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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
4
Fragments describe election forecasts and political status debates as voters prepare for ballots. References include Kentucky disenfranchisement law, Georgia attitudes, and Republican leaning commentary. Notable noted figures include McKinley and Bryan, with general public sentiment and various local observations.
A jumble of quips on time, teaching, marriage, and life. A witty baker’s dozen of snippets about wisdom, sugar weights, and trivial observations. Notable lines reference a schoolboy question, a doctor’s paradox, and a tale of a wife with a sheet pattern.
A fragmented, humorously garbled prose piece presents quirky quotations and wordplay as a reading of social satire. The odd juxtaposition of sayings and misprints reflects a street level collage of reflections and wit from a Philadelphia context.
Topeka police report cocaine as a rising intoxicant, with drug stores earning substantial income from its sale. The piece claims widespread use, with women more involved than men, citing two recent cases of mental breakdowns and urging restricted access through physician prescriptions.
Washington Oct 25 Minister Conger is authorized to begin negotiations at once with Chinese envoys based on agreed points in German and French notes. Powers will handle divergences. other foreign ministers in Pekin may follow with similar instructions. Germany is cited as entrusting peace mediation to Pekin envoys. credential questions for Chinese plenipotentiaries may be settled at the first meeting.
An OCR fragment notes a train on the Great Rock Island Route leaving Topeka at 8 10 pm and arriving Colorado Springs 10 Denver 11 00 oclock next day. It references times and destinations in a period style railroad timetable snippet.
Washburn football team departs by Santa Fe for Denver Saturday to play the Denver Athletic Club. A delegation of rooters accompanies the squad. The roster lists Captain Hughes at left tackle and a series of listed players and substitutes.
Chicago October 1 The scar of the parade promises to be the greatest in its kind with up to 1050 marchers expected from business and commercial circles. Citizens pledge participants from banks buildings factories and trades as the Stock Exchange closes for the event.
The Southwestern Fuel Co has leased the 13 Kansas Avenue Davies Building as its new Chicago Avenue front, with a reconfigured ground floor for offices. W. E. Thomas, president, notes business trends southward toward Kun Bisaverns and leads a company that includes PM Morgan as manager, with three branch offices in Topeka, Summit, and Kansas City. The Omaha Leavenworth Kansas City network serves four offices, aiming for about 2,000,000 in annual aggregate trade, including St. Carmel coal and regional coal and coke products.
Mayor Drew and City Attorney Bird plan to travel to Kansas City for a meeting of city attorneys who are members of the municipal league. The session will include references to proposed standards to be submitted to the league and considered for enactment in first class cities.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson wrapped up his Michigan tour and planned stops in Wisconsin. He spoke at Platteville tonight and Milwaukee tomorrow, returning to Chicago for a reception at the Iroquois Club.
The notice details multiple funerals and burials: Peter Partnssy from 125 Twenty-second Street to be buried at Firebody Te Mira, with services tomorrow at 2 o'clock. Hannah Pickardt, mother of Mrs. George M. Herrick, died at President Herrick’s Washburn home and was sent for burial. Grinds Frost, aged old, child of Mr and Mrs Willem Frost, funeral at residence this afternoon. The Frost family arrangements indicate a funeral tomorrow at Hitchie Cemetery.
A late day speech in New Jersey features William Jennings Bryan addressing a large crowd. He defends Democrat and populist positions, criticizes McKinley era policies, and urges state licensure for trusts while condemning corporate power and a large standing army.
Frank Thomas travels from Chicago for the final meeting of the Democratic state central committee. Federal court sessions in Leavenworth not finished yet but local officers have returned home. City heating rates face another test tonight. The fusion ticket’s success looms as registrations near 10,000. Attorney general candidate Farrelly and Nebraska labor commissioner hopeful S J speak at the Grand Opera House. A liquor sale case and a policy run case are listed for tomorrow. Streets committee chair Eliott says lines will be fixed and work proceed without delay. A gambling house raid ended in a small fine, the case deemed not strong.
A Topeka man serves as guide for Rock Island tourist excursions aboard Bunker Island trams. The trips, running from Thorston California to the continent, require conductors or fourier guides for each train segment, with about a week total travel time and two large stops at the ends.
New York reports 2000 recruits to depart next month under Colonel Kimball assistant quartermaster general. The first transport Buford sails in three weeks toward Pists with unit designations Twenty fourth infantry and Kilpatrick planned for November.
In Des Moines on October 26 the grand lodge of the Order of the Bunkers Gear announced officers for 1890 including Mrs Fred A Ketmer Webster City ward matron and Miss Jane Weber Charles City associate grand matron. The annual convention will be held in Slove City. The constitution change to reduce relegations from chapter sevens to number two was favorably reported by the committee but defeated at the convention.
Officers of the Twentieth Century Total Abstinence union led by Misa Oliver Bray le president outline six months of the crusade. The group promotes personal influence to gain three new active members within thirty days. Members of Topeka No 71 GA TL plan a funeral attendance gathering at 125 West Second Street.
Congressman Charing Curtis will speak at Valley Falls Park on Saturday in Valley Park. A band has been engaged, and others may join. The train departs Topeka at about 4 PM and returns after the speech.
Three unknown men robbed the Nickel Plate depot in Vermilion early today. They bound a man and escaped with several hundred dollars from the safe. Local authorities investigate the incident.
The text records a social ball prospect with admission details and entertainment, plus scatteredRemarks from a local businessman. It mentions a drug store, an optical store, a ball in October, and a party atmosphere amid incomplete phrases and names.
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