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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1900
Page
3
A promotional notice cites The Turn of Life as a trusted remedy for women undergoing a pivotal life change. It claims many grateful users testify to its efficacy and offers free advice from Mrs. Pinkham at her Lydena Mass address.
The Roch Island Railroad undertakes major upgrades costing about 40000 dollars. Six miles of new track for switches are laid south of the river and west of the Kansas river bridge, with a roundhouse ice house and coal chute planned. Embankments rise 95 to 120 feet, and about six miles of switches are already laid as work continues.
Fort Worth April 18 an old newspaper man recalls Nora Pease of Gila Read New Mexico who served as a trainmaster for Southern Pacific for months. The piece notes her precision and the push to replace her with a competent man, while detailing the era’s gender expectations and her career arc in the railroad yard.
The Railway Age criticizes the completion plan linking San Joaquin Valley funds to San Francisco and opposes isolating San Francisco from Southern Pacific. It notes construction near Stockton and Santa Barbara area bonds totaling about 6.4 million, with proceeds used for a broader build. The piece concludes San Francisco residents secured what they desired though still dissatisfied.
Attendees from departments and cards attend the EOCE Island meeting. The discussion centers on sheet work and field profit as the greater portion of tasks are outlined. The focus shifts to easements for roads by week’s end and related undertakings.
Reported in New York on April 18 as investors weigh Rockefeller moves to gain control of Missouri Pacific and potential merger with Texas Pacific and related lines. The Gould system sectors, Vanderbilts, and Wabash securities are noted amid broader railroad desertion and rate discussions for a Des Moines music teachers convention travel plan.
Suffering with fever weeks, workers begin to return as illness wanes. Rivet chip cuts wrist at the machine shop. apprenticeships and tracksmiths report injuries. Firemen reassigned between Emporia and Arkansas City. extra crews from Topeka deployed to raton New Mexico due to stock rush. Yard clerk Louis Bishop resigns for re preserving works. dispatcher Will Timmerm. remains in Chicago awaiting travel clearance.
Fred Badger, formerly of the State Journal and Kansas City Star, has purchased the Neodesha Register and Benedict Courier and will assume control May 2. The leading Wilson county publication is expected to rise in popularity under his management. Badger has prior independent publishing experience in Muscatine and Atchison counties and will join the Kansas City Times in a senior role.
The second annual conference of Catholic colleges in America and Canada opened at St James High School Hall Chicago. Monsignor County rector of Catholic University Washington presided. Delegates from Catholic colleges nationwide discussed uniform freshman entrance standards and elective study systems. Key speakers include Rev James Burns Notre Dame and Rev M Dewkins Creighton University Omaha with others delivering addresses.
The Presbyterian leadership and laity wrestle with the Westminster Confession amid withdrawal of many ministers. Dr Parkhurst argues a heart centered Christianity and cautions against revising the confession, urging a simple plain statement of core Christian truths. Dr Wylie cautions against inflammatory statements and supports temperate discussion while allowing subscription to the essential substance of faith.
A letter from Cuba recounts scenes with General Funston and the Cuban war. It describes meals in a Cuban home, visits to sugar plantations, and talks with Colonel Portanty and Captain Wral of the regiment. The letter notes Funston’s leadership during the war and visits to San Luis and the Peints third Kansas site.
A court case resolves in favor of Madison Bank against Morton Albaugh as receiver of the First National Bank of Emporia. Dispute centered on a $17,000 deposit difference from the First National of Emporia. Judge Hook ruled Madison credited with $37,000 instead of $50,000, affecting the bank’s claim and financial exposure.
Governor Rowland bans the book at the Soldiers Home amid a dispute over a canteen. Butler, now in Topeka, pushes his anti liquor title across Kansas, sending copies to Wichita and beyond.
Republican editors meeting on April 1 discussed business matters of interest to the craft. Officers were elected, with W. Oy of Patines Laster as president and other officers named in the public notice.
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