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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1904
Page
6
North Topeka news item notes business changes and social visits including Herbert French of Newton in Topeka, Sadie Staith return from a unit, and local movements among families and businesses. Reports mention sidewalk brick issues after floods, church property concerns over pavement bricks, and formation of relief and community actions.
In a brief court appearance Judge Hazen ordered bail set at thirty days for the defendant Miss Boise Up and fixed a separate bond at $100. The decision followed standard arraignment procedures with no additional charges noted.
Blanche Boles, in county jail, faces a two day sentence and a $100 fine for the February 14 1908 window smashing linked to unlawful joints. She argues no malice and cites constitutional law while awaiting Hazen's ruling and continues to protest her confinement.
A Ways and Means committee announced a February 15 hearing on the Auditerhim pipe organ in public notice. Twenty-two invited groups waited from 8 until 9 with no committee present, learning only that the meeting was postponed due to Dr. Ryder’s illness. The prank left health, electric light, East Eighth Avenue taxpayers, and pipe organ representatives waiting in vain for a committee that never convened.
At a Topeka Baseball Association meeting several new directors were selected including Holliday Sheard Kercher Waters McManus Hungate Osborn Iagie Moore Goddard Nibos Laxit Purcell Gelley Kilngamen Johnson Ruff Monshan Stansfeld Anderson Grimes Cole. A fresh meeting is set for next Monday at the Commercial Club to review finances as Treasurer Ward pushes funds for the season. The movement gains support while the Topeka Railway delays announcing a site for the new baseball inc which has agreed to furnish water. F G Kelly expects a decision in a few days.
R F Criswell, estate agent of the North British and Mercantile, settled William Schick’s loss yesterday and handed a check for the insured amount via Charles Elliott. Criswell extols his company’s rapid losses payments, citing $2,330,000 in Chicago fires, $10,000 in Boston, $890,000 in St John, and an estimated $1,000,000 for Baltimore, all from Lovidon office funds, bolstering trust in “old Standard” firms ready for contingencies.
Governor Willis Bailey and Mrs Bailey will read the grand march at the auditorium on February 19. Tickets are selling rapidly as the United Commercial Travelers group in Topeka prescreens attendees. The hall will be decorated with U C T colors and palms to suit the event.
A reader letter describes dramatic heart and nerve improvements after using Daine's Celery Compound. Mrs Arnold recounts years of heart disease, palpitations, neuralgia, and weakness improved in months. The testimonial credits the product with restoring vitality and stabilizing the nervous system amid prior collapse.
A screen at the stage front will serve refreshments during the event. Marshall's band is secured for the grand march, and Steinbergs orchestra of sixteen pieces will provide music for the dances.
Topeka hosts a multi lodge Masonic gathering with Royal Arch, Royal and Select Masters, and A F and A M units in session. The Cryptic degree is presented by Zabud council, scenery praised. high priest and roaster degrees planned. Headquarters at Copeland hotel with delegate credentials issued.
New York plans call for a towering office building on the Virginia Hotel site bounded by Grand Circle Broadway Eighth Avenue and Fifty-eighth Street. If built it would be among the world’s tallest, with reports suggesting 32 to 40 stories but recent notes indicating a more limited height due to cost and rentability. The New York American newspaper owns the block and plans an office in the structure, while evaluating the southern expansion and light access for the Virginia hotel site. Sir Tom Hearst backs the feasibility of a large-scale erection, contingent on construction economics.
A bulldog owned by Edgar Cave, a deputy sheriff and Kansas witness in the Dewey murder case, died of grief after his master was absent longer than usual. The dog showed unease whenever Cave was away, and this prolonged absence proved too much for him.
Advertisement notes a $25.00 rate for travel to Santa Fe with tickets on sale during March and April. The offer covers intermediate points and includes a liberal stopover privilege. Details promised by P and T A Toveka.
Fragmented text describes concerns about child health and confidence in medical remedies. It references a series of names and places such as Cham va Conan Hesmony and Pootesville Nit, implying medical claims and a sales context. The readable portion hints at discussing treatment and caution around potions and devices.
Republican voters of Shungagun Fe will caucus at Aghman Hall on Friday afternoon February 19 1904 to nominate delegates for the coming Republican primary. A second Topeka Armory meeting is planned for February 28 1904 at 2 p.m. to elect delegates to the state convention on March 9 1904. Attest John W. Sony.
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