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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1901
Page
8
A vintage plea for healthy pregnancy from a women’s health reform piece. It promotes Lydia E Banks Pinkham vegetable compound as a tonic for female debility and infertility and invites readers to write for free advice to Mrs Pinkham.
A pair of 1901 era testimonials praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for infertility and postnatal recovery. Mrs Lucy De Bett of Chicago recounts relief from menstrual and kidney pain and bearing a child after treatment. Mrs Prvmaan from Belwood credits the remedy with surviving repeated miscarriages and delivering a healthy six month old girl. The letters urge readers to seek Mrs Pinkham’s advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
Joint Santa Fe Missouri Pacific inquiry reports the Santa Fe train stopped at the crossing while the Missouri Pacific did not. Santa Fe seeks full liability and heavy damages, with two men killed and others injured. Details of the crash and victims, including Fred Slusser and Roy Reams, are recounted from the report in the State Journal.
In El Paso Texas Dec 2 Mexican coach cleaners employed by the Galveston Harrisburg San Antonio railroad quit work seeking higher wages. All but the foreman G Parras left after demanding more pay for heavier travel and workload. Foreman reported the case to road authorities, demands refused, workers said they could find better pay elsewhere and would not return. Replacements quickly filled by other Mexican workers and service continued.
Railroads announce holiday travel increases with a one and one third fare for most distances west of the Missouri River and for students and teachers. General public tickets run December 24 to January 1 with return by January 2. Special institution certificates allow faculty and student purchases at the higher fare on school closing dates.
Rail officials justify a modest fare increase citing unity among lines and holiday demand. They note most travelers will absorb the small rise, believing economic times are favorable and that fares will still attract passengers beyond last year’s holiday rates.
A moving car toppled a small shack turned shelter for Alexander McNair in a car shop area Monday forenoon. Inside, Jesse Dix and Meredith Shockley fled outside. Shockley escaped unharmed while Dix suffered a slight right shoulder bruise and missed no work. The day’s other notices include railroad labor updates and personnel movements across the Rock Island and related lines, with new appointments and several workers reported on sick leave or returning to duties.
A long list of Topeka rail yard and shop workers are noted for returns from leave, travels, or transfers. Names include engineers, conductors, machinists, and foremen such as Shy, Jacobs, Robinson, Nelson, and Hurley with movements between Chanute Denver Los Angeles and Topeka facilities.
Business activity rises as new Baldwin engines arrive and workers join the plant. Frank White returns after a four week layoff in the blacksmith shop, while Harvey Thomas becomes ticket clerk at the Union Pacific depot. Eight more concreters start at the new machine shop and Bert Stewart, recently hospitalized, departs for Arkansas City with his wife, planning to return early next year. C Swanson starts a brick platform at the Santa Fe depot to improve switching. A new yard will handle dead locomotives and a shift merge doubles crews. Night school at the YMC A offers a free business course with Internation al certificates for finishing students. There is a fatal accident as Fred Austin suffers heart trouble en route to the shops and John Mitchner, Austrian immigrant and longtime rail employee, dies after injuries from a cab incident.
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