Thursday on the Prisco and Memphis lines. Hanewm, a colored man, shot yesterday. reports say minor injuries and unclear motive. A man with a missing ticket feared to have gone to India, brother notified in Carson City awaits word.
Manila April 1 sensational frauds in the commissary department involve Frederic J. Barrows quarter master of the southern Luzon and seven commissary sergeants plus clerks and contractors. authorities vow no guilty escape while families and troops are reported well supplied. details uncertain with no new Aguinaldo update.
Describes a heavy snowstorm sweeping across multiple towns including Topaka, Chanute, Santa Fe, and Rock Tala nd causing delays in railroad and road transport. Reports indicate mixed precipitation turning to heavy snow, NE winds, clouded skies, and potential fruit damage in Kansas and nearby areas. Advices suggest travel slowdowns and disruptions to schedules for hours.
Fragmentary obituary record for W. M. smith and other notes show a funeral in progress. Partially legible lines mention a burial at Tol anneal and a home at Pt Wa Darvas with riders and names like J Biyasten Castle and Captain. The text is garbled but indicates a local notice of mourning.
Howard Kyle stars in the title role in the Ce aera production tonight. A deputy chief figures in the plot as audiences are drawn into a melodrama set at the Amortoun Mt proaene with the cast maneuvering through intrigue and dramatic moments.
Allen Soot, a white man, is charged by the Hancock County grand jury with burglary and larceny after a failed attempt to flee. The report notes other suspects operating in the county and mentions bonds and connections to hotel commerce and Civil War era figures.
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