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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1904
Page
9
Miss Edythe M. Perry of 125 West 4th Street Fredonia New York writes to Dr M M Fenner requesting a Cook Book after claiming complete cure from three bottles of Kidney and Backache Cure purchased from a local druggist. She thanks him for relief and asks for the free treatise on kidneys.
Community notices list residents moving to new homes and businesses in North Topeka. Changes include families relocating near Kansas Avenue, a new grocery store prospect, a furniture firm, and a planned hotel upgrade. The week features social club meetings and an upcoming conference at Asbury church with Bishop Hamilton.
George Guber of 109 South Oak Street disappeared after leaving his house to the wood shed. A thief entered through an unlocked back door while Mr Guber was away and took his pocketbook with $300 in currency. Other doors and windows showed no signs of tampering.
In St Paul the law school held an evening session when two health inspectors arrived and ordered vaccination after a student contracted smallpox. About thirty students attempted to flee, escaping to the courthouse and rushing for hats and coats. The rest were set to be vaccinated at home or the school.
Dick Johnson who ran a lunch foundry on the avenue is arrested and kept in jail after being taken at midnight when he could not secure a bond. John McCrow, a persistent offender, again deserts and leaves town amid reports of brutality and flight. A robbery near the Baptist tabernacle ends with a purse snatching by a black thief.
A sale listing many china and glassware items with special prices. Dresden China Dinner Sets priced at 3 25, semi porcelain sets from 9 50, 6 piece chamber sets at 2 50, glassware and berry sets discounted. Japanese chocolate sets offered at 6 98. 25 percent discount on all fancy china and various odds and ends in china dishes. World’s Fair souvenir dishes priced as marked.
A fragment describes a vessel with sails set making about 19 knots with light cargo. The text mentions a lady shopping and a single small fractional US currency as the purse’s cash, plus a jokey note about a black thug and a plan to catch and beat him.
In Derby Connecticut a wild eyed man walked to a pew and sat on a deaconess Mrs James Bentley in her lap during a First Methodist service. The pastor continued the sermon as men tried to eject him. In Cleveland Ohio a labor council rejected eulogies for Senator Hanna praising trusts and calling them enemies to workers. A condolence letter to the Hanna family was ordered.
Mrs. W. Watkins of Pleasant City writes that after pneumonia and a terrible cough a trial of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption saved her son War from peril. The letter praises the remedy and offers free bottles at a local address.
New York dispatch notes Iron Age discussion on United States Steel Corp planned purchase of over 100000 tons of standard Bessemer pig iron for March and April at 13 dollars. Analysts question motive amid ample ore, idle furnaces, and labor, suggesting strategic price and supply considerations amid Lake Erie negotiations and sliding scales for billets and rolled products.
A faction opposed to the federal ring arrives from Colgate with 200 pounds of dynamite. Explosions injure attorney W. S. Palmer and a chair-wielding mayor Mike Conlan defends, insurgents form a separate convention. Police confiscate dynamite and discontinue riots amid planned Choctaw nation convention discussions.
Armour & Co purchases the Chicago plant of Themes J Lipton & Co for about 250000 dollars. The brief item notes the acquisition as a business move affecting Lipton’s local manufacturing capacity.
Kansas Cry reports a rapid rise of saloons downtown. Eight joints occupy the main Minnesota avenue stretch between Fifth and Seventh streets, with two more being fitted. The Liberal League, now about 200 members, plans to mobilize against saloon power. police records note 24 fined establishments, while more than 150 joints are claimed by locals.
Leonard Bredley of Bellevue Nebraska once smoked 100 cigarettes daily. A fall while walking on ice in St Louis ended his craving and cured him. The notice also mentions reduced California tourist tickets from Topeka, with $25 fares to California and ongoing Rail connections via Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Colorado Springs.
A profile outlines Jack London’s varied life from sailor, miner, and oyster pirate to writer. It notes his Klondike days, seafaring work, Arctic exploits, and rise to fame with The Call of the Wild, while mentioning his war correspondence in Japan and arrest during photography.
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