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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1902
Page
8
The Binck Path Troubadours performed last night at Crawford, delivering a lively program praised by the crowd. Maletione teesee Moautin, a Mid-State talent, joined the act with notable singing, while the company carried strong ensemble work throughout the evening.
Fragmented text describes widespread illness and medical concern about a flu outbreak. Mentions treatments, responses, and names that may be persons or places, with garbled OCR hindering clarity.
New York reports strong belief that the yacht Constitution will be placed in commission for the next season. The five New York Yacht Club builders claim the Constitution rivals Columbia in speed and weatherly qualities, with Captain Barr set to helm the 110-foot Misgola or Constitution as needed to defend the America's Cup in 1903.
The Santa Fe issues circulars for this season with low round trip fares from Topeka to Denver and Colorado points. Ten day July, early August and September windows offer $15 to Denver and back, with $25 to Glenwood Springs and $5 to Ogden round trip. Regular one way from Topeka is $17, making these deals significantly cheaper. Rock Island and others follow with reduced rates, after last year’s pressures to maintain higher prices.
In New York on March 11 a Madison avenue electric car carrying about one hundred passengers halted near a portable hoisting engine at Porty-fourth Street. The engine’s steam released when a valve was shaved, spraying the car and injuring about fifty people though none seriously. The incident halted traffic as workers responded.
Stador A. Fon tour Xavier, Brazil’s consul general in New York, announced the election of Dr Francisco De Paula Rodrigues Alves as president of Brazil. Alves, a native of Sao Paulo, is expected to take office after the proclamation of Brazil’s new tenure of four years.
Denver Post figure James Barton Adams travels from Denver to Topeka to be with his dying mother Mrs Sarah Ewing Adams in Oakland. The aged woman, eighty plus, has lived a long life in the Methodist church and counts sons James Barton Adams and Joseph B Adams, plus daughter Mrs Margaret Bailey Pelton, among her mourners.
Topeka civic appeal urges citizens to support Marshall's band at the Auditorium for its seventeenth annual concert. The piece extols the band as a city asset needing funds for rent heat uniforms instruments and other costs. Citizens are urged to attend with families to sustain the organization and its public role.
In Seattle on March 1, discussion centered on completing the British transpacific cable. Talks touched on a Chinese coast point and the project’s progress, with government plans to advance the cable plant, including a possible Barclay Sound site.
St Paul March 11 The first special session in 21 years adjourned after five weeks. The tax code and constitutional amendments were debated, with later measures enabling a general income tax, a tax on salaries over 1000, and methods for taxing public service corporations. An inheritance tax and real estate tax bill passed, and railroad accounts will be inspected. A 350000 state exhibition fund was approved for St Louis next year.
A customer from Paris Texas writes of suffering with piles for years and failing medical care. After trying Pyramid Pile Care, blood flow lessened and the writer recovered enough to walk, do housework, and praise the medicine. The letter cites doctor costs and skepticism before relief.
A jumble of notes from Topeka and nearby towns covers races and races for office, court actions, construction, and social events. Officials and residents—from Sheriff Cook in Lawrence to James Troutman at Fort Scott—appear in a stream of brief mentions including theater ads, church notices, and local crimes.
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