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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1902
Page
4
The State Journal reports industries in mass throughput surpassing car production with a need for 50,000 extra freight cars. Freight traffic rises faster than supply as manufacturers struggle to deliver amid equipment shortages and wartime demand. Projections show continued tension in storage, rails, and shipments through the year.
A fragmented, period voice critiques rail works and machinery amid doubts about national prosperity. It notes locomotive efforts, road networks, and the tension between industrial output and economic gains, questioning if progress truly lifts the country.
Santa Fe officials and community members review plans for new shop facilities at the Santa Fe yards. Motor shop workers will move into upgraded quarters by January as the car department expands. The project aims to consolidate carpentry and boiler areas, add to the shop force, and extend outdoor work due to winter conditions.
In San Francisco President The Rinney and Second Vice President Paul Morton visit the city to inspect Pacific Railway property. Higley predicts slower freight growth next year due to rising material and labor costs and hints at possible rate increases. He downplays a strike, noting unions remain organized but unsettled about wage scales.
Ripley and a party including A. G. Wells and J. J. Shepard discuss railroad routes and rates, noting potential gains for Rock Island and Southern Pacific. They address fruit shipment cars, Clark road prospects, and stock movements in Wall Street with reference to Harriman and the Southern Pacific.
New York financier Marriman secures control of the Southern Pacific by purchasing substantial stock, ending with a near majority in the vast railroad system. The syndicate, formed around Huntington and Stanford holdings, grew from 77 million to 90 million then to 12 million more, placing it close to a two thirds stake.
San Francisco and the Santa Fe vice president Paul Morton began travel in a private car to Chicago after days of layovers. He was joined by his daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Potter, who have spent their honeymoon in Hawaii, traveling with a party of fifty. They plan to arrive tomorrow night and have inspected Santa Fe property in the city.
The Orient would submit bonds in Shawnee and Doukhem counties within ninety days to fund a road improvement. The route may run from here to Arvonia and Laverence via Osage depending on voter approval. A branch line to Topeli is mentioned as a possibility.
Fragmentary OCR item mentions entities like Santa Fe, Emporia, Wichita, Butler and Ereparia. References bonds, rotation of Orient, a rumour about a road, and a lumber yard opening. Details are incomplete with many garbled terms and unnamed dates or actions.
The Crown Prince of Siam, visiting from Williams by royal train, spent about six hours viewing Bright Angel points and praised the Grand Canyon as unsurpassed by any in the Southwest. Also noted are Transcontinental Passenger Association meetings in Philadelphia and a land purchase in Jumante, LT for a proposed underground transit project.
Nov 19 report from Springfield says President Rameau of Wasbush railway offered a 2 cent raise hourly to workers earning under 30 cents with a 1 cent raise for those above 30 cents. Strikers have not acted yet. Simultaneously Prisco plans to build into Dallas from Red River division near Carrollton for the coming war. Multiple railroad staff moves and transfers noted including Santa Fe repairs and promotions, with extensive personnel changes affecting shops, depots, and train service across the region.
An exploration of the claim that bright stars can be seen in daylight when viewing from deep shafts. The piece surveys Aristotle references, Dickens and Kipling usage, Venus as a daytime exception, telescope aid, Humboldt experiments, Flamsteed's Greenwich well, and Herschel’s notes on daylight stargazing. It notes mixed evidence and a cautious stance on practical visibility.
Alfred Brooks, a United States keulogist, recalls a government expedition across central Alaska from Cook Inlet to the Yukon. He notes sparse native presence, abundant game including grizzly bears and caribou, and unusually tame wildlife behavior in winter herds and summer packs.
Testimonies from Burnett and others describe dramatic recoveries from lung illness and consumption after using Peruna. Citizens including ex-postmaster Loulanbesbro and ex-congressman J H Huling endorse Peruna as a cure for catarrh and a tonic, while doctors warn it helps only stage catarrh and not established consumption.
Rome correspondence reports a dwelling plagued by strange sights and sounds after two men suffered electric shocks entering the bedroom. Hundreds flock to witness floating paraphernalia, a moving meat joint, peppers and inanimate objects dancing around the apartment, with a formal commission named to investigate.
News from Charlotte North Carolina reports a well known Hickory man and his son reunited after thirty five years apart. The son recalls his twin sister born in Manchester England and the family roots in Toronto while his mother was a Miss McCrary from Milledgeville Georgia.
Incomplete reminiscences describe a family torn by the Civil War with a mother and child displaced to Toronto. The narrator recalls being cared for by a Mrs Green and mentions relatives in Charleston and Toronto along with a note about a Pittsburgh to Chicago travel line and a Great Western railway fare listing.
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