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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1901
Page
16
The Topeka Elks announce a beautifully appointed lodge room now complete for use by their 350 members. The good natured, enterprising citizens group celebrates the finished space as a center for community and fraternal activity.
Pick Smith recounts the Topeka lodge of Like War ten years old this April and its claim to be Kansas largest club with the best quarters. The piece lists members such as Charlie Holliday and Dr Munn, notes a wedding, jokes about Elk life, and describes diverse members from lawyers to doctors while questioning motives behind their charitable aims.
The article details Topeka lodge No. 24 and its prominent members including W. A. Freeman and J. Eliott. It describes lavish lodge rooms on the third floor of the Masonic Building with oak furnishings, dining rooms, a kitchen and rest areas. It mentions a proposed trip with trains and brass bands, and notes a diverse membership with humor about public perception and city life.
Rear Admiral Bunce dies in Hartford. Florid reports include auto crash injuring Granville Kane in New York and Santos-Dumont circling the Eiffel Tower. A fire in Sidney Cape Breton destroys sixty businesses. Hall Caine seeks parliamentary seat. Yale bicentennial observed. Roosevelt named Doctor of Laws. Robbers loot Chicago post office $74,000 in stamps. In Topeka and region, politics, mail contracts, school tax, and public notices feature prominently with multiple local updates and forthcoming events.
O R Lawson of Bay Villa Sundays River Cape Colony runs a general store described as typical of South Africa. He notes a farmer radius of thirty miles using Chamberlain remedies with many households relying on these products for cures. The store sits in a valley near a railway and distant from Brs Larinamye.
The Topeka society notes a busy social week with card parties hosted by Miss Nellie Kirk Mrs W H Eastman and Miss Ruth McClintock among others. Two weddings occur Wednesday at local homes. Miss Vinnie Felt with Mr Leslie McCanne and Miss Jennie Cantwell with Mr Prince David Barker. A luncheon, bridal party events, and upcoming week plans are outlined with color schemes pink white yellow and autumn foliage.
Plain Talk argues common catarrh remedies give only relief and touts Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a new remedy. It claims the tablets dissolve in the mouth, cleanse catarrhal poisons, and relieve fever and congestion, presenting them as an effective, palatable treatment.
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