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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1902
Page
7
A fragment from a humor page presents light dialogue on interviews with eminent men, a couple's curtain talk about a two hour lecture, and a joke about fashioning a bed of lies and the road bustle. It hints at travel themes and social banter without a clear narrative.
A humorous tale turns serious when a man discovers the ostrich he taunted with a dynamite‑fueled prank explodes. The incident unfolds quickly, leaving readers stunned as the dangers of reckless jokes are exposed.
In a mining camp, a stranger arrives posing as a physician named Jim Ford. He dispenses a questionable elixir and dubious diagnoses, claiming cures for fevers and lung ailments. The camp’s real effect is chaotic, as patients improve or perish amid mixed treatments and comic but telling skepticism.
Local column notes village improvements including new tools for James Sincoe, and a humored tale of a cat chase. Hiram Baxter injures himself on a cut clothesline but remains hopeful about singing in weeks. Mrs Day mourns two elderly relatives, while a coat joke reflects village thrift. A cow over the fence and a birthday memory add rural flavor.
Chicago Chronicle recounts Harry Armstrong, last surviver of Haverly's Mastodons, recalling a State Street night with a girl. In a cooking school, a recipe for pound cake is copied amid distraction from a fashionable dress, yielding a bizarre instruction list involving lace, buttons, and a nutmeg necklace.
A garbled list of Kansas fairs and agricultural societies in 1902 with names of secretaries and officials such as I Toburns, C H Wheston, J W Glothe, H Brrch, B Le, J E Woost, and W Wienke. Mentions Great Bond, Butler, Cowley, Me chanical associations, and regional fairs in cities like El Dorado, Pittsburg, and Seneca.
Local residents make business and social trips with several taking trains and cars to Haven Lake Chicago Cincinnati and Fort Madison. Obituaries note Winnie Gash Sherman and Mrs Winnie Haynes while club reports highlight the W.T.C. Ic book and upcoming meetings led by Mrs M M Hale with the annual address.
Tickets go on sale September 29 16 and 23 at one fare plus two dollars for a round trip to Ohio and Indiana with thirty day validity. Inquiries to local Santa Fe agent or Chicago Great Western for details. Includes mentions of St Joe Missouri session and a Wood log rolling event, plus a Skin Cream and Satin Skin Powder advertisement. The price listed is 235 dollars.
A jumble of classified notices seeks general help, nursing, agents, horse drivers, and household buyers. Also requests for rooms, furnished or unfurnished, stores, and real estate along with sales of furniture and a few business items appear with contact boxes and street addresses in Topeka.
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