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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1903
Page
2
Snapshot items from Topeka area include social notices, marriages, engagements, church events, probate matters, and upcoming performances. Highlights mention Topeka Commercial Club, Harvest fairs, a jury in district court, and the Washburn observatory dedication with speaker Professor Chas. Projected trips, local incidents, and minor sports results fill the page.
A crowd of about 300 ReETS men women and children in Sunday best singing gospel hymns were swept into water and mud when a pier collapsed at Newark Bay near Bayonne New Jersey during a baptism led by Rev Jon T Thurnton. Forty injured, four seriously, as ambulance crews treated bruises and hypothermia after the fall into foul water.
The executive committee of the Civic Federation has approved changes to its structure and will discuss them at a Chicago conference on October 14 and 18. The subtitle Industrial Department will be dropped and officers redefined including president and secretary roles. A conference of employers is planned in November to improve worker conditions, with federation work divided into industry sections such as metal trades textile and transport.
Chicago bettors target an $8000 purse in the Menti -The Twentletts Gene tary handicap set for this afternoon at Hariom Park. The dry mile distance runs three sixteenths with a weight-placed start to prevent crowding. Favorites include The Don, Claude, and John Bright with odds varying as bettors weigh track conditions.
The Rev John L Seier argues on spiritual grounds for yacht racing between England and America praising fair competition. He links biblical themes to athletic prowess, noting Paul and references to contests in scripture and urging sportsmanship as a moral force.
In Omaha Nebraska during a quarrel over women, Charles Ellsworth and David Mouser clashed near a street north of the city. Mouser was stabbed and rushed to a local hospital where Ellsworth was restrained. The incident occurred early today and left both parties injured, with hospital treatment underway.
The St Louis Globe-Democrat reports excitement for upcoming Ward & Wade minstrel show at the New Crawford featuring Lethe Shaw and a strong cast including Stash, Robt E B Graham, Philin H Ryley, Givia Riser, Denaid Brine, Harrett Merritt, Joseph Philtiog, Livan Spencer and Kiernan. Special Florence Florodora ties, return of Florodora, and Topeka round trip rail fare noted.
The Earl and Countess of Lonsdale will be passengers on the steamer Ventura sailing from Sydney Nova Scotia today bound for San Francisco.
London reports August board of trade shows imports rising by 4,500 and exports increased. Leadville雪 fell in Leadville Colorado for two hours last night.
A humorous tale of a progressive boy, Johnnie Simpkins, persuading his traditional mother Mrs. Simpkins to swap old fashioned habits for modern Nabisco biscuits. The scene centers on Uneeda Biscuit in sealed packs and the family’s shift from tallow dips and soda crackers to convenient packed treats.
Holden Land & Live Stock Co transfers to C M Hosack for 4000 dollars and multiple lot transfers in Willard and Quincy areas. various grantees including Schenck, Rogers, Tandy, Hercules and more. Tax deeds list Amanda Brown and others with specific lot and street details across Madison, Adams, Waite, Kentucky avenues and neighboring additions.
A letter to the State Journal editor from Topeka, Kansas dated September 6, 1903, critiques retail meat and provision delivery practices. It cites a delivery mishap at William Green & Son where a phone order led to returning a meat package due to excess fat, questioning who bears the delivery cost and highlighting cash buyers' expectations.
A speaker urges replacing ancient methods with up-to-date delivery, noting city delivery for a small fee could help all households. The author pledges to support merchants who adopt this doctrine as the cheapest and most just approach to serving customers.
Vinewood park offers nightly showings of The Passion Play using a new Kifiadrome motion picture machine. The company says pictures are not from Oberammergau but closely represent the production through photographs of peasants in proper poses. Ample seating and rapid transport await large crowds.
Dying as he lived a mystery in Mullerry Bend and Chinatown, Jimmie the Bam, also known as James Murray, is to be buried tomorrow afternoon. Cronies contributed to funeral expenses beyond the collected funds, with two well dressed women dropping banknotes into the casket crowd watching in surprise. The deceased, long known by alias and rumored to be the son of a former Brooklyn judge, remained an enigma to local residents for over a decade.
Rev A B Francisco preached two sermons yesterday at New Jerusalem chapel corner Harrison and Sixth Streets. He will stay today for an 8 o'clock free lecture on The Relative Value of a Light on a Candlestick and Under Busha with a question period on spiritual topics.
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