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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1903
Page
2
Distressed households face ruin as floodwaters inundate Lawrence area farms. A family with multiple children lost a member to fever while others struggle to recover crops and property. Neighbors aid efforts as the community units work to salvage what remains and ease winter hardships.
W H Burns, well known Santa Fe conductor, died suddenly in Wichita Ester. Cause not clear due to damaged text. Obituary mentions his service at Brights, and notes about his stature among local engineers. The piece reflects a long career and the community’s regard for Burns.
Kansas City reports mayor Gilbert testified before the Wyandotte grand jury about paving contracts in which contractors charged high prices. He indicated possible corruption links but provided few specifics. The atmosphere suggested opening revelations, though testimony largely touched on contractor overcharges and contract practices.
New York reports four star players from the coast league are bound to Brooklyn. A Lawley center fielder from Seattle, Frank Dillon second baseman from Los Angeles, Phil Nadeau and De Van Buren left and right fields from Portland, with Dill formerly with St Louis. The coast league contract terms keep the deal from being finalized in the west.
A testimonial from Ernest B. at Morris Plains State Hospital, New Jersey, praising Dr Coach Syrup for curing croup and bronchial trouble after a few doses and claiming it saved a family for years. The note mentions reliance on the syrup and a long history at the hospital.
distorted text appears to warn about avoiding substitutes and mentions Dr Roe and Pat Fleming in a health guidance note. aims to steer readers toward proper remedies and cautions against questionable products or dealers.
A long jumble of items notes the Harmon D. Wilson book arriving at local stores, a Missouri Pacific crate of hats at a drug firm, Washburn quartet recital, and a range of civic and real estate updates. Also covered are a Topeka streetcar line issue, a depot fire near Walter, Okla, and talks on railroad bonuses and local municipal contracts.
In Georgetown Colorado the examination of veniremen resumed to form a jury for the trial of fourteen Union miners charged with complicity in blowing up the Sun and Moon mine transformer house at Idaho Springs last July, killing Pallip. Defendants include I C Copley of the Western Federation of Miners executive board. Additional accused accomplices include J B Chandler, an Idaho Springs Miners union officer detained in Los Angeles. The state plans to show the explosion was organized by an inner circle of the union with several members expected to testify.
New York report shows Alpheus D. Dubois left a fortune of up to half a million dollars in probate. He hid a daughter by a wife long separated, with the woman believed from a prominent local family. The former principal lived frugally, sometimes in a single room, suggesting modest means before wealth.
M J O Shaughnessy, claiming kin to the president of the Canadian Pacific railroad, asks police for protection and a divorce alleging his wife named as a clairvoyant witch slowly poisons his life with magical charms. He reports seven lov ers living nearby but says none received divorce votes. He recently moved from Hays City Kansas.
Dr George A Soper investigates the Butler Pennsylvania typhoid outbreak saying the citys water supply from surface sources was unsafely filtered and urging urgent funds to aid the sick and destitute. He calls the epidemic among the most severe in recent memory.
The Colorado Supreme Court was asked to decide if Governor Peabody's martial law declaration and suspension of habeas corpus in Teller county are legal. The case concerns Victor Poole, held at Camp Goldfield Cripple Creek with no criminal charges, after District Judge Reeds ordered release via habeas corpus.
Chicago society hosted the annual charity ball at the Auditorium on December 16 raising $20,000 for an annex to St. Luke's hospital. The first court costume ball drew 2,000 society members, with seven double sets forming the court quadrille and a grand audience in boxes and balconies. A separate note reports the Scotia auxiliary screw steamer arriving in Buenos Ayres after a voyage from Clyde on November 23 1902 bound for the Antarctic region.
Christmas donations for the Crittenton Home are requested to be left plainly marked at the Shawnee grocery on East Sixth. J. B. Nissley serves as president and Abram Wyman as secretary.
Boston researchers at Harvard Medical School report Dr F F Mallory detailing skin lesions in four scarlet fever deaths resembling protozoan development. He contrasts with malaria life cycles, noting rosette forming bodies in skin and tongue cells, not blood, and questions sexual development in the organism. Santos Dumont plans to travel to St Louis in two weeks to arrange metallation of a large airborne craft and related equipment.
An advertisement touts Liquogene as liquid oxygen by Pauli that floods the blood with excess oxygen and a germicide, claiming to kill all germs in the body. It offers $1,000 for a disease germ it cannot kill, asserting oxygen’s vitality while alleging germ destruction across the bloodstream.
The firm states a $100,000 investment for American rights to Liquosone, tested over two years in physicians and hospitals across nations. It touts efficacy against germs without internal poisoning, claims vast cost and expert chemist involvement, and asserts wide medical recognition and use by top physicians and hospitals.
A historical ad claims inside germs cause all illness and says Liquatod kills germs anywhere, ending the trouble. It asserts nature sometimes cures but results are uncertain and promises an absolute guarantee to every patient who asks. The list includes hay fever, kidney diseases, sinus issues, heart troubles, throat and eye problems, and contagious throat troubles.
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