Tragic suicide at Mike Thompson's billiard hall in Topeka
Harry L. Smith a 26 year old carpenter drank strychnine at Mike Thompson's billiard hall around 6 pm after sending his wife to Osawkie. He expressed intent to end his life, died within twenty minutes, left a note requesting his wife return and burial help from the A. O. U. W. lodge. His wife, once married in Topeka, had separated from him and was visiting relatives when the tragedy occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry L. Smith
Mike Thompson
Harry Smith
Topeke
Yong
Vina Fisler
Vina Root Smith
Smith
Sod
Mr. Keller
Osankie
Eighth Street
Kunsen Avenue
Thompson
Thompere
Adams Etreat
Mitchell
Vion
Marty
George
Sirs Smith
Pacific Express Company
Topeks
Osawkie
Robbing by Daylight at Dick Modgins House
A daytime entry at Dick Modgins’s residence on West Sixth Street near the Topeka club yielded a diamond tie pin and a $25 brooch belonging to Bra Hodgins. The family was away, the door open, and jewelry left on the bureau. The thief is suspected to be the same person who sued the Prouty house recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Modgins
Empoura
James D. Barett
Emporia High School
B . Hastings
Hev
James Barnett
Egypt
Hiss
Emporia
Cairo
Washburn club discusses evolution and design theories
Evolution topic sparks an open discussion at the Washburn club with papers by W. Belden and J. Beede on Basis and Theories of Evolution and Psychic Laws influence. Attendees include McVicar, Thomspon, Lovewell, Greeley, Harabbarger, with officer elections and a recital at the college chapel. The Bethany concert series heads to Topeka with the Well Known Quartette from Bethany College at the First M E Church, featuring Zedeler, Krante, Lanrip, Hapgood. tickets 25 cents in advance 50 cents at the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washburn Club
J. W. Beekman
W. & Belden
J. W. Beede
Maggie Axtell
Edna Foster
L. D. Whittemore
Ella Pixley
H. G. Crocker
George E Mercer
Burlingame
Sidney B. Wood
Elmdale
Edna Pierce
Stockton
W. H. Mason
Eureka
Carl Stich
Adelaide Stich
Independence
Jessie Crowell
Paola
Mabel Tucker
Lizzie Pond
Binoche Bartley
W. A. Harshbarger
Mary Morrison
Misa Adelaide Stich
Bethany College
Lindebors
Tivet
Franz Zedeler
Royal Orchestra of
St. Petarsburg
Russia
Conservatory of Music of
Stockholm
Ilis
Agin
N. A. Krante
Bethany Conservatory of Music
Tod
Sigfred Lanrip
Sweden
George Hapgood
Snap Shots From Topeka Neighborhood News
Topeka items note Mote's muffers practice sessions, city paid 2979 for street work, high school graduates had photos taken, Topeka club property valued at 400, Gibson of Oakland dam company travels to Chicago, Naylor oversees Oakland dam work, Pitzgerald and upper dam officers expected tomorrow, Wesleyan church on Third and Jefferson is being painted, Marshall's band to give first evening concert at Garfield park, a couple seen in state house corridor, Samuel Howe bought a new carriage horse weighing 1209 pounds, Washburn music dept graduates recital tonight, Scranton miners benefit concert urged, county tax concerns for Rol Nichols, Santa Fe receivers in Topeka for talks, Prof Hickmen from high school honored with traveling bag, Shawnee Building & Loan seeks reassessment, F M Rossell sells Cross Ok business to travel east, Municipal league to meet at Trades Assembly hall, Prof Wills to discuss city problems, Wt Littlefield and O E Walker among Oklahoma farmers near Newkirk, Peerless Steam Laundry ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mote
Topeka Club
Gibson
Oakland Dam Company
Chicago
D. C. Naylor
Oakland Dam
David Pitzgerald
Upper Dam
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Third End
Jeffsraon Street
Marshall
Garfield Park
State House
Samuel T. Howe
Music Department
Washburn Colleges
Scranton Miners
Topeka
Rol Nichols
M. S. Evans
J. J. McEntirn
Wichita & Western
Walker and Wilson
Santa Fe
C. W. Hickmen
