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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1904
Page
9
Social notes from Topeka outline Governor Bailey hosting dinner for Governor A E Cummins of Jaws with Justice William A Johnston and others in attendance. The column records numerous informal gatherings, club entertainments, and personal mentions including theater parties, music programs, and upcoming suffrage meetings at the Governor's House and various local venues.
A veteran family doctor recounts his illness a stomach and liver troubles and weight loss. After doctors advised him to get his affairs in order he began a diet of Grape Nuts which restored his appetite in days and renewed his health. He urges others to try the cereal and notes a Battle Creek book offer.
Annie Chambers Ketchum, author of The Bonnie Blue Flag and A Battle Call, died in St. Vincent’s Hospital after less than a week of illness. The Memphis born writer, longtime Confederate songs, refused Union allegiance during the Civil War and was banished from Memphis by authorities. She had returned to New York from Rome and was near completing a book about her lifelong friend, actress Charlotte Cushman.
In Fostoria on January 21 John Stevens and Alex Carlson were killed when a windy shot exploded. Several others were severely injured and an army search failed to reach the men for an oat as the bodies were found with arms clasped around each other.
On January 28 in Berlin Commodore Schedder, commanding the German West Atlantic squadron, was appointed rear admiral. The move elevates his status within the German naval command structure amid ongoing operations.
In police court last night William Reams a young porter from Mathews and Dreschel's shoe store was arrested on grand larceny charges after confessing to stealing shoes valued over $60 across three months. A witness from a stolen pair led to the store’s investigation and an exchange attempt by Reams. Floyd Kennedy a local furniture store worker nearly died from a drug overdose after drinking and swallowing something believed to be morphine. he recovered after lengthy aid. The Nelson disorderly houses case at 1169 Lincoln Street saw caustic remarks from Ates Hamilton. five women and three men were arrested January 16 but discharged after witnesses failed to identify the defendants.
Rev Charles M Sheldon presented a one hour tale for the Kansas Society for the Friendless convention. The narrative centers on Jimmy Burns, a boy labeled a bad character, whose life paths through crime, reform, prison, and eventual conversion on his deathbed, under the care of a minister who never gives up.
The convention featured a program on Punishment or Reformation with speakers Watden, Jewett, and Openheimer. Topics included Texas prison remedies, up-to-date management by Warden McClaughry, and reform discussions led by Supt. Marshall of the Kansas reformatory.
From Seoul an Herald dispatch reports Tong Haks, a secret rebel group, threaten the dynasty while cabinet changes continue. Pak Chi Sun, Korea’s China minister, is recalled as Russia extends telegraph links from An Tung to the China Eastern railway, linking Seoul to Wiju and connecting Pont Arthur to the Yalu River.
D A Pohlmann treasurer of the federated trades council of Santa Clara county was held up and robbed of 230 and gold water shortly before midnight and then shot perhaps fatally returning home from a meeting where he had collected the money. Dr Wood s Norway Pine Syrup cures coughs and colds.
The minority delegation of eight members from the state convention in Topeka returned home after a long talk with the state superintendent of Insurance. The national convention declared current officers' acts official, including salary raises. Constitutional changes address insurgent claims about power by General Secretary SOR Katz and President Amos.
New York stock exchange authorities announced that the common and preferred stocks of the American Steel Foundries are removed from the listing after findings of misrepresentations in 1902 during listing applications. The governing committee may suspend or remove securities previously quoted.
Baltimore January 28 Henry Phipps steel magnate donates twenty thousand dollars to Johns Hopkins hospital to establish a separate out patient department for consumption. Body and hands are covered the face exposed Satin Skin Cream and Face Powder protect and bestow a satiny skin.
John Huncrow fell beneath a moving Chicago bound train near Park Manor. He was hurled onto the cowcatcher, wrapped his arms around the iron beam, and clung for four miles as two ribs and a leg were broken. Signal men finally stopped the train at River Line. recovery is expected.
A massive fire on Tonawanda island left a half square mile of glowing embers and 12 to 15 million feet of lumber worth about 1 million dollars destroyed. White, Rider & Waite faced the heaviest loss at 225,000 dollars, with the blaze, likely incendiary, under insurance coverage.
Birmingham reports eight inches of snowfall the heaviest on official record delaying streetcar and railroad traffic across the city. This dramatic winter event disrupts travel and daily routines as crews assess vinter damage and weather continues to blanket Alabama.
Southwestern Fuel Company at 724 Kansas Avenue announces lowered prices on Arkansas Anthracite and Semi anthracite coal to clear stock due to yard and shed changes for a new Santa Fe freight depot. Quick delivery preferred as coal moves off. Telephones Tl 193 and 144.
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