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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
7
A reminder that paregoric laudanum and morphine, harmful narcotic drugs, have caused child deaths and lasting health damage. Druggists must label narcotics as poison and avoid selling to children. Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears Chas H Fletcher signature.
March market notes show wheat prices fluctuating amid weather and demand shifts while Kansas City and New York exchanges reveal cattle receipts and market tone. Livestock prices ease for steers and heifers with mixed futures and seasonal demand affecting grain and wool quotations across regions.
Shamokia Pa March 2 The third day’s session of the Miners convention began promptly at o’clock with business transacted behind closed doors. The wage scale committee has spent most of yesterday arranging a scale for delegates but their report was not ready when President Mitchell called the meeting to order. He said the committee would likely not present conclusions until tomorrow and expected an early adjournment. The resolutions committee could not submit a revised scale as yet. Mitchell dismissed letters from pit owners as nonrecognition. Division Superintendent Daly said the company would not meet the committee and the employees had erred in bypassing officers. Daly added most workers have no cause for dissatisfaction and only about four percent might strike if one occurs. Many employees doubted a strike would occur or be decisive.
Berlin dispatch details Prince Henry and Princess Henry arrival at Kiel with sons. Crowds cheer as the party faces security concerns and near-misses while Emperor William and others discuss plans, including a Chicago stockyards visit and a Danish steamer sighting.
Historic Topeka classifieds show multiple job ads for permanent canvassers and laborers at Indian Territory Colorado Kansas plants, plus early 20th century rental listings. Worn names include McManus & Co and Osborn, with addresses on North Kansas Avenue and Soldier Creek area referencing Topeka Kansas.
A series of brief dispatches note a marine collision near Naxos with eleven drowned, a S Congregational pastor Win H Sullman winning a presidency offer at Tabor College Iowa, and interest in another western college for him. Other items report Ottoman diplomats urged intervention, Bank of England dividend, railroad loan transfer, Dr Thomas Dunn English illness, Chilean legation changes, ministerial appointments, medical recoveries, corporate stock offerings, and legislative moves on Sunday baseball bans. Also noted are rename of a torpedo boat Roosevelt guardship, and several new swimming records set by Olympic Club athletes, with Leary and Brewer achieving multiple marks.
A cluttered list of rental offers and property sales appears with rooms for rent near Polk Street, a three room house, and various farm and city parcels. Listings mention prices, locations like Monroest and Topeka avenues, and notices for furniture, horses, wagons, and a windmill.
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