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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1904
Page
9
Frisco tops peers as Champion Keathles secures victory with support from manager Delaney. The win underscores Keathles’ standout performance and Delaney’s strategic role during the match.
Champion Seltrients trier after six months in New York plans training in California. Accompanied by Pilly Delaney and entourage including Kid Bein and Joe Kennedy, he appears healthy as he awaits the next bout. Gate change shifts match date from May to June due to Yosemite scheduling. Spring drills set in, with Neary invited to face Turner or Britt in forthcoming lightweight bout.
Washburn pitcher Griggs hurled a dominating effort striking out 23 and allowing four hits as Ottawa fell 14 to 0 in the opener. Ottawa’s Korne and McDonald stood out despite poor support, while Washburn’s Griggs and Grimsby led the assault with multiple hits including two by Grn.
The article describes opening games across leagues with results in New York Philadelphia Washington and Chicago. It notes Chesbro Young Mullin and other players contributing, attendance figures and weather conditions. It also mentions boxing news and travel ads for Florida tours and California farms.
After twelve years of illness from contagious blood poison and failure of medicines, a patient reports improvement from the first bottle of 8.8.8 and complete cure after twelve bottles. The cure lasted for two years with no return or symptom, as stated by N. H. M. Register of Warsaw.
Local report notes physicians unable to locate the source of trouble in a Kansas medical case. Details unclear due to fragmented text but indicates diagnostic difficulty and ongoing investigation.
Beechint Barnes in Kansas City Kansas awarded $1,354.54 from the Order of United Commercial Travelers for illness after swallowing a pin and loss of memory. Defense argued nonliability due to Barnes’s own carelessness. witnesses detailed years of medical doubt and a nonfunctional memory that prevented him from testifying.
The Stannard Oil Company's Kaneas branch at Neodesha reports March oil output of 328273.54 barrels, about 55 percent to North Neodesha and 45 percent to South Neodesha. The Standard refinery at Neodesha has expanded, while a new Kansas City refinery is under construction. A railroad is planned from the refinery to Kansas City, and land purchases for pumping stations occur along the route a 125 mile pipe line will link Chanute fields with the Kansas City plant marking the start of a Gulf line connecting Kansas Indian Territory and Texas fields.
Wishita wheelmen plan a protest before a revived Ideyele ordinance vote, with 300 petition signatures to council. Petitions demand religiously neutral changes and oppose separate treatment for Meyuies, while urging sidewalks cleared when streets are impassable. Meanwhile Mr. Conine expands a chicken hatchery with seven incubators and thousands of birds expected to hatch, projecting over nine thousand chickens by summer at his ranch in Port Scott.
Charles Dabbs considers entering show business with a four legged chicken hatched at his home. A proposed Red Men's club sideshow is planned to showcase the unusual fowl as part of a money making effort. The report notes a nearby death and references family members, including the Dandmaater and his wife, in a brief Paris Gazette item.
Leavenworth April 16 A W Williams sheriff of Newton county Indiana visited here in search of Steenberg R Stole. Stole had a fortune of about 20000 awaiting him left by his mother who fed recently. He has been missing for years. Suit to partition the estate was started after his mother's death. The report that Stole was in the federal penitentiary could not be confirmed. The sheriff plans to visit Missouri and then return to Indiana. Stole is 41 years old.
Junction City April 16 Kansas Bankers' association Group Four members attended a banquet at which the next annual meeting location was accepted as Sulira. On Thursday the bankers toured Fort Riley, meeting Colonel E Z Steever and officers who escorted them to post sites. An exhibition of riding and a brief concert by the Fourth Cavalry Band followed at the post riding hall.
The funeral for railroad contractor E Lantry will be held at the Catholic church in Strong City Kansas on Saturday at 1 20 p m with burial in the Catholic cemetery west of town. The firm’s grading outlets including those in San Francisco have halted work until after the funeral.
Abilene Kansas April 15 Lyman Pilea of Solomon a pioneer of Dickinson county died at a hospital in Kansas City Thursday He was one of the wealthiest and most historic figures since 1867 His body will be brought to his home in Solomon for burial Burlington Kansas April 15 Chas us Hace a prominent citizen also noted in this report
Mack Shepard, owner manager of the Bennington Ottawa county telephone, says his exchange serves 364 connections, including 65 in town and multiple farm lines. Farmers pay $1 monthly if they provide poles, and Shepard supplies wire and instruments, noting rapid access to doctors and services during storms and harvest.
The piece describes farmers who converse at all hours, morning and night, using telephones and rail lines to communicate. It notes that the Bennie and a watchword Loard mechanism enables talk across distances, with farm diners relying on a mobile service though some lack air travel.
A damaged report from April 16 notes a vessel incident near a Pacific coast area with a woman said to have sacrificed herself to save others. Injuries are uncertain and recovery prospects are slim due to distant wreck facilities. Also mentions political figure disavowing a role and a separate wreck near Idaho.
A damaged notice reports several injures and a few killed in a railroad incident. A second report claims no one was hurt and the carts remained upright. Witnesses describe responders arriving and a farmer named Joseph Himmecke among the injured near Elm Wood.
Oregon Republicans met in Portland on April 15 selecting four delegates to the Chicago convention and instructing them to back Theodore Roosevelt for president. Roosevelt backers opposed the current administration and some platforms remained unused.
Sliver City April 15 by vote 79 to 7 Hearst named presidential candidate. State Journal reports broad reader support across New Mexico with Hearst achievement noted.
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