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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1898
Page
4
A collage of political commentary and social snapshots. References to Gracitude for oppressed peoples, potential vice presidential rivalries, Cuban and Philippine questions, tariffs, and municipal politics mix with brief notes on Baltimore, Memphis, and Chicago proverbs. The piece surveys public figures, tariffs, trade, and foreign affairs with sharp, opinionated prose.
Dr George H Cassidy plans a supreme court action against Charles Broadway Rouss to recover 100000 damages and seek an injunction to stop further letters against his blindness treatment. Cassidy alleges Rouss aimed to profit from a bogus million-dollar cure offer while keeping Martin in medical limbo for advertising gains.
Kansas report chronicles Anderson Gray, once wealthy Conway Springs farmer, famed for a murder-hypnotism case in Sumner County. After prison release he intends to roam, in striped garb, telling his tale and denouncing the justice system, aided by his daughter.
Regional ad copy extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as America’s greatest medicine for the blood and the best money can buy urging readers to take Hood's only for health.
A longtime public figure in Herndon Kansas, serving 25 years plus one election, was presented a gold headed cane as a memento. In Atwood a prominent citizen of Herndon killed himself with a fifty seven Sharpe life. Coroner Elmore investigated and found two weeks of insanity. George Bell, 15, shot himself while returning from hunting near Leavenworth after slipping and discharging his gun.
Percy Malcom Jaffray Harvard center rush dies in Cambridge rooms from spinal meningitis believed linked to injuries in the Harvard Yale clash of Nov. 18. Team members, including Burnett, note his long career and fatigue after the New Haven game before his collapse. An autopsy is expected to follow.
The cause of death is given as spinal meningitis with doctors deeming it doubtless. No blame falls on the athletic committee or football coaches and trainers who urged Jaffray to take care, though he sometimes ignored advice. He stood 6 feet 5½ inches and weighed over 230 pounds, was 21, and had just been elected chairman of the 1899 class committee, active in Cambridge clubs and popular.
Louize Weiss an 18 year old from Brooklyn died in delirium while praying for her father who had recently passed. Her fiancé and relatives demanded medical help as her brother and August Nesurold urged Dr Theodore Burr to come. the medical aid society had failed to provide timely care despite a six cent weekly fee.
If a history of weak lungs runs in your family, Scott's Emulsion nourishes and invigorates to help resist disease. Even with cough fever and emaciation there remains a strong probability of cure. The oil feeds the body and nerves, glycerine soothes, and hypophosphites empower recovery from dis ease. Scott and Swayne Chemists New York.
A young woman identified as Miss Wells died after a brief illness. Neighbors and family conveyed sorrow as physicians Dr. Burr and Dr. Steffens attended, but she passed away before their arrival. The scene and surrounding concerns reflect a tense household and community response.
Crawford theater presents A Trip to Coontown a laughable musical comedy with Bob Cols Billy Johnson leading. Hobe Cole praised as a top colored comedian with strong supporting acts. Also shows The Carpetbagger and The London Gallery Girls Burlesque with prices from 7 to 25 cents.
Holiday rates via the Genta Fe on December 24, 36, 26, 3 and January 1 and 2 offer tickets to all points within four miles at a single round fare. Final limit January 4. See T. King, assent, or Cromwell and Jeffers, Hors Topeka.
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