Topeka News Mixes Front-Page Clips and Local Gleanings
Beloit pastor Reverend George M Geisel in the city and Kansas connections recur in a stream of brief items. Reports include legal actions, political hints, court matters, a new bank charter, expositions, railroad notes, and social events featuring Topeka and surrounding towns with varied local names and dates.
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George M. Geisel
Beloit
City
Wrescott
Kansas Clay
Wise Jet
Proper Feeding of the Body with Grape-Nuts
Physicians stress daily need for balanced nutrition and energy rebuilding. The article extols Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food for its digestible preparation, rich proteins, minerals, and soluble carbohydrates, claiming it supports brain and nerve vitality and daily energy.
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Ntemoarks
Seeeen Sea
Ley
Notable Resort Visitors and Local Promoters Reported
The piece lists visitors including Frank Glenn and Clyde Alien among others and mentions Topeka stockman EB Beginell and financier Bennett. It cites Kansas shale promoter schemes, noting Professor Fabug’s report that Trego shale lacks gold viability and a plan to issue paper money against shale gold estimates.
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Frank Glenn
Clyde Alien
Bert Sutton
Carl Johnston
Pintesie Morton
Harriet Hemmings
Mise Ethel Davies
Octavia Greenwood
EB. Beginell
Topeka
Glen Hider
Bennett
Kansas City Journal
Kansas Shale
Fabug
Philadephia
Trego
Hancock Brings Manila Casualties and Soldiers Home
The Hancock arrived from Manila with 00 soldiers including casuals and sick and discharged. Among the passengers were Congressmen Weeks and DeArmond. Two deaths occurred on the Hancock and the twenty seven bodies aboard include sailors and several soldiers who died on the Sheridan and Warren. Lieuts Crockett and Williams were also brought home.
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San Francisco
Cal
Hancock
Manila
Warren
Whch
Sheridan
Nagasaki
Kobe
Hazbork
Weeks
DeArmond
Will C. Harriman
Company K
Third Infantry
Maury
Solon
Elbert EL Manning
Comene I. Eighth Infantry
Denlet Bmain
Sixteenth Infantry
Joy EL Watking
Fifth Infantry
Andrew N. Dentom
Marine Corps
William R- Willis
Arifiery
William P. Good
Twentieth Infantry
James A. Hilbourne
Forty-fifth Infantry
Frederick Jones
Sixth
D. Freeman
Twenty First Infantry
Lieut
AT. Crockett
Tlieut
Jame C. Williams
Ducks stolen in wholesale raid near Atchison
A wholesale raid near Atchison took about 400 ducks from farmers north of town. Among the named losers are Ben Curtis, Mike Langan, Frank Meoy, Henry Crawfort, Henry Franklin and J Myers. The thieves reportedly rounded up the birds by necks and fled.
Girl From Dodge In Topeka Play Cast Prompts Debate
A Dodge City born actress, Grace Whitworth, stars in Sporting Life at Topeka with Nora Cavanaugh and Olive de Curteet roles noted. Report highlights Whitworth’s training in New York, mixed audience reception, and the play’s uneven staging as horses perform on a cramped set.
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Kansas
Sporting Life
Wald
Jerisie
Rave Whitworth
Nora Cavanaugh
Sra H_ Whitworth
Doder City
Aus Whitworth
New York
American Academy ” of _Dramatic Arts
Tha ‘Empire Theater
Frohmans
Miss Whiteworth
Jule Shirlowe
Afixa Whitworth
Olive de Curteet
Lillian Lamson
Lord Woodstock
Jt All
Nora Cavannagh
Grace Whitworth
Dyspepsia Cure Promises Quick Relief and Health
An advertisement extolls Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a complete digestive aid, explaining digestion and indigestion causes, and citing testimonials from Mrs. Julia Hursh and others. It claims the product digests all foods, restores digestive strength, purifies blood, and cures dyspepsia after other medicines fail.
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Julia Hursh
Butte Des Morts
Wis
Geo. R. Colbath
Alpena, Mich
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Endorsed by Patients and Dealers
This fragment records testimonials about Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. A sworn statement from June 13 1901 by Geo EB Collins notes a sale and personal use claim. Letters from Corydon Junction Indiana and Meredith report long term indigestion relief after using three bottles.
