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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1900
Page
3
An old advertisement extols Granola as a delicately sweet, easily digested nutritional food rich in blood-enriching nutrients. It claims Granola, a blend of grain parts, supports nerves and muscles, with a nutty flavor. Also promotes Caramel Cereal as a coffee successor. urges avoiding imitators and mentions Battle Creek Sanitarium foods.
A lengthy discussion on cereals and nitrogenous foods contrasts vegetable and animal sources. It extols grains as the main nourishment, details cooking methods for cereals, and offers several old fashioned recipes for Waffles, potato dishes, and meat entrées.
Ridgely urged Edmiston for Populist national committee chair but helped secure Marion Butler's election. The Kansas delegation backed Edmiston yet Ridgely's testimony and vote aided Butler, amid party maneuvering after the district proxy from Columbia and a tense ballot during the Sioux Falls meeting.
Charles Love 5. 23p vet bet Bryan would be ejected president for $25 in Topeka. Lobdell met A Rt Toe, veteran Democrat in Chese county, on a Kansas City train. Toe offered the wager, paid to J Mack Love, state Democratic central chairman, then Lobdell sold his bet for $20 to a Topeka churchman who requested anonymity.
Word has reached Topeka of the death of The Bill, immigration agent of the Rock Island. He died in Chicago last Sunday. Mr Bill formerly lived in Emporia and was well known. He was a brother-in law of General Passenger Agent John Sebastian.
The Santa Fe has placed a large order with Burney and Smith of Dayton for fourteen dining cars at over 15000 each. The 70 foot cars will feature six wheel trucks electric lighting mahogany interiors and wide vestibules. Deliveries are planned to Chicago to San Francisco service with future conversion of existing diners to chair or parlor cars between Kansas City and Chicago.
The Santa Fe railway reports that January through July receipts and revenues exceed any comparable period in the road’s history. The growth is driven by heavy freight, general merchandise, fruit shipments increasing, with provisioning and livestock also up, signaling sustained expansion despite car shortages.
Ready by December 1 the Eureke Springs to Yellville railroad advances amid heat. 60 miles planned finished by Dec 1 with the line reaching the White River region by May next year, linking zinc and lead districts in Marion and Taney counties. Col Johnson of the surveying corps bases in Yellville, with Philadelphia capital backing the project and Kansans investing in Yellville country property.
Kansas City reports emergency freight rates of 40 cents for 20 000 pound cars and 10 cents for 24 000 pound cars to Texas common Delite will be withdrawn August 31 as peak shipments near the Kaw Valley. Shippers say even with the rate they net only about 2 2 cents per bushel due to higher production costs and crop shortages.
Detectives from the Interstate Commerce Commission are in Chicago and other cities to investigate railroads for violations of the air brake and automatic coupler statute. Officials say secret agents are stationed to ensure strict enforcement of the law.
Rumors say local railroad labor branches pressed the commission over noncompliance with the law. Companies allegedly used cheap devices and worn couplers. The commission aims to refit cars and enforce spirit and letter of the statute, with notices likely to issue to delinquent lines after July.
General Passenger Agent John Sebastian of the Rock Island in Denver reports Colorado travel has surged this season. He cites low rates and heavy advertising as key factors, noting Rock Island excursions will continue and that demand is strongest in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Groves is appointed superintendent of motive power at the Midland, succeeding Geo Hancock. Denver reports Graves elevated to a similar post yesterday in Colorado and Southern to replace Le Humphney, who resigned in June. Groves comes from the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad, where he led motive power. He has a long career within several railroads, rising from shop work to master mechanic roles before joining the Kansas Pacific and later the Denver and Rio Grande divisions.
Albuquerque August 15 H A Mudge general manager and J S Hurley division superintendent of the Santa Fe railway visited Santa Fe to discuss hotel construction new passenger and freight depots and a viaduct across a main street with Mayor Marron and the city council. The proposed improvements would cost nearly 200000. Leavenworth August 15 Thomas Fortune Arthur Tsijp William Putnam and John Hardie Santa Fe trainmen fined 25 each for running trains over crossings without watchmen, case postponed for weeks.
A Salt Lake and Los Angeles railroad crew suffered swelling and irritant reactions after handling tea treated with avenarius tarbolineum. The poison reportedly came from a Portland, Oregon based firm that produced the teas. Proprieties have been asked for an explanation.
In a four hour span from midnight to 4 25 a m Santa Fe dispatched ten stock trains from Emporia and eight from Ottawa for a total of eighteen trains carrying about 280 cars. The stock was bound for markets in Joseph Kansas City and Chicago.
The Santa Fe Railway contracts for 60 new refrigerator cars and telecommunication construction bids. The road reports recursive maintenance plans and a future contract let. Cars will feature standard steel tangs and wires, to support California freight business. Expect heavier shipments from California this winter, prompting increased refrigeration capacity.
President E. P. Ripley and Third Vice President M. Barr of the Santa Fe oversee the surge as tourists begin returning home from Denver on August 15, signaling the travel rebound.
Night reports crowded outgoing trains with extra sleepers on the Burlington, Rock Island and Union Pacific lines. Incoming Rio Grande, Santa Fe and Midland trains bring large mountain crowds. few past travelers transfer eastward. Frank A. Smith to leave Hoekland treasury staff for Topeka and Niagara Falls visit. will join Assistant Treasurer Boggs in new duties. From Emporia, Marty Sunes returns from Colorado trip. Fireman Ira Tolbert of Manchester visiting town. Jones resumes duties in Topeka. Chas. Baker injured in wreck, not John I. The Southeastern limited to Memphis, Birmingham, and Chattanooga, with through service to Birmingham and southern points.
Travel rates offered for a round trip from Denver to Pueblo and Colorado Springs via Santa Fe with tickets on sale August 7. Return valid through late October with stopovers allowed on the outbound. Additional tickets to Tibhets available at the same rate on August 1 and 20, valid to September 20.
Train advertisement details a round trip fare of 14 dollars to Chicago on the Santa Fe line. Mentions annual reunion, travel by fast trains, and departing Chicago with emphasis on leaving and returning.
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