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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1904
Page
4
A broad sales pitch promotes Liquozone with promises of curing germ diseases and saving lives. It touts oxygen as key, cites trials, and offers a free trial via coupon, asserting universal physician adoption and guarantees. It lists numerous diseases claimed to be cured and urges readers to test the product.
A fragmented notice promotes an offer with references to the Liquid Ozone Co and a Chicago address 40 Wabash Ave. The readable parts mention a free Gorbotule and plain writing while suggesting medical supply themes. The rest is unclear due to OCR errors.
Railway workers including shopmen and clerks strike at Alamogordo and points south and west, halting engines and delaying fast trains. Rock Island and connections to the Santa Fe line suffer as the walkout spreads, with sympathy actions and payroll clerks also quitting, disrupting schedules and freight.
Fragmented OCR text references Western actions in Chicago area markets and grain signals. Key entities are unclear. mentions Nebraska, Colcare, and Northwestern connected with unsettled market notes. Summary reflects uncertain content and preserves negligible verifiable facts.
The government awarded railway firms Chicago & Northwestern Union Pacific and Southern Pacific a contract to move all officers and enlisted Marines between Chicago and the Pacific coast for the new fiscal year starting July. Rivalry among western railroads led to a per capita bid around 4.094 dollars, about one cent a mile, with the lowest rate per capitis grouped under a three-rail alliance. The Navy transport between Chicago and the Atlantic coast went to Chesapeake & Ohio and the Big Four lines, based on a two cent per mile party rate. The piece notes the era’s central trunk line influence and its bid dynamics.
Discussion of Goulds future railroad ambitions and abandonment of detours for a Pennsylvania route. Estimates place needed funds across lines including Lake deter, Wiseclinitated Lake, Austio Kosnemha, Missouri Pacific, Western Maryland, and related interests. Credit and involvement of Rockefeller interests noted, with caution on eastern Gould plans amid complex syndicate ties.
The Gould and Rockefeller factions push to extend Missouri Pacific lines and build new shops to anchor the system. John D. Rockefeller backing supports Western Pacific bonds while other majors link to Gould funds. Kansas City remains preferred for a central shop site, with Sedalia and Atchison mentioned in varied proposals. Over a million dollars will fund new facilities comparable to Little Rock shops.
Russell Harding and William Cotter visit Kansas City after touring potential shop sites as Missouri Pacific considers moving from the flood era east bottoms. Harding says no suitable location found. future plans remain undecided with multiple offers reviewed.
Wichita Kan Feb 22 William Powers Satta Fe switchman seriously injured in a yard collision while clinging to a ladder on a freight car. Powers was scraped from the car as it passed the Fairbanks scales and fell beneath the wheels, breaking several ribs and suffering severe injuries likely to sideline him for weeks.
Fort Scott reports a record Frisco coal train with 78 loaded cars hauled by the "Hogs" engines. A line of seven loads reached the city as the heavy freight barely moved over the yard. The train used air brakes and automatic couplings, with frequent drags of winds and empties.
The Rock Island Huns Construction Trains completed a bridge at Windsor Missouri. The special crews laid new track across northeast Main Street and crossed Petits county line into Windsor switch yards and city limits. At 11 20 a m the grey crew met them as the bridge work proceeded with firing of anvils and track laying details.
A fragment describes workmen moving toward Bowen coal mine with a base of supplies to be established. It notes unflatehed grading four miles west will delay them ten days to two weeks, then they can proceed, with a modern method of trick laying advancing about two to two and a half miles per day.
The exhibit features a detailed 6 miles 1003 feet tunnel model through Bergen Hill to Manhattan Island and under the North and East Rivers with surface terminals. It includes a full scale section of the tunnel, a 33 by 6 foot model, and a full sized 20 foot tunnel section. The display shows interior and exterior station details track systems electrical features and construction methods.
Galveston, Feb 22. The Gulf and Interstate road running from Galveston to Beaumont, seventy miles, was sold to Frederick M. Hubbell of Des Moines, Iowa. Hubbell is president of the Des Moines Northern and Western and holds interests in other railways. The line, damaged by the storm, will receive new equipment and operate as an independent line after a reorganization with L. P. Featherstone as president and Hubbell as vice president. directors include D B Henderson C H Moore J R Campbell and F C Hubbell. The Santa Fe had previously bid, while Kansas City Southern seeks access to deep water at Galveston and Bolivar.
New Orleans dispatch reports Loree of Rock Island and Samuel Spencer led a party of Southern railway directors and officials to New York. They met at the St. Charles hotel with Capt. Hinckley to review jointly planned terminal development by the Frisco and Southern systems. The New Orleans Terminal Company holds a $19,000,000 capital and said work would proceed rapidly.
Mrs Arma M Butler of Des Moines representing New York and Cleveland capitalists promotes an electric railroad between St Joseph and Kansas City and a line north toward the lows line. She returns after months of study and says she and her friends are ready to build. a city franchise will be asked of the common council next Monday night. Butler is known in the east as an electric railways promoter.
At San Antonio Mr Yoakum dismissed rumors of his retirement following the election of LF Loree as Frisco executive committee chairman. He said he has no intention of leaving his railroad duties and is content with his present position and duties.
Chicago reports Paul Morton of Santa Fe forecasts pooling of interest as the solution to railway troubles with legates for the future. Junction City Kan notes 15 divorce cases set for Geary county district court next term in March, the largest number in years.
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal cure for dyspepsia, claiming they digest food fully and renew a tired stomach. A St Louis businessman narrates personal improvement after short use, praising appetite return and pain removal, and urging readers to obtain the remedy from druggists. The copy invites readers to request a free book on stomach diseases from F A Stuart Co, Marshall Mich.
The piece argues weak digestion fuels disease, counting typhoid and consumption as often linked to dyspepsia. It notes that imperfect digestion lets toxins and germs enter the bloodstream, urging stronger stomach function as a safeguard. It highlights common dyspepsia signs and praises Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a popular remedy.
An old fable about stomach importance is cited to stress digestion. The piece touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as natural reliefs that aid digestion, prevent fermentation, and keep the body healthy, with an endorsement from a Detroit physician.
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