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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1902
Page
10
A lengthy market report notes accelerated distribution of winter goods and rising farm and textile product outputs. It highlights price shifts, wage context, and evolving demand across regions, with references to durable goods, weather impacts, and transportation bottlenecks shaping supply.
The readable parts reference city activity and monthly figures with mentions of increases and records. Names, places, and clear events are obscured, leaving a partial glimpse of civic data and trends without concrete outcomes or dates.
Ensign Join Howard of the local Salvation Army inaugurated a major winter relief campaign. Volunteers pledge eighteen hours weekly to distribute food clothing and aid as the army prepares a large community dinner for the hungry. Howard notes the effort aims to reach impoverished families through Army channels and local partnerships.
Fragmentary OCR note from Chicago dated November 19 describes a potato gathering and social event. It mentions organized efforts, a gathering of men, and a plan to improve housing and wages, with unclear names and details due to transcription errors.
Providence Ripley confirms in a Chicago interview that building costs for a new Santa Fe line to New Mexico are about four million dollars with funds to come from debenture issues. The plan includes upgrading Proos Valley and Panhandle lines, while the old route remains in service. Construction aims to reach San Diego via a southern Arizona route, shortening the Kansas City to Los Angeles path, with bids expected by Christmas.
Denver officials outline the approximate route for over 36 miles of the Denver Northwestern Pacific railroad. General Manager A C Rugway and Chief Engineer 21 A Dimner of Colorado Tint Construction discuss the line beginning near the end of the constricted grade west of Arvada and extending toward the main range turn. The maximum grade across the distance is 2 percent.
A. VonWolf of 204 Buchanan describes severe backache linked to kidney trouble. After using Dean's Kidney Pills bought at Rowley Snow's, his pain eased within days and disappeared after completing the course. Dean's is advertised as the US sole agent Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The attorney general approved an amended Choctaw Texas Oklahoma Texas charter extending the Choctaw route from Agua Hila to the state line between Texas and New Mexico. The plan links with Rock Island, creating a through route from El Paso to Memphis, shortening connections via Amarillo and Dallas.
Two hundred and fifth teams are at work grading the Phoenix and Eastern railroad. Lantry’s crews will shift from Fairbanks and Tombstone to Benson to continue the Phoenix Eastern work. A spur line may be established at Butte twelve miles from Plovener a berm on the Bear rock work to be done in the Butte canyon. Railway Postoffice report notes annual rent and counts traveling personnel and equipment for the year.
Omaha news reports Union Pacific officials completing pension system rules to begin January 1, 1803. Details promise annual distributions over 200,000 and aim to improve relations between railroad and former employees as the plan goes public. Also covers a Santa Fe wreck near Wellington Kansas where a mixed freight derailed, several cars destroyed and two boys injured.
A Kansas resident recounts a years long fast heart problem that intensified to weekly episodes lasting days. After consulting several doctors and trying Dr Miles remedies, including New Heart Cure and Restorative Nervine, symptoms diminished with eleven bottles of Heart Cure and seven of Restorative Nervine.
A San Bernardino report notes a fourth wreck in thirty days near the town after a spreading of the raits under the engine. A Santa Fe fireman discusses the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen’s efforts to stop booting by “boomers,” claiming orders push workers to flee and run up debts, while denouncing rival elements and praising the B of LF for curbing the practice. He asserts the conflict reflects broader tensions among railroad labor groups and the ongoing struggle over employment stability.
Santa Fe on business notes a new cut-off from Pecos Valley to the Pacific coast will enter a mineral country in Valencia county. The route passes through southeastern Valencia and opens tract of rich country previously inaccessible. Surveys have been made. construction expected to start December 1 and take about one year. Altitude ranges from 600 to 3,000 feet with grazing land and water anticipated. formation described as Persian truck Mer Arif. The rail line to Eastview and the El Paso extension of the Rock Island likely to follow.
Franklin Fanning aged 11, a prominent west civil engineer who mapped routes for Missouri Pacific and helped survey western rail lines, died of apoplexy at home in St Joseph. The report ties his career to Atchison and western Kansas routes and notes his role in early railroad surveys.
In Armourdale on November 23, Duhm and Charles Tucker fought over May Randall, a married woman. At Osage and Packard, Duhm killed, Tucker dying later. Randall central to the tragedy. Tucker claims self defense after a prior entanglement with May Randall.
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