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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1903
Page
2
Local store listing full of low prices on corsets blankets kerchiefs shirts handkerchiefs and golf gloves plus discounted carpet and portieres. The ad touts dozens of items with markdowns including 75¢ blankets 25¢ kerchiefs 50c shirts and 35c golf gloves, urging shoppers to compare value and hurry to save.
Catalog of women and children undergarments and hosiery with dozens of items and pricing. Includes ladies vests and pants in fine combed yarn, men's camel hair underwear, infants bounds, boys and girls ribbed hose, infant wool hose, infant and ladies black hose, and men's woven cotton hose with embroidered effects. Many items listed with bulk quantities and special pair pricing.
Lawrence Kan Oct 27 Coach Weeks resumed practice after Saturday loss to build teamwork. New players like Love and Stern join returning scrubs as McCay and Griggs push for key roles. Officials debate umpire for Nebraska game as attendance nears 3,000 with 129 reported in town.
Atchison native Mary Hogan Layton, once a dishwasher in Santa Cruz, built a varied career in California and the Klondike. She mortgaged a hotel for 37008, toured by Pullman from Monterey, and after a hard life as a placer miner and pioneer hotelkeeper, led the Kansas Hotel venture near Circle City, Yukon. She aims to visit Atchison again.
W F Burrows resigns after 22 years as superintendent of Union depot, plans to return to Arkansas. He has been in the west 0 years, served as a conductor and ambulance attendant during the war, with rumors of M Rathburn succeeding him at Missouri Pacific. Union Pacific men dissatisfied as machinists Samuel Grace George Smith and Frederick Tomlinson arrive to confer with A He Hutman and Hlemens of the union.
A mixed page reports a pupil’s discipline incident, faculty reactions, and a string of civic items. Notes mention Topeka meetings, Kansas City visits, rail concerns, church events, a streetcar shift, and Washburn football plans with local figures and institutions named.
Work began on the Orient terminal at the west end of the system in Irmourdale with men clearing right of way. The plan calls for a fear track system from Argentine to a point in Clay County opposite the Kaw river mouth, at a cost of four million dollars, with completion in eighteen months and the main line to Kansas City and Wichita slated to be finished.
United States Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada married last night in a private Parlor at the Piedmont hotel in Atlanta to Mrs. Mary Agnes Cane widow of Theodore Cane of Georgia. The ceremony was performed by Rev S Bradley with Norwood Savannah acting as best man. The couple will depart for Washington after noon today. Senator Stewart, born August 3, 1827 in Wayne County New York, has a long career in law mining and politics with service as Nevada territorial council attorney general and U S senator.
A blast at a round house and other incidents in the district trigger a mining strike as workers demand a weekly wage payment while urging direct negotiations with employers. Unions and utilities take a leading role in the agitation amid employer pressure and unrest.
Charles Kropf a 40 year old stonemason from Wamego was killed by a Union Pacific train near Silver Lake two miles west of town. Coroner Mogepoom returned to Topeka with the body for inquest which found death from being struck by a southbound train after alighting at Silver Lake. He had ridden from Kansas City to Topeka with a ticket, waited on the train, and was believed intoxicated. His body was found beside the track early Monday morning with 25 cents in his pocket.
Rome reports the pope greeted Cardinal Moran with warmth, spoke on Australia and English speaking countries, and blessed several attendees including Mr and Miss Butler and Mr and Mrs Abell of Baltimore. The article also notes local road work on West Sixth Avenue and a stone-crushing contract awarded to Thomas Bedford to improve the city limits.
Local column surveys Sixth district politics amid senatorial fights in Mitchell and Jewell counties, praises Hays B White as a state senator candidate, notes machine politics, veterans reunions, and court actions. Mentions Beloit owl tragedy, Judge Pickler’s leniency letter, and railway time changes for Solomon Valley line.
Mutt Chit, son of C. Clark, was fatally mangled after being run over by a car while reportedly jumping on vehicles near Toronto. He died an hour after the incident. In Emporia Kansas editor W A White battles pneumonia after weeks of threat. Sonja suffers severe eczema. Dean's Ointment advertised at 50 cents.
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