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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1903
Page
5
Notes by Miss Stephens discuss publications with a Dickens and Poe flavor. The piece weaves literary impressions with a broad array of names and references, offering a playful yet dense reading of contemporary works and authors.
A critical excerpt reviews a 19th century frontier romance described by General Charles King. It contrasts vivid tales of the Platte region, frontier fort life, and horse adventures with a media tone that blends slang, social custom, and Western romance. The piece notes the author’s experienced narration and touches on themes of adventure and masculine trials.
A fragmented excerpt describes a nostalgic tale featuring Elizabeth's children and their "real toys" that come alive under a protective watch. The prose blends memory and moral instruction with a gentle critique of modern knowledge, weaving in literary allusions and vivid, if imperfect, character portraits.
The Marignina River is slated to be dammed about forty miles from Luzena Capital to supply Banila and surrounding districts. The project aims to improve purity and prevent supply disruption by moving the intake upriver and elevating the source by about twenty feet, with a new gravity-fed distribution system and multiple conduits to towns and sewers.
An unreadable wartime fragment references civilians under siege, arming groups, and upheaval. The text mentions Theklon's Armies and a signatory list, with scattered names and places, creating a cryptic report of conflict and displacement.
Maj Pond is recorded as having carried a Beecher’s Bible in Kansas. The item highlights Civil War era religious and political tensions surrounding churches and abolitionist sentiment in the state.
Major James Bustos Pond, famed author soldier and celebrated manager of celebrities, died at his Jersey City home after a month of illness from a gangrenous infection following a minor operation. The obituary notes his influence as a pioneering figure who guided many famous performers and lists a wide array of notable names associated with his career and abolitionist circles.
A late 19th century reminiscence recounts Mark Twain’s humor against travel delays and contract disputes with Major Pond. The anecdotes describe Twain joking through difficulties, sharing stage with Frederick Douglass and Anna Dickinson, and his enduring popularity as a writer with broad reach in American life.
A curated set of short sermons and thoughts by Rev. Thomas Van Ness, Rev. T. W. Campbell, Rev. J. M. Halde man, Rev. I. He Martis, George Adams, Dr. Landrum, Rev. George A. Marchintoch, and Rev. Ros. McArthur. Topics cover love of Christ, bodily resurrection, suffering, divine knowledge, happiness, everyday heroism, physical and mental man, evolution of mankind, and the crown of humanity with Christ as the exemplar of virtue.
Fragments discuss a Christ painting and a silver cup, with quoted lines about truth and purity. Included is a Dr Frank Be Witt Talmage reference and a Parisi science talk on inducing anesthesia by interrupted electric currents. The text blends theology, art, and early electrophysiology in unclear context.
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