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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1898
Page
7
A detailed meditation on how modern steel warships shift command from sword to signal and brain. It describes conning towers, telephones, push buttons, and the danger of miscommunication in battle, recalling the Huascar and Cochrane duel to illustrate mortal risks.
Travel ad describes daylight tours through Colorado including Pu ebto, Colorado Springs and Denver with June 5 and 6 1895 sale dates. One fare plus 22.00 round trip good for return June 12 to July 6 1895. Details on application to W C Garvey agent Warner Potter Quincy Street.
An advertisement listing subscriptions for periodicals and fiction, promoting Tales from Town Topics and The Salt of a Sou ee with the March June September December issues. It notes prices, club offers, and methods to remit by money order or registered letter.
Rail line updates report the Hunnewell branch extending south toward Blackwell Oklahoma, boosting Kansas Southern area wheat traffic and local business. Notes include personnel movements, train counts on the McPherson branch, a marriage near Witerry, and planned private berry feast details.
Solon City Kansas June 2 1900s a team Hutcher and Young have developed a model weed killer to be mounted under a locomotive beneath the pilot. It would strip weeds between and on both sides of the track about inches below the rails and can be activated or deactivated by the engineer. If an obstacle is in the way it would pass over it without injury. The inventors plan to fit trains with these devices to keep weeds down without section men.
Charles Bucher of Newton is ordered to file supplemental reports by July 1 as a Missouri Kansas and Texas land grant dispute nears final settlement after two years. Japan’s Imperial railroad bureau reports 631 miles open, 238 miles under construction, 183 locomotives, 776 passenger cars, and 2.82% freight cars with 5,660,456 locomotive miles and coal use of 1 041 372 hundredweight. Reck Teland dividends may rise to 6 percent with a possible extra payout, based on past-year earnings. A new railway venture plans seven and a half miles from Hixh iang in Doniphan to Severance near St Joseph and Grand Island, with $25,000 capital, owned by Doniphan county residents. Highland, a historic Kansas town, lacks a railroad amid reports Interstate tariffs to Texas will be restored June 1 despite Missouri Pacific moves.
City ordinance 195 makes it unlawful to graze or tether livestock in public streets sidewalks or city parks and requires fines for violations. Police must enforce the rule including towing or impounding animals found on public property.
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