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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1900
Page
8
The problem highlights OROTHY’s calculation of Ivory Soap per cake considering time labor and materials. It argues that deducting savings from longer fabric life reduced time spent and energy spent shows ivory as the cheapest soap, as it floats.
Topeka Lodge No. 4 of the National Engineers Association celebrated its first anniversary with a banquet. About seventy five attendees, visitors and engineers families, heard speeches and recitations. refreshments followed. Officers listed include President Wiegasociation, Vice President Sumupel B Wilcox, Secretary James Chute, Treasurer Samuel Leachmar. Lodge No. 1 formed a year earlier with twenty six members. the association has since grown, featuring a rising membership.
New York dispatch reports the death of Princess Cantianeerie, daughter of General and Mrs. Pred D. Grant, at the Cun quibanet residence. The article notes General Herbart D. Pierce’s attendance and mentions ongoing arbitration between the United States and Russia over seized fishing vessels in the Bering Sea.
Laura Disney petitions the district court to dissolve marriage with Loren M Disney claiming abandonment since 1885 in Sidney Ta. They have two children and she accuses him of neglect and providing insufficient support.
The Missouri Pacific State Office removal from Conway Springs has begun and will continue as personnel relocate. The action, widely reported, marks a concrete shift with the first wave completed yesterday and remaining staff to follow.
Father Stenmane, stationed with Archbishop Champelle, details peace prospects in the Philippines from Manila. He notes American influence shaping policies and the role of Spaniards under the new conditions, while observers warn that guerrilla warfare has extended the conflict.
The Has Berens will face the insane asylum baseball team this Saturday on the Weglum ground. After the game the Has Beene will be lenitered on to scream social find with Band Vaneert. Names included Clarence Sasitt Charles Barnes Dick Alden Ty Hus Baws and Howgiarh Wher, with the Arvin train in the Wichness having defeated every team brave enough to meet them.
A chaotic scene on Jackson Street erupted as a purported practice war involved horse shoes and local residents including J A Lortie and Charles Casay. Fines ranged around $1 to $9 with bonds set for trial while a district court dispute, G Myers versus H Kennedy, concerns painting work and unpaid balance from November 160.
Jran Halley visits Atchison on business while Lena Stickney suffers appendicitis. A Garfield Park concert is planned and Topeka paving projects progress. Court and legal notices touch on railroad suit and county taxes. local residents travel, marry, or visit Cascade, California, and hunting trips resume.
Efforts are underway to organize a permanent real estate men and realty investors association. City rulers have distributed notices urging brokers and others to attend a convention scheduled in Chicago on August 9 and September 1.
Fire damages Beaver Basin facilities as Hight destroys Shelby Steel Tube works. Reports say the Uttis boat house at Gage Lake, a bathers changing area, has been removed affecting local swimming access. Authorities consider safety and access concerns for a public bathing spot amid a blaze that nearly reached nearby steel works.
Monroe Ohio July family financial tale features Henry Moore and wife Mrs Moore recounting raising sixteen children on 81.30 a day. They describe adopting a baby, two children working, and all insured while贫 facing hardships, with Henry noting frugal shopping and close budgeting to keep the family fed and housed.
Chicago detectives arrest Mr and Mrs Abraham Weinberg on State street after a Kansas City embezzlement case involving a 5000 dollar heirloom diamonds loaned to Ida J Preston widow of Colonel Preston. Detectives traced the pair across cities before a court hearing and bail.
Fond du Lac may claim its oldest citizen is 120 year old Mrs. Josephine Bensat born in Canada in 1786. For the last sixteen years she has lived in Fond du Lac according to verified records. Her vitality is noted in local reports as remarkable.
Bridgeport, Aug. 9. The Union Metallic Cartridge Company works night and day to fill orders from several governments. It handles drag and field artillery ammunition, including items from one to 22 pounds, as the war department places large scale orders through its agents amid mounting global demand.
A Shawnee county judge famed as a wedding device for couples from Kansas City performed the ceremony yesterday for Hezekiah Brodds aged 53 and Mary E Carver aged 52, both of Kansas City, in a high favor marriage rite that allegedly converts two into one. A New Mexico justice has requested the formula used.
At Parkdale Methodist Church a mortgage was burned during a dramatic gathering led by Charles Minear, former pastor. Mrs Cheney, the pastor’s wife and lender, struck the match that ignited the paper, which then went up in flames as the church members applauded and presented her with a silk dress.
An advertisement extols Grape Nuts as a safe digestible food ideal for babies and adults with stomach or bowel issues. It claims the product is heat-processed to activate diastase, aiding digestion without drugs, and supports rapid cell rebuilding in the brain and body. Mrs J F Fishback of Alvin Texas notes her five month old prize baby was fed Grape Nuts.
Detroit reports Page Wire Fence firm placed in receivership with assets exceeding 54 000. Buenos Ayres notes protests on revolution anniversary and arrests of Italian anarchists. Smyrna reports plague cases up to 20. Tombstone hangs halted to Oct 8. Berlin mentions Count von Waldersee to China and Leyds envoy visit. Antwerp notes anarchist placards. London-Paris anarchist movement. Washington ships grain to China. Cowboy suspects in Union Pacific raids released. Calcutta bank discount rate hiked.
G P F Kimball argues the State Journal and Senator Peffer misjudge the expansion era. He critiques reliance on Florida versus Louisiana Purchase, cites seizure of lands, and debates consent of the governed as historical fiction before independence. He notes Native and settler complexities and urges stronger argument.
A Bokaton township farmer, Loren Emmons, near St. Joseph, Michigan, is described as slowly bleeding from multiple sites as a rare purpura hemorrhagica disease progresses. Bleeding spots appeared, spreads across the body, and doctors fear he cannot survive the illness.
In a late winter incident at Muil Cheliville reform school flats a young woman named Nalad was fined for indecent exposure after she and her brother were seen in the Ploya river wearing a costume imitating aquatic life. Spectators gathered as the pair dried and dressed afterwards, and Thomas Rvson pressed charges.
The article promotes Peruna as a universal cure for ailments caused by hot weather and as a substitute for vacations for overworked individuals. It includes testimonials from Captain Percy W. Mose and W. Grier praising Peruna for digestive and catarrhal relief and advertises a free book on summer catarrh from The Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus, Ohio.
In Topeka a civil- era style digest reports the football rules committee chaired by x Waite Camp completes revisions for next season. Changes include ten yard penalties for offside and coaching from the sidelines, a clarified twenty yard rule, and a ban on repeat exploitation of certain plays. The 1918 rules, with four key changes, will govern the season alongside historical provisions. Also noted are unrelated items: a medical advertisement, a new Chicago train schedule, and a note on troops returning from Cuba.
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