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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
8
An appeal urges readers to buy Ivory Soap noting its squarely useful presence in homes. It emphasizes women's reliance on its benefits, calls it cheaper than yellow soap, and highlights its floating property as a practical advantage.
Fifteen graduates, including two coasted back for the course in pedagogy, received bachelor decrees at a Presbyterian ceremony. Thirteen earned certificates after three years, some spending part of that period in depot teaching. Honorary vetoes were conferred on BM. Calkina and D.
Delegates from across the country attend a three day convention of the Architectural League and affiliated groups in Chicago. The event gathers chapters from Boston Philadelphia Cleveland and beyond to discuss reports of officers and league actions.
A testimonial from Mrs Asous Puvxre6y of South Bot Springs Arkansas praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female weakness and womb problems. She credits ten bottles and Lunetive Wash with restoring strength, appetite, and ability to do housework, declaring life worth living and urging others to follow directions for a cure.
Tonight a joint pension of the American Pageant and Outdoor Art association and the Architectural and Art group will discuss municipal art. Ira Dyer introduces 19th Century Boston style. Lorin presides. Lectures cover public parks and their morality, including plant croppy ideas and park influences.
The sixteenth dioual banquet of the Saturday Night club will be held at the Hotel Throop tomorrow evening beginning at o'clock. A special programme aims to entertain and inform with 18 members each inviting two guests, ex-members also invited. Covers will be laid. Programs include addresses and civic topics by local figures and club captains.
San Francisco June 7. Governor Gage refuses state funds to combat plague until confirmed in city. State board of health to notify county and city boards, with plans for military action. Since June 1, 268 Chinese have left the city. Victoria BC may face inquiry over San Francisco coal supply.
London dispatch notes a serious Kruger question before the Netherlands minister. The Birmingham Post says Kruger has yet to accept a watch cruiser assignment off Lorens Marques and may be awaiting cabled instructions to the warship commander.
The South African envoys Mewers Fischer Weasels and Wolmar say detectives and secret service agents have shadowed them since Pretoria departure aboard shipboard trains and hotels. Abraham Boreher says eavesdroppers follow them in various cities, including shipboard, with no specific names to identify, yet they insist their mission is to tell the true Transvaal struggle and have nothing to conceal.
A Manila dispatch from Candon dated June 4 reports Major P. C. March's Thirty third Infantry battalion returning by steamer from Aparri. Most men are hospital bound, exhausted after a 250 mile mountain march with few of 50 horses surviving. Officers present included Captains Le Jenkinson and Davia and Lieutenants Powers and Case. Claims of Aguinaldo’s wounding and insurgent divisions are mixed with treachery charges against native presidents and telegraph operators.
The Coates house in Kansas City is leased to the Interstate Hotel Company led by KE Kiley. Negotiations closed last evening and contracts are expected to be signed. The Thierstete Hotel Company holds a vacant estate on the same block, with rent listed at around 12,000 per year for the building.
Admiral Dewey arrives in Columbus greeted by crowds as he appears vulnerable and unarmed, surrounded by supporters promising tribute. He travels from hotel to capitol in a steady procession, then attends a Columbus club reception before Mrs. Dewey is hosted by local ladies at a prominent residence.
Appraisers pass on 16 000 acres near Great Bend Kansas six miles north of the town. The project aims to create two irrigation lakes on the tract, six miles north of Great Bend and five miles wide, with the land described as suitable for transformation into an island-like feature. Local landowners express concern as offers emerge to retain the land.
Berlin reports note a teachers convention rising in opposition to clerical control with delegates urging secular schooling. The assembly condemns purveyors of dogma and calls for reforms, while Cologne delegates affirm separation of schools from church and state and favor streamlined public instruction.
Former Judge E Walker comments on rumors of a national negro party in Philadelphia a theory favoring colored men abstaining or voting for the new party He notes no repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment and says McKinley has sympathy for the negro amid Republican factional talk in this period
Rochester N Y June 7 The death of a wealthy relative John Bannister in San Francisco leaves two Rochester boxers Prescott and Walter McCartney aged 20 and 21 presumptive heirs to an estate valued near 500000. Thirty years ago Bannister went west to gold mining and a missing fortune of 500000 is now revealed through a friend who knew the uncle’s whereabouts.
In Ottawa June 1 opposition MPs pressed the army food issue linking South Africa bound troops to a government supplied emergency ration. Dr Horden said the ration was bought under Gem contract with E Devlin of Montreal and had been tested months before purchase. Tests on hand were satisfactory and the charge about failure to meet agreed goals was disputed.
New Haven banker Juste T E Benedict writes from New York after a trip with ex President Cleveland declaring the Democratic party beset by outrages and infidelity. He calls for dissolving Bryanism, uniting reformers from both parties, and forming a new party to lead a 1806 style platform with McKinleyism doomed as punishment for abandoning sound government principles.
An advertisement claims Postum Coffee substitute cures fatigue, bloating, and sleepiness after years of coffee use. Mrs. Bi Mo Pope of Detroit testifies she feels thinner, hungrier, and lacks drowsiness since stopping coffee and switching to Postum, though initial trial caused doubt about the product.
West bound timetable notes Train 10 departs St Louis at 8 15 p m for Columbus without change arriving 8 30 p m Columbus then Pittsburgh 3 30 pm New York 7 15 pm. Through sleepers between New York and St Louis on all trains listed, dining cars. Ford general passenger agent J T Foley Kansas City Mo J M Chesbrough assistant passenger agent
The article laments the nation’s rulers and the administration’s unwarranted actions, arguing the country suffers more from political missteps than from external dangers. It calls for renewed patriotic vigor and a possible shake up of names and parties as a form of government endures.
June 7 Washington Consul General Richard Guenther reports Germany’s demand for American goods, noting cereals meat and shoes are competitive but German imports of U S boots and shoes rose from 29 515 in 1867 to 101 295 in 1909. He urges U S manufacturers to expand efforts in Frankfort and other German markets to boost trade.
Washington dispatch reports Fred B Spriggs of Cuba New York a longtime Indian Agent in Nevada since 1897 faced rejection due to being viewed as an outsider by western and New York senators They opposed his renomination amid home rule pressures and Platt Lieben declined further fight His first nomination dated back to 1807 and after senate inaction the president issued two successive appointments Kilpatrick shipyard work resumes rebuilding a transport destined for San Francisco to the Philippines at a cost of 40800. The ship will be rebuilt with overhauled engines and new steel decks and houses. Prince Von Hohenlohe has sold his Russian estate at Werke to Tshopelegoski for a million roubles.
A collage of light quotes and banter from newspapers, featuring wry exchanges on talking to oneself, gold and silver imagery, mother and son kitchen etiquette, marriage, courting, drinking, and social foibles. The snippets capture urban humor and everyday observations across several sources.
June 7 reported the deed of the waterworks plant formally turned over to Arkansas City by a bondholder committee. The mayor accepted the deed in council chamber and tendered the first city payment. figures show the works cost about 105000 dollars. Also noted is James E Daley of Paterson New York with liabilities 105427 and assets 117295, in a terse financial snippet.
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