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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1904
Page
5
A garbled Topeka State Journal page carried telegraphic items from the Associated Press. The scattered notes touch on Hearst and vice presidential chatter, government factory moves, presidential salary debates, European rulers, a police dog remark, and civic sentiment about local credit and future investment in Topeka.
A fragmented analysis notes the shifting balance of imports and exports among the United States, China, and Japan. It highlights cotton, textiles, and kerosene as major U.S. exports, with China andJapan absorbing significant shares of manufactured goods while India and Southeast Asia influence cotton markets and oil shipments.
The article notes flour exports from the United States to the Orient, including Hong Kong and Japan, totaling about 716 thousand dollars. It discusses the large value and slow growth of flour shipments, with figures for several destinations and a reflection on the share of total American flour exports to the region.
A garbled Kansas newspaper snippet reports scattered items from Medicine Lodge to Beattie and Kiowa. It mentions a Moon arrest for cow theft, a fatal back wound, a pension note, and a misread bee mistaken for sprain. It references local towns, incidents, and odd anecdotes with fragmented names.
The Topeka Choral Society of about two hundred voices will present its annual concert with the symphony orchestra at the Auditorium tomorrow night. Violist Helph Wylie will assist with two numbers, and demand for seats has been steady with a reserved-seat chart for the concert. Admission is 35 cents.
Governor Baller plans to attend the Republican state convention in Wien, likely leaving tomorrow via the Suite Fe. Rumors suggest he may remain in Topeka after the session. Gaylord Brought Back and Smet Lucas report progress from Joplin, Me. Gaylord, colored, faces Topeka charges over alleged sold mortgaged property tied to a bicycle purchase from J. B. Simpson. A mortgage for 42.50 covers part of the bike price. the remaining dispute seems mistaken.
Fragmentary text mentions a city, Dresden and Canada, an auction and a fund. It references moral inquiry, citizens and enthusiasts, and a wheel in honor of a deal. Lacks coherent events or dates.
A fragment notes spring humors affect many people causing pimples bolls eruptions loss of appetite fatigue indigestion and headache. It suggests relief comes by early action and building up the system with a remedy.
Advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills as a superior spring medicine for blood purification. Claims radical and permanent cures of scrofula salt rheum boils pimples rheumatism catarrh dyspepsia and other ills. Urges readers to avoid substitutes and purchase Hood's today.
Washington March 7 Senator elect Charles Dick presented credentials to delay Hanna for the unexpired term ending next March and the full term beginning then. The debate touched armor plate contracts with Patterson proposing a factory to supply armor and Hale raising a point of order after discussion. In the House Civer Street filed the privileged Hay resolution on postmasters salaries, with action postponed to Wednesday for debate after printing.
Washington reacts to a telegram from HE Shupe and A E Tubor denying Joseph F Smith’s claim that Joseph Smith Jr originated polygamy. Senate panel chairman Burrows questions Rex Currows and calls for subpoenas as a response to allegations that Brigham Young promoted the practice in 1852 and Utah courts have treated the Mormon church differently. The message asserts the church distance from polygamy and challenges Smith’s family claims while citing Book of Mormon references.
Harlin aged 65 woke from a dream of being in a runaway with horses. He told his widow he was killed, then died minutes later of heart failure brought on by the excitement.
The report notes steady government bonds and metal market activity with silver at four dollars per ounce. It records mercantile and banking exchanges in New York and Erie, mentions sterling exchange, and lists daily rates for bills and fractions of Mexican dollars amid a general market calm.
Funeral notices for Nellie Karr at Kansas Avenue Methodist Church Topeka Grace Cathedral services for Rev A A Beatty and Anna Peterson in Los Angeles. Samuel M Staples of Topeka and Osage County resident died in Trinidad Colorado aged 78. He was born August 26 1828 married Phoebe Branson in 1862. Survived by three children Isaac B Jamon and Anabel. Obituary notes Osage County residents and local origins. Also a medicinal advert for Doan's Ointment and a note on a Lua? cure for consumption and cough.
