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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1903
Page
12
The report surveys historical brick paving in several towns, noting costs per square yard for brick on sand or gravel beds, cushion layers, and mixed materials. It cites data from Lawrence, Leavenworth, and Wichita, detailing conditions, maintenance, and variances in durability and renewal needs.
A garbled account from a 19th or early 20th century piece extols Postum Coffee as a restorative for a frail infant and as a safe nutritive drink for a college president family. It claims the baby thrived after use, urging others to try this cereal-based beverage as a healthful beverage and medicine substitute.
A Kansas city report details Topeka street paving costs and materials from 1596 to 1900. It notes natural lake asphalt, brick, cedar block, Colorado sandstone, and limestone blocks, with total pavement cost around $1,700,000 for 740,000 square yards, plus maintenance over time. It compares brick favorably for cost and upkeep versus asphalt and cedar, and discusses foundation differences and recent street restorations on Sixth Avenue East.
Secretary of War Elihu Root writes to Senator Platt addressing the Wood case inquiry by the Senate Military Affairs Committee. He urges printing itemized receipts and expenditures to counter charges about misaccounting of revenues on the island and requests concurrent resolution passage. The piece notes related corporate admissions and a Lamar sugar factory plan in Colorado.
The state charter board has granted charters to The Belleville Independent Telephone Company of Belleville with capital listed, and Souths Oil Gas and Drilling Company. The items indicate newly formed utilities and energy ventures receiving official corporate status.
Levi Perham, 19, testifies in court that he aided Mrs. Mary H. Rogers to murder her husband for a $500 life policy to furnish a home for Perham. Rogers lured the husband to a riverbank, tied him, and after failed chloroform drowning, killed him. Perham describes a planned drowning note signed by the husband.
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