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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1901
Page
12
A condensed history notes pale blood and health improvement through Scott's Emulsion, a white medicine claimed to feed blood and brighten complexions. It targets young girls at school, suggesting pale blood as blood starvation and promising rich, red blood and rosy faces.
Chicago reports Major General Otis releases annual Lakes command summary noting more desertions and crowding in confinement camps. He cites 20 329 persons applied for enlistment this year with 196 payments compared to 75 last year.
The Topeka Athletic Association bowling men will face the Kanana City All Star squad at Charles Stewart rink fielding Stewart Smith Kirkpatrick Goodwin and Funnel. The All Star lineup includes Makpeh Diblick Horse Roeber and Eseon. The 30 frame contest occurs in January with A B and Anaytan of Topeka also entered in the Buffalo tournament for singles.
Reverend Charles M. Sheldon will speak at the Kansas Retail Grocers convention in Topeka in January. His talk titled The Ideal in Business will occur January 2 as the grocers meet during the Midwinter exposition with attendees from many areas.
In Cabul Habib Allah, addressing chiefs at a dur bar, vows to follow his father’s policy to guard Afghanistan from foreign aggression and to block railroads telegraphs European trade and missionary education.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s medicines. It claims a sunny disposition masks illness and praises Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as effective tonics and laxatives. The text emphasizes relief from pain and skin improvement after use.
A brief item notes that members of the Twentieth Hansas Regiment were granted two months leave or duty-related assignment at the capital, with no additional context or dates provided.
Washington reports an interview with Congressman Jackson of the Third district detailing support for federal ownership of telegraphs. He proposes post office offices nationwide with low rates, a 10 to 8 cent range, and bonds funded by taxation or bank deposits. The piece also notes political and literary commentary on figures like Senator Platt and Willam Allen White, plus local Kansas military and university matters.
North Topeka society, Printing Co., and local residents appear in a bustling column. Miss Minnie Doering plans Sunday in Kansas City while Miss Ruth Garters visits Burlington. Mrs Walter Brinker hosts relatives north of town as Miss Lida Bell visits from Kansas City. Maud Stringham of Williamsburg visits Mrs Snodgrass in Topeka and W G Brooke to speak at St Mark's Church on Monday evening. Members advertise bargains at Inver Costler & Post.
The pastor and guests including Mrs E D Small Miss Adele Small Miss Mabel Skinner and others traveled today to the Small ranch Delavan Park Jackson county to remain until the New Year. James Forbes of Silver Lake and Mrs Forbes return from Ohio with tickets and $10 cash for celebration while Mrs Morton and Percy Morton of Webb City hosted friends for the twenty fifth anniversary events. The service featured Miss Oille McNoun Mrs Nicholeon Eve Laver and others with hymns before or during a funeral at Rochester cemetery for Miss My Me and Master Charley Lang.
Elise Pinkham, born January 7, 1708, dies in Millbridge Maine aging well over two centuries broadening the mid coastal region. Her birth predates Maine's separation from Massachusetts by about a quarter century, marking her as a remarkably early settler in the area.
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