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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1903
Page
7
The State Journal reports on national affairs from Topeka with full Associated Press dispatches. It notes the Senate’s time-wasting responses, clues about Reed Egbert, Pat Crowe in Virginia, and the canal treaty fight with Panama.
Panamas commerce amounts to about three million dollars annually with a population near 20 thousand and an area around 60,000 square miles. Principal ports are Panaga on the Pacific and Calon on the Atlantic, visited by over a thousand vessels and handling more than a million tons of merchandise and 160 thousand passengers. The city of Panama counts about 24 thousand people, Panaman was founded and rebuilt in 1673, while Calon was established earlier, with a diverse population including Spaniards Indians Africans and Europeans.
The report shows United States dominance in imports at Colon with 1908 imports valued at about 173 570 dollars from the United States and major shares from France England and Germany. Exports from Panama and Colon to the United States totaled hundreds of thousands in 1908, with bananas, cocoanuts, hides, rubber, and coffee among key exports. The text also notes Panama links by weekly steamship schedules to San Francisco and Valparaiso, rail service across the isthmian route, and a silver currency with about 190 percent exchange.
An Atchison man, long sick, is told by a doctor there is nothing physically wrong but that his issue is not earning money quickly enough to satisfy him, reflecting a report on his condition and outlook.
A collection of short witty sayings and humorous maxims. observations on marriages, money, and social roles. Notes on birthdays, obituaries, fools, and diplomacy mix with sharp one liners about health, luck, and appetite for life.
Fragmented OCR reads as a mistaken ad note about a familiar product line. It mentions Castoria and a signature box, with garbled phrases likely from a vintage pharmacy or medical advertisement. No clear event or date is present.
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