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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1903
Page
2
Topeka items note a county bridge expense, school tracks and street car work, civic meetings, and a grand opera event. Mentions include Shawvies, Shawnee County, Haskell county, and several local officials, with updates on repairs, appointments, and a potential gubernatorial debate amid busy civic life.
The Texan captained by Morrison of the American Hawaiian Steamship line arrives in Philadelphia after a nonstop Tacoma to Delaware Breakwater voyage. The ship averaged about ten knots, covering around miles a day, carrying 1, 8 beee of sugar and general cargo from Tacoma and Seattle to New York.
Real estate transfers listed include Cethl and husband to HL FE Devis with Lot 3 and Block 3 at Park Place edition LA. Stebbina and wife to C Evans for 71,600 dollars with Lot 28-4-4 and 8. Longwell and wife to FF Maloney for 90 dollars with Lot 9 and Block 18 in Auburn date calthor. George Heap and wife to someone for 200 dollars southwest quarter 5-11-15. J Rosen and wife to BE Senate on Street south Klein’s adds. Wentworth addition transfers including Auburntale addition parcels. Sparehawk to W B Kirkpatrick at Bendot 663 Van Buren Street. Walnut Grove subdivision transfer. Thompson to CR Cole for 45 dollars with Oat theme 634 and 6 Forest Avenue. Roundtree and Lageta’s Fears 1 dollar with lots in Highland key additions.
Nov 1 in Wichita Kat and Rex J D Itchey pastor deliver talks at First Presbyterian church Rex J D Itchey presented on science and university work. Event marks fourth annual state conference on charities and corrections with information desks set up for public inquiries.
A Chicago backed syndicate seeks 25,000 acres in western Kansas to promote immigration and land colonization. Reported deals include a 5,000 acre Pawnee tract to be parcelled into units for sale, with investors citing Kansas wheat lands as profitable versus Illinois and Iowa options. Senator Chaney confirms Chicago capitalists target western Kansas for steady, value-based investment.
A State Journal notice proclaims Mi-o-na digestion treatment as uniquely effective. Rowley and Brown offer a signed bond with every package to prevent misunderstandings, promising readers a month at their risk. The ad stresses dramatic before and after claims and distinguishes this remedy from ordinary treatments.
Rowley and Snow advertise a guarantee for Mi o na promising refund of the purchase price if the product does not increase vitality and relieve stomach troubles. The buyer deposits payment with signed bond protecting the deposit and acts as own judge on paying for Mi o na. The note touts the remedy as a fresh-forming agent restoring blood and digestive strength.
A Kansas prospectus touts selling farms to western buyers while promising equal acreages and large profits for improvements. It cites Canada wheat output as a comparison and notes Kansas farmers returning from Canadian schemes. Another eastern firm pushes gas and oil ventures and relocates small factories to southern Kansas off the belts with recent moves from Indiana and Ohio.
In Columbia Missouri the Tigers meet Washburn in the last game before Thanksgiving. The team is ready for a tough contest on a frozen field, with several players held back. Anderson Ardinger Frum Cons Nichols and others will mix positions as the squad aims to force a victory and deny Washburn a win.
Racing at Latonia Cincinnati November 1 saw only three starters after scratches. Judge Himes led early as a heavy favorite but faded, leaving Fonsoluca to nosed out Tom O Shanter in a two horse finish with Tam O Shanter third, while Miss Aubrey shocked at 49 to 1 in a late race victory.
Kansas horsemen discuss the relative merits of pacing mares Sylviagne and Little Squaw with Sylviaone’s supporters claiming she is a better mate though she carries a higher mark. Sylvinene holds a 2:64 pace while Little Squaw sits at 3:04, with Sylvinene reportedly able to pace the last half mile in 1:08. In Windsor, King Edward and King Emmanuel attended a state banquet as Queen Helena and Queen Alexandra visited Victor Emmanuel’s tomb.
London report says Joseph Chamberlain, former colonial secretary, hosted a farewell at the colonial office for the agents general of the colonies. Lord Strathcona, Canada’s high commissioner, spoke, and Chamberlain replied to his address signaling conviction on fiscal policy.
Missouri and Washburn prep for a football clash with Missouri using many substitutes to rest key players. Caldwell is out, Stewart sick, Brown with a split head, and Davismay has an ear injury, raising questions over who will start at end and full back.
A man identified as M. B. Jacobs collapsed and died on Commercial street at 7 o clock. He was from Avon Washington and a partner in Jacobs and arpst lumber firm. his sister Charlotte Schoeck lives in Emporia and he was visiting. In Williams Wilkistown Massachusetts a peculiar illness with fever has felled numerous Williams College students, ten in the infirmary, as officials seek the cause of the epidemic. The Bachster sells for So now, you used to pay ten for
Edward McSweeney, formerly immigration commissioner at Biddeford Island, was examined on a charge of stealing government papers. He appeared with counsel as officials claimed he packed official letters with private papers after leaving office. McSweeney says a clerk mixed the documents with his private items. Verification of minor letters occupied the session.
A war department telegraph directs Major D McCarthy to award Vincent A Kelly the contract to build several new fort facilities at Fort Leavenworth Kansas for 162 008 dollars. The project includes an officers mess, storehouses, quartermasters and quartering for captains and lieutenants, stables workhouse and additions, with completion in eighteen months and start within a week.
Tonight Elmer Walters presents A Thoroughbred Tramp at the New Crawford. AL W. Martin offers Ten Nights in a Barroom at Saturday matinee and night. Sunday brings Man to Man in its third season with Miss Rehan and Mr. Skinner from Daly stock, promising strong drama and celebrated scenery. Tickets sell from tomorrow at Pind.
The United Fates Abyasinian expedition led by Consul General Skinner arrived aboard the Morhien yesterday in Jivatal French Somaliland. The party landed immediately and will depart by rail tomorrow for Adis.
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