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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1903
Page
2
A scattered Topeka page notes varied items from street car routes on Jackson Street to church gatherings and school activities. It mentions performances at fairgrounds, a broncho busting show, and changes in Santa Fe operations. Local officials, residents traveling, and civic notices fill the grainy lines.
A fragmented ad touts Dr Miles Ant Pain Pills as a cure for headaches, neuralgia, backache, and rheumatic pains. It claims no opiates or non- addictive ingredients and promises relief from nervous distress after trying many remedies.
Privileges for sale include stands booths and confessions at the Kansas State fair in Topeka on September 14 inclusive. Applications should be made to Secretary Charles 1 Sameon Nagam Dilng. No immoral or objectionable shows and no liquor on grounds. Location details available at the secretary's office 416 Jackson street. Also a testimonial about Dean Ointment and a separate note from Cornwell in Saugerties.
Weekly crop report by Director Jennings notes generally favorable conditions across Kansas with Corn ripening and early varieties safe from frost by early to mid September in eastern counties and late corn by late September to October in northern districts. Harvest of hay, alfalfa and wheat optimism, while drought from flood and dry spells affects specific counties.
A Patton Alabama citizen recalls a violent diarrheal attack that seemed fatal until relief from Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A friend recommended the medicine and after taking three doses the sufferer was cured. The ad-promotes the remedy as a world healer for bowel complaints and claims wide druggist availability.
A collage of terse dispatches: Alice Sample in Bloomington shoots herself. Kilpatrick hanged in the rail yard. a Delaware County execution rarity. restate rumors denied in Madrid. U S Army orders to Philippines. volcanic unrest near Naples. political talk around Rome. Frederick Prevler shot in Brooklyn park. new Missouri Pacific train service from Topeka with connections.
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