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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1900
Page
6
British doctors advertise cures for piles without cutting and pain free in one sitting. They claim success with skin diseases, cancers, ruptures, ovarian and menstrual disorders, catarrhal issues, indigestion, and rheumatic conditions. City references tout numerous matched treatments and improved nasal and throat conditions, with no Sunday hours.
Utuces 726 Topeka Avenue. S. EDWARD McCULLY, MD. Proprietor. We furnish invitations and printing materials with high grade workmanship. We offer engraved visiting cards in Roman or Script and ensure latest shapes sizes and scripts.
Rev Chas Parham of Topeka traveled to Maine and Winnipeg on faith alone, relying on donations as he preached and prayed. He described funding shortages, receiving money for fares, and founding a faith school and Prayer Tower. He praised Shiloh Me and noted a large Bible school with about 600 students, no tuition, and ongoing prayer vigils for support.
The article recounts a traveler’s faith guided journey to obtain half fare permits, fundraising by gifts including ten dollars, and his arrival in Topeka. It details the Faith School in Topeka led by Parham, using the Stone mansion as a Bible and missionary training institute with prayer tower aims and divine healing facilities.
The article promotes Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a blood based cure for catarrh spreading from head to stomach. It claims tablets remove the disease from the whole system, offering a permanent cure after short use. Drugstores sell full size packs for 60 cents.
Leader Parham will be out giving lectures in Topeka to attract prospective students to the institution. He plans meet and greet sessions and talks outlining programs, scholarships, and campus opportunities. Local educators and alumni are invited to attend and engage with the speaker.
A London Express sketch reviews Winson Green Jail and Rear Admiral Arthur Tinklar RN retiring after 25 years as governor. It contrasts humane reforms with past cruelties, notes the abolition of the dark cell, and recounts incidents inspiring a gentler regime, including a man who later returned to crime after a reform attempt.
A prisoner seized a warder’s absence to flee. He painted the governor’s horse, donned the jail warded’s coat and silk hat, grabbed an umbrella, and walked from the room into the entrance hall. After a brief act of apparent respectability he exited the Front Gate, only to be found back in the jail that night in less fashionable attire.
A fragmentary reminiscence set in the South before and during the Civil War era recalls Gradina Wigeine ton, a center of gossip and sex and power in Rouen and Georgia. The speaker, born near a large plantation, describes slavery’s brutality, family loyalties, and the impact of Sherman’s march as neighbors react and locals debate loyalties amid conflict and upheaval.
Fragmentary note describes worry over money and delaying a purchase. Mentions a person named Mile, a person named GF, and a plan to buy a ring. The text is garbled, with incomplete sentences and unclear context.
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