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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1902
Page
8
The Delineator offers a comprehensive cyclopedia for women covering life at home work recreation wardrobe kitchen drawing room society and furnishings. It provides health nursery servant care and daily routines with wise guidance on dressing and fashion for all hours and occasions.
The publication showcases premier illustrations of dress modes, rivaling Paris and London. Its fashion content leads the field, with stories, poems and literary papers of high quality. a magazine you’d read regularly for style and culture.
Fragmented OCR text mentions November and a sales pitch about magazine offers and a yearly subscription. Names and places are unreadable, with multiple garbled phrases. The readable items suggest a transactional notice or advertisement rather than a coherent news item.
A Busy social week features a Eureka Friday party with J Joseph M Patten and Miss Vert Low, Harold Steid, and a large guest list including Sue Low Reed Metta Robinson Jane Thompson Ivah Doyle and others. A wedding invitation for Bertha Klonel firitton at Seventh Avenue home on November 29 with James Philp da Beyers Kaye to perform is listed, plus varied visits, clubs, and entertainment notes across Topeka and Manhattan areas.
A Brooklyn rally features Hill delivering a keynote denouncing trusts monopolies and tariff systems. He warns of public ownership debates and calls for tariff revision while criticizing Republicans for corporate influence. Other speakers include Bevid B Hul Edward M Growl and George Hermes as the Democratic campaign begins.
Constantinople accuses Bulgaria of inadequate frontier guarding and harboring Macedonian bands. It claims Turkish troops are needed to strengthen the line, notes a revolutionary banner consecrated at a monastery, and reports Bulgarian police and armed groups in the border zone.
Willemstad reports a revolutionary victory as Venexactim forces seize Cor capital Falcast after heavy fighting. A 60 man vessel sinking, British cruiser Indefatigably reaches La Guatra, and US gunboat Marietta returns to Ter Gupla. Further serious events predicted this week.
Soldiers of KF, G and H troop the Fourth United States Cavalry are moving from Fort Riley toward Leavenworth in a hike home after maneuvers. The entire Sixth Infantry follows and a detachment of mounted engineers accompanies. Captain Tyre Rivers commands the detachment. In Texas a woman named Susan P Lewis is killed in Hempstead, with authorities holding several suspects as a search continues near a public school.
Fragmented OCR text mentions October dates and references to American and German scientists and English learning. No clear event, names, or outcomes are readable. Summary focuses on the scattered claim of a combine and international involvement without verifiable details.
Judge Hazen issues an injunction against the city council, halting actions deemed improper. The ruling orders the council to refrain from specified conduct while the case proceeds, reflecting ongoing legal dispute and oversight.
City council appraisers misvalued a proposed benefit district levy for Fourth Ward street improvements. Judge Hazen ruled the assessment process flawed, injuncting collection and ordering a new appraisal before any tax is levied. The city attorney cautioned the committee while several property holders seek to halt the levy.
In Caldwell 30 young men rode to disrupt the 69 year old Joseph W. Crane wedding to Mink Ophella Webber aged 43. Crane declares warrants issued as serenaders forced entry, toppled a pane, broke an apartment door, and threw buckets of water on the room. The scene left Crane injured by a stray object.
Fragmentary report describes a plan by Captain FW Rirker and engineers to deploy a 40 foot steamer towing barges equipped with spray tanks and a chemical agent to combat dense hyacinth growth on the upper river. The operation aims to clear waterways used by loggers and nearby communities, though details are unclear due to damaged text.
George Skene and Murganesh TL visited Topeka on Saturday to seek a location for the Elizabeth Bridge Company. He spoke favorably of the project and noted it could bring about employment for about twenty men and potential growth for Topeka’s manufacturing sector. The discussion touched on sites along East Sixth Avenue near the Santa Fe tracks with possible locations and inducements from the company’s interests.
The article notes that Smith Cabbnts Tts says contracts for about three steel Dries favor moving the factory to a vacation wear location where the contracts will be fulfilled. It cites Topeka as a factor and mentions President Frost and Commercial cloth members backing the proposal.
Senator Hanna collapsed from illness during a lengthy campaign tour in Iront. Despite earlier plans, doctors advised canceling engagements. the speech in the afternoon was kept, then all remaining appearances for the week were canceled as his condition worsened. Dr Gear diagnosed congestive trouble and urged rest, noting the strain of recent speeches and meetings with party leaders.
The second Molineux murder trial began in New York on Oct 12 after repeated delays. Judge Lambert granted a motion for a special jury panel of 200, with court adjourned to the following Wednesday. Defense counsel included ex governors and former DAs, while the prosecution was led by District Attorney Jerome and aides. The defendant was absent as arguments on the motion proceeded.
In Hammonton New Jersey on October 1 Reverend Herbert Leonia of the First Hap fist church prepares to lead his flock, armed with oxen, to cut wood for church fuel. Judge Richard J Byrnes offers to help manage the haul while Elim, a local merchant, joins the church in aiding the operation to load wood onto carts for transport from the church lot.
Indianapolis tally reports John Burger of Petersburg kept a vow of silence for forty years after his death. He allegedly never spoke to any living soul since meeting a Petersburg woman who married someone else. Relatives plan a lawsuit to divide his estate. German and Swedish youths seek English classes. night school openings announced by YM GOA.
The ad claims DOW healing sores are dangerous and chronic, linking them to weakened health and blood toxins. It promotes a tonic that supposedly cures slow healing ulcers by purging corruption, rebuilding constitution, and eradicating the disease, urging readers to write for free advice.
In Lexington Kentucky two burglars killed prominent merchant A H Chim as he slept with his wife beside him. Chim fired his revolver but the robbers escaped after a short battle in the hall. Chim was wounded and died. a son Young Chin was critically hurt. Police report arrests including a white man named Charley Thomas and accomplice Chude O Brih. both captured near a station.
Belgians at Monas and Grand Horna colliery begin a strike demanding wage increases as coal prices rise. The action risks spreading through the district, inspired by similar strikes in the United States and France.
Sage, aged about 52, retreats from active business after fever ten months ago. Renorte and IR-Renorte are mentioned as curs ent observers. Frosse Bare, a famed founder, has wealth not tied to delicate interests and plans to curtail cancer solicitation by friends ambivalent about his future plans.
The Burlington Route renews the low one way settlers rate of 25 from Missouri river to California Portland and Puget Sound country every day in September and October with corresponding rates to western districts and interior Missouri Kansas and went territory through train service from Kansas City daily. Through chair cars secure free standard and tourist sleepers to major western cities with connections from Denver. Excursions offered with limited timing around the Big Grand Army reunion in Washington.
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