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HesTtourn
Luke J. Colltan
Geo. EB. Collins
Jno
Isterling
Corydon Junction
Ind
Carnegie Plans Charity For Aged Telegraphers
Carnegie may donate a large sum to aid aged telegraphers in the region. Proposals include a combined club and hospital, a general pension fund, and the Arcadia idea in New Jersey. A town with homes sold near 2000 dollars each, rents set at sixteen dollars monthly, with interest supporting the fund. Libraries and co op stores would serve telegraphers at cost.
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Carnegie
New York
Dev
Andrew Carnegie
Leeland
American
Pittsburg
General Fund
Dun's index signals record high prices since sixties
Dun's index to be issued December 7 shows December 1 year prices for common supplies would cost 0.137 and totals for similar articles reach 7245 on July 7 1907 and 141.75 on January 1 1880. Prices now at peak in many years due to newer manufacturing and distribution methods and expanded agricultural operations with labor saving machinery.
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New York
Bucklin Considers Term Limits After Three Legislatures
J A Bricklin of Thomas County says he will not seek a fourth term in the legislature. He notes many voters in the People’s party are returning to long office and argues the job has social limits. Bucklin opposes merging the Populist party into the Democrats, predicting a delegate convention will decide party action and urging bullpen unity with the rank and file.
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J. A. Bricklin
Thomas County
Gantegataet
Drew
People’s Party
Tan
Bucktin
Tragic Tree Top Death In Detroit Area
A tragic self inflicted death is reported in Detroit as Nelson Culver climbed a tall tamarack in Hamilton. During a moment of insanity he fired a revolver and killed himself after friends gathered at the base to rescue him. His body remained suspended in the tree as officials and onlookers watched.
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Detroit
Holland
Mitch
Nelson Culver
Hamiton
Wood backs Cuban reciprocity for stability and prosperity
General Leonard Wood, military governor of Cuba, told U S senators at the Capitol that some reciprocity on Cuban sugar and tobacco is essential for stability and prosperity. He defended U S influence in Cuban affairs and downplayed reports favoring Estrada Palma, saying care is taken to avoid overestimating influence.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Cuba
Gonzalez Quesada
Capitol
Wood
United States
Havana
Maso
Estrada Palma
Weeks Finds Aguinaldo Cunning Not Clever in Manila View
Congressman Edgar Weeks of Michigan, fresh from Manila aboard the Hancock, says his meeting with Aguinaldo was brief. Weeks calls Aguinaldo not intelligent, but cunning, and predicts he will be kept from escaping. He notes military opinion that Aguinaldo is a dead slave no longer a threat to the United States.
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San Francisco
Dec
Edgar Weeks
Michigan
Manila
Hancock
Philippines
Aguinaldo
Generi
Menges
United States
Grier Lunn
Vassar
Sulu
Governor Stanley Faces Obstacle Over McKinley Monument Plan
Kansas efforts to fund the McKinley Memorial are disrupted by Ryerson Ritchie of Cleveland who secretly seeks Kansas donations through postmasters. Governor Stanley warned that too many cooks risk wrecking the project and has pressed for unified leadership while courting schoolchildren to back a January 25 commemoration.
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Ryerson Ritchie
McKinley
McKinley Memorial Monument Fund
Kansas
Cleveland
Ohio
Stanley
Ritchie
McKinley Monument Association
Kanasas
Hyerson
McKinsey
Kitchle
McPherson Man Hopes for Quick Revenue Post
J M Simpson of McPherson travels to Topeka as prospect of his speedy appointment as internal revenue collector for Kinwin grows. He declines to discuss plans but expects to assume duties from M W Sutton on January 1 if the appointment comes promptly. Daniel Mundy of Linwood, deputy for the First district, expects to be retained by Mr Mundy remains in place.
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J. M. Simpson
McPherson
Internal Revenue
Kinwin
Topeka
Ionald
M. W. Sutton
Daniel Mundy
Linwood
Flrat
Kansas City President Seeks Aid for Boers in Camps
Springfield Dec 5 Governor Yates issues proclamation appealing to charitable citizens of Miners for honey medicine food and clothing for distressed Boer women children and noncombatants confined in military camps in South Africa urging aid for the sick and needy prisoners.
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Springfield
Yates
South Africa
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