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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1897
Page
9
A fragment from The State Journal outlines subscription options for Topeka and Kansas towns. It then describes an incubator demonstration planned for the Transmississippi Exposition with London doctors and nurses, detailing a heated water loop, automatic temperature control, and a display of the baby incubator’s processes for American attendees.
Robert P Porter discusses railway finance and policy across the United States and Britain. The piece compares taxation, dividends, and credit, noting US deficits and low dividend returns versus stronger British yields and investment patterns, implying differing regulatory impacts on rail growth.
Report on the upcoming Omaha Exposition highlighting Gruiba Inventors new show and a London proposition to exhibit a baby incubator. Incubation devices aim to preserve newborns by regulating temperature and aiding frail infants, with incubators already in several European hospitals and cities.
A critical essay argues American slouchiness reflects rapid growth, natural conditions, and inherited Anglo-Saxon attitudes. It notes untidy streets, wasteful habits, and lack of military discipline as roots, contrasting with European standards and Went Point discipline. It labels slouch as artificial and self-made.
Dent buy any patent rights Do not worry about the wheat crop Several examples show the need to stay busy and file full work Attend to farm matters properly Keep your postmaster informed and advertise to attract trade Do not trust tramp peddlers for spectacles and beware fake remedies from street vendors Geo W Stansfield Kansas avenue and Miller's Pharmacy Corner Sixth and Topeka avenue provide the locals as reference points.
A schoolteacher with a sharp humorous streak shares a selection of her students’ exam answers. The items include misread terms, humorous definitions, and playful mistranslations such as false chemistry and medical notions, with several dated, odd spellings and quirky phrasing.
A collection of wry, epigrammatic lines on marriage gender weather and human folly. It juxtaposes urban humor with social quips about women men and society, noting ruffled tempers failed romances and the oddities of everyday life.
Diphtheria multiplies with alarming speed across northern Maine with 25 deaths and hundreds of cases reported. Fort Kent and surrounding districts face near-total spread as quarantines and cordons are enforced. State and Canadian authorities deploy anti-toxine and disinfectants while travel is restricted and outbreaks threaten larger towns such as Caribou and Presque Isle.
A Philadelphia Premier group named the People’s Poultry Association promotes a program to use vacant city lots for poultry and gardening to boost income for poor families. They claim profitable yields of $200 to $300 annually with proper lot management, presenting a self help map outside existing unemployment initiatives.
Anthony Hope entertained an audience of the Middlesex Women's club and friends in Lowell this afternoon. It was his first public appearance in America and his debut proved successful. He read from his own works, principally The Prisoner of Zenda.
Washington reports that over the last five years urban health improvements have halved death rates, saving about 35,000 lives. Municipal health boards tightened sanitation, food and building inspections, and disease surveillance, with major cities showing declines in diphtheria, typhoid, and tuberculosis through preventive medicine and milk and housing reforms. The report lists 19 leading cities including New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, San Francisco, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Providence, Minneapolis, and others as examples of the progress.
Dr John Guiteras, sent by the government to study yellow fever, testified from Philadelphia that most imported U S cases stem from Havana Cuba. He warned sanitation in Havana is essential to prevent importations and cited New Orleans as a model, noting U S officials and bacteriologists are conducting investigations and will issue recommendations. Ayera Hair Vigor is advertised at article end.
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