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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1903
Page
14
The piece portrays Brick Masin as a unique statesman in a satirical graphic pen portrait. It traces how he earned his euphonious sobriquet and critiques political maneuvering, campaign stunts, and the theater around legislative fights. It notes public interest and the clash between reform aims and partisan advantage.
An article outlines an upcoming Midwinter exposition bill with five acts including Brigham and others. It highlights acts by the Pin group, Vantello and She petmler Tutte cine arte, and contortionists Pascatal and the Contortionist Bile, plus the Fansbet Brothers and the Raschet Grothee. The program mentions Marstall's band and Calkins Halts and Steinberg's orchestras accompanying the vaudeville program.
The Chas Wolff Packing Co displays at the Midwinter Exposition with a white House like booth and a large exhibit of products. The firm promotes its market reach across states and invites visitors to see its bargain expo section offering selected samples at a dollar with orders placed during the show.
A mangled, partly unreadable text laments aging and long life while musing on health cures and remedies. It references wind, lenses, diets, and strange phrases, wrapping unclear mentions of termites, botox, and names in a cryptic, fragmentary style.
A jammed social schedule lists weekday whist sessions at 154 Piller Street and gatherings at the Gapeural, with names including Miss Fielijan Auss Meade and Mrs. J F Parrot. Reports note a Marquette dance at Teinberg hall and multiple guest lists from Chicago, Topeka, and nearby cities.
Mrs Newlin leapt from a second story window to save her infant amid flames in an oil stove blaze. Neighbors and readers shifted as the fire trapped stairways. both she and a neighbor were shaken but uninjured, while the baby was caught by a woman’s apron and unharmed. The stove caused the blaze and smoke filled the hall as the fire spread through the Maplewood district home.
New York on January 4 a circuit court restraining order seeks to bar Thomas A. Edison Jr from using the Edison name in business with a chemical company. Affidavits allege sale of rights by Thomas A. Edison Sr and note the ongoing dispute over control and profits.
North Topeka residents hear church service times at the Good Shepherd church while social and civic reports discuss Union Pacific railway work and local organization meetings. The piece notes travel plans of guests, arrivals from Scott City and Jerome Ariz, and upcoming union school supervision with multiple community figures named.
Lady Somerset defends the Whits House Picture Love and Life amid objections raised by workers of a temperance area. Frances Dard and others face scrutiny over wartime concerns while Mrs. A. Xie and associates note headaches cured by a patent remedy. News references include New York loan figures and Pennsylvania railway fundraising.
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