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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1901
Page
4
Leaked OCR shows a state journal page with subscription details and telephones. The text references leased wire reporting from the Associated Press and Topeka news offices, noting wire service dispatches throughout the day.
A garbled late 19th to early 20th century column touches on Admiral Dewey and the Cuban war, Tammany Hall in New York, Caleb Powers’ conviction, Carter Harrison’s Chicago mayoral win, and U.S. export leadership. It cites Treasury export data, compares the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, and notes rising U.S. export growth in 1900.
The Chicago Herald notes Justice Brewer at Yale's bicentennial argues that antitrust injunctions and broad legislation won’t stop consolidation from evolving. He urges cautious public sentiment led by educated leaders as the safe path, warning radical restrictions are unlikely to succeed.
The passage argues that civil liberty protects rights against restraints by combines and trusts. It notes old common law and new statutes check monopolistic power, while recognizing business pressure and the rarity of true monopolies in a country as large as the United States. Competition and invention fuel ongoing friction with combines and profits.
A humorous column catalogs assorted old time jibing about love, marriage, race, and social norms. Snippets poke at self image, marriage, class, and urban mores with quips about forgivings, vanity, and propriety, centering on everyday life and social mismatches.
Fragmentary prose offers aphorisms on reading, literacy, honesty, debt, and human behavior. It contrasts American and Greek encounters, comments on beauty, hypocrisy, and motivation, and hints at social class and professional ethics through brief, puzzle-like maxims.
A collection of wry quips and aphorisms on money, war, fame, manners, and daily life. Jests cover contractors, politeness, jokes about ships and incubators, and light social observations.
Column titled Reflections of a Bachelor jokes about marriage and domestic life with playful quips about cooks, husbands, and courtship. The piece mixes humorous advice and social observations in a light tone.
Saturday night aboard the Perry yacht brings young ladies and crew into lively talk and flirtation. Eddie the lawyer negotiates amid candid remarks about drinking and social status while New Girl No 3 and others assess the sailors. The sisters vow not to judge by clothes as the crew supports a night of amusement and manners.
The president announced appointments across state and military posts. Ethelbert Watts of Pennsylvania is named consul at Prague, Austria, in the state department. In the War and Navy departments Samuel D. McMaster is promoted to second lieutenant artillery and Augustus Almy to lieutenant commander with Martin C. Clancey listed as warrant machinist.
A patient described as all run down with weak vital functions and poor digestion found improvement after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. The testimonial notes renewed appetite and energy, crediting the medicine with strengthening the stomach, aiding digestion, and toning the body.
A historic note reports Hoouw’s Sarsaparilia claiming a cure and urging an earlier treatment start. The piece emphasizes beginning therapy promptly today to capitalize on promised benefits.
Waldek Czolgosz and brother in law Waeldek Thomas Sanchowski did not see the prisoner as officials delay admitting visitors until State Prisons Superintendent Collins arrives at 3 PM. Authorities suspect a third party may be funding the visit. Bandowski may forfeit rights if the tie is proven. Cremation plans and foreman of the execution jury are also in question as officials seek a replacement.
Three Russians visited a police station to question Jaller Jester about a boy’s wild story of a family murder near Rock Island railroad bridge. Officers dismissed the tale as Munchausen like, while the Russians pursue a separate account of a missing friend named Davids.
Blackleg remains prevalent around Emporia Kansas with many fine cattle dead and others affected. Officials report several deaths linked to the illness after cattle were moved from pasture to dry feed helping spread concerns about feed changes and management.
Washington Oct 28 Rural free delivery will begin January 1 in Kansas with a route in Franklin County from McCandless to Boptinkian covering 24.5 miles served by carrier Henry A Furness. Postmaster changes include J F Bartholomew at Blakeman Rawlins county replacing J S Burkett and G B Parker at Gaylord Smith county replacing L C Heatley. Pensions issued to Kansans list Nathan A Rocker Little River William Ingalls Topeka Thomas Hogan Wichita and others with various amounts. widows benefits go to Rebecca S Hamas Manhattan and related names.
The Santa Fe announces that C M Taylor, master mechanic of the Santa Fe between La Junta, is moved to Raton to serve as master mechanic there. He will succeed Mr Taylor, with headquarters at Wellington, and the transfer aligns with ongoing maintenance leadership changes.
Joseph Meredith son of William Meredith of 504 East Something Street died last night of typhoid fever after a two week illness. he was 31 years old. Funeral announcements to be made. The funeral of Mrs Phil Henderson was held Saturday at the residence of her mother Mrs A M Blake at 403 Liberty Street.
A man bragging of a six month plan to sleep only in room No 13 in hotels encounters mockery and a chase by staff and police. He recounts past pranks and debts as he describes a fragile, self destructive betting scheme backed by $500 in New York.
Col Frank B Morrill president of the Mobile Jackson and Kansas City railroad denies emphatically a sale to the Frisco line and says there are no negotiations for control of the Mobile Jackson and Kansas City road Gas Company consolidation act upheld by Judge Haeney in Chicago ruling the 1897 act valid in a quo warranto case brought by the people and State's Attorney Lineen seeking to compel authority to operate the company
In Plymouth Indiana at daylight four miles north of town the body of Myers Beard aged 10 was found in a buggy with a bullet wound in the temple and a bloodied scene. The horse had carried him to the gate of his father's storm home. Beard had been away from home Sunday evening. No clues to the murderer exist.
Three alarms sounded for a con flagration at the Occidental hotel in Frisco San Francisco. The blaze appears confined to the basement with heavy smoke. Firemen combat the flames with difficulty as smoke streams from the building.
Local report lists Clay school to play Tskridge at Eskridge on Thanksgiving. Also noted are meetings of the West Side Needle club with Mrs Ruppel, and various social and civic happenings across Shawnee county including church gatherings, a Fort Madison strike, and Kansas City stock sales glimpsed by George Kellam of Richmed.
An advertisement touts Warner's Safe Cure as a pure vegetable tonic claiming to cure kidney bladder liver and blood diseases. It offers a free trial bottle and medical booklet, urging readers to test morning urine for particles and begin treatment.
A New Zealand inventor, A A Chapman, proposes a patented dry thawing method for frozen meat. Meat is sealed in an airtight envelope as it leaves the cold store, then thawed outside air to prevent surface moisture loss. The process allegedly preserves texture and nutrition better than traditional thawing.
A London cabiegram reports the White Star steamer Oceanic, the longest ship to sail Liverpool to New York, broke profit records on its final voyage. The piece notes high cargo space utilization, government subsidies, and dividends, with details on costs and revenues as reported by the Ion Daily News.
A reader provides a vivid theatrical tale about a river scene and a winter ordeal. The note mentions a snowbound voyage and a perilous moment without a mattress, reflecting a dramatic, gossip like anecdote in a London Chronicle context.
A garbled OCR line suggests a bare stage moment where a speaker or chorus proclaims a scene is frozen. The wording shows an entorian voice and the phrase the jabers appears as a shouted cue.
The London Chronicle notes a telegraph from Copenhagen claiming the United States has purchased the Danish West Indies for about £9040. St Thomas emerges as the lone potential focal point for American interests, highlighted by its strategic geographic position and role in the trio of islands. Verification from Washington pending.
Six months ago the Greek postmaster general teased a public unveiling of new stamps bearing the ancient Mercury design. The stamps are praised for delicate engraving, color, and watermarked paper, with high expectations for a beautiful issue and strong public interest among officials and collectors.
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