Big Chicken Show lint of prizes arranged
A local event features a chicken show where prizes have already been lined up and organized. Organizers confirm multiple prize categories and sponsors, with judging and seating details to follow.
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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1903
Page
8
A local event features a chicken show where prizes have already been lined up and organized. Organizers confirm multiple prize categories and sponsors, with judging and seating details to follow.
The Kansas State Poultry Show at Tapeka September 14 will be larger than any prior Kansas exhibit. A new plan under the exhibition committee promises expanded classes, larger entries, and better prizes including numerous premiums for different breeds. Exhibitors are urged to submit birds with proper documentation and to follow the superintendent’s rules for entry.
Tokyo and Victoria report a Japanese cabinet reshuffle elevating Marquis Ito to a key post. Count Mutuelents and Marquis Yemigata become privy councilors as Mikado confers appointments. Analysts see the changes as a deliberate domestic crisis aimed at averting imminent conflict.
Governor Odell of New York and his party arrive in Denver on a pleasure trip. They tour the capitol, greet Governor Peabody and officials, attend a levee for Gen. Greene, and meet Gen. Irving Hale and former Philippines officers. The afternoon includes a carriage drive as Odell plans to sail back to New York on the Burlington route.
Mrs Ketcham wife of a Twenty first New York district congressman was badly hurt when a thief attacked her in her apartment returning from a shopping trip. The assailant escaped with some money and jewelry. The incident followed a later report of Italians and others clashing at Buffalo Union Furnace plant with forty five Italians arrested.
Mrs Walter Smith and Mrs Davis hosted five table card party at the Smith home with guests including Mr and Mrs Albert Meldar Stra Clarence Bow man and several Norton and Mobter families. A later report notes Myra Penny and Harry Latimer wed at relatives home on Woodland Avenue Kan sas City with Rev Frank In Bowen officiating. A wide circle of Topeka visitors and social events are listed, including camping plans, entertainers, and travels to Colorado California and St Louis.
Denver confronts agitator tension as Citizens Alliance plans a meeting to oust alleged agitators amid Idaho Springs style unrest. Printers union denounces alliance tactics as dangerous and anarchistic. President Craig defends actions and calls police to enforce law against armed participants. Sheriff Sandberg pledges impartial law and order in Clear Creek county.
New York dated Aug 2 Albert J Fisk his wife and baby and friend David W Ellis narrowly escaped death when their automobile collided with a motor car on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit road. The vehicle overturned and occupants were buried by debris but none were seriously injured.
In response to the king of Portugal drinking the president’s health and praising the American navy on the Brooklyn at Lisbon, President Roosevelt sent cordial cables exchanging goodwill. The president and his family spent a quiet day aboard the yacht in Oyster Bay.
New York dispatch reports Count Tolstoi writes on the decline of liberty under all governments. He argues that enforcement of law is central to autocratic and revolutionary systems and that modern tech advances strengthen states, making forceful revolutions unlikely. The Doukhoebors are cited as moral models, with liberty linked to individual duty and religious ideals. Additionally, news briefs cover a Brooklyn patient’s appendicitis operation revealing a hundred cherry pits, Major James McLaughlin seeking signatures to open 416,000 acres in Gregory county, and Helen Gould's offer to arbitrate the Molybdenum paper strike affecting 4,107 workers.
Saturday night gathering in North Topeka attracted about ten people. They discussed stopping criticism and pushing work on North Topeka projects. President Hanley authorized two new committees to secure funding and coordinate with the city council for future action.
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