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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1897
Page
2
The Wheat War unfolds as Armour and Leiter battle for control of Chicago grain. Ships, warehouses, and vast stocks are in play with listings of tonnage, shipments, and canal movements amid a volatile market and eyeing eventual settlement.
In Chicago on December 27 a man earning his first wages since starting work three years earlier pays his wife 373 in November. The next evening he injures his arm at home while his wife, in a dispute over a dress, strikes him and runs from the house. Police report the husband was arrested after his wife claimed he had lost his senses.
The Reutah steamer Lamberts Point bound from Norfolk to Liverpool with cattle cotton grain and ore arrived at St Johns after a late Friday fire in a midship compartment. Fire spread rapidly as steam and water flooded the area. Captain Humphreys steered for port and forty hours passed before help arrived. Fire was hard to control as heat baked the deck and spilled steam froze provisions. Efforts to vent and cool the ship continued while most of the cargo was destroyed or spoiled.
Morton Albaugh reports unity among Baker, Leland, and Peters supporters for Judge Peters amid talk of a new Missouri federal district. Albaugh says President may back the bill after strong encouragement from colleagues, with broad support expected despite some opposition.
Miss Jenake and companions sat for portraits at Max Brawnhore's studio in Aidenport. A dispute over exhibited samples led to destruction of photographs and a near-violent confrontation involving Dunshee and Braunburg. The two gifts were offered as damages.
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr recently donated to Yale University Library a large set of mounted photographs from around the world, including views of India, China, Korea, and Siam, plus a palm leaf Buddhist manuscript in Fall Burmese. Also notes a marriage in Jewell County, and Union Pacific travel ads touting fast service and Pullman cars with contact details.
In Kansas Clay Washington and Riley counties the Brock lands are offered for sugar beet culture. Backed by New York and London capital a beet sugar plant was planned near a central rail junction. Reports from Washington hint at future import of seed from Germany and Prince for experimental planting.
In Chicago a superior court case named Simeon B. Williams trustee of the estate contended Horace E. Rood manager charged a too liberal personal expense account. Riley, aMooster poet friend, reportedly attended theater parties and hotel guests allowed charges. The matter reached court but the parties settled after a conference.
Atlanta December 27 The Southern Fertilizer Association has organized to control the entire guano trade of the country. The group comprises leading fertilizer manufacturers whose combined business runs into hundreds of millions annually. A key decision was to blacklist debtors, with members sharing bad-debtor records to ensure prompt payment.
Salvation Army leader Commander Hoon Tucker announces land negotiations in Arkansas Valley for a new colony with registration books opening in Denver and New York. Demand expected to be high as applications pour in from energetic poorer masses, with Major Bel and others coordinating on Logan Avenue.
Cleveland brewers adopt a temperance façade plan to reduce saloons. When one brewer opens a corner saloon another may follow opposite, prompting a union to remove many establishments. The aim is to shrink the saloon count by at least four hundred and likely more.
The Burlington unveils new wide observation vestibuled trains for all classes traveling to St Louis from Missouri River and Denver. Each car features a wide vestibule, heating by Pintach gas, and standard and compartment sleepers. Similar to the EM to Chicago, the trains reflect Burlington leadership. tickets and folders available through agents. Holiday excursion fares offered by Union Pacific within 200 miles, with selected travel dates through Jan 1.
St Louis December reports suffrage advocate Phoebe Couxins ready to lecture on Cuba and Hawaii after a recent miners’ event. She favors recognizing Cuba’s belligerency but opposes Hawaii’s annexation.
An advertisement claims Charmbertal Cough Remedy prevents pneumonia during cold season. It touts wide use with cure for coughs and colds, notes suitability for weak lungs, and sells at 25 cents per bottle through all druggists. Also advertises No-To-Bac for stopping smoking habit at 50 cents.
The Vanderbilt family faces a collapse of the Biltmore project as the mansion walls sink and the water supply fails. George Vanderbilt, after spending millions on land, farm enterprises, cattle, and a grand palace, leaves for India, selling parts of the estate while the model village and farm projects stall and the water system proves unusable.
W R Beatty, while plowing on his Sciotoville farm, found a buckskin letter aged and faded inside a tree eleven years old. The note, likely from early settlers near the Little Beleron trail, had turned discolored and was hidden beneath new growth, one of the period’s posts or posters of pioneers.
A. D. Climpbell editor of the Hanover Democrat and Gomve Davies, vilitor of the Concordia Kankon, each lose a fee serving their country. They buy a Christmas present and end up purchasing a pair of shoes together. Each takes the better shoe and plans to celebrate. The piece notes Olof Ekberg at 713 Kansas Ave offers a fine line of suiting.
Claims show Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe effective indigestion remedy. Advertises 20 lozenges with digestive acids pepsin bismuth and Golden Seal. Cites 6000 Michigan cures in 1894 and offers free booklet on stomach diseases.
An old column outlines causes of a red nose including indigestion and nasal congestion. It prescribes dietary caution and slow chewing, borax and cologne washes, rose water mixtures, cold creams, and a home lard based cold cream. It warns not to touch nostrils and suggests sniffing rinse with hot water. It also promotes broom bags as a housewarming gift for hard floors.
Advice from Amy EB Hull in Ladies' World promotes a good digestion and liver health as foundations for a clear complexion. It urges daily warm baths, facial washing with soap, gentle cleansing, light cold cream, and occasional warmth with a facial wrap. Regular life, temperance, and moderate activity are described as key beautifiers.
A melodramatic scene unfolds in a dim parlor where a couple discusses fate and romance through astrological readings. A proposal grows as the man kneels and pleads, while a serenade plays softly in the background, ending with a kiss in darkness and a hopeful, final promise.
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