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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1901
Page
2
An old time medical advertisement touts Root Seacap Root and a Dr Moline C2 offer. It claims rapid cure for backache kidney and bladder troubles, with a free sample bottle and a health book upon request. Readers are urged to mention the newspaper.
Sporting note using a stopwatch measures speed from plate to first base in a Pirates vs Reds game. Beaumont of Cincinnati Pirates posts a 3.0 second 90 foot sprint, fastest among listed players. Geiger and others show slower times while watching for swing impact. Beckley Crawford Hahn not timed due to grounders, Davie untimed from home to first.
New York reports the August Buffalo events during the second week of the athletic cycle carnival. Race plans include a record attempt on a specially constructed mile track and a potential reappearance of Zim as the feature. The piece notes growing interest in tandem cycle racing and a historic record last year at Woolslle Park.
The fragment references an unparalleled career by a rider named Zinmieran and notes a claim about three years in succession. It mentions a country or Europe context and hints at a historic achievement unmatched by others. The readable portions are fragmented and unclear.
A baseball game tonight at Twelfth Street Park Chester pitting Chester club against Tammquins under fifty arc lamps. The ball will be white throughout to keep it visible and the match billed as the first of its kind ever attempted.
In Syracuse on Aug 6 Major Taylor the noted colored cyclist engaged an attorney to sue proprietor French of the Vanderbilt hotel for 19000 dollars alleging refusals of accommodation. Taylor entered the hotel to write a letter but was not registered and faced threats to leave. He moved to the Yates, then found lodging at the St Cloud after the incident.
Paris Aur 5 Tod clean will take off in the Buffalo Erie auto race with Sloan, a powder trainee of Fournier winner of the Puria Berlin race, training daily with Moors machine. Fournier and Sloan will sail mid August. Charron and de Dion tied to Panhard Levasor concerns.
A garbled report references a crime in Guthrie and a suspect named in Salina. It mentions a man charged after a ten year old incident and notes Sheriff Jaessot of Lincoln County, Kansas, handling the transfer to a local contact. The fragmentary text also includes sports and publication mentions.
A 23 year old man, using a false name likely B J Harding of St Louis, committed suicide at the Hamilton hotel in Wichita. He tore off identifying marks and left an unsigned note requesting his body be kept for three days, with a cryptic reference to inner scriptures. Authorities report the incident as a self inflicted death amid personal crisis.
A Kansas trio of widows respond to village gossip and rumors about remarriage. Lydia Peach of Alton says she will marry on her own terms. Efingham widow A Connelly laments intrusion, promising to marry when ready. Russell widow Emily Frier seeks a sober, industrious suitor. Story notes local reactions and a brief insurance loss figure from Winfield.
A mass meeting of Liberal Minded Citizens is set for Convention Hall to protest Civic Purity league efforts against enforcing the prohibitory law. State action may push Rev. Mr Frazer, a State Temperance Union agent, to leave the city. Two colored men James Tall and Richard Alton remain jailed on $800 bond for grand larceny after stealing and selling a hog back to its owner. Kensington will celebrate its fourteenth anniversary with a larger Beale event this year.
An article notes games between a Kansas City team and a top northwest Kansas rival with track races and purses in August. It also reports fishing law violations near Argentia with arrests for using nets on the Kaw River. Additionally a Springfield pickup brings in Joe Agden from Missouri, charged with highway robbery in Blue Mound, while Franklin suspects murder. Rev William N Bluie and his wife sail to San Francisco to head to Asia.
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