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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1899
Page
2
A reader recalls kidney trouble diagnosed long ago and says purchases from Witt & Helliday Drug Co cured her. She credits the medicine for relief within two days and claims all traces of the disease are gone, noting her father would have acted sooner if he knew of it.
New York on January 9 Sage voices caution amid prosperity saying the nation must act with conservatism. He urges prudent handling of wealth and critical investment while praising President McKinley and urging steady leadership to sustain the current high level.
From the New York Journal, a defense of expanding public education to include kindergarten. The piece argues kindergartens turn a degraded slum child toward good citizenship, shaping behavior before formal civics, and urges widespread, systematic coverage rather than experimental efforts.
The British Medical Journal analyzes 25,474 deaths and 36,515 births where time is noted. It finds deaths peak in the afternoon from 2 to 7 p.m. and are lowest just before midnight. Births peak in the early morning and are lowest in the early afternoon. The report also links deaths to high temperatures and health conditions.
At the Jacksonian club banquet in Omaha the crowd heard ex Governor Altgeld and ex Vice President Stevenson argue for government ownership of railroads and denunciations of money power in the White House. Altgeld warned of monopolies, rising inequality, and a two-class society while urging reforms and silver policy.
In Indianapolis on a day in January a political figure named Bryan declines to discuss a contentious issue involving Croker and a boar referencing a sefer. The brief notes a crowded scene with media presence and public curiosity about the matter.
Kansas State Poultry association seeks state legislation and a $2000 annual appropriation to advance the poultry industry. Secretary J W F Hughes cites growth since 1885, compares Nebraska support, and calls for a directors board to push the measure while exhibitions and improvements are planned.
A Washington dispatch says Secretary Alger opposed appointing Admiral Dewey as governor general of the Philippines and to army over navy rule. The president allegedly suggested the move but did not consult Dewey. Dewey requested return to the United States in the coming months, a request conditionally granted.
Washington reports a German government subsidy exceeding 1 million dollars yearly for a 11 year term to Lloyd Steamship for lines to Japan China and Australia. Four ships of at least 6900 tons for China Japan service and 5200 tons for Australia will be built in German yards. A Bremen firm plans to run ships to Hankow and Shanghai connecting with Hamburg Shanghai subsidies, linking German interests to major Chinese ports and expanding exports and ocean trade through 1590s.
Mrs Spencer Williams of Springfield will receive a pension after her heroic wartime service. She joined her husband in the One Hundred and Seventeenth United States colored infantry, wearing men’s clothes to endure hardships for months. Her husband’s death from heart disease was announced yesterday and he will be buried tomorrow in Soldiers’ Mound.
A heavy windstorm swept Scott county Arkansas on January 2. At Boles a schoolhouse was blown down, killing three pupils and fatally wounding another. Several others were injured. The deceased were children of Joe Lawrence Frost and Rutledge. No additional deaths reported.
Oliver Asher wins with a high jump of 7 feet 3 inches in Dayton Ohio last night. The event notes Sue’s Funping as a double high score and lists Asher as 20 years old.
A tall, good looking man posing as a U.S. Army sergeant stalked actress Viola Allen at New York’s Garden theater claiming she is his wife. He demanded to see her, was detained by police, and sent to Bellevue Hospital for observation. George C. Tyler said the man had been creating trouble in the lobby for days.
A Philadelphia owner, Mrs Helen Struthers Dunn, holds a redwood relic from Washington's era. The fragment came from a breastpin chipped during transfer of the president's sarcophagus, now housed with the trowel used to cement the Mount Vernon coffin.
The article traces a wedding shoe throwing custom across America, England, and Scotland. It links origins to ancestral authority and a Jewish practice about a widow’s remarriage and brother-in-law. It notes the act may mock the groom for taking the bride or reflect ceremonial relinquishment.
A New York paper notes plans to open a hotel run by and for self supporting women. Organizers seek names of potential tenants willing to pay from seven dollars weekly for room and board. The project aims to prove the model before expanding to lower cost options for smaller salaries.
Mrs Ray Frank Leandry kept 121 dollars while her husband siphoned 2200 from Long Island Rail Road tickets sold at Last Thirty fourth street. When she learned the truth she returned the money to the American Surety Company after a clergyman delivered 121 to the firm. The board sent a check for 123 as a Christmas gift, allowing her to move with her children to Ushua, New Hampshire. Beaudry was tracked to South McAllister, Oklahoma.
Miss Mari¢ Corelli writes against suicide arguing free will is sacred from birth, the heroic path is to endure hardship with honesty, and cowardice in choosing death negates God’s gift. She cites Socrates on difficult duties and notes invisible spectators judge our use of free will.
Hall Caine reflects on the contrast between Eastern Europe’s bread riots and American prosperity. He describes stark poverty abroad, then praises the absence of idlers in American cities, and lauds Pittsburgh’s furnace-lit skyline as a moving, human spectacle.
Little Annie Albert at Gouverneur Hospital is two months old, fifteen inches long, weighing two pounds three quarters. She began life at one pound and nearly all lungs, with a special nursery bottle of about an ounce. Her cries echo through the hospital as ambulances arrive with dockyard victims fished from the water. Her luxuriant black hair lies flat on her head like a doll.
Six young American men from New York, seeking cheap healthy housing near Havana, rent a two story stone house in San Tuece Village for 65 pesos a month. After four weeks total costs reach about 148 pesos, or under $4 per man weekly, yielding a comfortable tropical home away from city price hikes.
A Springfield dispatch reports six men arrested for the Macomb passenger train robbery on January 7. Detectives Brown and Chester led the arrests. preliminary examination planned in Mansfield. Four defendants are Motives and two Corrigners. Judge Cravens, ill, summoned. McGregor and others traveled to Mansfield.
A chaotic Wichita area court list shows multiple cases from Cowley Wyandotte Lyon Coffey Sedgwick Miami and other counties with reversals and affirmations. Notable mentions include Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. versus various defendants and several mandamus quo warranto and appeal decisions.
An old fragment advertises Ely's Cream as a remedy for catarrh and mentions a Hartford address for Sperry. The text also promotes a laundry service at West Eighth Street promising to wash colored shirts and guarantee color, with a garbled local business contact.
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