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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1900
Page
8
A brief advertisement asserts skin care benefits from Very Soap and Ivory Soap. It claims 2800 pores on a hand and 2,381,284 pores on the body requiring cleansing. It emphasizes 99 percent purity and urges use of Ivory Soap backed by scientific analyses.
Readable fragments describe labor unrest and a hoped settlement after a volatile period. A conference between contractors and labor leadership is anticipated this afternoon to outline terms including wage rates, apprentice limits, and hours, amid warnings of strikes and unrest.
Special Agent Rising sets up three delivery routes at Elmont Meriden and Nortonville. A G Wilng Diecision department agent announces routes and field tests last weeks with applications received in Washington Macieville and Wellsville. Alf Kline to oversee second district headquarters port wha will oversee routes and attend union meetings at commuter site.
A distorted report outlines proposed reforms by a national conference of Jewish charities. It mentions an opening by city officials, a focus on poverty circles, and strategic aims in charity governance, with limited legible names and dates.
A reader from Avantic City, New Jersey, recounts years of digestive trouble linked to coffee. After trying Postum, they report improved health for themselves and their children, who now drink Postum instead of coffee.
Reports following yesterday's conference discuss proposals to establish national hospitals and colonies for consumptive care in Colorado Utah and Texas. An organized relief effort would move families to smaller farming centers and end sending transportation to shift responsibility. Delegates greeted all three propositions with enthusiasm and plans may be formalized before adjournment.
Shanghai correspondent reports that Weng Tung Ho, emperor’s titer and confidant, with royal sanction and three viceroys, appeals to Western powers for a protectorate and radical reforms in China. He urges removing the imperial palace, appointing ministers, standardizing currency, abolishing taxes and barbarous practices, and preserving national integrity while resisting dismemberment.
A misprinted dispatch from Mishawaka indicates Tadiana Man heir to 1 500 000 rather than 150 000. Jonathan W. Fancher of Davis Station, Indiana, is involved in establishing a will in California. The will appears to show a 7 000 000 estate, with five heirs receiving about 2 600 000 each, and error in the official notification suggests a possible cipher error by California attorneys.
A firsthand narrative from Hoboken details the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 648 feet long and fastest in its class. The voyage to Cherbourg included sea motion, seasickness, and seven meals a day with vivid scenes of dock crowds, farewell bands, and passengers bidding relatives goodbye as the ship slipped away into heavy seas during a whole NE gale.
Real estate transfers include Mary C Greer and husband selling to Henry HL Wiis for 4500 a private parcel in section 25. Patrick to Wm H Duplapet ux for 80 dollars. lot 336 and north half 38 Pine streets. Stilson and Bartholomew additions list. John P D Fink Sr and wife to John J Eins Jr for 4000. southwest quarter 1. Clara Walsh to Wilber K Gardner for 225. lot 28 and 2) Norris street, block 4 Ellgar Evans addition. Wim James and wife to M F Church for 40 Center street Mapleton addition. J Penny and wife to Gertrude Dennas for 50. lots 9 and 14 Mulvane street Thurston Place addition. W D Chesney to Mrs E S Stocum et al for 3000. lot 38 Kansas avenue and lot 4 southwest quarter 25 11 14. Indian and Ed Institute of Topeka to Edward Stephens for 1. part northeast quarter 7 15 16. B Miller et al to Jos Grull for 225. lots ae and 8 Ash street B Millers addition. BE Bowman and wife to James P B Smith for 500. lot 6 7 and 2 Van Buran street Walnut Grove addition. Tax deed to Geo Minard lot 5 block 1 Richland.
New York June 12 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor may seek rules to exclude all immigrants arriving on tramp steamships. Hypothetical enforcement would require returning those not entering under allowed classes, with public charges within a year also to be shipped back at shipper’s expense. While difficult, a tramp may be beyond reach at year end, complicating returns.
London reports Lord Curzon cables the secretary for India that 2068 rain has fallen in southern India with scattered showers elsewhere and a late monsoon forecast. About 6,020,000 people receive relief as 15 percent of India's population is supported by government funds. costs may reach £9,850,000 if famine persists to December. The cholera outbreak worsens, with Bombay presiding over vast relief camps amid mass mortality and fear.
Eyewitness accounts from Danad describe deserted streets, dying residents, and an overwhelmed population. A seven-year-old girl tries to feed two brothers as famine and disease sweep the city, with mortally high death tolls reported and bodies said to fill streams.
Eibourne Wisconsin June 12 Bede Boyd famed spy of confederate era San Francisco June 12 Chauncey M White once in Los Angeles wealthy former jewelry manager New York June 1 Singer of international reputation dies in this city age 30 German native Parepa Rosa London June 14 Seven thousand dock laborers strike protesting overtime and meal breaks London June 12 Daily Mail dispatch from Accra June 10 no fresh Kumassi news but rumors Hodgson prisoner Wisconsin June 12 Former fete night Democrats of Fourth Haven Cats June edge by Pref
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