Ohio
Shawnee Building & Loan Association
F. M. Rossell
Cross
Ida Gertrude Tascell
School of Physical Culture
Municipal League
Trades Assembly Hall
Enat Seventh Street
Wills
State Agricultural College
Wt. Littlefield
Newkirk
Shorey
John Farris
Garnett
Reform School
Harry Wilkerson
Monroe Street
A. C. Komar
St. Louis
A. A. Howley
Kansas Avenue
Lida Knox
Valley Falls
G. F. Kimball
Danville
West Gordon Street
Misa Rol Nichols
Lawrence
Law School
Gales
Winnie Gash
Evelyn Street
Holman
Rusk Wise
John Ewing
Berry
Creston
Jows
A. J. Berry
Berry Brow
Epworth League of
Kanaag Avenue
Mra J. R. Madison
Guy Houghtellin
Mary Brown
Ida M. Stansfield
Bertha Stallemith
Maude Allen
G. M. Robinson
Phe
Congregational
Sunny Edicul
McShane
Broderick
George Hughes
Tarriaon Street
Mra
Shane
Madison
Wisconsin
W. H. Moody
Peter
Garret & Lane
Lodge & Colvin
Norris Street
Capital
H. Riordan
Pratt Bros
North
Kansas Ave
Deasers
CW. Willets
N. Kan. Av
Oriental School of Embalming
Mason & Flood
North Topeka
J. H. Helter
N. Kan. Ave
Courtney’s
N. Kanass Avenue
Megnet
A. J. Proud
N. Kaa
Lukens Bros
Ariel
Steele & Walker
Lyon & Reynolda
Shorey residents, Topeka notes and local changes
North Topeka column reports Sheriff Farris with a reform school boy, visits by residents Mrs Wilkerson, Mrs Komar, and Miss Knox, a Shorey sewing society meeting, and several trips. Local clergy events, funeral home ads, and business notices populate the page, including Dr. McShane’s farewell and a stone accident near Garret & Lane’s store.
Local court notes and funeral for Topeka resident
Walter McMurphy a colored boy had charges dropped in polices court over peanut theft near Third Street. Charley Smith a colored man who sold a mortgaged cart to W L Lindsay for 10 is in Justice Guy's court. J E Dosley, an old soldier who died in Des Moines, was buried in Topeka cemetery after arriving this forenoon. He resided at 904 East Tenth Street and worked in the insurance business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter McMurphy
Third Street
Charley Smith
W. L Lindsay
Justice Guy’s Court
Lukens
Brothers
J. E Dosley
Des Moines
Topeka
Dovley
East Tenth Street
I Insurance
An Old Order and Two Hundred Years of Freemasonry
An overview traces freemasonry from ancient moral societies to medieval building crafts and Roman collegia. It notes Elias Ashmole's 1646 entry, the rise of operative to speculative masonry, and the 1717 formation of the Grand Lodge in London led by Desuguliers and James Anderson, marking the modern phase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias Ashmole
Windsor
Charles II
Col
Mainwright
Warrington
Jesus of Nazareth
Carmathites
Fedavi
Brotherhood of Freemssons
East
Gaul
Britain
Germany
Grand Lodge
Strasburg
Albertus Magnus
Avignon
Ratisbon
England
London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Desuguliers
James Anderson
Churchman’s Magazine
President Hill weighs U S flour export to China and rice trade
James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, in Beattie Washington, met with Woo Gen of Wa Chong in Seattle. He explored Chinese demand for U S flour and the potential to supply rice back to the United States, proposing permanent demand before launching steamship operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
United States
Beattie
Wash
James J. Hill
The
Great Northern
Woo Gen
Seattle
House of the Wa Chong Company
Hong Kong
China
Dessers
Pacific Coast
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A. Smith
A. O. U. W. Lodge No
DeMoss & Penwell
Onankie
Hopkins
Swedish Concert CO
W. Eighth
Johnnie
Adem
Eve
Kansas
Golden Eagle
Golden Eagle Clothing Go
S. Ettlinger
Manspeaker
Clairette
N. K. Fairbank Company
Olof Ekberg
Merchant Tabor
Topeka, Kansas
Co. T. Trapp. Merchant Tailor
W. T. Beerbohm
Mangr
WESTERN Foundry # Machine Works
Topeka Foundry and Machine Works
R. L. Cofran
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