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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1897
Page
8
A 19th or early 20th century reader guide warns that coffee causes stomach, liver, and heart issues through alkaloids like caffeine nicotine and morphine like effects. It advocates switching to Postum Cereal coffee substitute as a healthful alternative for all ages, promising easier digestion and improved well being.
New York June 14 New York militiamen organize a elite bicycle club including William Whitney John James Asisi Willam B Grace John D Crimmine Albert G raf frat Ibn Ho Ate Chi Richard Croker Andrew Freedman William Jay stou ert B. Roosevelt Henry B. Andrews James J. Conger and others. They seek a magnificent clubhouse near the southern approach of the Central bridge over the Eure river with a large hall gymnasium private dining cafe tennis courts and a roof garden. cost projected above 200000. Concerts and other entertainments are expected.
A Chicagoan aims to claim a one million dollar reward offered by New York merchant Charles Broadway Bates for restoring a test claim. He plans to travel to New York to pursue the exchange, proposing a common hero found in Virginia swamps as the key. He intends to act as a substitute in the transaction.
Beets and sugar industry plans center on a beet sugar factory in South Omaha. Distiller Ter negotiates with Eastern capitalists and a Philadelphia investor Pielachmann. talks aim to merge factory with cattle feeding and distillery. Ter has reported earnings from cattle feeding and hopes to raise local capital equal to 150 thousand dollars.
An elderly reader testifies to recovery from severe dizziness sleeplessness and weakness after using Dr Charcol's Kate Nervine Tablets. The letter claims rapid improvement and urges others to try the remedy, providing a self-claimed success story and business contact details.
Chicago brokers flood the market with cheap round trip fares to New York as low as 15 dollars, expected to hold until September 1. The fight pits major lines against pooling agreements, prompting executive meetings to settle tensions and curb misuse of open fare tickets slated for any traveler until the fall.
The Santa Fe Railway has revived its city laboratory with W A Powers as chief chemist. Under Higginson, the lab’s revival led to stocking and testing all materials used in mechanical work across the road. The focus on composition and strength promises savings for the railroad’s management.
Master Dillon delays the Kansas Central case and a rolling stock auction to June 25. Dodge City station receipts total 100000 dollars for the month, cattle shipments rise with 630 cars moved, and Santa Fe Hospital opens another general ward. Wheat samples from Kansas heads sent east by John F. Frost.
A man around 50 years old, claiming to be a western agent for a new telegraph company, was arrested after leaving the Sixth Avenue hotel at 6 on Tuesday morning. He had defrauded boarding houses and restaurants, registered under various names including C Bute and Joseph Guthridgs Laster, and carriedmarked and refused tickets. Detectives Capron and Price led the case, with questions about his sanity and a possible Indianapolis home.
A man climbed onto the outer south guard girder of the Brooklyn Bridge, lying on a narrow nine inch strip over the river. Crowds urged police to act as he claimed to be riding for pace and showed fatigue. He was arrested by Officer Don Mag but released after explaining his action lacked intent to die.
A summary of remarks by Rev Witt Talmage at Beatrice Nebraska Chautauqua with Union Pacific train times, a Port Townsend scientific junket from Columbia College, railroad property valuation notes, Santa Fe ticket offers for California and Colorado, and a Divine Healing meeting by Rev W P Welch in Hamilton Hall with testimonials and a Belne remedy ad.
James P. Harlan, 70, brother of Associate Justice Harlan, was struck and killed by a train on the Louisville Henderson and St. Louis Railway near the city almshouse yesterday afternoon. Once a prominent Louisville lawyer, he suffered from alcoholism and had lived at the almshouse for about three years. He planned to buy the evening paper at the railway station when the accident occurred, supported by relatives despite his condition.
Charoneville June 15 crowds packed the lawn as W J Bryan spoke before the Washington and Jefferson literary societies at the University of Virginia. Five special trains carried visitors to Charlottesville for the event. Bryan, introduced by Campbell, centered on Jeffersonian government and avoided the money question. He then spent two hours greeting attendees and attending a private luncheon hosted by Dr Harringer with Bryan supporters.
A collection of private letters from Queen Victoria to the Duke of Sussex will be sold at auction in London. The notes reference Victoria’s November marriage anniversary and praise Prince Albert, hoping her son follows his father’s virtuous example. The letters express joy, gratitude, and devotion to family happiness.
Ferdinand May, who tried to corner the whale bone market, was located in Yucatan New York after fleeing. He was arrested in February and jailed on $200,000 bail, charged with defrauding a Strasburg bank of over $200 and causing losses to German banks and firms. He was released on a technicality and disappeared, with possible extradition unlikely.
Chicago endured a blistering June day with a record heat spike. Charles Allsen, a carpenter, died after collapsing in the heat while attempting to cool with cachello. Two others were prostrated but not seriously harmed as temperatures rose and humidity lingered.
West Point resumes cadetship examinations as June¢-Bertram Sanders and a youth from Arkansas return home claiming severe hazing. They allege Cadets Scott, Maginnis, Nesbit pressured them while Gould avoided further risk. Sanders hails from the Sixth Indiana district.
Members of a prairie hunting party witnessed a rabbit burst into flight when Atlee Campbell fired a rifle at a target rock. The shot struck the animal in the back, sending it tumbling and dying on impact, according to Miss Anca who described the scene.
Chauncey M Depew Jr is seriously ill with a stomach ailment at the Savoy hotel. Dr Depew has postponed his Paris trip and stays with a trained nurse to care for his son.
In New York on June 1, a rush of clothing contractors opened their shops as striking tailors returned to work. Thirty contractors opened shops, and twenty tailors resumed duties. Most of the strikers have gone back, with expectations that all contractors resume by next week.
London journals mock American expense policy for the jubilee embassy to Britain. They cite a $19,000 appropriation for Mr. Whitelaw Reid’s mission as insufficient, note high living costs and a reliance on wealthy volunteers, and mention Major General Miles and Rear Admiral Miller as government guests while Reid favors private housing for his family.
New York June 16 an historic Dutch Reformed church on Norfolk street will be moved downtown to clear space for a modern tenement building. The parish traces to 129 years ago and among original members were John Jacob Astor progenitor and the famed Baroh Bleuben as notable early congregation figures.
From The Chimney Down reports on the Fullorton building at Seventh and Pine where bricklayers began on the tenth floor, constructing downward while the eighth story stood complete. Spectators watch a cornice seemingly unsupported as Swasey defends the method as practical, noting secure iron anchored stone cornices and limited work space below.
Former Kansas penitentary warden Bruce Lynch announces retirement from the Leavenworth post. He says he will relocate his family from Cha nuée to Denver and will serve as western live stock agent for Santa Fe. He criticizes Warren of Ohio for seeking the warden role.
A fragmentary item notes the National Educational Association meeting moving from Buffalo to Milwaukee Wisconsin with Union Pacific praised for service via Omaha Kansas City. It mentions one fare plus one dollar round trip to western points and urges readers to obtain illustrated matter from B L Lomax.
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