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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1898
Page
8
A vintage advertisement extols Dr Hay's Health Hair Food as nourishment for hair roots. It claims dramatic improvements in health, abundance, and beauty, urging readers to use the product to stave off thinning and to recommend it to friends.
At a packed Carnegie Hall event, ex-Senator Hull and other speakers urged voters to back the Democrats in next week’s election. The rally praised President McKinley’s policies while warning against Republican plans and calling for a Democratic House to guard against overreach and wartime excess.
The campaign in New York focuses on Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Croker as Roosevelt rebuts Croker’s attacks on the police department and state governance. Roosevelt defends his administration, cites crime reductions during his term, and calls out Croker’s alleged ties to vice and corruption while addressing crowds along the Long Island rail line.
A heated tirade denounces Croker for trying to seize control of city and state by corrupting police and judiciary. The speaker asserts honest officers ousted corruption and warns that Croker would make officials his pliant tools from mayor to governor, undermining protest against malfeasance.
If a baby is too thin or gains weight slowly, Scott's Emulsion is advertised as a fat forming food. It claims to plump the child, boost weight, color the cheeks, and improve overall health, with thin children naturally taking to it as they do milk.
Kansas City reports Santa FeRail adopts a tin box layout number system to prevent misrouted freight. Each car holds shipments for specific routes with tickets matched to layout numbers. Checks by truckmen and clerks create a double check, reducing delays and errors. Iowa Central used it first, Santa Fe now follows.
Chicago Nov 3. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe directors issue circular to stockholders arguing purchase of the Sanisco and San Joaquin Valley railroad will add through traffic to Northern California. The line earns more than operating costs and taxes in its present unconnected state. future earnings should rise when to San Francisco. If needed a connecting line by bonds or mortgage may be built, though a trackage rights arrangement between Bakersfield and Mojave could suffice.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway built a fine artesian well at Sanger delivering 172,600 gallons of water daily upon completion. A Temple Texas YMC A building contract went to Smith Harden for $10,000. Engineer Wm Gray of El Dorado logged 53 days aboard without a Sunday break. J N Beach, once a boiler maker at Tel Tabor, now farms near White Rock Okla. He reports 9,000 pounds of grapes, $45 in wine sale, 195 gallons produced, and large yields in corn, wheat, hay. Russell Harding, formerly Missouri Pacific superintendent, was elected Cotton Belt road superintendent. Missouri Pacific to Union Pacific coal car supply: 150 cars weekly via Fort Scott. Six MP men in Atchison report rising rents from $12 to $18. Rio Grande engines used between Las Vegas and Raton. Wm Eckmin, longtime conductor, lost a limb in a Mexican Central accident, now in El Paso with a $8,000 check. Conductor Sperry and Brakeman Olcott’s placements debated amid stockman complaints. California line crews will run Albuquerque to Ta Junta via Gutcombe, Las Vegas, with several conductors listed. Engine S36, Jack Parralt and Fred Patton on work train between Goodland and Norton. Brakeman Ed King injured.
A Dodge City rail report details crews laid off and reassigned, new men put to work on the Santa Fe between Dodge City and Lang, ballast and surfacing work improving the track, and several engineers and conductors moved or returning from layoff. It mentions medical leave, a promotional shift, and upcoming trials of engine 231, with roundhouse and water service crews active on the division.
San Francisco November 3 E P Ripley president of the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe outlined plans for paying Valley fund stockholders. Cash payments to those who have deposited by January 1, with a grace period for the rest, and full par value for all who come in before the deadline. No consolidation with Valley stockholders and no final decision on track use with Southern Pacific between Mojave and Bakersfield.
Union Pacific main line sees heavy traffic on the Solomon branch with mail and express trains arriving in Beloit up to an hour late. Conductor James Dearborn, succeeding W. G. Brinkerhott, dons a new passenger conductor’s malt and buys a top Beloit residence, planning to move his family from Seton City. He has spent years with UP, rising from brakeman to conductor.
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