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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1902
Page
4
Daily edition priced 28 cents a week delivered by carrier to Topeka and suburbs or by mail for three months or one year. Subscription options include postal delivery and car system in Kansan towns.
A Topeka publication, The Site Journal, is cited as receiving the full Associated Press wire service for exclusive afternoon publication. The State Journal building is mentioned as the base for reporting, with emphasis on access to complete wire copy for timely newspaper dissemination.
Readers away during summer may have the State Journal mailed daily to any address at thirty costs a month with flexible address changes. Meanwhile a column notes heat comparisons with last year, sheriffs pursuing Tracy and an interest in Schwab salary, plus crops and oil stock data, and Chicago Fourth of July casualty and property loss figures.
A scattered page column weighs in on marriage roles and domestic life. It mocks party scenes, gear for entertaining, and expectations for wives. It notes changing fortunes and house upkeep while hinting at social norms and a government inquiry.
A clipped set of pointed paragraphs from a Chicago News fragment includes remarks on women selling goods, government probing, mistreatment of Eping, and general maxims about memory, success, and social propriety. The tone feels like a miscellany of reflections and wry observations from a 19th or early 20th century column.
The Topeka Water and Gas companies were refused permission in a special session to lay mains across Melan bridge. North Topeka councilors opposed the plan. Council member bergundthal urged faster bridge repairs by railways and the council ordered immediate re laying of the mains to carry pressure.
A Auburn Washington special reports Tracy the Oregon outlaw is again on the move near the Muckleshoot reservation. He was seen by an Indian boy and rancher Henry ONeill on the hill, with bloodhounds in pursuit from Enumclaw and Palmer junction. Tracy might reach Seattle if not exhausted on the ridge.
A noisy catalog listing cuckoo clocks and prices appears to promote home timepieces. Offers include large clocks at 1 pound 50 and small models at 15.50, with weekly and weekly French prices noted. The fragment mentions 200 units and various price points for small and large cuckoo clocks.
A catalog fragment lists a toothpick holder at 1.00 dollars, a jewel case at 3.50 dollars, and a put box priced at 216 units. The items appear as simple product entries with minimal context or branding.
About 1,200 Topeka residents joined an excursion to Fort Riley organized by the Presbyterian Sunday school. The special train left Union Pacific at 9 04 am and was followed by plentiful, inexpensive travel. Passengers planned to return by around 8 pm benefiting from favorable weather and shaded grassy slopes for a day out.
W C Glenn, manager of the Fair in Topeka, received two freight parcels from Chicago. A non union driver was attacked by strikers at the Santa Fe depot but reached safety under police protection. After delivering, the driver telephoned that goods had shipped, though the river shipment route vanished, raising fears of capture by strikers.
Carpenters at the new Santa Fe machine shop reached a settlement today and workers returned. L Boehen, a non union member who sparked the dispute, joined the union and the trouble was adjusted. One union man who refused to quit was discharged today.
Fred Smith of 112 East Eighth Avenue was overcome by heat. His condition improved today in Ottawa Kansas. A ticket sale from the City Ticket Office Union Pacific at 535 Keuses Avenue runs from the 1st to the 18th inclusive.
A brief item lists perfume bottles and a syrup pitcher with prices ranging from seven dollars to twelve. It notes perfume bottles at seven dollars and five dollars, vinegar cruet at three dollars, cream and sugar sets at five dollars.
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