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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1904
Page
6
An extended plea urges churches to lead a health revival focused on dyspepsia and digestion. The speaker links stomach disorders to societal ills, promotes Paw-Paw and other remedies, and calls for temperance and better living to improve community welfare. Local notices follow with court dates, sports results, and community updates.
The Hedindo vessel, chartered by the Early Tepeths Commercial Industrial company, will sail from San Francisco to carry goods for Russia and to destroy agents. It plans stops at Bering Island and Port Providel. Furs and feaisking are to be shipped to England via Lop Mon, under Baron vom Brugein. Captain Reeddie, whose steamer Kontic was seized at Nagasaki, will sail the Heteaio.
Guthrie April 12 a wild western incident ends with a shootout in a town street. A cowboy killed two men and rode out of town after exchanging shots with a posse and citizens. Witnesses describe a dramatic pursuit ending near the edge of town as the killer fled into brush.
An OCR fragment notes an 11 percent rise and a 3 percent drop. It states the largest increase occurs in Los Angeles and the only decrease is 3 percent in Jersey, with Wakever 3$ mentioned as a figure.
New York reports detail a secret visit by August Belmont to Chief Justice David B Parker at his Albany home to press a political reach. Belmont’s operation, aided by Wall Street figures, aimed to influence the Parker camp while schedules and trains were altered to mask his departure. The scene included Senator Hill greeting Belmont and a drive to Rosewood where Belmont met the judge’s circle amid Methodist conference travel plans and a special rail offer from Santa Fe.
Fire Chief Ea Helfer submits the annual report to the city clerk covering April 1, 1902, to April 1, 1904. Emporia fire crews answered forty one calls, with twelve false alarms. Most fires occurred in wooden buildings, two outside city limits, and gasoline explosions caused about twelve percent. Insurance claims totaled 32 510 for a fire damaged car, with 3460 paid in coverage, leaving a small net for the community.
Santa Fe plans a protective fence around the Emboria round house to secure its property. A railroad company has met to discuss safeguarding assets amid ongoing protection efforts. The action reflects long planned security measures.
A revolution loomed as the American asphalt company faced court battles in Venezuela. Officials say about half a million dollars was offered to sway courts in favor of the concession, which the company had won. President Castro filed suits to annul the rights, and a supreme court ruling in favor of the American asphalt ties to the case could be overturned if the suits succeed. Investigation continues with preliminary findings disclosed but not yet finished.
Holliday announces a surprise in the old gas company quo warranto case. The city attorney Spegcar and officials expect a setback as the court weighs franchise rights on technical grounds, amid assurances of a promised reduced capacity.
The Kansas exhibit at St Louis World’s Fair features a central platform thirty feet high with a lifelike corn steer sculpture. A globe on corn and a cornucopia spill wheat to symbolize Kansas feeding the world. An Indian figure and towering corn pillars add color, using four colors of corn and electric lifts for grain movement. Will Iowa and Minnesota explain “what’s doing” in corn in those states.
A soldier in the Seventeenth Infantry recounts a stomach and bowels disease in Cuba and the Philippines. After discharge he grew weak until trying Grape-Nuts and Postum products, which he credits with restoring health, weight gain, and vitality.
Chantellor Strong confirms free scholarship trials with questions already received. The forenoon on the 23rd covers arithmetic and the afternoon algebra geometry and Greek to English translation. George Nutting from Wishita and E J Murray of Bartleville, Okla., are the only university students taking the etamina.
Mme Ruby Cutter Savage delivered two soprano numbers with the Minneapolis Symphony after encores in Parsifal. The performance featured her as Flower Maiden and Kundry with the Damrosch company to perform at the Topeka Auditorium on April 16.
The first crop report of the year will be issued by the state department of agriculture. Secretary Cobars aims for statements by mid April and data from numerous correspondents will be tabulated to assess wheat condition as of the report date. The report will serve as the authoritative guide on wheat prospects for the period.
Brief telegraph items note twelve new bubonic plague cases in Lime Overbridge area with quarantine plans and cut communications to Callao. Other dispatches cite ex president Juan Jiminez returning to Santo Domingo to challenge Morales, a deranged homicide tied to Paul Procksct, a coal mine strike ending in release of workers, a steel foreman shot in Pueblo, and H L Hardman delivering a speech in New York about the fair.
In a tense scene, Abner Davis arrives unannounced at Corinths and proposes to Susan after a long, muddled exchange about trust and memory. The conversation reveals social expectations, jealousy, and the strain of concealed plans as Susan considers the unexpected proposal.
Fragmentary text shows a dialogue with garbled lines about a person named Susan and a marriage proposal hint, then shifts to an ad for Youth's Com panies and Rest Cough Meiiciae for children. Mentions whooping cough remedy and generic medicine sales.
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