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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1902
Page
5
The text surveys a Ramona tale and its author, discussing the book's portrayal of Western California, the rugged landscape, and the people. It notes the author’s depiction of Morality, hospitality, and the social mood, with humorous asides about breakfast menus and domestic scenes.
Fragmentary prose describes the sea’s vast force as a mesmeric spell drawing worship and awe from townsfolk. The text mingles meditation on democracy, science, and religion, likening caves to sea gods and pondering God’s mercy amid stormlit imagery of roaring waves and eternal tides.
Chicago April 18 Miss Sybil Clutton one of five flower girls in a society ceremony inherits a fortune of 1000000 from Huntington Hale who died near Bean Texas twenty years ago. Hale bought land now rich in oil and Miss Clutton plans to provide for her parents and then voyage to Europe for music study.
Santry faults Sullivan with purposeful foul in Apollo Hall match. Referee halted in third round as Santry felled from a clinch. Sullivan alleged to knee groin. Santry carried from ring. Doctor stated injury serious. Santry had dominated before the stumble and exchange.
St Paul April 12 wholesale meat dealers arrested face charges for using borax as a meat preservative. They demurred to the charges, and the case was continued to April 28. Testimony in a related case suggests thorax injuries. the decision is expected before trial. A Golden Wedding celebration is noted in New York. Venezuela and France reach peace protocol. a new French minister to Venezuela is named. City Office lines up with Union Pacific and Santa Fe rail links.
New York reports Sir Micheel Hicks Beach noting a two pence per hundredweight rain duty and five pence on flour will barely affect bread. Bikers and others respond with added penny charges on seats amid flour price rises. Cobden Club plans a Manchester protest at Trade Hall against the tariff. Mining lenders claim imposts total about £5.6 million, far above the chancellor’s estimate.
An across the page fragment references a court date and a refusal to pay. The text mentions timing and names obliquely, with garbled phrases about a case, a raft of unclear actions, and a “refuned to pay” line suggesting a disputed financial matter.
The Topeka team travels to Lawrence for the first in a series of old tournaments. Players slated include Arman, Wyman, Morgan, Takin, Chine, Cordes, and Storey for Topeka and Newson, Copley, Barteldes, Sterling, Fletcher, McClung, Battiow, and Jones for Lawrence.
Feirseth Texas Ayiril 1R B. A Parker president of the Chicago Rock Island Texas and vice president of the island system is now riding over the rate in the proposed extension from Fort Worth to Houston. He says he will arrive in Houston by Sunday. Landowners along Western Kanpar who donated land for experimental irrigation face sale issues and title problems. The law for the establishment of the plants was passed in 1885 but later lawmakers provided for land sale to reversion to the state with no provision for the farmer. One owner sold his land and found no record of the chain of title in state records. Action may be taken to authorize transfers as part of state supervision. Appenilicius stops wedding in New York as tragedy strikes at Rected Heart church. The couple’s groom and best man collapse. the bride and others proceed toward the ceremony before tragedy interrupts. The American Bank in London reports a new fate as the Interson Spontas company begins operations from a dispatch to Bishopsgate station.
Brief telegraphs from New York report a fire at the Woodhouse Chain works causing estimated losses of about $60,000, with 200 workers affected. The plant operated independently of nearby facilities at Point Richmond, California, and 13 April items note other local incidents and visits.
A garbled April note from Todianapelis Indiana reports Herman Boyce, a German crover in Goshen, saved berries for twenty scare causing overaccumulation and a mishap that led to a broken tray. Separately in Jettersen Wisconsin, Wilferd Lanfare and Catherine Lanfare, married fifty years, are noted as divorced with no identified cause.
Chicago April 18 The $4000 left in the treasury of the World’s Columbian Exposition company will be distributed next week among shareholders after the recent favorable ruling. Dividends are estimated at about 4b per share with one share each to most stockholders. The city will receive a portion as well as funds have been tied up by litigation for years.
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