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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1901
Page
8
Audience silences erupt as Jobe DeAlme heckles the audience then threatens to halt the act before finally resuming, while police and officials note tensions over a new law requiring physician jurors in future trials.
Miss Misa Isabel Smith hosted a five course dinner at her Home of Topeka Avenue on Wednesday night for her fifteenth birthday. The evening featured toasts, dancing, and guests including Miss Hazel Malvone Miss Nellie Millspaugh Miss Helen McClintock Miss Ethel Morton Miss Alice Alston Miss Eva Smith Mr Howell Tones and others. Additional gatherings included Walter Goodwin hosting a party at Miss Fordyre home and a thimble party at Mrs Irwin Prebble s Tyler Street home with music by Miss Ethel Lang and Mrs F Foster. The society notes mention Nellie Nevill and Holland Millard Turner marrying at Nevill home with plan to Guthrie Oklahoma, Canon Bywater officiating. The column lists numerous social visits and travels of local residents and club activities across Topeka and surrounding towns.
A New York hotel man and a woman report relief after quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. They cite calmer nerves, better sleep, and improved heart and digestion, with another friend noting weight gain and renewed energy after abandoning coffee for Postum.
The federation plans a meeting at Unity church at 2 30 tomorrow with 65 delegates to be freed and credentials issued. Arn J R Burton has returned home to Abliene. Prof and Mrs W H Wasson of Rosseville visit and plan for a home here. Numerous locals visit, attend social events, and preparations for weddings and civic notices fill the day in Topeka and surrounding areas.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses public tributes and debts, noting how authorities lean on talents during revolutions. The excerpt mentions taxes and the inevitability of death, reflecting a fiscal rhetorical line without clear events or names.
Warden Jewett proposes a ten cent admission fee for all penitentiary visitors to reimburse the state for guard time and fund the prison library. He argues that current touring ties up guards and the fee would offset labor costs while preventing visitors from roaming the prison unaided.
The steamer Ger mani reports last night near Gore Bay light the tug Tecumseh, in towable condition, signaled distress. After taking on two men and a woman, the tug lurched and sank, dragging down the captain his sister and a Toronto man named Forbes, with three drowned total.
The Mexico City Light Heat and Power company, funded with 5 million in American capital, has extended its erection timetable and will begin construction soon. Contracts are being placed for a large gas works costing about 1.5 million, including 17 000 tons of piping. The plant, first of its kind in the city, should be operational within 12 months.
Philadelphia May 2 John P F Lewis vice Dresident of Merchants Trust company an incorporator of the new Philadelphia Trans Atlantic Steamship company outlines plans for Brentia backed with capital stock to build its own freighters for cargo and tram business between Philadelphia and London with possible passenger service later.
The fragment outlines a Morgan related scheme involving the Philadelphia Reading Company and Reading’s interests. It mentions Trenton, Taylor and Taylor, and Charles M. Taylor’s Sons, with a Reading counterparty fleet under the Philadelphia Trans-Avantle line. It also notes Leylandt company control and a Manchester line docking at Port Richmond Headings wharves.
May 3 Topeka report details the Gentry dog and pony show drawing crowds and earning as much as 160 dollars daily for city access. City clerk notes receipts of 35 dollars one day, while show personnel claim 200 dollars daily. A separate Chicago & Alton wreck near Peon injures none seriously. train derailed by spreading switch ties, no major delay.
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