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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1902
Page
5
A Topeka section brims with Easter and Holy Week notes, local marriages and divorces, civic events, and upcoming gatherings. Church services, barbershop rules, and construction bids mingle with health and crime notes as residents plan outdoor work, vacations, and public ceremonies.
The Mills Dry Goods on Mills Dry Goods Store promotes Grace and Suede finished gloves, noted as popular for Quetaire style. Two and three clasp wrists suit street coats, while Perrin's Gloves are not excellent.
A garbled OCR fragment describes a claimed cure named King’s New Stetar Consumpsism, mentioning hops and sufferers with bronchitis. It references a free sample print bottle and a brigade company, but the text is largely unintelligible and lacks coherent details.
Invitations out for Edna Crane and Amy Jelson and others mark April wedding plans. Mrs. Skinner and Miss McCauley wed in Topeka with families and guests, while Mathews and Burnett couples host receptions. Palmistry event and card parties enliven social calendar as Mrs. Hillis and other visitors arrive.
A testimonial from Miss Elizabeth Caine praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for easing eight months of suppressed menses and generalized illness. The letter, signed by Evizarmn Carre of Fond du Lac, highlights relief and regular cycles after a few weeks and notes Mrs Pinkham offers free advice to young women.
Political gossip says Democrats seek to block Galen Nichols by backing John J. Schenck for county attorney. Schenck, previously considered for the Thirty-ninth district seat but declining, would run if nominated with party support and Republican opposition, aiming for a three cornered race. Schenck, a Norpeka lawyer, is not known as a prohibitionist or radical whisky man.
Detective Cal Ferguson, long rumored dead after the Montgomery case, resurfaces amid Indian Territory work. Official denials from J. D. M. Hamilton of Santa Fe in Topeka confirm Ferguson’s planned return within days. Tickets to California via the Great Rock Island Short Line offered March 2 to April 20.
The Passion service will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in North Topeka, led by Rev. Canon Bywater, starting at noon on Good Friday. The service outlines litany, penitential office, prayers, and hymns with chants and readings, concluding with the eleventh hour devotion.
Ramsey and Rameey Topeka paving contractors win the Fort Scott contract at 1.59 dollars per square yard using Pittsburg brick and concrete. also awarded sandstone curbing and other curb work at 47 and 16 cents per foot. Fire devastates Bethel’s business section, losses listed at 550.00.
Brief travel note indicates routes to California via Santa Fe in March and April. Mentions Bea free chair cars and tourist services as features for passengers. Other details are unreadable in the fragment.
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