The Shawnee County board of assessors reorganizes with Allison as chairman and Marehil Wa as secretary to adjust valuations. Changes aim to benefit farmers while raising some rates for riding horses, with adjustments to beef cattle, hogs, and hogs. potatoes value doubled and horses revalued. Private bonds, stocks, and credits will be assessed at actual value as part of a broader tax shakeup, with efforts to ensure equitable treatment and stricter enforcement by H. M. Philips and county officials.
Tonight the council will debate directing the city engineer to report on the needed sewer site for a proposed sixth ward sewer. Supporters of Colonel Hughes demand a supplemental investigation to counter the claim that the present one inch line suffices. City Engineer McCabe says a 36 inch sewer is necessary and proposes an outside engineer if required, offering to pay.
News arrives that M. D. Greenlee of Lavetenor former secretary of the Fraternal Aid association died this morning after a short illness. A longtime county clerk of Douglas County, he was active in local politics and a respected member of the Fraternal Aid circle. He leaves a wife and a daughter.
Four prisoners appeared before Jade Hazen in the tiwestet court this afternoon, pled guilty and received sentences. Henry Lant was sent to the Reformatory at Hutchinson for escaping from Topeka State Industrial.
William Walker, alias Catfish Walker, jailed for an indeterminate sentence for stealing wheat from a railroad car. Tom received an indeterminate sentence in the penitentiary for stealing a harness set. Dick Purse fined 3 and given 60 days for stealing an overcoat.
A major blaze in Rochester on March 7 started at the Olympia Canvas store and spread rapidly toward the Powera hotel block and the Ellewood office building. City fire crews have responded with all available apparatus as the inferno worsens.
A critique of Rand, McNally & Co. new novel Confessions of Marguerite, noting tame tone versus earlier confessions, and detailing the tale of a country schoolteacher pursuing art in Chicago. The review finds it overdrawn yet showing talent, with epigrammatic lines and debate over the author’s gender.
A new volume from Dodd Meades & Company chronicles John Peter Zenger’s career and trial. Led by Livingston Rutherford, it includes an account of the 1728 printing office start, 1733 newspaper launch, Cosby open attack, and the Zenger trial with reproductions and rare documents.
A historical reflection traces the Zenger trial’s role in protecting press freedom, Andrew Hamilton’s defense, and the jury’s right to truth in defiance of prevailing legal maxims. It links the case to pre revolutionary sentiment and early American democracy, with editorial notes on publishing and periodicals.
George H. Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post and noted businessman turned writer, announces Old Gorgon Graham a new book in letters. Unlike the self made merchant, these letters tell the son to father tale though Lorimer initially avoided the format. Doubleday Page & Co will publish.
Various items about books attracting attention including The Indomitable Automobile in Country Life, a sentry endurance run through New York state by Robert Shackleton, The Great Adventurer tied to spring announcements and Naples, a new Chimmin Fadden stories collection Orca, Chinele Pad foniy pithana, Tees Wartime theater notes, James Zoatball’s patrol, and Ellen Ginger’s new Virginia spies story Undermettle.
Prof. Frederick W. Ellis of Wash burn college is under quarantine for measles. Monica society will meet tonight at the National hotel parlors. Commercial Club holds its regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. Miss Lillie Lam has gone to Kansas City to work in Emery, Bird, Thayer's millinery department. E.G. Shoal, former restorer, was arrested Saturday for maintaining nuisance at the Santa Fe depot. previously charged but acquitted. The Topeka Commercial Club distributes rules for a $250 prize contest for a musical setting of Quivira by Eugene Ware to be performed at the Semi Centenary concert in May. A new job printing outfit is advertised at 101 Kansas Avenue by W. H. Caldwell. Santa Fe train No. 4 reportedly jumped the track near Argentine this morning. Officials say the engine and front cars left the track. no one injured. The train was hours late.
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