Costly Soap Fails to Outshine Jap Rose Soap
An advertisement touts the costlier soap as superior but claims Jap Rose Soap, made from pure vegetable oil and glycerin, is delightfully perfumed and transparent, yet priced at only a dime per cake.
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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1901
Page
8
An advertisement touts the costlier soap as superior but claims Jap Rose Soap, made from pure vegetable oil and glycerin, is delightfully perfumed and transparent, yet priced at only a dime per cake.
The Gazette editor denies plans to move away from Emporia citing political rumors and family ties. He emphasizes he will not relocate to Oklahoma or any other distant town, and asserts his intent to remain in Emporia while continuing to run the newspaper. The piece defends the paper’s independence from political pressure and notes its stable operation in its own building.
A woman describes encouraging her husband to ditch alcohol for Postum Coffee dairy substitutes. She notes a friend cured headaches by Postum, and she and her husband report improvement after boiling two cups of Portum per person for twenty minutes. The note mentions writing to a husband absent in a hospital and a return letter praising the change. The setting is Park Ave, Salt Lake City.
A Chinese cook at Mount Breckenridge lumber mill 36 miles east of Bakersfield was lynched by loggers following an attack on Mrs. Kenney and her daughter. The foreman’s wife was wounded with a butcher knife, while the girl sustained injuries as screams drew help from nearby workers. The assailant, identified as Youns Fouk, was killed by the mob.
Nelson of Chicago was killed when a live electric wire in the barn at W. G. Wagner’s home, where he stayed as a guest, was turned on to heat the barn. Wagner tried to help, but Nelson died from the current. several others at the scene were unaffected. The incident prompted emergency actions and warnings about live wires.
An unclear report from Indianapolis notes a large sum was appropriated by the directure for the purpose of constricting world’s fair lings. The text mentions a governor Cumback and Laura Wark, with scattered references to Indians and party lines, reflecting a garbled late 19th or early 20th century city notice.
New York July 10 The war department has received an official copy of Cuba’s constitution endorsed by General Wood and translated into English. The Platt Amendment appears as an appendix and the final article is simplified, stating the government of Cuba will embody the provisions in a treaty with the United States.
Attorney General Godard is urged by the Colored Ministerial Union of Kansas to oust Sheriff Everhardy of Leavenworth County. Prominent Black preachers allege malfeasance for not protecting Fred Alexander, the Black youth burned by a mob, and present twenty affidavits accusing the sheriff and deputies of aiding the mob, with names of local Black residents listed as witnesses.
Andy Lewis admitted violating the Kansas liquor law at Arrington in Atchison county. He was fined 200 dollars and sentenced to 60 days in the county jail. The case cites selling to minors and failure to close after order as the basis for the charge. This marks the first jail sentence in Atchison for liquor violations in about a decade.
A patient named Fhomen K. Wood of 5 Sevententh Street, Sacramento, reports a permanent cure after thirty years of suffering. After two prior surgical procedures and extended illness, a single treatment was claimed to have cured the condition, ending decades of distress.
Reporters recount a drastic shift in Senator J Ralph Burton of Kansas from talkative ally to terse interviewee. Once a constant city visitor and talkative figure, he now avoids comment and asserts he has "got what I want" and declines to discuss Democrats or Republicans in Kansas.
Mayor Hughes denounces ties to the coal trust saying he fights the trust from afar and urges the council to strike the coal combine that fixes prices. He notes few nonunion shafts remain and discusses current and projected winter coal prices and substitutes amid possible Santa Fe rate cuts. He claims the combine meets in Kansas City and dodges Missouri law to hide dealings.
The passage critiques overindulgence among vegetarians and meat eaters, arguing digestion governs health. It extols Stuart's Dyspepsia plant tablets and other tonics as cures, claiming they aid digestion, increase gastric juices, and relieve symptoms from travel and irregular meals. It cites testimonials and mentions various travelers and vendors.
John Howard, a private in the Forty third Volunteer Infantry, was arrested on arrival of the Santa Fe train from the west in Hutchinson Kansas City on charges of shooting a man named Gibbons Monday night. Gibbons is not expected to survive. Howard, about 30, comes from Roanoke and was mustered off days ago. The event involved robbers among returning soldiers and a path west of Hutchinson.
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