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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1903
Page
17
Markets today show cattle largely unchanged with native prices near 3.60 or higher in a volatile session. Hay sales clustered around 4.50 to 4.55 while corn and other staples moved weakly, with May and June futures among the varied price shifts. Traders noted limited demand and sporadic activity across dairy and grain sectors as broad market sentiment cooled.
New York reports focus on Gen. Leonard Wood’s upcoming nomination, with testimony and auditing of accounts linked to his Santiago campaign. Market items cover money, stocks, cotton, butter, oats, and fruits with prices and receipts, including wheat and hogs, amid daily trading chatter and international finance notes.
Fragmentary report from Topeka market notes shows prices paid for butter and tallow with scattered quotations from Boston. The readable text references straw bale sales and the market street area, suggesting a summary of commodity prices and marketplace activity.
A M McDearmott Commission Co reports the passing of Rocina Lie aven Wutlding, connected with stocks grains provisions and investment securities. The firm offers cash or margin sales on United States bonds and specializes in private wire Chicago and Lawrence Torennes City and Topeka legal commercial agencies and ball temptations.
An investigation into freight rates on salt involves Hutchinson Salt Company directors driving a Hutchinson & Arkansas River railroad on paper. Testimony is sought from rail executives, including traffic managers of Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, and Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe roads, with the aim of securing rate concessions from other lines.
In the wake of a newly organized press union, the Trade Council seeks to remove the Union Label from all books and printing offices in the area, signaling a major shift in union influence and labor branding.
Miss Hattie M. Lovell longtime Topeka teacher recounts her experience with Hobart's Yin-Seng Tonic. She describes taking one bottle for a severe ailment last December and recovering enough to order more. Lovell claims the tonic also helped prevent La Grippe and regards it as the best medicine of its kind.
Readable parts describe trials of a medicine with broad claims and notes that neighbors and acquaintances discuss its use. The text mentions accessible people who have tried it and public talk about the product, but specifics are missing.
No other medicine is guaranteed. We simply say to you that if you give Hoparte YinReng Tonle a flr Stomach Trouble Heart Trouble Bleedingness Nervousness or General Debility and it does you more fund your money Soctee will malice ho Poke titer. It Doesn't Cost Much. We sell the regular doltny alee bottles for 20 crtin. If you take three you ther for $126. No other medicine sol am cheaviy.
Fragmentary notice lists The Cut-Rate Drug Store at 500 West Tenth Ave in Hobart and BE Dibble Growers Co at 127 Eastoth? a 64 North Kansas Ave Gren Retwin Station with nickels 3702 Kansas Ave, Cunningham's Eighth and Lake. The garbled text suggests a street directory or advertising column featuring multiple businesses and addresses.
Washington reports a congressional adjournment clash over General Wood. If not adjourned, Wood faces reversion to brigadier general and 167 officers tied to his promotion risk loss of rank and pay. Senate and war department debate recess appointments and the legal limits of presidential commissions.
Minneapolis observer Jas J Hill defends rail rates to China while highlighting a hidden trade flow from Minneapolis to Australia and China via long rail and sea routes. He notes wheat shortages in Minnesota prompt mills to ship to Indian Territory and discusses broader restraint of trade. Kansas penitentiary system bottlenecks trap 400 convicts across multiple state facilities.
Fragmentary report notes coal being shipped to Saylam Conwateria and Qaytum. It mentions 11 seven hundred tons since September, with ongoing demand for state houses, Topeka, and other institutions as cold weather increases needs.
Abilene hosts a Kansas Equal Suffrage Association program on December 8 and 9 at the courthouse. The agenda includes music by Mrs. My Song and Mrs. Sadie P. Stisham, papers by Mrs. Kate Aplington and Dr. Frances Woods, reports from officers, and election of officers with adjournment in the evening.
H A Mudge of the Belt Line cites city refusal to vacate streets in a 27 acre Smith Keating tract as blocking needed extensions. Commercial club panel met city officials with Belt Line engineers to review conditions and plan a conference with Belt Line executives. Mudge is Belt Line president.
New York authorities seize 14 000 Mexican cigars valued up to a quarter each believed hidden in casks aboard the battleship New York on its last Mexican waters run. In Chicago a police raid uncovers a counterfeiters den run by Charles Belknap and wife with a silver foiler lab and 35 bogus dollars confiscated.
In Chicago seven creditors totaling over 10,000 dollars contest Dowie’s insolvency in federal court while seeking to join others in the bankruptcy case. Samuel Dowie’s brother in law claims 200,000 dollars and seeks indemnity against the petitioners. Dowie’s representative plans to challenge the filing and press for delays or dismissal, arguing solvency and urging the court to halt receiver action.
More than 160 of 209 members attended the Rock Island System Surgical association session in Kansas City Missouri ending successfully. Notable speakers included Dr C B Gant Dr L F Crosby Dr H Condit Dr C R Bilverthorne Dr D R Fly and Dr Ellsworth Wilson with George E McCaushin of Chicago absent due to Department duties.
In the New York Botanical Gardens a collection of rare palms was exhibited in the palm house. The tallest, a 50 foot Cocua plummea, was obtained from Central Park catalogs by exchange and planted directly in soil after six days of work. Two Neowastinetonia robusta palms from Greenwich, Conn. were also displayed.
Mrs Iraac Fulton of Irwin Pennsylvania among towns most popular women describes severe anemia and nervous prostration cured by Dr Willers Pink Pills for Pale People. She lost appetite slept poorly and pale but after a week on pills regained color strength and energy, crediting the medicine for her recovery and urging others to try it.
The ruffled grouse is poorly understood and often found in dense thickets or fringes of timber. To stalk one, study line of fire and flight, watch the bird behind cover, and scan tree by tree from limb to trunk. A treed bird seems to sense discovery and may bolt, creating a challenging quarry in open country.
In fractured dialogue a distressed man insists on going out despite warnings about city streets. A companion urges him to stay home as the streets are dangerous, mentioning a wife’s disbelief in sympathy for a sick man and homecare duties. The passage includes garbled OCR snippets about a mine sale notice at the end.
A Dorchester physician Dr James von Dyck is named in a tangled note about a wife accusing her husband of a crime. The document hints at a preexisting plan and references a “well known” figure, with the case framed around a sudden death and the wife’s statements.
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