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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1902
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR of Topeka State Journal shows garbled names and phrases. It mentions a week, possible parking or suburban reference, and scattered street or office addresses. No clear events, dates, or actions are readable enough to confirm.
The article critiques congressional debate and voting patterns amid calls for restraint and policy focus. It notes Henry Mew’s Weekly Financial Review on spring trade prospects, forecasting improved earnings, weather-related crop disruptions, credit conditions, and a likely export trade uptick. Market outlook remains cautious with anticipated recovery and potential active trading in coming weeks.
A reader notes that UNCLE SAM'S PICTURE BOOK offers engaging pages from the Statistical Abstract at the Colted Braxton. The critique highlights maps and tables on U.S. grass area, population rankings, state shifts since 1800, national debt, interest per capita, savings banks, and New York Clearing House transfers, with June 1900 date references.
A single table presents the history of United States foreign commerce from IMM to 2990. It notes that in 1800 imports were 91 millions and exports 71 millions, with imports exceeding exports by 29 millions. In 1801 imports were 25 millions and exports 1.457 millions, with exports 6.4 millions higher than imports. In 1901 imports were nine times 1800 and exports twice as large. The article highlights growth by category, showing food_articles forming 11 percent of imports and 8? percent of exports in 1800, and 55 percent of imports in 1901 made of finished manufactures, with crude materials rising from 22 percent in 1686 to 26 percent in 19. The piece emphasizes manufacturers increasing importation of raw materials for manufacturing while other classes see a decline in imports.
A fragment from the Atchison Globe discusses social chatter and local fashion. It mentions girls from Atchison planning to go to St Joe and Topeka, and hints at Alice Roosevelt's dress coverage. The piece blends humorous asides with community observations on behavior and attire.
A collection of pointed, humorous lines on love, fate, and social quirks. The voice riffs on women aging, failing romances, neighborly gossip, work, and a one armed wood chopper named James Carlyle of Oak Site, Texas, who is praised as a skilled cutter and hunter.
A fragmented page presents a sequence of quip lines and social asides. It mixes satirical snippets from a column of witty remarks attributed to various personas, including Cynicus and Poeticus, alongside stray dialogue about manners, finances, and everyday life. The garbled text hints at a periodical humor feature with brief, pithy exchanges and character sketches.
Fragmentary satirical reflections on courtship and mothers, with garbled phrases about men and dating. Disjointed lines hint at advice and missteps in love, featuring odd spellings and cut texts that imply a humorous social critique of courtship norms.
Philander Tucker, a veteran of the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin volunteers, recounts his hard life and violent swearing before conversion. He narrates a pivotal 1877 harvest-time accident that led him to accept the Lord, prompting Mrs. Tucker to recount his honesty and temperance after reform. The story ends with Tucker praising his conversion during a Cook County setting, Chicago Herald-Record noting the scene.
The Paterson New Jersey mayor declined aid from a Kansas fund for India famine relief and returned 381.36 to Governor Stanley, saying the local Paterson Relief Fund should be used locally. He thanked donors but emphasized Paterson must handle its own distress.
Washington reports a circuit court decree ordering sale of a five acre tract on which Kate Field had placed the John Brown fort to satisfy a debt of 1116 due to Alexander Murphy. The fort once stood in Harper's Ferry, was moved to Chicago for the World’s Fair, then relocated to a hilltop park.
At the Daughters of the American Revolution convention in Washington on February 18 delegates debated proposed constitutional amendments. Only two of seventeen submitted had been disposed of yet, as discussions heated over changes to representation and a new amendment by Janet Richards of this city. The committee on reduction of representation reported a split view among state regents, with a majority favoring chapter representation and a minority favoring ratio representation.
Lissie Recart died suddenly last night at 7 at the European restaurant located at Seventh and Quincy street. Coroner Hogeboom conducts the investigation amid suspicions of foul play.
In Kansas City last night a gathering of prominent Republicans moved to organize a Mark Hanna club with the aim of promoting Senator for president in 1964. The organizers transformed the old James G. Blaine club, a key force in northern Missouri politics, into the new movement.
Edward C. Macfarlane of G. W. Macfarlane & Co. Honolulu died in Chicago at the Auditorium Hotel on February 18 while on a wedding trip with his bride who returns to California with his body. Pleuro-pneumonia struck after arrival. burial planned in Honolulu after services in California.
Chicago February eighteenth sees seventy five Ade bates of the Recon Manufacturers association of the United States and ada hold discussions likely to push broom prices up at least ten percent. The group, representing most broom output, convened to authorize a price rise driven by higher broom production costs. Officers present include William S. Lanse of Pittsburgh as president and Clinton R. Lee of Lincoln, Nebraska as vice president.
Government moves to reduce unemployment by authorizing jute railways to hire workers for Swedish workshops, subject to parliament approval. Other state bodies urged to seek work for jobless. a separate notice records Louis J. Seheric named receiver for the Washington Co-operative Bank in Newark, with department backing.
Fragmented OCR text references a reader’s praise for a beauty regimen and products like creams and powders. Mentions B D Reynolds of Mansfield and Bromehille cough relief items, with garbled phrases about a house and cold remedies.
A jumble of cooking instructions for cookies, beef tea, salmon salad, cream of chicken soup, and nut desserts, with kitchen tips and a public transit timetable note. The piece includes nut cookie mix, salmon salad layering, beef tea method, cream of chicken soup steps, and a February service update for Garden Park West Eighth and related lines from The Opera Railway Co.
Fragmentary OCR listing Bucklen Arnica Salve benefits and uses. Mentions pain relief for cuts bruises and boils with unclear phrasing and multiple garbled words. References to baskets and numbers appear stray.
A Newark News fragment discusses superstitions around the ides of March and a modern version tied to the 20th to the 1st of each month. Dr. Macleod cites statistics from railroad and industrial records, Coroner’s office data, and hospital records showing injuries peaking in the “fatal” period. The piece notes Saturdays and Mondays as high risk, links accidents to wage days and intemperance, and cites Prof. K A McQueen on Theosophy and Brahmin beliefs about temple rites and Eden’s temptations.
Washington dispatch reports Mr Wheeler, the representative, reading endorsements from his recent speech and defending his positions. The piece notes criticism of Secretary of State War and allegations about German policy, with Wheeler asserting support from letters and telegrams backing his stance.
An unclear clipping mentions Barcejena and a sequence referencing a “Java tumbler” and buried artifacts. It notes people such as Naik, Baty, Rigalee, and Terelal with scattered phrases about a capone cagienln and a Specter at an address in Athens. The text is fragmented and unreadable in key places.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Fort Scott and Beturg De the February 1k to 1 inetuniey with unclear references to AF AM and a person named Bretie How. No coherent event, date, or identifiable organizations are discernible.
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