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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1899
Page
3
An advertisement extols dyes that claim permanent color for cotton and wool, with guarantees of colorfastness and washproof performance. It promises dyes that won’t fade or rub off, suitable for dyeing cotton fabrics and ensuring success for color applications.
James Manning of the Kansas City Ball Club plans to invest in Excelsior Springs hospitality and build a 155 room hotel with gas lighting and a $65,000 capital outlay. Manning aims to keep team members at springs during the project morale period. Details remain unsettled as organizers finalize the plan.
A distorted account hints at covert arms support to Filipinos with mention of meetings, figures, and officials. The text references authorities and contentious action, noting concerns over military aid and responsibility, though with fragmented wording and unclear specifics.
Fragmented OCR notes cite sharp opposition and financial strains as cotton seed oil from America disrupts Francs markets. Mentions of gate costs, edible pondict, and rising stock speculation accompany references to large uptick in shipments and an annual total near ten thousand plus.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions hours worked and salary notes. It references a sergeant and payroll concerns but the text is incomplete, with multiple broken words and nonsensical phrases, preventing a clear event or outcome from being established.
In New York investors bought 5 million of Missouri Pacific mortgage and trust bonds held by the late Jay Gould. The sale, led by M Goldman Fach & Co, aimed to complete a capitalization plan. The trust owns over half the issued capital, valued around 405 thousand? The price was believed to be near par, with the deal tied to the estate’s restructuring and Gould’s earlier circuit.
The Pyramid Pile Cure claims to cure all forms of piles without pain or surgery. It touts immediate relief and a radical, lasting cure, contrasting itself with harmful injections and other dubious treatments. Prepared and sold by a Marshall, Iowa company.
The Topeka Commercial Club backs a bonds plan to fund a new city hall and auditorium with 360,000 in bonds and 60,000 to be raised by other means. City officials and club members debate bond amounts and interest terms while planning a city council review next Monday.
Former Massachusetts congressman Barrows, nominated for Librarian of Congress, declines the post in a letter. He cites inability to meet expectations and provide proper support without Senate action, noting the Senate’s failure to act on prior nomination.
Miss Natalie Schenck started an endless chain by asking friends to donate a dime and write to others. Weekly letters brought in 25 000 dollars, later turned over to the Red Cross to buy ice for Santiago camp veterans.
An epidemic Grim winter in Wellington hits children and elderly. Measles join diphtheria grip and meningitis as killers. Nine people died last week as undertakers bury the dead, with few children spared.
Fort Scott March 9 Chas D Steele a sugar capitalist from Hosten bert is in town to make a definite proposition regarding Parkinson sugar plant. He has reviewed the Tulines consulting report and expects a sale to a company that will create labor and investment.
San Francisco reports from March 8 that the steamer Alameda brought news of a gold find in western Australia. A puger weighing about twenty and a half pounds was located near Marble Bar, roughly twenty miles from Pilbara’s coast, by a party including MCFiervs and BAmMed Parkes. The major vein was found two miles north of the Panjorieen site, with more than three ounces of smaller pieces nearby. The exact details remain uncertain due to damaged OCR.
Cable to Washington lists casualties near pumping station and at San Pedro Macazine. Killed include Private Roscoe W. Young and Captain Claude H. Aughthigh among Nebraska and Wyoming units. Other injuries range from neck and chest to leg and knee with severities noted. Private Sid ney O. Dickenson listed with breast injury. Severe gaps and garbled names reflect early telegraph reporting.
A nitro glycerine bomb labeled nitro elyterine was discovered today in front of the Hivex offer husking. The device was a piece of iron pipe about eighteen inches long and an inch thick, sealed at both ends and stamped nitro elyterine. Police say the bomb was filled with white glycerine, and details remain sparse. The Hicox building houses the headquarters of Nick's Plate and Cleveland and Lorain railroads, along with many other offices and stores.
Santa Fe to erect a brick and stone office building costing 325000 with construction to begin soon in Pueblo. In Kansas City a Masonic Consistory may form, as lodge leaders anticipate a Scottish Rite charter. Smallpox reported in Atchison Crawford family near J P Brown place, prompting likely school dismissal for a period.
Col Payne of Ohio son of ex Senator Payne buys the inter residence at Thomasville Georgia from Van Duzer of New York. Payne will occupy the residence at Weather Indications Chicago March 9 Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with variable winds in Kansas.
Hutchinson reports the city has secured a large three story Shermins Street West building, soon to be converted into city hall and fire department headquarters. The 1887-vintage block, once a Moore speculation, has seen mortgaged sums rise to about twenty thousand dollars.
Salina, March 9. P H Dolan's home one and a half miles northeast of Salina was destroyed by fire caused by a defective flue. The fire was noticed by Dolan's boys in the orchard. Only a small portion of furniture was saved. The house and contents were uninsured. Loss about $2,000. Dolan is away in Beloit at a state board of charities meeting.
Madame Charles Pianchini, wife of the noted scenic artist, was sentenced to five years penal servitude after her trial for attempting to poison her husband. As she left the courtroom she tried to stab herself with a hatpin in a failed death by self action.
In New York on March 9 the body of Josephine Kipling daughter of Rudyard Kipling was cremated at Fresh Pond crematory following a brief service at Miss Julie De Forests residence where the child died Present at the service were Mrs Kipling Mrs Dunham Dr Conland and the De Forest household members
A Saint Louis Post Dispatch excerpt critiques ornate Hindu praise in a youth magazine parody, calling Lady Curzon a gilded goddess amid colorful metaphors. It also recounts a French writer’s analysis of life preservers on the Bourgogne wreck, noting how wording affected dangers and suggesting renaming age old terms to safer usage.
Amid a stormy session the Populist bloc backed J. W. Tapp a Salvation Army leader for mayor A. A. Glenn a Democrat for city treasurer Amos AlcClefland a Populist for city clerk and O D Kirk a Democrat for judge of the new city court. Meanwhile Black Sea violence continued with English steamers ashore near Poti a Turkish steamer wrecked and a sailing ship sunk with the crew lost.
A fiery oration condemns liquor, linking alcohol to crime and ruin. The speaker paints a bleak stream from its source to its end, urging thoughts of wrecked families, jails, asylums, and scaffolds as proof of the moral danger. It portrays alcohol as the root of vice and social decay.
Robert G Ingersoll spoke at the Academy of Music last evening arguing that the Christian devil is essential to the biblical system. He contrasted belief in God with a life of unbelief and closed with a sobering verdict that it is better to have no heaven than a heaven and a devil, a stance that drew mixed reactions from the audience.
Notice posted at the Ohio Tron company's plant states a 10 percent wage increase beginning April 1. About 200 workers will be affected. The plant had been idle five years, resumed a year ago, and now operates at full capacity.
The Rainy Day club has not reformed skirts on wet days and has buoyed shoemakers instead. Women’s clubs, while aiming to help, often address tangents, leaving the rainy day skirt unpopular except on bikes or in mud. Rainy day boots are stout, cork-soled, felt tied, with flat heels and bulldog toes, likened to golf boots.
A Chicago Chronicle excerpt notes that 407 Prussian schoolchildren under fifteen died by suicide over a decade ending 1896, all from elementary or vocational schools. It questions the toll of German education amid later commentary on national economy and living standards.
A fragment describes a suffocating sensation with persistent severe thirst and painful limbs. The tainted text conveys intense bodily agony and fear, but lacks clear context, dates, names, or places.
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