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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1901
Page
6
A sales notice touts Pyramid Pile Cure as the sole non surgical remedy for piles with instant relief and permanent cure. It claims quick, daily-activity friendly results, priced at 50 cents per package from the Pyramid Co of Marshall, with testimonials and a transportable catalog.
Chicago April 27 reports reveal a new pastomime method in public schools. Forty language lesson sets use pantomime to teach words like hop skip and jump with cadet teachers guiding pupils through actions, aiming to link words with gestures and spoken language to foster reading and speaking skills.
A report describes a shift in instruction from memorizing letters to decoding words. New charts outline a four period course, teaching phonetics and mimicry of sounds to help pupils begin the path to reading mastery.
A plowman near Milton, Dillsboro, Indiana, unearthed a stone relic believed to be an Indian artifact. The 15 inch long stone shows one end and side smooth, the opposite ends rough, with a surface resembling hard clay or hide. Locals recall a similar stone found sixty years ago near Wilton.
At a meeting today General Manager Seemanson of Cleveland and Parker Bros managers of White Star One agreed to hold a race on Monday June 3 from a stakeboat off Chevesland to Buffalo stakeboat. The purse is 1 and Captain J Westcott will officiate if weather allows the event to proceed. The river course is unsafe in rough water but designed for river conditions.
A Kansas newspaper recounts a comic Topeka incident in which a young married woman and her husband sneak onto a train, mistake the conductor, and end up in Manhattan by error. They recover funds and return home, while onlookers note the veteran and child marching in public.
The train for President McKinley’s cross country journey will be a seven car luxury suite. It includes a telegraph room private offices elaborate boudoirs parlors tiled baths dining rooms and an extensive kitchen. One car is reserved for the President and Mrs McKinley.
A Topeka boy, never having visited a theater, attends his first show with his father’s consent. He leaves at intermission thinking the curtain fall ends the show, then returns to finish the play and enjoys it, learning the curtain signals. His father reflects on the experience in a cautionary tale.
April 27 report from Eaton Ohio recounts a series of family tragedies beginning with the death of Mr Victory Taylor and extending through the deaths of a son-in-law engineer John Hobennmack, a widowed daughter’s baby, and a Bellefontaine cousin. The string of misfortunes includes a fatal railroad wreck, a funeral accident injuring Mr Taylor and Mrs Wood, and a horse collapse during a funeral ride.
A Huntington family dispute over the will triggers claims by Mrs. C P Hintinetom and Henry E Huntington. Attorneys report possible estate division and court hearings. Several conferences have occurred with motions and counterclaims, and a settlement appears likely though details remain unsettled.
In London financial circles news from New York in April shows mixed sentiment. Traders note U S stocks and bonds trading with varied results as exchanges respond to shifting interest rates and corporate earnings signals.
The new Catarrh Cure tablets offer complete relief for catarrh, claiming to be a superior, convenient coin treatment. Old salves and nostrums are criticized as greasy and inconvenient, while the tablet form is presented as clean and effective. Drugstores stock Bt Catarrh Tablets at about five cents per full package, with improvements and relief noted after the first tablet.
A fragmented notice lists Burlington Route trains to Omaha and St Joseph, including night and morning services to Nebraska. It names executives R H Crozier L W Wareley and Howard Elliott as general managers, with scattered references to speeds and schedules.
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