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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1901
Page
4
The readable parts describe a wire service summary about state politics and events. It mentions a section on the Lewes area and notes about guitar imagery tied to a public report. The text is incomplete and presents several garbled phrases.
Readers can subscribe to the State Journal for homey letters by mail at thirty rents a month with flexible address changes. The retirement season for H Clay Evans is underway. Debates over railroads and finance unfold as various political figures and events are noted, including projections about presidential picks, wartime siting, and crime reports, all reflecting a bustling but unsettled national mood.
Congressman Jenkins of Chippens Point urges a bill in the next Congress to allow free public library book and magazine delivery by rural mail. The plan would send books and newspapers to residents on free rural routes from library locations, with government not guaranteeing delivery and items subject to second class mail rules if returned. Jenkins argues taxation supports free access to literature, improving public libraries without overburdening rural mail or car services.
A clipped item mentions rural route expansion increasing access to services for many towns and residents. It notes Bluff City with 200 inhabitants has lights, parks, and a band, and references a Wichita girl traveling to Pereia for missionary work. The piece also alludes to local landmarks, a jack rabbit chase in Osage county, and various civic notes including schoolhouses and a priest’s vacation gift.
June dispatches describe a faint Amalgamated Co meeting in Journeys City, a postmaster notice from Mayaguess cancelled postage stamps, and a police case in Centerville where a Black man Clebe Montgomery was killed amid neighborhood violence. Other items note a German accident probe and a courtroom flare up in several towns.
Secretary Root issued the order on behalf of the president appointing William H. Taft as civil governor of the Philippines. Taft will exercise executive authority in all civil affairs starting July 4, continuing the transfer from military to civil rule in districts where reform exists.
Real estate transfers listed include Jaw A French to Jax a Land for 35 dollars, Pacific tract near SP, Hares and husband Ellen Barat 1.775, tote M5-HS end 50 Lia col st, Throop's 2d nd. A. J. Rhodes and Wite to Jaa, Tot Wo and a, Ae S28 ad Ae 2H Limest, Parkdale Tax deed te Ore. Eye Strain mention. Bennett optician advertises eyeglasses at 720 Kasvas avenue.
The article details executive reshuffles amid a push for one president and vice presidents across Vanderbilts properties, updates on dividends for Lake Shore, Lake Erie & Western, Mishcan Central, and Canada Southern, plus promotions at Shore Michigan Southern and Burlington. It notes Brown’s rise to president of the Shore system and his Cleveland base, with reflections from Burlington’s Harris.
At trial’s end Rev. Keller through counsel denies Mrs. Barker’s claim of an alleged outrage, calling it false. He says he cannot deny under oath due to evidentiary rules and cites his understanding of the proceedings. separate items note stock rumors involving Rockefeller syndicate and Bryce tribute to Carnegie’s generosity.
John Sullivan an attorney from Kaneay City served as caller at the Topeka post office. The pension office baseball team beat the Santa Fe office Thursday by a score noted in local chatter. Also present were ex P opular warden of the state penitentiary now in Kansas City and Thos B Baliwis a special agent visiting from the agriculture department. Dudley commented on driver changes and mail wagon handling as a routine inspection concluded satisfactory. He then headed to Browneville Nebraska to review Statistical Agent Furnas’s records.
A Rock Island excursion to Beatrice Sunday June 23 offers round trip for $1.50. The special train will leave Rock Island depot at 7 20 a m with return to Topeka at 6 15 p m. For full information call Si.
A New York sanitary detail arrested Thomas Herrold after a confrontation while he resisted quarantine for a smallpox exposure. He claimed not to have the disease, though his family, including two children, were quarantined and others sought to contact him along Union Pacific tracks. He is being guarded with the sick family while authorities review the case.
State Director T B Gerow reports about 2100 harvest workers deployed statewide to balance supply and demand. Pratt county requests 100 more, Hays City says no excess, and many men travel by wagon from Nebraska and Oklahoma as crews stabilize. Gerow praises local bureaus for new, improved, unsystematized efficiency.
Denver official denies need for extension beyond Guernsey Wyoming with no definite terminus planned. In New York, Justice MacLennan dismisses Clark stock suit. In Pekin, Belgian minister dispatches to Siam to verify massacre of four Belgian missionaries amid marauders.
The cabinet endorses Secretary Gage’s proposal for a countervailing duty on Russian products. He will issue a clarifying statement and continue departmental briefings through June 24 and into the following weeks. Also noted are a Salvation Army welcome for Major Sully at Mist Baptist Church and a description of a mobile chapel car with ornate interior features.
Major George Sully leads chapel car No 5 operated by the American Baptist Publication Society. The car stands on the Missouri Pacific tracks at Fifth and Madison streets, where services will be conducted inside the car.
Postmaster John Guthrie received notice from Washington that an extra clerk will be assigned from July 26 to October 1 at the Topeka post office to relieve the Indy clerk taking a vacation. The arrangement ensures each regular clerk can take a fifteen day break. Calvin Conron authorized the temporary staffing.
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